PhD Thesis defenses
PhD thesis defenses are administered by the Faculty of Environment. Notices are posted by the Dean's Office.
Master's Thesis defenses
None currently scheduled
Recent Defenses:
Thursday, September 11, 10:00 am
Degree: MSc
Candidate: Sandani Abewickrama
Title: Drivers of Spatial Variation in Methane Emission and the Role of Vegetation in Methane Oxidation from Capped Landfills in Southern Ontario
Supervisor(s): Maria Strack
Location: EV1-353 (hybrid)
Tuesday, August 26, 10:00 am
Degree: MES
Candidate: Kaitlyn Manninger
Title: Tourism & Change: A Longitudinal Analysis on Lodge Development and Energy Consumption in Sagarmatha National Park
Supervisor(s): Sanjay Nepal
Location: EV1-353
Wednesday, August 20, 11:00 am
Degree: MSc
Candidate: Akshara Withanage
Title: Greenhouse gas fluxes from stormwater ponds and urban wetlands in southern Ontario
Supervisor(s): Maria Strack
Location: EV1-354
Monday, July 21, 2:00 pm
Degree: MSc
Candidate: Veronica Santia
Title: Qunatifying greenhouse gas emissions on a peat stockpile in the northern Alberta Oil Sands Region
Supervisor(s): Maria Strack
Location: remote
PhD Comprehensive Exam defenses
Friday, October 31, 8:30 am
Candidate: Samantha Bray
Question: The climate crisis has, and will continue, to transform the global tourism sector. The United Nations has declared the crisis a code red for humanity, requiring all sectors of society to urgently decarbonize to limit global warming, halving greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2030 and fall to net-zero by 2050.
Begin your response with a discussion of the global calls to action for sustainable and climate resilient tourism development, providing and overview of the relationship between climate risk and the tourism sector. In your discussion, define and distinguish key concepts and terms that have been adopted in the literature to address climate concerns (eg. sustainable, regenerative, transformative, restorative).
Outline how the tourism system connects to climate change governance, noting the multi-scale and multi-actor system that characterizes the complexity of the tourism sector. Comment on sectoral progress toward global climate goals, identifying governance challenges and gaps that hinder action. In so doing, critically compare different governance frameworks and offer and argument for a promising approach to meet sustainability aims and advance climate action.
Supervisor(s): Michelle Rutty
Location: remote
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