This online database contains the full-text of PhD dissertations and Masters’ theses of Wilfrid Laurier University students from 1982 forward. These documents are made available for personal study and research purposes only, in accordance with the Canadian Copyright Act and the Creative Commons license—CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivative Works). Under this license, works must always be attributed to the copyright holder (original author), cannot be used for any commercial purposes, and may not be altered. Any other use would require the permission of the copyright holder. Students can choose to withdraw their dissertation and/or thesis from this database. For additional inquiries, please contact the repository administrator via e-mail or by telephone at 519-884-0710 ext. 2073.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Temporal variability in nutrient transport in a first-order agricultural basin in southern Ontario, Merrin L. Macrae

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Regional planning and British Columbia's agricultural land reserve: A case study of land use, development and policy impacts in the Central Okanagan Valley, Danielle H. Noble

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Circulation mapping of the North Atlantic Ocean during the 1990's and from 1974 to 1984 as determined from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Eulerian current meter moorings, Roger Palmini

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Tackling the issue of access: Situating place within immigrant women's experiences of health and health care (Ontario), Jillian C. Paul

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Impacts at the coast: Climate change influences on Lake Huron's water levels at Oliphant (Ontario), Kevin Tupman

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Differential vulnerability to debris flow hazard in two high mountain communities of the Karakoram Himalaya, northern Pakistan, Shauna Flanagan

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The relationships of vegetation and bird communities with landforms and geomorphic processes on the Central Niagara Escarpment (Ontario), Robert John Milne

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Combining dynamic cartography and temporal GIS to visualize industrial development in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Shawn Mueller

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Developing a conceptual system model for ecological integrity planning in the Greater Kluane Region, Yukon, Brent Heyward Parker

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Regional disparities in the labour market in East Germany, Gabriela Yvonne Pierow

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Variability of metals in soils in the Sudbury area (Ontario), Vera Spektor

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Health and development: Infectious intestinal diseases in a transborder region (United States-Mexico), Flavia Bianchi

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Dune morphology response to water level change, Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada, Michael C.A. Bitton

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Structural and sedimentary characteristics of the Tsergo Ri rockslide breccia, Langtang, Nepal, Himalaya, Mark B. Carpenter

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Baseline limnology and nutrient study of Basin Head Lagoon, Prince Edward Island, with management implications, Karen Connolly

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Risk, vulnerability and environmental hazards in the village of Darkot, northern Pakistan, Nicholas Andrew Cradock-Henry

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Ecosystem health and sustainable livelihoods: Exploring the prospects in community-based resource management in the East Mamprusi District, Ghana, Wuni P. Dasori

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Seiche events at the Slave River Delta and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories: An assessment of process and impact, James Tobias Gardner

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Investigating spatio-temporal variability of hydrological components in the Canadian Rockies (Alberta), Christopher Dennis Hopkinson

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From bricks and mortar to bricks and clicks: The transformation of a bank branch network within the Greater Toronto Area (Ontario), Michelle Anne Mok

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The dynamic commercial structure of Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge 1989-1999: The impact of new format retailing (Ontario), Christopher Oakley

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The use of geographic information systems to study repeat victims of domestic abuse in the Waterloo region of Ontario, Canada, Claudia Saheb

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River basin ecosystem restoration: A comparison of conservation authority efforts (Ontario), Wilfred Gregory Tschirhart

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Radiation budget, ground thermal regime and hydrological balance of a low arctic tundra basin, Coppermine River, Northwest Territories, David S. Turcotte

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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An assessment of the role and impact of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the management and sustainability of local environmental resources: A case study of Nanun, Ghana, Iddrisu Adam

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The impact of large plant closure on small firm creation in Kitchener, Ontario, 1987 to 1998, Christopher William Charman

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Analyzing the roles of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in sustainable tourism: A case study of Belize, Central America, Shaun Finnetty

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Recreational birdwatching, empire, and gender in southern Ontario, 1791-1886, Kirsten Aletta Greer

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AIDS in Ontario: An examination of mobility patterns and spatial variations (Immune deficiency), Holly Nadean Innes

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Weathering crust processes on melting glacier ice (Alberta, Canada), Corinne Joanne Schuster

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Shoreline bluff failures: A GIS assessment of susceptibility and risk for Lake Erie's north central shore (Ontario), Nathan Joel Badger

