Browsing MES Major Papers by Issue Date
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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 ... -
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, ... -
Transportation Justice in Suburbia - A Case Study of Downtown Planning Initiatives
(2014)Post-war suburban development has, for years, embraced an automobile-oriented growth pattern through the separation of land uses and low-density built forms that are attuned to the convenience of the car. Suburban streetscapes ... -
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 ... -
Migrant Dreams: Documentary as Cultural Resistance for Social Change
(2014)I made a documentary fifteen years ago that I still haven’t finished making. I didn’t realize this until I starting writing this paper – but its become clearer to me that the process of creating doesn’t obey spatial or ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Developing a Model for Promoting Solar Photovoltaics in Ontario, Canada
(2014)Through the enactment of Ontario's Green Energy and Green Economy Act of 2009, Ontario has set targets to increase the share of renewable energy. However, widespread renewable energy development still faces several barriers. ... -
Sustainable Approaches to Controlled Environment Agriculture
(2014)This Major Portfolio explores the role sustainable controlled environment agriculture has in responding to concerns about local food security in a cold weather climate such as Canada. The technologies and processes examined ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
'All of a Sudden, It's Becoming Toronto': Community Identity and Belonging in the Beaches' Anti Condominium Activism
(2014)This paper explores the intersections of identity, community, and belonging in the context of anti-condominium activism in Toronto's Ward 32 Beaches-East, York. Using local newspaper articles, archival research, and ... -
Beyond the Pipes: Planning for Sustainable Stormwater Management in the City of Toronto
(2014)Significant flooding in urban areas from strong storms and heavy rainfall has increased concerns about the ability of municipalities to manage the stormwater generated during these events and thereby protect infrastructure, ... -
Planning for Nature in the City: The Restoration of the Mouth of the Don River as a Case Study
(2014)The Don River once travelled from the Oak Ridges Moraine, through dense forests, to empty into a large marsh at its mouth in Lake Ontario. The Don River now travels through some of the most urbanized parts of the Greater ... -
Co-Opted? Exploratory Research on Canadian Resource 'Imperialism' in Postcolonial Tanzania
(2014)Since the mid-1980s and the emergence of the structural adjustment policies (SAPs) and the Washington Consensus3 (WC) in Tanzania, there have been changes in the scope of State sovereignty in Tanzania as elsewhere in the ... -
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 ...