Browsing MES Major Papers by Issue Date
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Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Crisis and the Policy Process: A Comparative Policy Network Analysis in United States and in Ghana.
(2014)Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) have been globally classified as a chemical substance of harm to flora and fauna. By virtue of this classification, PCBs have become an issue among well-meaning governments, non-government ... -
Beyond the Politics of Recognition: Settler Colonial Development & Urban Aboriginal Self-Determination in Toronto
(2014)This major paper explores the role that settler colonization has had in the ongoing struggles of local Aboriginal communities in Toronto. In order to explore arguments for Aboriginal rights in the city, the main research ... -
Gathering Abundance: An Exploration of Urban Foraging Practices in Toronto
(2014)This paper explores different urban foraging practices within Toronto aiming to understand the motivations for foraging within an urban centre, how this is enacted, and how the context of Toronto affects this practice. As ... -
The Skin of Nostalgia: A Reflection on the Artifice of Postcards, Structuralist Filmmaking, and Home Movies.
(2014)Widespread culture are infamously sentimental, sometimes trite, and often mundane. Feelings of nostalgia are often as benign as they are malevolent: a balm for the troubled soul, a poisonous dependence on the old ways, ... -
Think Outside the Cage: Moving Towards New Understandings of Companion Rabbits
(2014)Rabbits are the third most common companion mammal in Western homes, and their popularity continues to rise. However, they are also one of the most broadly used animal resources around the world, commonly being bred for ... -
Density Bonusing and Development in Toronto
(2014)Height and density bonusing is a planning tool that municipalities in Ontario have authority to use by virtue of Section 37 of the provincial Planning Act, which allows a municipality to grant a developer bonus height or ... -
Fostering Community Collaborations, Ecological Identities, and Eco-Spiritualistic Ideologies
(2014)In expanding my theoretical and practical knowledge in fostering successful collaborative learning opportunities, my major project is an example of participatory arts-based action research. I was e nthusiastically inspired ... -
Waking Dream: Cornell, Langstaff Gateway and Planning New Suburbs in the GTA
(2014)This paper explores the gaps between anti-sprawl policies and what has materialized on the ground in the Greater Toronto Area, a matter of particular import as the province's suite of growth management legislation is now ... -
Suburban Retrofits and Form-based Codes as Tactics for Strategic Densification: Evaluating Viability and Potential in the GTA Fringe
(2014)Suburban retrofits and form-based codes are innovative planning and regulatory tools that may provide a desirable alternative to conventional suburban development practices which often produce sprawling, low-density ... -
Class Politics in the Era of Neoliberalism: The Case of Karachi, Pakistan
(2014)In one of the fastest growing cities in the world, and the biggest city in Pakistan, Karachi, the question of political praxis has seldom been addressed in academic literature beyond the received wisdom of various 'primordial' ... -
Rethinking Transportation Planning - Citizen Participation and Inner Suburban Social Justice in Toronto
(2014)This paper examines how to move towards a more socially just transit system in Toronto. Much of the conversation regarding transportation focuses on the needs of the downtown core. The needs of inner suburban residents, ... -
Sustainable Development Through Resource Extraction Can Nonrenewable Resources Lead to a Sustainable Future?
(2014)The long-term viability of an economic system that relies on the extraction of nonrenewable resources is prone to be questioned and criticized. In a relatively short period of human history the economy has reached a global ... -
Ecology, Politics and Hydroelectric Power in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor, Costa Rica
(2014)Hydroelectric dam projects are ideal foci for examining ecology, conservation, privatisation, globalisation and water rights. Proposed construction of hydroelectric power projects in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor ... -
Renewable Energy in Ontario: Future Directions for Community Engagement
(2014)In Ontario, the way community engagement is conducted during the renewable energy development process is inadequate and fuels the culture of opposition in Ontario. Looking at the history of energy policy and its evolution ... -
Re/Imagining Indigenous – Western Knowledge Relationships A Case Study, Trent University Indigenous Environmental Studies Program
(2014)The past few decades has seen recognition of the vital role Indigenous peoples and their knowledges play in conceptualizing solutions for the environmental issues facing the world. With political support from governments, ... -
Planning Green Roofs in Toronto: Overcoming Obstacles to Private Investment
(2014)The objective of my research was to gain an understanding of the practical implications of using green roofs in the city of Toronto. The City is a leader in green roof use in North America and is actively encouraging green ... -
Women, Ecology, Disaster Management, and Recovery
(2014)Disasters are happening at an alarming rate, and in disaster risk reduction and recovery women and ecological systems are neglected. I contend that the value- hierarchical androcentric thinking entrenched in the value-belief-norm ... -
Arts in the City Downtown Revitalization Strategies for Mid-Sized Cities
(2014)Bringing life back into the centre of smaller cities is possible through community-led arts and culture events. This study of community and artist-led events in Barrie, Kitchener and Hamilton in Ontario suggests that these ... -
Race and Capital - Implications for Planning
(2014)The increasing racial' and ethnic' diversity of cities in a neoliberal terrain calls for planning scholars to revisit the notions of race and ethnicity in relation to capital. Theorists of Canadian multiculturalism have ...