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The effect of rock creep on the morphology of steep-sloped sections of the Niagara Escarpment (Ontario), John Barlow

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Spatial and temporal patterns of fluvial suspended sediment yield from eastern North America, Catherine Treena Conrad

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The growth and distribution of the green alga Cladophora at Presqu'ile Provincial Park: Implications for management (Ontario), Dolf Craig DeJong

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Working towards a cartographic lexicon: The role of units, structure, content, and expression in geographic information, Michael Charles Fabbri

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Examination of the role of macropores and subsurface drainage in the delivery of nitrogen trioxide-nitrogen to a small first-order agricultural stream in southern Ontario, Abraham House

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Identifying areas of concern for regional cumulative effects assessments in and around northern national parks in Canada (Yukon), Jennifer L. Lenton

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The historical geography of the distilling industry in Ontario: 1850-1900, Tanya Lynn MacKinnon

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The management of complex sociobiophysical systems: Ecosystem-based management and the Chesapeake Bay Program, Daniel Dennis McCarthy

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The role of wine tourism in economic development: A case study of Niagara Region (Ontario), Gillian Mary Northwood

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Adaptation of Ghanaian immigrants in Metropolitan Toronto: A focus on the spatial aspects of their labour market activity (Ontario), Edmund Nkansah Okoree

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Killbear Provincial Park: The beach and dunes, their use and the implications for management (Ontario), Kathryn Ann Parlee

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Assessing the role of geographical information systems (GIS) in the classroom, Christopher D. Storie

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Vulnerability to natural disasters in a rapidly growing, affluent society, British Columbia, Canada, Jonathan P. MacLean Belcher

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Increased solar ultra violet radiation and possible links to health effects in Nunavut, Shaun Greig Carson

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Political participation in Kitchener-Waterloo: A spatial analysis of the 1993 federal election (Ontario), Paul Churcher

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Regional ecology of the St. Elias Mountain Parks: A synthesis with management implications (British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska), Ryan Kenneth Danby

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Nitrate attenuation in a narrow non-forested riparian buffer zone in an agricultural watershed in southern Ontario, Mark David Harris

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A winter index for benchmarking winter road maintenance operations on Ontario highways, Jianzhong Li

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Where are the urban elderly? Clustered and concentrated in aged spaces: Three examples Kitchener-Waterloo, Halifax and Victoria (Ontario, Nova Scotia, British Columbia), Susan Lucas

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Rural images, tourism and sustainability: Perceptions of rural accommodation operators and their visitors in Waterloo-Wellington Region, Ontario, Kelley Anne McClinchey

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An inquiry into changing industrial labour force patterns: Developed and developing countries, Kimberley Birjis Naqvi

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Assessment of capacity for water resource management: A case study of a small watershed in Nepal, Bhanu Raja Neupane

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Institutional arrangements for cooperative fisheries management: A case study of the Newfoundland and Labrador northern shrimp fishery, Bram F. Noble

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Improving map literacy: The application of second language instruction views and techniques, Heather Anne Rayner

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Issues surrounding the valuation of a park: Applying Commission for National Parks and Protected Area guidelines to Awenda Provincial Park, Ontario, Tatania E. Stroud

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Natural disturbance and land cover patterns in a mountainous, sub-Arctic environment (Yukon), A. Bruce Wurtele

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Spatial and structural determinants of residential burglary rates in Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario), Martin Christopher Anstey

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Managing urban water resources in a developing economy: The case of Owerri, Nigeria, Lawrence Chidi Anukam

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Labour market marginalisation of young Latinos in San Antonio, Texas: A geographical perspective of neighbourhood processes, Harald Sven Bauder

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Land transformation, highly governed landscapes and landscape health: A case study of the Lower Piave area of northeastern Italy, Pietro Bertollo

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The educational impacts of the Boyne River Natural Science School: Twenty-five years later (Ontario), Roy George Cumming

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Stakeholder attitudes as a resistance toward long-range management of a threatened landscape: A case study of aggregate use in the township of North Dumfries (Ontario), Kim Margaret Horrigan

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An approach to defining greater park ecosystems and its application to Gros Morne National Park (Newfoundland), Karl Keough

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The dynamics of ethnic residential patterns in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area (Ontario), Marinel Mandres

