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Social And Environmental Sustainability In Waterfront Redevelopment: A Case Study Of Inspiration Lakeview
(2017)
This paper is a case study of the Inspiration Lakeview Master Plan in Port Credit, Mississauga. This paper speaks to the history of urban waterfronts and examines the
evolution of urban waterfront (re)development in urban ...
Mindfulness In Ontario Education: A Positive Movement
(2017)
Children are most influenced by their family, school, and society. Through exploring the various failings within the Ontario school system (i.e., bullying, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression), it becomes apparent ...
Product Design through a Systemic Lens of Ecological Economics
(2017)
Products, tangible artefacts created through a process and intended for delivery to an end-user (Boundless, 2017), have been a primary method in addressing the needs and wants of people, making product designers a crucial ...
Poaching and Human-elephant Conflict: A Destructive Duo. How Poaching May Alter Male Elephant Society and Indirectly Influence Human-elephant Conflict
(2017)
The uncertain future of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) is currently a popular issue in conservation circles, largely due to the ongoing poaching crisis. Compounding the threat of illegal offtake are the added ...
Supporting Domestic Energy Conservation in Ontario through Direct Feedback
(2017)
Outside of financial incentives, there is a lack of tools for Ontario households to effectively conserve energy. The traditional and most commonly used policy tools, money and information, are not enough on their own to ...
Community Energy Financing. Assessing Challenges and Opportunities in Ontario.
(2017)
A well-established financing regime is critical to the development and growth of Ontario?s community energy sector. While a number of crucial policy initiatives have been undertaken at both the federal and provincial levels ...
Indigenous Legal Methodologies And Water Governance In Canada
(2017)
Canada has a firmly established bijuridical system, which formally recognizes two distinct legal systems and demands adherence to these laws by individuals, organizations and institutions within its jurisdictions. In recent ...
Transitioning Community Food Systems for Sustainability and a Proposed Caledon Community Food Plan to Foster a Successful Resilient Local Food Economy
(2017)
Communities have become a promising place to work sustainability transitions. As the world has become increasing complex, it is no longer possible to use linear thinking to deal with the massive problems facing us. From ...
Urban Acupuncture in Taipei
(2017)
A number of conditions can be attributed to driving the recent revolutionary movement of urban acupuncture and locally-led interventions in cities around the world. Political, economic, and environmental uncertainty; the ...
Healthy Environment, Healthy Economy, Healthy Humans: Planning for Toronto's Waterfront Revitalization Throughout the 20th and 21st Century
(2017)
This paper focuses on the revitalization process of the Toronto Port Lands. The paper moves through the historical transitions of the Toronto Port Lands, looking at three eras of plans, which have helped to shape the Toronto ...