Trent University Geography Dept

This paper was conducted to research how farming regulations differ between several countries and selected areas, and show how these regulations could be improved. This paper looks at Ontario's current farming regulations as well as Freedom Foods standards, and compares them to Britain and New Zealand.

This project in cooperation with the Trent University Career Centre seeks to answer whether or not an alumni survey is feasible at Trent University. The two main parts of this project were a literature review and a test survey.

This research project examines three study areas in the Peterborough County, Curve Lake First Nation, and two municipalities of North Kawartha and Galway-Harvey and Cavendish. The main focus of this project was to examine the names of water bodies and some land forms in the three study areas.

The purpose of this report is to continue needed research on the human and environmental affects of common household products. Peterborough Green-Up will use the information to continue the Green Shopping Guide, a database of suggestions for local consumers to use when shopping for environmentally sustainable or healthier choices.

This study with students at Peterborough Collegiate Vocational School attempts to understand how youth feel towards the car and sustainable transportation, how this is shaped by age, and how environmental knowledge shapes student behaviours.

The Land Between (TLB) is one of Ontario's most unique landscapes. In this area of Central Ontario, the granite rock of the Canadian Shield meets the limestone rock of the St. Lawrence Lowlands. This area is known as an ecotone which has highly mixed patterns due to an overlap of representative elements from ecosystems at each extent. The project objectives are to locate the white oaks in this area; analyze the pattern distribution and determine dominant species.

A transportation management strategy was conducted for Julian Blackburn Hall (JBH) using Dr. McKenzie-Mohr's Community-Based Social Marketing Approach. A total of 46 JBH employees participated in a survey that assessed barriers and attitudes towards alternative transportation.