Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "wilderness"

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Lost River: The Artefacts of Toronto's Garrison Creek

Popovska, Aleksandra (University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)

Once the founding site of the city of Toronto and its second largest watercourse, the Garrison Creek and its original landscape of dense forest and deep ravines have disappeared beneath an aggressive process of development ...
A New Wilderness Lookout: Reimagining the Fire Lookout for Ecological Stewardship and Community Engagement

Jones, Justin (University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)

Canada is steward to 10% of the worlds’ forests. They play a global role in producing oxygen and sequestering carbon. Nationally timber is a major industry that is an integral part of Canada’s economic strategies. Climate ...
The Wilderness

Hirmer, Lisa (University of Waterloo, 2009-06-19)

This thesis is a critical cultural investigation into the meaning of wilderness. It is based on the premise that as a constructed, imaginary landscape wilderness is an expression of cultural impulses. It suggests that the ...