• Effects of Small-Scale Gold Mining Tailings on the Underwater Light Field in the Tapajós River Basin, Brazilian Amazon 

  Lobo, Felipe de Lucia; Costa, Maycira; Novo, Evlyn M. L. M.; Telmer, Kevin (Remote Sensing, 2017)

  Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) within the Amazon region has created several environmental impacts, such as mercury contamination and changes in water quality due to increased siltation. This paper describes ...
• Trafficking for sexual exploitation: the problems and insufficiencies in North American policy 

  Elliott, Leigh (2019-05-31)

  This work is a theoretical exploration that seeks to better understand the grooming process involved in some cases of domestic trafficking for sexual exploitation in North America. It theorizes the grooming process as a ...
• Riftwalking: the dissolution of socio-ecological resilience and the role of resilience thinking in metabolic rifts 

  Broe, Ryan (2019-05-29)

  This thesis asks what effects concepts of resilience may have on political action and the ongoing ecological crises we see developing throughout the world. Specifically, it addresses disruptions in wild salmon migration, ...
• Forces of production, climate change and Canadian fossil capitalism 

  Graham, Nicolas (2019-05-23)

  The dissertation reinterprets the concept of forces of production through an ecological lens and analyzes the fettering of “green productive forces” in the context of the deepening climate crisis. In contrast to more ...
• Migrant construction workers and global union federations: the Malaysian context 

  Lopez, Elena (2019-05-23)

  As increased mobility of workers challenges the ability of the traditional labour movement to protect workers’ rights, global union federations such as Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) attempt to organize ...
• Bangladeshi Migrants of Italy and Their Precarity 

  Roy, Nilanjana; Verdun, Amy (Social Sciences, 2019)

  Over the past years much attention has been placed on the ordeal of migrants as they leave their home countries and seek refuge or better lives in others. Given the sudden surge of Bangladeshi migration to Italy in recent ...
• Dispossession politics: mapping the contours of reconciliatory colonialism in Canada through industry-funded think tanks 

  Yunker, Zoë (2019-05-03)

  Amidst recent mobilizations of Indigenous land-based resistance and the hypocrisy inherent in the state’s implementation of UNDRIP they render visible, resource-extractive corporate capital is uniquely invested in the ...
• Commodity or Token?: A Para-anthropological Analysis of Money in Islamic Finance 

  Sayeed, Rehan (2019-05-03)

  Money, in conventional scholarship, is represented as a commodity or a token. In a conventional economy, most money is created through bank loans based on interest-bearing debt. However, Islam prohibits the payment of ...
• “I. Am. Crying. Of. The. Level. Of. Cuteness”: Representations and Reactions to the Illegal Slow Loris Pet Trade on Social Media 

  Parent, Gabrielle (2019-05-03)

  Over the past several years, slow lorises, a group of endangered primate species found in Southeast Asia, have fallen victims to the illegal primate pet trade. Slow lorises do not fare well in captivity, as they are nocturnal ...
• “These Paintings Have a Spirit”: Voices Found in Childhood Artwork from Indian Residential Schools 

  Bibault, Adele (2019-05-03)

  The residential school system has had profound negative and lasting impacts on the Indigenous peoples in the land now known as North America. Children as young as the age of four were forcibly removed from their families ...
• The Effects of Ageism and HIV-Related Stigma on Older Adults’ Social Networks 

  Hogan, Mikaila (2019-05-03)

  HIV/AIDS has been the subject of culturally produced stigma since its emergence in the 1980s when a positive diagnosis meant certain death. HIV was transformed to a chronic condition with the introduction of antiretroviral ...
• Cultural and ecological relationships among consumers, food, and landscapes; implications for stewarding bear-human-salmon systems 

  Adams, Megan Sara (2019-05-02)

  Human activity modifies the behaviour of large vertebrates and their acquisition of key resources. Despite the predation risk and competition for similar food resources that humans impose, wildlife consumers must acquire ...
• Nutrient subsidies in the coastal margin: implications for tree species richness and understory composition 

  Miller, Rebecca (2019-05-01)

  The subsidized island biogeography hypothesis proposes that nutrient subsidies, those translocated from one ecosystem to another, can indirectly influence species richness on islands by directly increasing terrestrial ...
• The Salt Spring dollar: toward a re-embedded economy 

  Cowan, Maya (2019-05-01)

  The Salt Spring dollar is a community currency founded Salt Spring Island, a Gulf Islands community located in the Salish Sea between Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Currency use in 2018, nearly two decades ...
• Investigating non-anthropocentric approaches to human-animal interactions in science: towards improved welfare of animals used in wildlife research 

  Field, Kate A. (2019-05-01)

  Drawing on anthropocentric, ecocentric and biocentric worldviews, I examine the use of research animals as a case to investigate human-animal interactions in science. Specifically, I investigate a case of potential tensions ...
• Against the economic grain: moral exemplars build visibility and model the viability of low-carbon livelihoods 

  Kendall, Kim (2019-05-01)

  The manner in which socioeconomic forces direct environmentally unsustainable behaviour is largely unseen and unappreciated. North American cultural beliefs, norms and values reinforce the economic system and constitute ...
• Evaluating British Columbia’s artificial reefs in a conservation context 

  Bulger, Desirée (2019-05-01)

  Synthetic marine habitats such as artificial reefs (ARs) are deployed to offset marine habitat losses and aid conservation of marine communities, including species at risk. Though environmental benefit is often assumed, ...
• Conservation outcomes and sustainability of whale shark tourism in the Philippines 

  Ziegler, Jackie (2019-05-01)

  Biodiversity loss is one of the major environmental threats facing the planet. Incentive-based conservation is one means to reduce human pressure on wildlife by providing economic incentives for resource-dependent people ...
• Essays on foreign aid and macro-economic performance of Sub-Saharan African countries 

  Saleh, Omar (2019-05-01)

  Foreign aid is a major flow of income into sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, averaging roughly 12% of GDP over the last four decades. Yet, SSA countries are characterized by very low per capita output, low human capital ...
• Settler-colonial politics in B.C.'s consultation and accommodation policy: a critical analysis 

  Whittington, Elissa (2019-04-30)

  This thesis explores technologies of power that operate in British Columbia’s policy for consultation with Indigenous peoples about proposed land and resource decisions. I use the concept of settler colonialism to analyze ...

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