Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Theses
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Bites and Bytes: An Investigation of Virtual Food Programming during the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cooking with Grammas programming at Queen’s University was moved online. Following the initial success of the program, a second cooking program, Cooking with Chaplains, was started in the ... -
Controls on DOC Flux in Continuous Permafrost Watersheds
The overarching purpose of this study is to develop a framework to model dissolved organic carbon (DOC) flux using only surface runoff and/or remotely acquired biophysical (terrain, vegetation, soil) data in environments ... -
Evaluating Industrial Activities and Its Social/Economic Impact in a Developing Country with Remotely Sensed Data: A Case Study of Eastern Economic Corridor, Thailand
The industrial park is one of economic development tools that is based on integrating different facilities for producing goods and services, including manufacturers, infrastructures, and logistical supports (i.e., roads, ... -
Organic Growth: Sustainable Settlement Planning for Displaced Populations in Developing Countries
Human displacement and climate change are two of the most critical global crises in the contemporary world, and they are highly interdependent. In order to mitigate the impact of temporary refugee camps or prolonged ... -
Platform Placemaking Machines: Neighbourhood Place-Branding in Kingston Ontario
Scholars have been writing about the marketing and branding of cities for decades. Place-branding, they argue, is not just about logos or advertisements but rather what those logos and advertisements say about the social, ... -
Leveraging Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images and Deep Learning to Map Caribou Lichens
Given the importance of lichens for caribou during winters, disturbances to caribou lichens may affect caribou migration and distribution patterns, and possibly lead to their population declines. Using remote sensing (RS) ... -
A Comprehensive Review on the Applications of Stereography and Stereophotogrammetry in Architectural Documentation
Current efforts in the digital documentation of built cultural heritage focus on producing fully interactive digital surrogates using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry ... -
Opportunities for forest-based biorefining to reverse decline in Canada’s forest products sector
This thesis explores the impacts of disruptive change drivers on the Canadian forest industry and evaluates the extent to which socio-economic policies can advance or constrain transition to new future directions. Canada’s ... -
(Re)storying the More-than-human City: Urban Coyotes in Canada
The urban is most often constructed in our imaginaries, policies, and practices as a human space, understood in dualistic opposition to ‘nature’, ‘wilderness’, or the ‘rural’. This thesis aims to (re)story the city as a ... -
Seasonal Responses of Soil Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling Processes to Cold Season Warming in High Arctic Wet Sedge Tundra
Arctic warming and changes in precipitation regimes are expected to increase soil nitrogen (N) availability by stimulating microbial activity and releasing N stored in permafrost. How much contribution cold season warming ... -
Surface features of the cold/temperate transition zone at White Glacier terminus, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut.
The historical records of White Glacier (WG), a polythermal valley glacier found in northern Nunavut, Canada, are used alongside modern structural models and orthomosaics produced from Structure from Motion photogrammetry ... -
‘Aging in the Right Place’: An Analysis of the Demographic Profile and Residential Relocation Patterns of Older Adults Living in Residential Facilities in Kingston, Ontario
Despite the firm policy push for Canadian older adults (65+) to continue aging in their own homes, relocating to a residential facility (RF) continues to be both a preferred and needs-driven decision for some older adults. ... -
Characterization of dissolved fluvial carbon from landscape characteristics across High Arctic headwater streams
Stream runoff is an important conduit of carbon from the terrestrial ecosystem to the Arctic Ocean, where fluvial carbon is a product of both the source and pathway of the stream network through a watershed. Small headwater ... -
Teaching Places: possibilities and challenges of unsettling education in British Columbia, Canada
This dissertation draws together Indigenous, anticolonial, and place scholarship with recent work on ontological pluralism to consider the possibilities and challenges of unsettling place pedagogy in Canada. Recently, ... -
Is Service Provision Always Equitable? Analyzing Access to Dental Services and Oral Health of Older Adults in Ontario
The provision of dental services within the Canadian and Ontario healthcare systems is unique, as the majority of dental services are privately delivered. Many vulnerable populations, including older adults, have difficulty ... -
Controls on terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycling in Arctic permafrost environments
High latitude regions are being disproportionately affected by changes induced by climate warming. The direction of global environmental change will largely depend on the response of Arctic ecosystems to positive and ... -
Indigenous-State Relations in the Peruvian Amazon: Between Autonomy, Integration, and the Absent State
On June 5, 2009, a confrontation between police officers and civilians near the town of Bagua, in the department of Amazonas in Peru, ended with 33 fatalities, including five Indigenous Awajún-Wampis. In the context of the ... -
The Role of Land Cover Classes and Rainfall Events on the Active Layer Thermal Regime in the High Arctic
The active layer’s thermal regime, which includes surface energy exchanges and soil thawing/freezing characteristics, is sensitive to environmental factors and processes, and has important implications on biogeochemical, ... -
SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL TRENDS IN RANGE-USE BY THE BATHURST CARIBOU DURING A POPULATION DECLINE, 1997-2019
The Bathurst barren-ground caribou herd of Northwest Territories and Nunavut declined by 98% between 1986 and 2019; from an estimated population of 470,000 animals to just 8,200. Although caribou herds are known to fluctuate ... -
An examination of the lived experiences of older people in Ghana
The number and proportion of older people (people aged 60 and over) in Ghana has grown steadily over the past few decades. Parallel to a growing older population in Ghana are changing social, economic, and environmental ...
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