Department of Geography and Planning Graduate Theses
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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 ... -
Predicting Carbon Accumulation in Temperate Forests of Ontario Using a LiDAR-Initialized Growth-and-Yield Model
Climate warming has led to a need for improved estimates of aboveground carbon accumulation (CA); in Ontario, this is particularly true for uneven-aged, mixedwood temperate forests, where there remains high uncertainty. ... -
Uncharted Paths: The Use of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine (TCAM) among Sub-Saharan Africans living in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
The appeal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (TACM) is growing among persons living in developed countries. Personal beliefs and traditional values about health and healthcare are deemed significant ... -
The Impacts of Disruptive Technological Change in the Southern Ontario Automotive Parts Industry
In response to recent challenges facing the Southern Ontario automotive industry, including disruptive changes in vehicle product technologies, federal and provincial Canadian governments have sought to transition the ... -
Decolonizing Public Places and Public Memory: Kingston Ontario
Since the release of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, municipalities are increasingly addressing reconciliation in their practice, including new engagement with Indigenous heritage and public ... -
Social Control and Public Water in Cochabamba, Bolivia
During the Water War in 2000, residents of Cochabamba, Bolivia, famously mobilized against water privatization, and gained back public control of the city’s water utility. Nearly two decades later, the water movement’s ... -
Fine-Scale Ground Surface Vertical Displacement and Soil Water Processes in the Canadian High Arctic
The fine-scale physical response of soils to thaw, ice content and soil water conditions in the High Arctic are poorly understood. This thesis introduces the topic and identifies knowledge gaps in the literature and secondly, ... -
Impact of aerosols on surface solar radiation and gross primary productivity over cropland and grassland ecosystems in North China
The increasing atmospheric aerosols from anthropogenic activities in North China are anticipated to change the proportion of direct and diffuse solar radiation in global solar radiation. These solar radiation variations ... -
A high spatial resolution satellite remote sensing time series analysis of Cape Bounty, Melville Island, Nunavut (2004-2018)
Vegetation changes (i.e., areas of ‘greening’ and ‘browning’) have been observed in areas of the circumpolar Arctic due to changing Arctic climate. However, these changes have largely been reported based on coarse spatial ... -
An Evaluation of Spatial Lyme Disease Risk at Regional and Health Unit Scales Using Remotely Sensed Surface Temperature, GIS-Based Habitat Suitability Data and Population Modelling
The spread of Lyme disease continues to be a severe public health concern in Ontario, Canada due to rising temperatures. Several previous studies have modelled the extent and rate of risk increase at provincial and national ... -
"Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston
This dissertation is about migrant Francophone mothers’ experiences of mothering in Kingston, Ontario. It exposes how elements of these women’s life-stories, namely mothering, migration, and minority language, intersect ... -
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 ...
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