Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Theses
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Communicating Places, Ideas, and Canadian Identity In A Changing World: A Social Biography of Thomas Clarence Cummings, 1904-1996.
Other than at his birthplace in Pittsburgh Township, Ontario, and his lived-in community of North Bay, Ontario, Thomas Clarence Cummings (T.C.) is a relatively unknown presence in the collectivity of those who have contributed ... -
Investigating Subsurface Flow Delivery to a Small High Arctic River
Preferential flow pathways and hydraulic gradients along the hillslope-floodplain-channel continuum are dominant controls on the delivery of baseflow, stormflow and solutes to channels in temperate systems. Arctic systems ... -
Walking Toward Respect: Historical Geographies of Nature and Possibility in UNESCO MAB’S Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve
This thesis employs an innovative methodological approach to provide a historical geography of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve (FABR), an area designated by the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ... -
Can Rural Communities Support Aging Populations? A Case Study in South Frontenac Township, Ontario, Canada
When planning for care for the aging population, the aging-in-place movement aims to keep older adults at home if possible – but how feasible is this method for the rural population? Previous research has shown that rural ... -
Change on the Sacred Hill and Plains: Haudenosaunee Perspectives of Camp Mohawk and the Thunderwater Movement in Tyendinaga Territory, Ontario (1917-1918)
The Camp Mohawk aerodrome (1917-1918) was situated on Tyendinaga Territory in Ontario during the First World War (1914-1918). In recognition of its 100th anniversary, researchers have been exploring the history of the ... -
Multi-Year (2007-2017) Mercury (Hg) Concentration and Fluxes From Small High Arctic Rivers Impacted by Landscape Disturbance
Arctic mercury (Hg) contamination is an ongoing threat to human populations and ecosystems alike. Compared to preindustrial levels, elevated concentrations of Hg in air and water samples have been observed across the high ... -
Investigating dissolved organic matter cycling in High Arctic ponds and soils
As the most bioavailable fraction of organic matter, dissolved organic matter (DOM) plays an important role in the carbon (C) cycle. Heterotrophic microorganisms degrade DOM and release it to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide ... -
Best case utilization of residual forest biomass streams in the pulp and paper industry
Drawing on Canada’s abundant forest resources, the Canadian pulp and paper industry has long been a significant contributor to GDP and a major consumer of industrial energy. In recent years, however, the industry has faced ... -
"Are You High?": Emotional geographies of everyday life with diabetes
Geographies of everyday life intersect diabetes in interesting ways with emotional and physical consequences. How do those with diabetes seek and create spaces of freedom from these consequences in everyday life? Looking ... -
¡Somos La Puya! (We Are La Puya!): Community Resistance to Canadian Mining Company Operations in Guatemala
This dissertation contributes to literatures of postcolonial and critical geographies of development by documenting a landscape of violence that shapes processes of how people make place at the local level in response to ... -
Internet-based Planning in First Nations Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
The growing use of the Internet in community planning has created enormous opportunities to improve community participation in Indigenous planning, overcome constraints associated with face-to-face based participation, and ... -
Modelling Forest Inventory and Biophysical Variables for an Uneven-Aged Forest Using Multi-Source Remotely-Sensed Data
Forest resource inventory (FRI) information is critical to sustainable forest management. Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) offers a cost-effective option for modelling forest inventory, biophysical and ecological variables ... -
Access and Wait Times: A Geographic Exploration of Diagnostic Imaging in Ontario
Diagnostic imaging plays a crucial role in frontline health care, providing the information some physicians need to make a diagnosis and determine a course of treatment. Delays in access not only lead to undue stress for ... -
Exposing the Colonial Mind: Epistemologies of Ignorance and Education in Ontario, Canada
This dissertation weaves Indigenous and decolonial scholarship together with recent work on ignorance to consider the constraints and possibilities of decolonizing education in the current Canadian context of reconciliation. ... -
A Framework with Improved Spatial Optimization Algorithms to Support China’s “Multiple-plan Integration” Planning at the County Level
The “Multiple-plan integration” planning is proposed by the Chinese government to coordinate various planning projects in managing spatial development and protecting agricultural and ecological resources. It can be treated ... -
A Dream Denied: The Fight Against the Mass Eviction of Families in Chicago and Jacksonville, USA
The foreclosure crisis that followed the depression 2007–08 created a number distressed communities in two of the hardest hit cities across the United States, Chicago, and Jacksonville. Homeownership has long been the ... -
Forests, Beetles, and Climates in British Columbia's Central Interior: Historical Geographies of Paradigm Change in Forest Science and Management, 1945 - Present
This dissertation explores forest science and management issues in the Central Interior of British Columbia through a historical-geographical lens. I gather evidence that illustrates the combined socio-ecological nature ... -
Geography, Geographers, and the Geographies of Antiracism
This research builds upon contemporary understandings of the roles of race, whiteness, and antiracism within the practice and profession of geography in North America. A Foucauldian approach to intellectual genealogy, ... -
Health Inequalities of Older People in China
China is facing serious population aging issues because of unintended consequences of the economic reforms and social policies which began in the 1980s. Despite the remarkable progress in health status (e.g., the increasing ... -
Field Experiments: Critical Historical Geographies of Canada's Central Experimental Farm, 1886-1938.
Dominion scientific agriculture played a rich but often over-looked role in the historical geography of Canada, in general, and in the expansion of agricultural settler colonialism across northern North America, in particular. ...
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