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Protection of wetlands in the Grand River watershed from non-point source pollution (Ontario), Marsha Lynn Paley

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An evaluation of ambulance service performance using a Geographic Information System, Jeremy Peters

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Fisheries co-management and the Tahltan First Nation: From the Aboriginal fisheries strategy to a treaty regime (British Columbia), Kristen Lynn Smith

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Issues in representing ethnic residential segregation, Wanda Teresa Gayle Smith

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Modelling spatial processes: The identification and analysis of spatial relationships in regression residuals by means of Moran's I (Germany), Michael Tiefelsdorf

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Structural constraints to development and land use in rural Jamaica: The case of Long Road, St. Mary, Anthony John Weis

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Fluid patterns, sediment pathways and woody obstructions in the Pine River, Angus, Ontario, John T. Beebe

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Teaching secondary school geography with the use of a geographical information system (GIS), Angela Louise Crechiolo

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Industrial trade shows: Their role and spatial dimension in industrial restructuring, Andras Gosztonyi

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An assessment of hydrological process and landform change: Slave River delta, Northwest Territories, Ronald Brad Hill

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Reexamination of scarp development along the Niagara Escarpment, Ontario, Canada, David Walter Hintz

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The impact of glacier recession upon the discharge of the Bow River above Banff, Alberta, 1951-1993, Christopher Dennis Hopkinson

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Spatial distribution of lead in soil and sediment in Iqaluit, Northwest Territories and links with human health, Liisa Ann Peramaki

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Small mammals of Point Pelee National Park: Protecting biodiversity in small reserves (Ontario), Julie Ann Spicer

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A sensitivity analysis of the hydrology of the Bow Valley above Banff, Alberta using the UBC Watershed Model, Alexi Zawadzki

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Energy and deforestation in Ghana: A study of woodfuel-deforestation links in rural Ghana, Iddrisu Adam

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Mechanical and chemical weathering of periglacial and non-periglacial forms on the eastern Fosheim Peninsula, Ellesmere Island (Northwest Territories), Cameron Lawrence Chadwick

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Obstetrical care in the Baffin Region, Northwest Territories: Geographical, medical and cultural perspectives, Christine Clara Earnshaw

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An evaluation of pump-level service as a locational variable within Canada's retail gasoline industry, Ian W.R. Gilbart

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Socio-economic factors and the journey to work: A case study of AT&T GIS employees, Thomas A. Hammers

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Relative rates of sand transport through an incipient parabolic dune at Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario (Ammophila breviligulata, Calamovilfa longifolia, Cakile edentula, Juniperus virginiana, Populus deltoides), Sheri A. Longboat

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Using digital elevation models to measure the surface and volumetric change of Athabasca Glacier, Alberta, Canada, 1919-1979, James Robb Reynolds

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Higher-order, multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagrams: A new approach to trade area analysis, Robert William South

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Managing external threats to national parks in Canada's western mountains (Alberta), George Yap

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Internal and external commuting and their role in explaining demographic change in nonmetropolitan areas: A case study of Simcoe County, Ontario, 1971-1991, Robert Gregory Atkinson

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Detecting simulated amnesia through the use of a battery of memory tests, Sandy A. Bellos

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Economic development and local agency in Pond Inlet: A community in Baffin Region, Northwest Territories, Paul Emile Blais

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Government coordinating agencies in Canadian coastal planning and management: The Islands Trust and the Waterfront Regeneration Trust, Colin Graham Crance

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Recent changes in domestic accessibility in the Canadian airline industry: The pre- and post-deregulation situation, Ruben Jose de Castro Furtado

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Opportunities for the integration of institutional arrangements for riparian buffer zone management in Ontario, Canada, Jeffrey Willard King

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Recent dynamics in interlocking directorates in the European Union's largest corporations: 1986 and 1992, Mark Stewart Laver

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Maps as a visual language: A Chinese perspective, Zhaoyuan Li

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Urban-rural socio-economic links in African countries: The case of Accra, Ghana, Edmund Nkansah Okoree

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Linking landscape ecology and ecosystem health: The case of Lunigiana, Italy, Susan Anna Pellanda

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An investigation of the effects of multiple distance measures in regression modeling: Predicting house prices, Dawn Maire Porter