Coral reefs are among the most interesting ecosystems on this planet. Located mostly in developing countries they are often prime examples of renewable resource exploitation under open access property rights regimes. Such resources will almost inevitably be depleted over time. T…
‘Child trafficking’ as a phenomenon requiring a policy and practice response has, in recent years gathered considerable pace. ‘Child trafficking’ is a crosscutting social issue, relevant to policy areas of child protection, child migration, criminal justice, immigration, social …
This text demonstrates that my work on young people who are exploited through prostitution and young people involved in problematic drug use in Britain at the end ofthe twentieth and beginning ofthe twenty-first century constitutes a significant contribution to advancing our kno…
The pharmaceutical sector has undergone many changes, particularly in the past several decades. The purpose of this research was to ascertain the existence of further changes to the division of labour and changes in the markets for technology within the sector. This research was…
This dissertation investigated the antecedent and outcome of environmental management. The study started with a comprehensive literature review on the antecedent of environmental management (Study 1). For this, I focused on how firms' level of decentralisation can influence envi…
This project examines the changing geography of human-chicken relationships in Toronto, Ontario. Anchoring my project to themes of care and belonging, I first explore the city’s historical live animal debates through textual news media to highlight how arguments about the inhuma…
Crossbreeding is practiced extensively in commercial breeding programs of many plant and animal species, in order to exploit heterosis, breed complementarity, and to protect pure line genetic material. The success of commercial crossbreeding schemes depends on identifying and us…
Intraspecific competition is ubiquitous in nature and can fundamentally shape the individual life history. Competition occurs, and consequently influences life-history traits, through the direct effects of interference and indirect effects of exploitation. Importantly, it is the…
It was reported that the plasma pharmaceuticals industry exceeded 20 billion in market value in 2016, with U.S. donors accounting for roughly 70% of the world’s collected plasma. Since being subjected to market forces blood collection and exchange have raised ethical questions a…
Despite US Federal legislation mandating legal professionals treat anyone under the age of 18 involved in commercial sex acts as a victim and not an offender of prostitution, US States differ in their treatment of sexually exploited youth. One potential explanation for the diffe…
This dissertation explores the relationship between the crisis of capitalism and the working class as a whole and the racialized sections of the working class in the United States from 1970 to 2019 particularly across three major economic periods: (I) 1970-1979, Post World War I…