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Effects of climate variability on hydrological processes in a Canadian Rockies headwaters catchment
(2016-11-04)
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, ...
The Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre and the Community Liaison Committee : laying the groundwork for self-government, 1968-1982
(2009)
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 ...
Producer agency in decisions to hire foreign labour in the Saskatchewan apiary sector
(2010-06)
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 ...
Sensitivity Analysis of Mountain Hydrology to Changing Climate
(2017-04-20)
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 ...
Alpine Turbulence and Blowing Snow
(2017-12-20)
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 ...
HISTORICAL POPULATION HEALTH: SPATIOTEMPORAL MORTALITY PATTERNS OF HAMILTON, ONTARIO 1880–1882 AND 1910–1912
(2017-02-16)
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 ...
HOW CONTEXT AFFECTS UNCERTAINTY DISCLOSURE AND COMMUNICATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: A CASE STUDY OF ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN NORTHERN ALBERTA
(2016-06-22)
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 ...
Drinking water source water protection plan implementation: barriers and supports for First Nations
(2016-06-03)
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 ...
Wild West Canada: Buffalo Bill and Transborder History
(2016-07-08)
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 ...