The variability of climate in mountain headwaters has an important impact on downstream water users and extreme events such as drought and flooding. Climate strongly influences hydrological processes in mountain basins, ...

As Aboriginal peoples relocated to urban areas in the 1950s and 1960s they often found that the services they were offered did not suit their needs, to address this issue Aboriginal peoples began advocating for organizations ...

Labour-intensive agricultural industries in Canada, and most recently in Saskatchewan, have become reliant on a foreign labour source as a means of ensuring survival within the structure of the global agricultural economy ...

Understanding the sensitivity of hydrological processes to climate change in snow-covered mountains is important for water and energy security. The objectives of this study are: (i) to quantify the sensitivity of simulated ...

Blowing snow in mountainous terrain is a complex nonlinear phenomenon driven by turbulent eddies with length scales ranging from millimetres to kilometres. Turbulent motions across a wide spectrum of sizes are superimposed ...

This dissertation empirically investigates multifaceted causes of health inequity by exploring historical connections between shifting economic activity, urban development, population change, and mortality. The purpose ...

This study investigates practices of uncertainty consideration, avoidance, and disclosure in Canadian environmental assessment (EA), namely within the context of social, political, economic, and/or environmental project ...

Access to safe drinking water in First Nations communities is an ongoing problem in Canada with approximately one in five First Nations communities under a drinking water advisory at any one time. The incidence of waterborne ...

Canadians continue to struggle with their western identity. For one reason or another, they have separated themselves from an Americanized “blood and thunder” history. But making this separation was not always as easy as ...