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Browsing Masters Theses by Author "Dalton, Anne Marie"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)This thesis compares two world views represented on the one hand, by the modernization paradigm with its growth orthodoxy and on the other hand, by the ecological economics paradigm which advocates limits to growth. It ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)This thesis examines the Soka Gakkai lay Buddhist movement using the eco-contextualist approach in an attempt to address some ambiguity involved in the eco-Buddhist research field. The contextual strategy methodology, which ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The objective of this research is to contribute to the limited literature that deals with development from a religious standpoint. This includes a critique of a Eurocentric definition of development and the potential of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)Global ecological concern has led to a dramatic increase in ecotourism development projects worldwide. Governments in indigent countries of the South are eager to capitalise on economic opportunities presented by a rapidly ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)This exploratory, qualitative study focused on one sector of civil society (organized religion) and sought to document Christian church-based HIV and AIDS-related services and activities in Gaborone, Botswana and to determine ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2001)Efficient and environmentally sound use of natural resources is one of the most significant factors influencing the sustainable development of a country. It has also been internationally recognized that women play a key ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)Increasingly researchers, policy makers and practitioners are accepting that development affects men and women differently. Although much work has been done to integrate women into development projects, physical, social, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2007)This thesis looks at issues in girls' education and development both generally and specifically within India. These issues are examined in light of recent international focus on girls' elementary education, specifically ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1999)The adivasis, or tribal peoples of India, have many practices that promote the sustainability of their forest environments. Such practices are supported by animistic beliefs in which trees and other natural phenomena are ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study engages the conversations between religion and ecology, and contributes two points to this conversation. Firstly, that the environment is as much constructed as it is apprehended, and religio-social understandings ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2003)The progression of development discourse from purely economic thinking to a more inclusive and people friendly approach has brought the concept of participation to the forefront. Much of the world's population live in rural ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This thesis is an investigation of the image of God arising from understandings of quantum science and argues that it enhances ideas about God. It considers the significance of religious interpretations of quantum science ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)The Colombian conflict has caused and unearthed various development problems. Many believe achieving peace will improve current conditions. Although peacebuilding is typically viewed as a post-conflict activity, in Colombia, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2011)This thesis examines the rise of Islamism in Turkey over the last three decades. It explores the increasing role of Islamism in Turkey in society and politics in detail in the context of the religion and development. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)While the United Nations Development Program ranks Nigeria low on Human development indices of education, health and employment, Nigerian Pentecostal churches ‘promise’ prosperity to members with their Prosperity Gospel. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2005)The thesis examines the effectiveness of recycling as a market remedy for the environmental impacts of wastes. A case study of the market for recycled plastic wastes is presented. Data was collected on the North American ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1999)The role women have played historically and still today within the web of interaction of population and environment has been neglected or misinterpreted. This thesis attempts to identify the strands of the discourse, which ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)Muslim women have long been at the centre of an uneasy relationship between religion and development. Gender stereotypes, from both Muslim and Northern states, have systematically excluded women, especially religious women, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008)Good governance is a concept that has been promoted by development agencies, particularly the World Bank since 1989. Good governance is not a simple concept; rather it is the amalgamation of a plethora of concepts theorized ...
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