Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Theses
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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. ... -
Art and Soul in the Exchange District of Winnipeg, MB: Planning for Arts, Culture, and Creativity
This research thesis follows up on research conducted by Nathan Medeiros in 2005 that studied planning for creativity in Winnipeg’s Exchange District. The thesis is guided by two research questions “What policies and ... -
“Ancient Spirit, Modern Mind”: Documenting Huu-ay-aht First Nations' Journey to the Maa-Nulth Treaty Through Community-Based Archival Research
For many musčim (citizens) of Huu-ay-aht First Nations, a Nuu-chah-nulth worldview informs their individual identities and responsibilities to the world around them as Huu-ay-aht. Three sacred principles guide Huu-ay-aht ... -
Learning New Relationships: Settler Responsibilities, HUU-AY-AHT First Nations' Self-Government, and Implementing the MAA-NULTH Treaty
Geographers have warned against essentializing responsibility in the geographies of responsibility literature. What responsibility is, however, and how it can be enacted remains under-explored. Yet, in published texts and ... -
Landscape-Scale Variability in the Composition, Growth and Pattern of Alpine Treeline Vegetation
The productivity and distribution of northern and alpine plant species are predicted to increase and advance upslope and northwards in response to climate warming, particularly across the treeline ecotone. However, responses ... -
Public Project, Private Developer: Understanding the Impact of Local Policy Frameworks on the Public-Private Housing Redevelopment of Regent Park in Toronto, Ontario
This thesis examines Regent Park, a public housing community in Toronto, Ontario undergoing mixed-income revitalization through a public-private partnership (3P) since 2006. Much of the existing literature has studied the ... -
Subsurface water flow pathways in the canadian High Arctic
In Arctic regions subsurface flow is often a dominant flow path of water, especially as the thaw depth progresses and the active layer water storage capacity increases. Subsurface flow through the active layer is important ... -
Landscape variability of vegetation change across the forest to tundra transition of central Canada
Widespread vegetation productivity increases in tundra ecosystems and stagnation, or even productivity decreases, in boreal forest ecosystems have been detected from coarse-scale remote sensing observations over the last ... -
“A New Way Forward”: Reconciliation through Indigenous Social Innovation
In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada released 94 Calls to Action including ‘Business and Reconciliation’ (Recommendation #92, TRC, 2015). The recommendation focuses mainly on the role of ... -
Towards improved life cycle assessment of environmental systems: geographical perspectives on multi-scale challenges in the context of bioenergy feedstock production
Accurate environmental assessments can help inform landowners, policy-makers, and energy consumers about the risks or benefits of using biomass production for energy over other land-use options such as other renewable ... -
Remote Sensing of the Canadian Arctic: Modelling Biophysical Variables
It is anticipated that Arctic vegetation will respond in a variety of ways to altered temperature and precipitation patterns expected with climate change, including changes in phenology, productivity, biomass, cover and ... -
A critical geography of physical activity: Investigating the role of gender in gym environments
This thesis develops a critical geography of physical activity by examining the implications of socio-spatial processes at the scale of the everyday exercise environment for gendered inequities. Around the world, men are ...
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