Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Theses
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'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 ... -
Bringing everyone to the table: the rise of community fresh food programs in Ontario’s small and medium-sized cities
Like hunger, food banks are widespread and found in nearly every community across Canada. The food bank model is an insufficient response to hunger and ignores the root cause of food insecurity: income. There is an ... -
Building resilience in forest-dependent communities through sustainable forest bioeconomy development
This thesis seeks to determine the characteristics of a future forest bioeconomy that will contribute to the resilience of forestry communities across northeastern Ontario to inform bioeconomy development in the region. ... -
Placing Person-Centred Care
While the recent adoption of a person-centred approach to long-term care in Canada has done much to address the shortcomings of its biomedical predecessors (particularly bringing to light the social-psychological aspects ... -
Liberal Order and Climate Control: Ontario Parks as Environmental Settler Colonialism
Ontario parks were born out of an oligarchic political structure in the 19th century that employed an enclosure-reserve practice to take control of wilderness lands for the preservation of lucrative timber resources, and ... -
The Spectacular Environmentalism of Cecil the Lion
In July 2015, Cecil the lion’s death sparked international furore over the practice of lion trophy hunting. Interest in the Cecil story was truly spectacular. The story cut across space and scale ensnaring actors from ... -
The Role of Municipal Level Government in Accelerating 100% Renewable Energy Use: a Case Study of Oxford County, Ontario
Climate change will have severe impacts on the biosphere that human society depends on, with repercussions increasing in step with the quantity of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. These impacts can be avoided ... -
Holocene paleohydrological variability and change in the Timmins region, Ontario, Canada
Climate models suggest that temperatures will increase by at least 1.5-2°C by the end of the 21st century due to climate change. Similar patterns were observed during the mid-Holocene when the American prairie region ... -
Evolving High Arctic Landscapes: A Fluvial Geomorphic Perspective
Recent climate warming and changing precipitation patterns have both thermally and physically disturbed permafrost watersheds across much of the Arctic, increasing the mobility of dissolved and particulate material from ...
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