This thesis advocates for landscape architecture to mitigate risk and plan for adaptation to catastrophic climate events. It develops an adaptive response and critique of Tacloban, the Philippines, as it responded to Typhoon Yolanda in 2013. As government authorities displaced p…
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The business judgment rule originated from the United States of America and was codified in the Companies Act 2008 under section 76(4). This rule relates directly to the duty to act in the best interest of the company and the duty to act with care, skill and diligence. The rule …
Spatial and temporal patterns of biodiversity are shaped, in part, by the resources available to biota, the efficiency of resource transfer through the food web, and variation in environmental conditions. Stream and riparian zones are dynamic systems connected through reciprocal…
A surge of recent research suggests that current and future shifts in marine species' distributions are ultimately driven by physiological responses to environmental variation. These observations and predictions are important because changes in species' distributions cause ecolo…
Beginning just a long decade after New France became part of the British Empire in 1763, a half-century of major crises engulfed British North America; the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), the postwar forced migration and resettlement of thousands of destitute and hungry Br…
Broad Whitefish (Coregonus nasus) is a critically important subsistence species for Alaska's Indigenous communities, yet little is known about the basic ecology of this species at the individual level. Understanding habitat use by Broad Whitefish is challenging due to their mobi…
Bonneville Cutthroat Trout (BCT) Oncorhynchus clarkii utah is one of fourteen subspecies of Cutthroat Trout Oncorhynchus clarkii and is a species of high ecological and social importance. Bonneville Cutthroat Trout is a species of conservation concern in the states of Idaho and …
Hypoxia is a worldwide natural phenomenon that is becoming increasingly more severe as anthropogenic high-nitrogen nutrient loads enter marine systems. In the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGoMex), seasonal hypoxia occurs during the summer months due to stratification and lack of mix…
This thesis outlines historic trends and current policy focus toward privatization in the ocean, provides a basis for assessing how this process is affecting access to fisheries resources, and suggests how considerations of equity should be incorporated into our assessments of s…
Northern Shrimp (Pandalus borealis) once supported a key commercial fishery in the State of Maine. Since its closure in 2013, the stock has remained in a particularly vulnerable state following recruitment failure, overfishing, and rising water temperatures. Furthermore, without…
Ecological models allow resource managers to evaluate human impacts on fish and their habitat. However, quantitative methods that incorporate and assess uncertainty in these models are rare. These models require fish life history information, which is often uncertain, and can th…
The breakdown of reproductive isolation leading to inter-specific hybridization is a widespread phenomenon amongst cyprinid fishes. There are seventeen cyprinid species occcurring in the British Isles, within five sub-families, giving rise to some ten different types of hybrid. …
Overexploitation of many fish stocks underlines the need for more effort directed towards stock management so that the sustainability of resources is assured. To avert the tragic consequences of overfishing in coastal waters, a growing body of theoretical and empirical research …
The thesis is inspired by the poverty that has persisted among the fishing communities of Lake Victoria at a time of considerable cash inflow into the fisheries from the development of the fish processing industry. There has been need for an understanding of the poverty and what…
Tuna fisheries in the coastal states of the West Indian Ocean (WIO) have been at the centre of the social, economic and political development of the region. Their significance in creating employment, providing food, and generating revenue for the people in the region cannot be o…
Of all the corporate tasks facing government agencies and business enterprises, none is more challenging or has received more attention than those involving the management of capital. This is as true for fisheries as any other sector of the economy. However, a fishery is the mee…
Mobility and Pathways to Autonomy of Women: A study of informal workers in fisheries sector in Kerala, India Mobility defined as the freedom and ability to move has intrinsic and instrumental values in promoting human development. Paid work which involves mobility associated wit…
The bycatch of cetaceans in fishing gear is considered to be one of the biggest conservation threats to these species. Gear modifications have the potential to reduce these bycatches in global fisheries but there is little available information on how such modifications may chan…
Nam Theun 2 hydropower dam was selected for this study to assess how local communities respond to hydrological changes and examine the impacts of these changes to ecology and livelihoods of people around the Nakai reservoir and downstream in the Xe Bang Fai River. The results co…