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Comprehensive Settlement Planning in the MacKenzie River Delta, N.W.T.: A Proposed Planning Theory and Methodology (Northwest Territories)
(University of Waterloo, 1967)The arctic and subarctic regions of Canada are increasingly developing as integral, participating parts of the total Canadian and world scene. Basic to this development in the North are the human, natural physical, and ... -
Authenticating Cultural Tourism: Folk Villages in Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Cultural tourism provides opportunities for ethnic minorities to showcase their cultures, customs and heritage. At the same time, it causes a series of tensions and issues of authenticity and commodification have been ... -
Ecotourism and Community Development: Case Studies From Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Ecotourism is one of the fastest expanding tourism markets. It has received much attention in developing countries and economically impoverished regions around the world. As an agent of change, ecotourism has been ... -
Landscape Grammar
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The protection and enhancement of visual resources constitute an on-going challenge to the planning authorities in many communities. The crux of this challenge is to guide development towards built and natural landscape ... -
The Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS to Facilitate Sustainable Urban Environmental Management: The Case of Bangkok, Thailand
(University of Waterloo, 2002)Cities in developing countries are facing serious problems as a result of rapid urban population growth. Not the least of these problems is the creation of environmental stresses at the rural-urban fringe of these cities ... -
Visioning Diversity: Planning Vancouver's Multicultural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The roles and responsibilities of planners in managing culturally diverse cities are beginning to be articulated in the literature. "Visioning,"as planners have used it in recent years, has the potential to help realize ... -
Planning for selective use and ecologically compatible forms of outdoor recreation: One means of core area revitalization in the City of Waterloo, Ontario.
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This thesis explores the potential contribution that could be made to core area revitalization through the integration of outdoor recreation planning, ecological planning, and urban planning. The revitalization of urban ... -
Social Experiments in Innovative Environmental Management: The emergence of ecotechnology
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Human production needs are met through the use of modern technology that is increasingly recognised as a threat to the planetary ecosystem and social sub-system. In light of this recognition, there is evidence that a ... -
Achieving Cultural Diversity in Wilderness Recreation: A Study of the Chinese in Vancouver
(University of Waterloo, 2003)As Canada welcomes immigrants from around the world, planners increasingly strive for policies and initiatives that meet culturally diverse needs. In Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, park planners have directed more ... -
DISCONNECT: Assessing and Managing the Social Effects of Development in the Athabasca Oil Sands
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This research investigated the system by which the social effects of oil sands development on Fort McMurray, a city in northeastern Alberta, are assessed and managed. The research focused on Social Impact Assessment ... -
A Case Study of a Hotel Solid Waste Management Program in Bali, Indonesia
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The main objectives of this study were: to provide a review of key concepts and issues relevant to solid waste management in developing countries; to analyse and evaluate the hotel solid waste management (HSWM) program in ... -
Balancing Act: Local fair trade in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This research has investigated local fair trade in Kitchener-Waterloo, seeking to determine its extent, the supports and obstacles it experiences, and the reasons people engage in it. Local fair trade combines localism ... -
Future climate change impacts on the boreal forest in northwestern Ontario. Implications for the forestry sector and the local community.
(University of Waterloo, 2005)A large body of research has documented evidence of climate change impact already occurring on different systems on earth, future impacts can be expected. Accordingly, research is urgently needed to analyze the potential ... -
Managing Change: Considering the Relevance of Place Identity for Planning in British Columbia?s Communities in Transition. An Applied Research Case Study of Three Vancouver Island Communities.
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Beginning in 1980, large forestry corporations in British Columbia began to rapidly downsize and restructure their operations. The combination of volatile international market conditions, increasing demands for environmental ... -
The Effect of Season of Fire on Post-fire Legacies in Northwestern Ontario Red Pine (<em>Pinus resinosa</em>) Mixedwoods
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Prescribed burns are employed in the southern boreal forest of northwest Ontario, Canada, as a method of re-instating fire in this fire-dependent landscape. They are also used to manage fuel loads associated with tree ... -
Exploring Usage of the Word "Values": Implications and Opportunities for Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Explicitly and implicitly, planners make choices about values and use values to make choices. Values are presented as reasons to do and not to do in setting goals and during participatory planning processes, cited in ... -
The Second Home Phenomenon in Haikou, China
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Second home ownership is a new and booming phenomenon in China. Although it has been widely discussed in newspaper, radio and other mass media, it has not raised much academic concern. This study is a preliminary ... -
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 ... -
How Ontario's urban householders manage their ecosystem: A ten-year study in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2006)As much of the growing population of North America is accommodated within cities or on their fringes, one needs to understand how these people are managing their private outdoor space. Within the cities of Kitchener and ... -
Worship in the suburbs: the development experience of recent immigrant religious communities
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Immigration is transforming large Canadian urban regions. Rapidly increasing religious diversity is one dimension of the dramatic, multicultural shift accompanying this sea-change. Over the past decade, many important ...