Essays about: "canadian community development"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words canadian community development.

  1. 1. Symbolic coping in Canada’s coal phaseout : applying social representations dynamics to communities in transition

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Linda Varekamp; [2021]
    Keywords : just transition; resistance; transformation; social representations theory; structural approach; central core;

    Abstract : The Canadian federal government has introduced policy to phase out coal-fired electricity generation by 2030, as part of its climate change mitigation commitments under the Paris Agreement. The policy plan, positioned as a just transition, includes funding and measures to help workers and communities manage economic difficulties arising from the coal phaseout. READ MORE

  3. 2. Knowledge and Implementation of Climate Change Adaptation in the Infrastructure Sector in Nunavut, Canada

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Timothy Giger; Kelly Ramsauer; [2019]
    Keywords : Nunavut; Arctic; Climate Change Adaptation; Infrastructure; Knowledge; Implementation; Policy; Climate-Sensitive Infrastructure; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Arctic is at the forefront of climate change and is considered to be the most at risk, warming at twice the rate of the global annual average. The environment and its inhabitants are and will be subjected to deep transformational shifts, with changes in temperature and climate having potentially worldwide repercussions. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sustainable Development in Swedish and Canadian Campus Plans

    University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

    Author : Timur Ersöz; [2018]
    Keywords : Sustainable development; campus plan; strategic spatial plans;

    Abstract : The concept of sustainable development being integrated into strategic spatial plans has increased in recent years. University campus plans are examples of such spatial plans, and these form the focus of this study. READ MORE

  5. 4. Swimming against the current : the journey of Canadian Transition initiatives in their quest for transformative change

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Gisela Ruckert; [2017]
    Keywords : grassroots innovations; transformative social innovation; community initiatives; Transition Movement; Canada; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Humanity's current resource use patterns are unsustainable, and corrective action is required at all levels. Grassroots social innovation groups have great potential to contribute to solutions. The Transition movement has taken hold in Canada, but little is known about its successes and challenges in creating conditions for transformative change. READ MORE

  6. 5. Mining solar and social innovation : exploring social innovation and the conditions that foster it in a Canadian, community-owned renewable energy project

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Luke Hamilton Wilson; [2016]
    Keywords : social innovation; sustainability science; socio-technical transition; community-owned energy; Western Canada; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : As a primary driver of climate change, energy systems are often affected by the type of “self-perpetuation and lock-in” that characterize so-called ‘wicked problems’. Although it has a relatively clean energy system, Canada still has provinces (e.g. READ MORE