Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Theses
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The Infrastructure Trade: Built Relations of the Detroit River Border Region
Infrastructure is a popular unit of analysis among geographers and planners. The broad field of infrastructure studies provides a means of exploring the ways in which we materialize certain aspects of our communities. This ... -
Exploring measurement and ground thermal influences of snow depth in Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut and Nitassinan
Snow depth is an essential climate variable critical to global energy balance, basin scale hydrology, vegetation change and human livelihoods. It holds special significance in Indigenous northern communities such as those ... -
Impact of Land Cover Change on Surface Water Temperature from 1985-2020 in Eastern Ontario
Land Cover Change (LCC) has been shown to significantly impact the magnitude and trend of Land Surface Temperature (LST), locally where it occurs. Waterbodies serve as local climate moderators where nearby LCC has the ... -
Assembling Zibi: How Profits, Property, and Policing Undermined Algonquin Urban Land Reclamation at Asinabka in Canada’s National Capital Region
The product of three years of solidarity work with a group of Algonquin land defenders and settler allies struggling to reclaim Asinabka, an Algonquin sacred place in the heart of Canada’s National Capital Region, this ... -
Quantifying and qualifying ecosystem services to enhance Natural Heritage System Planning: A case study in Halton, Ontario Canada
This dissertation explores a means of enhancing current approaches to Natural Heritage System planning through the explicit recognition of the value of natural areas on the landscape. The identification of various landcover ... -
Hydrological and Hydrochemical Responses From Thawing Permafrost in the Canadian Arctic
The objectives of this research are to better understand: (1) how Arctic watersheds respond in terms of hydrological processes to deepening active layers, (2) what the short and long-term changes are to surface water ... -
Microaggression and the Consumption of Poverty: A community's resistance to invasive walking tours in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
From 2014 to 2016, Jenn Potter ran a walking tour called Tours by Locals, leading hundreds of people through the poorest neighbourhood in Canada, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). This tour focused on what she described ... -
The Healthy Immigrant Effect on Older Chinese immigrants in the Greater Toronto Area
In Canada, immigrants amount to approximately one-fifth of the total national population. They play significant roles in Canada’s economic and social development. From previous research, it has been observed that recent ... -
'It is I Who Am Transforming': Mining, Capitalism, and the Conscious Earth
This dissertation is guided by one underlying research question: How does one transform an environmentally destructive society? The society in question is that of the capitalist Western world. I begin with a hypothesis: ... -
Quantifying Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic Potential with Socio-Economic Factors: A Case Study for Kingston, Canada
This half thesis describes a proposed research project to explore how geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to find possible correlations between the physical requirements for rooftop solar photovoltaic (RSPV) ... -
Firn Pack Changes on White Glacier, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
The near-surface processes and variability within the firn pack of Arctic glaciers are a significant source of uncertainty in estimating future glacier responses to climate warming. This study provides the first characterization ... -
An Exploratory Analysis of Access to Specialist Dermatological Care in Ontario
Access has been a significant issue within the discourse in health geography for decades (Wilson and Rosenberg, 2004; Harrington et al., 2013). In the Canadian healthcare system, access to dermatological services generally ... -
Labour Geographies and the Digital Transformation of Work: Self-Employment, Collective Organizing, and the New York Taxi Workers Alliance
Built around a collection of four manuscripts, this dissertation focuses on the collective organizing strategies of non-standard workers. Multiple chapters focus on a case study of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a ... -
Illuminating Community Experience and Perception of Modern Treaty Implementation Through Photovoice: Photography and Stories From Huu-ay-aht First Nations
Canada is currently operationalizing reconciliation efforts that stress the establishment of respectful and just relationships between Indigenous peoples and provincial and federal governments. British Columbia (BC) is ... -
Impact of Environmental Variability on Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange from 2008-2018 at a High Arctic Mesic Tundra Site
Arctic terrestrial carbon (C) budgets are shifting with respect to net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE), and its component fluxes; i.e., gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (Reco) under amplified high ... -
Growing Concern: The Evolution of Urban Agriculture in the Context of Montréal, a Gentrifying City
Urban agriculture is a growing trend in cities worldwide but there is concern in the literature that urban agriculture can contribute to the phenomenon of eco-gentrification. Eco-gentrification is the process whereby the ... -
Best Practices When Using Multi-Rotor Consumer UAVs for Photogrammetric Mapping: Limitations and Possible Solutions
Photogrammetry has seen great technological advancements since its inception almost 150 years ago. Today digital cameras are being mounted to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and used for aerial surveying and photogrammetry. ... -
Seasonal Ground Surface Change Detected by DInSAR at Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut
Differential interferometry of synthetic aperture radar (DInSAR) analysis can be used to generate high-precision surface displacement maps in continuous permafrost environments, capturing isotropic surface subsidence and ... -
Predicting the Downstream Impacts of Headwater Burial in Kemptville Creek Watershed (Ontario) Using the SWAT Model
Headwater streams can compose up to 80% of the total stream length within a watershed but remain most susceptible to stream burial during land use change or management. Rerouting streams into tile drains, canals, non-perforated ... -
Academic Loitering: Observations from Sitting in Three Toronto Parks
It is widely recognized that access to greenspace benefits the residents of urban centres in many ways. Correlations between access to greenspace and lowered rates of both mental and physical health issues have been shown ...
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