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Ringed Seal Monitoring and Planning Workshop
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UnderCurrents
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2008)UnderCurrents is an independent non-profit journal of critical environmental studies produced by students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Since 1988, with a brief hiatus from ... -
An Analysis of the Ontario Power Authority’s Consideration of Environmental Sustainability in Electricity System Planning
(2008)This report focuses on the Ontario Power Authority’s (OPA) consideration of environmental sustainability in the development of the proposed Integrated Power System Plan (IPSP). The research was centred on a comparison of ... -
Applying the Total Resource Cost Test to Conservation and Demand Management Initiatives of Local Electricity Distribution Companies in Ontario: Assessment and Recommendations for Reform
(2009)This study has its origins in my participation in the Ontario Power Authority’s Conservation and Demand Management Program Development Advisory Committee in 2006 and 2007 while serving as a Program Director with the Pembina ... -
Port City Relations: Global Spaces of Urban Waterfront Development
(2007)Urban waterfronts have become key sites where global restructuring processes and local interests are engaged in complex struggles that are influencing the future of cities. The author discusses three issues related to these ... -
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature: A Political Ecology of Toronto's Port Industrial District
(Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)This article analyses political and economic practices involved with the production of an industrial form of socio-nature - the Port Industrial District - during the early decades of the twentieth century in Toronto, Canada. ... -
Ontario's Road Map to Prosperity: Developing Renewable Energy to its Full Potential
(2009)Ontario needs a practical solution that provides strong local economic development and new employment sources to replace the 230,000 manufacturing jobs that have disappeared from the province in the last five years. As ... -
Promoting Health and Well-Being by Managing for Social–Ecological Resilience: the Potential of Integrating Ecohealth and Water Resources Management Approaches
(Ecology and Society, 2011)In coupled social–ecological systems, the same driving forces can result in combined social and environmental health inequities, hazards, and impacts. Policies that decrease social inequities and improve social cohesion, ... -
A research collection of historical maps and prints of the Caribbean Islands. Part 1: photographic prints, photocopies and facsimiles
(2011-10-13)Part 1 of the collection of historical Caribbean maps and prints is composed of facsimiles, photographic copies, and photocopies of originals, acquired over a period of approximately 30 years (beginning in 1980). All of ... -
Multiple acts of birding: the Education, ethics and ontology of bird watching in Ontario
(2010-12-08)While bird watching has captured the attention of those interested in fostering an experiential connection to the more-than-human, research conducted to date often assumes birding to be a heterogeneous act. As an example ...
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