Essays about: "columbia"

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  1. 21. 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

  2. 22. Etablering och tillväxt av Douglasgran i ett proveniensförsök i södra Sverige

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management

    Author : Magnus Persson; [2015]
    Keywords : Pseudotsuga menziesii; proveniens; frost; överlevnad; inland; kust;

    Abstract : I denna studie utvärderades ett proveniensförsök med douglasgran som anlades 2010 på Tönnersjöhedens försökspark, SLU i samarbete med Södra Skog. Syftet var att utreda skadebilden, tillväxten och avgång efter tre tillväxtsäsonger för 7 olika provenienser av Douglasgran, och genom statistiska analyser peka på skillnader i mellan kust-och inlandsprovenienser. READ MORE

  3. 23. Bridging the Divide between Air Quality Monitoring, Management and Policy in the Sea-to-Sky Airshed: A method for analyzing and interpreting large volume air quality data for management and policy guidance

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Kirsten Cukor; [2015]
    Keywords : air quality; air pollution; analysis; Sea-to-Sky; Canada; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Air pollution has increasingly been the focus of management and policy efforts since the early 1950s. Networks of monitoring stations for data to inform, create, focus, assess and improve air pollution management and policy. READ MORE

  4. 24. Linguliform Brachiopods from the Middle Cambrian ‘Thick’ Stephen Formation at Odaray Mountain, Canadian Rocky Mountains

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Sara Saxén; [2015]
    Keywords : Brachiopoda; Lingulida; Middle Cambrian; Stephen Formation; new species; Brachiopoda; Lingulida; Mellersta kambrium; Stephenformationen; ny art;

    Abstract : The linguliform brachiopod fauna from the Stephen Formation have long been thought to be very species poor and only consist of a few genera, but new discoveries from lime-stone beds in the “thick” Stephen Formation shows that this is not the case. The species described herein, Kyrshabaktella cf. tatjanae and Ceratreta hansi sp. nov. READ MORE

  5. 25. Atmospheric mercury deposition in alpine snow, northern British Columbia and southwestern Yukon, Canada

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Pia Karlsson; [2014]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : High mercury (Hg) levels have been measured in fish in Kusawa Lake (KL), a subalpine, partly glacier-fed lake situated in the southwestern Yukon, Canada, but it is presently unknown where this Hg comes from. One possible source may be atmospheric deposition of Hg in snow and subsequent release by melt into the lake. READ MORE