OCTOBER, 2011
Graduate: BENYAM, Addisalem (St. John’s College)
Thesis Title: Evaluating the UNDP – GEF Small Grants Programme
Funding in Ethiopia: Sustainable Livelihoods and Poverty
Alleviation in Action [pdf]
Advisor: Prof. Thomas Henley
Graduate: CHAMPAGNE, Janessa
Thesis Title: Effects of Fire on the Distribution and Abundance
of Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spragueii) and Their Invertebrate
Prey [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Nicola Koper
Graduate: FOTH, Michael
Thesis Title: Barriers to Aboriginal Participation in
Environment Assessment: A Case Study of the Wuskwatim Generating
Station, Manitoba [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. John Sinclair
Graduate: MIKULSEN, Maciej
Thesis Title: Public Involvement and Risk Communication In Food
Safety Governance: Lessons from Listeria Monocytogenes and
Vulnerable Groups [pdf]
Advisor: Prof. Thomas Henley
Co-Advisor: Dr. Alan Diduck
Graduate: PENGELLY, Ryan
Thesis Title: Developing and Commercializing Non-timber Forest
Products: An Anishinaabe Perspective from Pikangikum First
Nation, Northwestern Ontario [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Iain Davidson-Hunt
Graduate: SANDERS, Michael (St. John’s College)
Thesis Title: Voices from the Fire Line: Pikangikum Anishinaabeg
Experiences as Provincial Forest Firefighters in Northwestern
Ontario [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Iain Davidson-Hunt
Graduate: SI, Minxing (St. John’s College)
Thesis Title: The Feasibility of Waste Heat Recovery and Energy
Efficiency Assessment in a Steel Plant [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Shirley Thompson
Graduate: Sliwinski, Maggi
Thesis Title: Changes in Grassland Songbird Abundance and
Diversity in Response to Grazing by Bison and Cattle in the
Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Nicola Koper
MAY, 2011
Graduate: GIESBRECHT, Dale
Thesis Title: Small-scale Fisher Livelihood Strategies and the
Role of Credit in Paraty, Brazil [pdf]
Advisor: Prof. Thomas Henley
Graduate: KOCHO-SCHELLENBERG, John-Erik
Thesis Title: Understanding the Evolution of Beluga Entrapment
Co-Management in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region using Social
Network Analysis [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Fikret Berkes
Graduate: LARKIN, Jill
Thesis Title: Microhabitat Preferences of the Prairie Skink
(Plestiodon septentrionalis) in Southwestern Manitoba [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Nicola Koper
Co-Advisor: Dr. Pamela Rutherford
Graduate: LOZECZNIK, Vanessa
Thesis Title: The Role of Protests as Platforms for Action on
Sustainability in the Kullu Valley, India [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. John Sinclair
Graduate: ROBSON, James - Ph.D.
Thesis Title: The Impact of Rural to Urban Migration on Forest
Commons in Oaxaca, Mexico [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Fikret Berkes
Graduate: UDDIN, Mohammed Salim (St. John's College)
Thesis Title: Role of Microcredit and Community-Based
Organizations in a Wetland Area in Bangladesh [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Fikret Berkes
Graduate: VALDIVIA, Jeffrey
Thesis Title: Organic Waste Management in Manitoba, Canada:
Barriers and Opportunities to Implement Best-Practices [pdf]
Advisor: Dr. Shirley Thompson