Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Type "Article"
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The effect of peat structure on the spatial distribution of biogenic gases within bogs: EFFECT OF PEAT STRUCTURE ON BIOGENIC GAS
(Wiley, 2014-10-30)Northern peatlands are a large source of atmospheric methane (CH4) and both a source and a sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). The rate and temporal variability in gas exchanges with peat soils is directly related ... -
Effect of Plant Functional Type on Methane Dynamics in a Restored Minerotrophic Peatland
(Springer, 2017-01)Background and Aims: Peatland methane (CH4) fluxes may vary between plant types; however, in mixed communities, the specific role of each species is difficult to distinguish. The goal of this study was to determine the ... -
Effect of water table drawdown on northern peatland methane dynamics: Implications for climate change
(Wiley, 2004-10-07)As natural sources of methane (CH4), peatlands play an important role in the global carbon cycle. Climate models predict that evapotranspiration will increase under a 2 x CO2 scenario due to increased temperatures leading ... -
The effects of Eriophorum vaginatum on N2O fluxes at a restored, extracted peatland
(Elsevier, 2017-09)Restoration of extracted horticultural peatlands commonly includes distribution of vegetation and propagules from 10 nearby undisturbed sites over the recently-exposed surface. The resulting growth includes both mosses and ... -
Equity in Urban Climate Change Adaptation Planning: A Review of Research
(Cogitatio, 2021-12-16)A growing number of cities are preparing for climate change by developing adaptation plans, but little is known about how these plans and their implementation affect the vulnerability of groups experiencing various forms ... -
Extension of geopolitical supply risk methodology: Characterization model applied to conventional and electric vehicles
(Elsevier, 2017-09-20)The diversity of materials employed in modern products and the complexity of globalized supply chains raise the importance of assessing supply risk of commodity inputs to product systems. Therefore, this article extends ... -
Feeling Precarious: Millennial Women and Work
(Sage, 2015-12-18)In Precarious Life (2004), Judith Butler writes about how a shared sense of fear and vulnerability opens the possibility of recognizing interdependency. This is a wider understanding of precarity than is often present in ... -
Finance for Agriculture or Agriculture for Finance?
(Wiley, 2015-10)Food studies scholars have paid increasing attention to ‘financialization’ within the food system as private financial actors have played a growing role in various facets of the sector in recent years. While there has been ... -
Financialization, distance and global food politics
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-09-03)This paper provides a new perspective on the political implications of intensified financialization in the global food system. There has been a growing recognition of the role of finance in the global food system, in ... -
Financing micro-entrepreneurs for poverty alleviation: a performance analysis of microfinance services offered by BRAC, ASA, and Proshika from Bangladesh
(Springer, 2018-09-18)Microfinance services have emerged as an effective tool for financing microentrepreneurs to alleviate poverty. Since the 1970s, development theorists have considered non-governmental microfinance institutions (MFIs) as the ... -
Food security and contested agricultural trade norms
(Munk School of Global Affairs: Faculty of Law, 2015)Just as it is important to uncover the historical origins of specific norms that shape the trade regime, it is also helpful to examine how those norms are then translated into policy through contemporary rules and agreements. ... -
Food security and food sovereignty: Getting past the binary
(Sage, 2014-07-01)The terms food security and food sovereignty originally emerged as separate terms to describe different things. The former is a concept that describes a condition regarding access to adequate food, while the latter is more ... -
Food self-sufficiency: Making sense of it, and when it makes sense
(Elsevier, 2017-01)Food self-sufficiency gained increased attention in a number of countries in the wake of the 2007–08 international food crisis, as countries sought to buffer themselves from volatility on world food markets. Food ... -
Fossil fuel divestment strategies: Financial and carbon related consequences
(Sage, 2018-03-19)Fossil fuel divestment is discussed controversially with regard to its financial consequences and its effect on decarbonizing the economy. Theory and empirical studies suggest arguments for both, financial underperformance ... -
A Framework for Analyzing Broadly Engaged Philosophy of Science
(Cambridge University Press, 2022-01-01)Philosophers of science are increasingly interested in engaging with scientific communities, policy makers, and members of the public; however, the nature of this engagement has not been systematically examined. Instead ... -
The Geoweb for community-based organizations: Tool development, implementation, and sustainability in an era of Google Maps
(Community Informatics Journal, 2017-03-22)Recent advances in web-based geospatial tools (the Geoweb) show promise as low-cost and easy-to-use methods to support citizen participation. This research presents two case studies of Geoweb implementation set in ... -
Greenhouse gas emission factors associated with rewetting of organic soils
(International Peatland Society (IPS) and the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG), 2016-04-08)Drained organic soils are a significant source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to the atmosphere. Rewetting these soils may reduce GHG emissions and could also create suitable conditions for return of the carbon (C) sink ... -
Hot off the press! A comparative media analysis of energy storage framing in Canadian newspapers
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)Energy storage (ES) is a keystone technology for advancing low-carbon energy transitions, yet energy system change continues to be influenced by socio-political acceptance of emerging innovations such as storage. An initial ... -
How ‘transformative’ is energy storage? Insights from stakeholder perceptions in Ontario
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)‘Energy storage’ comprises a range of technologies of varying maturity and cost-effectiveness, which are increasingly considered to be an important part in building the electricity system of the future. As with any potentially ... -
Human dimensions of ecosystem-based management: Lessons in managing trade-offs from the Northern Shrimp Fishery in Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Fisheries can have significant impacts on the structure and function of marine ecosystems, including impacts on habitats and non-target species. As a result, management agencies face growing calls to account for the ecosystem ...