Browsing MES Major Papers by Issue Date
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Including Farmers' Voices in the Farm Labour Debate
(2014)While promoting sustainable agricultural, it is important to both address the many challenges to farming sustainably in Ontario and envision a comprehensive food ethic. One of the greatest challenges and unjust aspects of ... -
The Descendants of Giants: In Search of Exemplary Specimens of At Risk Trees in Southern Ontario's Oak Ridges Moraine
(2014)Prior to widespread settlement by Europeans in the early to mid 19th century, southern Ontario (i.e., the region south of Lake Simcoe) was blanketed by dense mixed deciduous forests that had been shaping, and were being ... -
Territory and Identity in Relation to Resource Development in Québec Settler Society
(2014)In the past few years Québec has been investing much more attention in more conventional types of energy. Indeed, more than one government has considered the possibilities to exploit shale gas, increase northern development ... -
Communities of Resistance: The Success and Resilience of Intentional Communities in North America
(2014)Intentional communities are residential developments that are created by noncorporate actors with the primary purposes of meeting the social and environmental needs to the community. Many intentional communities play an ... -
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 ... -
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 Political Economy of Oil Transportation and the Implications for Canada
(2014)In Canada, there are currently multiple oil pipeline projects being proposed, engaged in the regulatory process, or recently approved with conditions. While debates have focused on the environmental effects or environmental ... -
Major Research Project Reflection Report MES Planning Program
(2014)Characteristics of the built environment have been found to influence the health of the population. Over the last two years of my Planning Program, I have taken several courses and independent studies during which I developed ... -
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 ... -
'Participation' in place-based planning in Kingston Galloway/Orton Park: the case of the proposed Community Planning Board
(2014)Place-based participatory planning is an ongoing trend in planning theory and practice, resulting in many policies across Europe and North America, focusing on issues of neighbourhood decline and poverty. In Toronto, the ... -
Planning and well-being: Aesthetic perceptions in a deindustrializing landscape
(2014)Halifax has experienced an uneven landscape of deindustrialization since the late 1970's. Theformer city of Dartmouth, now a planning region within greater Halifax, is an area which has remained quite industrial relative ... -
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 ... -
Kids Growing: Implementing School-Community Gardens in Ontario
(2014)Cultivating land surrounding schools provides opportunities for children and youth to experience growing, tasting and preparing fresh food. This creates openings for deeper understanding of environmental and social ... -
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' ... -
Shaping the Landscape: A Progressive Conceptualisation of Local History Museums in the Algonquin Highlands
(2014)In small towns, local history museums often play a vital role in the preservation of heritage. These local history museums are responsible for ensuring that this heritage is maintained for future generations. The Dorset ... -
Agroecological Farm Design Using Popular Education
(2014)With regards to community farms the Cavaleiro Farm design was approached as a multifunctional design with a strong patterning of environmental, social and economic layers of thinking. Natural education was explored through ... -
Advancing Youth Education on Food and Food Systems to Increase Food Literacy
(2014)The contemporary industrial food system has purposefully distanced eaters from food's origins.This has created a lack of knowledge not only about where food comes from, but also about thefood system's impacts on our ... -
The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF- International) – A historical analysis
(2014)This Major Paper provides a historical analysis of the formation and development of CARF-International, a prominent private accreditation body in the social and human services sector. Accreditation is a system of evaluation, ... -
The effects of enrichment on the physical and psychological health of two related species at the Toronto Zoo
(2014)The cumulative effects of environmental destruction have resulted in the unavoidable need for captive animal institutions that house captive animals for a multitude of reasons. Regardless of the reason for placing these ...