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Title Sequential Agroforestry systems for Improving Fuelwood Ssupply and Crop Yield in Semi-arid Tanzania

Excerpt Promotion of agroforestry practices in sub-Sahara Africa may help sustain subsistent food and wood production by integrating trees and crops on farmlands to replenish soil fertility and improve crop yield. Using rotational woodlot and pigeonpea intercropping systems in semi-arid Tanzania as case studies, my research screened suitable tree species to increase fuelwood supply and examined […]

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SDGs Life on LandResponsible Consumption and ProductionZero Hunger

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Departments Forestry

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Keywords food, forest, production

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Title Essays on Environmental Policy, Heterogeneous Firms, Employment Dynamics and Inflation

Excerpt This thesis covers three issues: the aggregate and welfare effects of environmental policies when plants are heterogeneous; what causes the different patterns of employment dynamics in small versus large firms over business cycles; and the welfare costs of expected and unexpected inflation. In the first chapter, we show that accounting for plant heterogeneity is important […]

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Author Li, Zhe

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SDGs Climate ActionDecent Work and Economic Growth

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Keywords employment, environment

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Title Governing Immunization in Canada

Excerpt Modern immunization’s role in health systems is threefold: it is simultaneously a pharmaceutical product, a personal health care intervention, and a public health measure, each constituting a distinct, yet overlapping set of governance arrangements. This thesis examines immunization policy change and governance at the federal-provincial interface over the last decade (1997-2008) in Canada, situated against […]

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Author Mah, Catherine Ling

Advisor Deber, Raisa Berlin

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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Keywords health

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Title Empirical Essays on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Welfare

Excerpt This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in three different contexts. Chapter 1 outlines a class of statistical procedures that permit testing of a broad range of multidimensional stochastic dominance hypotheses. We apply the procedures to data on income and leisure hours for individuals in Germany, […]

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Advisor Brandt, Loren

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityNo Poverty

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Reduced Inequalities

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Keywords employment, equality, inequality, poverty

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Title Trouble in our Fields: Health and Human Rights among Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada

Excerpt For many years Canada has quietly rationalized importing temporary “low-skilled” migrant labour through managed migration programs to appease industries desiring cheap and flexible labour while avoiding extending citizenship rights to the workers. In an era of international human rights and global competitive markets, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is often hailed as a […]

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Author McLaughlin, Janet Elizabeth

Advisor Cunningham, Hilary

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Departments Anthropology

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Keywords labour, rights

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Title Greater Toronto Area Urban Heat Island: Analysis of Temperature and Extremes

Excerpt This study analyzes the trends in temperature, and their extremes, in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in the context of urban heat island. The trends in annual and seasonal temperature changes were investigated in the GTA over the past century and a half with special focus on 1970-2000. The Mann-Kendall test is used to assess […]

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Author Mohsin, Tanzina

Advisor Gough, William A.

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SDGs Climate ActionSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Taking a Risk: Does Human Capital Investment Pay Off for Educationally Disadvantaged Adults?

Excerpt Although human capital investment is often proposed as a solution to improve the labour market prospects of individuals who reach adulthood without obtaining a post-secondary credential, little is known about whether skills upgrading actually pays off. Using three national cross-sectional surveys on adult education as well as longitudinal data from the Panel Survey of Income […]

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Author Myers, Karen

Advisor Myles, John

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender Equality

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Title The Mark of the State: Reading the Writing of ‘Right’ in Hegel’s Political Philosophy

Excerpt This project is a critique of the connection between lethal violence and justice within Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Our critique focuses on three specific moments—moments that Derrida touches upon in Glas, but does not address in detail—namely, heroic vengeance, execution and warfare. By subjecting each of these moments to a close reading we will be […]

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Author Nichols, Joshua

Advisor Gibbs, Robert B.

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Keywords justice

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Title Living in the Shadow of an “Obesity Epidemic”: The Discursive Construction of Boys and Their Bodies

Excerpt This dissertation is about boys and fatness. In it I explore the central discourses that shape young men’s (13-15 years) experiences of their bodies, particularly in relation to body size, shape, and fatness. A central objective is to listen, hear, and take seriously the embodied health rationalities of young men as they negotiate the multiple […]

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Author Norman, Moss Edward

Advisor MacNeill, Margaret

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SDGs Gender EqualityGood Health and Well-Being

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Departments Exercise Sciences

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Title The Politics of Higher Education Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe. Development Challenges of the Republic of Moldova

Excerpt This thesis examines factors that underscored higher education reforms in Central and Eastern Europe during the transition period from 1990 to 2005. The study explores higher education reforms in three national settings – Hungary, Romania and the Republic of Moldova, and presents a detailed analysis of the Moldovan case. Rooted in critical approaches to development, […]

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Author Padure, Lucia

Advisor Jones, Glen A.

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SDGs Peace, Justice and Strong InstitutionsQuality Education

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Departments Theory and Policy Studies in Education

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Keywords educat, equitable, institution

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