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Benchmarking and development of webGIS in Ontario: implications for public use in planning
(2007-07-05)Governments use the Internet as another means to offer services to the public. One such service is to deliver GIS over the Internet, also known as webGIS. While some Ontario municipalities provide webGIS services, its ... -
Education Provision in the Third World: the actors, and the lessons of a study in Fiji
(2007-09-19)Education decentralization is sweeping many developing countries, creating massive regional disparities in education access and quality. Fiji provides education through the Community Based Approach, and although it is never ... -
Hydroclimatic influences on suspended sediment delivery in a small, High Arctic catchment
(2007-09-27)A study of suspended sediment transport dynamics was undertaken in the West River at Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut. Hydrometerological conditions and sediment transport were measured over three seasons in order ... -
Repression, freedom, and minimal geography: human rights, humanitarian law, and Canadian involvement in El Salvador, 1977-1984
(2007-10-03)This thesis addresses the potential for third parties to apply or make use of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law to protect civilians caught in the midst of civil war. A case study is presented ... -
Assessing the ethical issues surrounding multi-disciplinary practices: the impact of MDPs on the profession of urban planning in Canada
(2007-10-03)Urban and regional planning, from a professional standpoint, is built on a history of preservation, with the backdrop of a perennial quest to define itself for the benefit of both laypeople and its own members. Consequently, ... -
Artful places: creativity and colonialism in British Columbia's Indian residential schools
(2007-10-15)Residential schools for Aboriginal children were a primary site of negotiations between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous subjects. These schools, and the records of peoples who occupied them, provide opportunities to better ... -
Engaging Communities in Health Geography? Assessing the Strategy of Community-Based Participatory Research
(2007-10-16)Community-based participatory research (CBPR) positions community members on an equal footing with their academic colleagues and makes them responsible for the decisions which shape the direction and substance of research. ... -
The University as a site for challenging conventional food geographies: the case of sustainability in food services at Queen’s University
(2007-11-09)In this thesis, I examine the factors that influence the introduction of sustainable practice into university food services. There is a growing body of evidence documenting the ecological impact of the conventional ... -
From sacred space to commercial place : a landscape interpretation of Mount Pleasant Cemetery
(2007-12-05)The rural cemetery was a European creation first introduced in the nineteenth century. Relocated outside the commercial city sector the cemetery was promoted as a diversion to the confusion and complexity of urban life. ... -
The Value of Design: A Study of Pedestrian Perception in New Delhi, India
(2007-12-13)This thesis studies the influence of values and perception on pedestrian behaviour, to recommend how places can be designed to satisfy their user needs. By satisfying needs we mean creating user perceptions that resonate ... -
Play City Life: Henri Lefebvre, Urban Exploration and Re-Imagined Possibilities for Urban Life
(2008-02-26)The contemporary Western city is a space of capitalism, realized on a personal level through the lived realities of work and consumption. Elevation of these twin activities is contributing to ongoing social and environmental ... -
Consuming the "Oriental Other," Constructing the Cosmopolitan Canadian: Reinterpreting Japanese Culinary Culture in Toronto's Japanese Restaurants
(2008-03-25)During the last decade, Japanese cuisine has become firmly rooted in Canada. The once unusual sounding dishes such as sushi, tempura, and edamame are now familiar to most Canadians. Indeed, Japanese restaurants make up a ... -
Out of necessity and into the fields: migrant farmworkers in St. Rémi, Quebec
(2008-04-08)The province of Ontario is the primary focus of a growing body of research discussing migrant agricultural labour in Canada. This thesis shifts the focus of inquiry to Quebec, a province that has not received the attention ... -
Sedimentology and paleoenvironmental indicators in a High Arctic meromictic lake
(2008-05-08)High Arctic meromictic lakes are frequently used to generate detailed records of past environmental variability within their sedimentary profiles. However, without detailed analyses of sedimentation influences over time, ... -
High-energy sedimentary processes in Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory
(2008-05-28)A lacustrine sedimentary process study was undertaken at Kluane Lake, which is a large, glacier-fed, alpine lake in the southwestern corner of Yukon Territory. Data from moored instruments, sediment traps, water column ... -
Sedimentary structural indicators of Arctic terrestrial and aquatic processes
(2008-05-28)Annually and subannually laminated lacustrine sediments potentially contain a wide range of information that can be interpreted for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. These laminae are produced by the physical and ... -
Moral panic over merit-based immigration policy : talent for citizenship and the American dream
(2008-07-08)This thesis examines a moment in recent U.S. immigration history where an opportunity was created to move towards merit-based immigration, but that proposal was rejected. In addition to the highly publicized proposal for ... -
The influence of snowcover distribution and variable melt regimes on the transport of nutrients from two high Arctic watersheds
(2008-07-08)In June 2005, fieldwork was conducted during the spring snowmelt period at Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut to examine the relationships between snow accumulation, runoff, and nutrient fluxes in two High Arctic ... -
Precariousness on the menu: Restaurant work and labour mobility within the low-wage service industry in Kingston, Ontario
(2008-07-23)Precarious employment refers to forms of work characterized by limited job security, few employment benefits, lack of control over the labour process and low-wages. Restaurant work demonstrates a range of precarious forms ... -
Canopy structural and meteorological influences on CO2 exchange for MODIS product validation in a boreal jack pine chronosequence
(2008-08-22)Previously disturbed and regenerating forests make up a significant proportion of the North American land area, and therefore play an important role in the exchanges of heat and trace gases between the terrestrial biosphere ...