Sustainable Development
Program of study - required and electives courses
Specialization Course
- LED 615 Community Economic Development (winter term)
Elective Courses
- ERS 680 Implications of a Sustainable Society for ERS (fall term)
- GEOG 660 Perspectives in Resource and Environmental Management (fall term)
- GEOG 665 Environmental Planning Theory and Practice (winter term)
- ECON 655 Resource Economics (winter term)
- ECON 657 Environmental Economics (fall term)
- ERS 610 Public Administration of the Environment & Natural Resources
- LED 611 Industrial Location Theory and Concepts (winter term)
- LED 621 Environment and Business
- GEOG 635 International Development: Theories and Practices (fall term)
Past Research Papers
Here are some sample research
papers of past students with an interest in sustainable development:
- Abulibdeh, A. (2007) Toward Sustainable Operation for Municipal Infrastsructure Assets
- Aspinall, A. J. (2006) Communities in Change: Social Sustainability and Tourism Development
- Azzarello, P. (1991) The Impact of Growth on the Location of Printing, Publishing and Allied Industries in the Greater Toronto Area, 1980-1986, A Regional Analysis
- Bi, L. (2004) Ecological Agriculture and Rural Economic Development Case Studies from Hainan Province, China
- Burns, K. R. (2001) Investigating Opportunities for Vehicle Reduction in Teleworking Households
- Carr, A. (1989) Sustainable Strategies for Local Economic Development in Ontario: From Selling Out to Buying In
- Chapman, K. (1998) An Economic Impact Analysis of the Retail, Tourist and Industrial Enterprises in the Town of Collingwood: A Comparative Analysis
- Dombo, E. (2008) The Role of Sustainable Agriculture in Local Economic Development in the Upper West Region of Ghana
- Dong, L. (2004) Waterfront Development: A Case Study of Dalian, China
- Fan, N. (Chennan) (2005) Tourism and Sustainable Development in the Water Town of Luzhi, China
- Filipcic, D. (2006) Residential Energy Conservation and Potential Employment
- Fisher, J. L. (2006) Overcoming the Barriers to Solar Electricity in Residential Developments: Encouraging Consumer Uptake of New Green Homes
- Gaber, H. (2006) Sustainability Reporting in Canada: Analysis of Drivers and Barriers
- Gliedt, T. (2006) Community Energy Management: Assessing a Regional Energy Model for Potential Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions
- Hjelm, M. (1995) The Measurement of Regional Economic Change · Joyce, W.S. (2001) Household Hazardous Waste Management: Sustainable Development and Implications for Local Economic Development
- Hu, W. (2003) Developing Environmentally REsponsible Tourism in Tourist Attractions: A Case Study from Hainan, China
- Huang, Y. B. (2005) Tourism in a Chinese Water Town: Application of the Creative Destruction Model
- Jaswal, P. (2003) Effective Environmental Information Communication for Economic Developers to Increase Business Sustainability
- Joyce, W. S. (2001) Household Hazardous Waste Management: Sustainable Development and Implications for Local Economic Development
- Kennedy, R. (2001) The Effectiveness of Local vs. National Marketing Initiatives for Home Energy Efficiency Evaluations: The Use of Social Marketing for the Residential Energy Efficiency Project in Waterloo Region
- Konopek, J. (2005) Climate Change and Mountain Tourism: A Case Study for Waterton Glacier International Peace Park
- Lenuzzi, J. (2005) Aboriginal Tourism Development: Through the Eyes of Three First Nations Communities in Southwestern Ontario
- Mak, J. (2000) Brownfields: The Challenge of Redeveloping Contaminated Sites
- Panschow, C. (2002) Economic Development and Strategic Environmental Assessment: A Tool for Evaluating Sustainable Development in the Niagara Region
- Peart, D. (2007) Towards Urban Sustainability: Brownfield Redevelopment and International Development - Similar Agendas and Potentials
- Pirzada, N. (2007) Public-Private Partnerships in Egypt's Municipal Solid Waste Collection System
- Scaman, M. (2007) Assessing the Impact of a Rural Farmers' Market on the Community: A Case Study of Mossbank, Saskatchewan
- Scott, C. (1992) Surviving a Closure: The Impact of the Potential Shutdown of a Dominant Sector on the Community of Atikokan and Senior Governments
- Stiver, J. E. (2007) Planning and Economic Development at the Metropolitan Scale: Can Both Mandates Collaborate to Implement Growth Management Policy?
- Su, D. (2006) Governance Models for Nature-Based Tourism in Protected Areas of China
- Umpherson, J. (2006) A View of NWT Economic Strategies through a Capacity-Building Lens
- Van Beek, C. (2003) Water Efficiency in the Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) Sector: The Region of Waterloo Case Study
- Walsh, K. (1996) An Examination of Economic and Environmental Linkages: Economic Impacts of Recreational Bathing Water Quality in the Village of Grand Bend
- Wraith, M. (1990) An Assessment of the MITT Partnership Assistance Program in Canada's Technology Triangle
- Xiao, G. (2003) Ecotourism in Protected Areas of China - A Case from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
- Zaidan, E. (2007) Strategies for Sustainable Wastewater Management in Rural Palestine
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