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Planning For Wind Energy: Evaluating Municipal Wind Energy Land Use Planning Frameworks in Southwestern Ontario with a Focus on Developing Wind Energy Planning Policies for the City of Stratford
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Wind energy provides an environmentally friendly and renewable source of electricity, that can help meet Canada's Kyoto commitments, help safeguard against future blackouts, reduce air pollution and create economic ... -
A GIS Approach for Evaluating Municipal Planning Capability: Residential Built Form in Markham and Vaughan, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This research describes a methodology for measuring built form patterns using spatial data and GIS that is amenable to the study of large geographical areas. This methodology was used to investigate the capability of ... -
A Critical Systems Approach to Socio-Ecological Systems: Implications for social learning and governance
(University of Waterloo, 2006-12-18)This dissertation builds on work that has applied complex systems thinking to socio-ecological systems as well as on research that explores critical and reflective approaches to planning. A broad, interdisciplinary ... -
An Examination of Accessibility Planning for Persons with Disabilities in Mid-size Canadian Municipalities
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Approximately one out of every seven Canadians over the age of 15 years (3.4 million people) has some level of disability. The increasing prevalence of disability in our aging society is commonly accepted as fact with both ... -
The Economics of Adaptive Reuse of Old Buildings: A Financial Feasibility Study & Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-24)The debate about the financial feasibility of adaptive reuse is high among investors, planners, policy makers and heritage advocates. The old argument that it is more profitable to demolish the old brick box and replace ... -
The Role of Local Knowledge in planning and managing urban solid waste: the tale of two (2) West African Cities, Accra and Kumasi, Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-19)Ongoing and potential developments with regards to solid waste management have raised concerns about well being in African cities. There is also growing concern among environmental managers, scientists, and the public that ... -
The Management of Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-10)Abstract: Pharmaceuticals and their metabolites, collectively known as pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), have been detected in surface water, groundwater, and drinking water, in a number of countries, since ... -
Improving Consultation Measures at the Municipal Level
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-18)Consulting with the public on planning issues has become an endeavour formalized throughout Western democracies over the past half-century. However, there remains a dichotomy between the legislative minimums for this part ... -
Public Housing Redevelopment: Residents' Experiences with Relocation from Phase 1 of Toronto's Regent Park Revitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-30)Regent Park is Canada’s largest and among its oldest public housing developments. Like similar large-scale public housing developments across North America, Regent Park has come under considerable criticism for isolating ... -
Organizational Knowledge Creation to Enhance Adaptive Capacity: Exploratory Case Studies in Water Resource Management
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-07)This research focuses on how conservation authorities create organizational knowledge to enhance adaptive capacity to improve environmental policy. Organizational knowledge creation refers to the ability to create, disseminate ... -
Decreasing average wildfire size through random fuel treatments: A boreal forest case study.
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-16)Area burned in boreal forests is increasing due to climate change effects and regional increases in fuels due to a history of successful fire suppression. An increase in area burned threatens valuable resources and ... -
University, Downtown, and the Mid-size City: An Examination of the Roles of University in Downtown Revitalization within the Context of Community-University Partnerships
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)Planning practitioners and academics continually search for ways to help revive ailing downtowns and to better understand the factors that influence the success or failures of downtown revitalization. Most of the literature ... -
Planning for Ethnic Tourism: Case Studies from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-03)Ethnic tourism has emerged as a means that is employed by many countries to facilitate economic and cultural development and to assist in the preservation of ethnic heritage. However, while ethnic tourism has the potential ... -
Being Realistic About Planning in No Growth: Challenges, Opportunities, and Foundations for a New Agenda in the Greater Sudbury, CMA
(University of Waterloo, 2007-07-31)Regional disparities, most notably of the 'heartland-periphery' pattern, have been a distinctive feature of Canadian urban geography throughout the industrial era. New regimes of economic prosperity, recessions, and ... -
Spatial Analysis of the Effect of Absenteeism on Education Quality in Maynas, Peru
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)This thesis examines the effect of absenteeism on education quality for primary-aged public school students in the Department of Loreto, Province of Maynas, situated in the Amazonian region of north-eastern Peru. The thesis ... -
Assessing the Effects of Deep Release and Surface Release Reservoirs on Downstream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in the Grand River Watershed: Implications for Planning and Management
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-25)River regulation and reservoirs can provide a variety of services including flood protection, flow management and flow augmentation, however, there is increasing concern regarding these effects on downstream lotic environments ... -
A Proud Legacy, A New Future: Bringing Ottawa's Growth Management Strategy Into the 21st Century
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)As Canada’s capital, the City of Ottawa has benefited from several comprehensive land use planning exercises since the early 1900s. Early plans carried out by the federal government were led by Prime Ministers who, in ... -
Residential encroachment within suburban forests: Are Ontario municipal policies sufficient for protecting suburban forested natural areas for the long term?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-25)Many natural areas and systems within urban landscapes are small or narrow. Landscape ecology studies within forested and agricultural landscapes have found that small natural areas that are protected from development or ... -
Illustrating a new 'conceptual design pattern' for agent-based models of land use via five case studies—the MR POTATOHEAD framework
(Universidad de Valladolid, 2008)This chapter presents a "conceptual design pattern" (CDP) that represents key elements of standard ABM/LUCC models in a comprehensive logical framework and includes basic functionality and data often present in ABM/LUCC ... -
How the Contributions of Conveners Achieve Collaboration Goals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-29)Collaboration is considered to be an alternative strategic planning approach for delivering services and addressing organization mandates. These initiatives provide an opportunity “in which autonomous actors interact ...