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 1995

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A field investigation of planimetric knickpoint morphology from rock-bed sections of Niagara Escarpment fluvial systems (Ontario), Richard Stanley Pyrce

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The volumetric change of the Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Canada, 1896-1966, Alistair Lennox Wallace

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Hydrometeorological investigations on a small valley glacier in the Sawtooth Range, Ellesmere Island, Northwest Territories, Paul Michael Wolfe

Theses/Dissertations from 1994

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A test of the multiquadric method of interpolation using drumlin data from the Lunenburg, Nova Scotia and Peterborough, Ontario, fields, Catherine Treena Conrad

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Opportunities for integration in institutional arrangements for water management in the Yukon, Patrick James Dooling

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A test of the multiquadric technique of interpolation with an application to fluid speeds in a river (Ontario), James Patrick Dozois

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Heritage conservation districts in Ontario: Case studies, Lynda Elizabeth Formosa

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An ecosystem approach to wildlife management in wilderness areas: A case study of the greater Kluane region, Lori Katherina Krebs

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Assessing community policing theory and practice in Halton region (Ontario), Drazen Manojlovic

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An attitudinal evaluation of collaboration in the community economic development process in southwestern Ontario, Lisa Susanne McCormick

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The demand side of farmers' markets in Kitchener-Waterloo: An examination of the Waterloo, St. Jacobs and Kitchener farmers' markets (Ontario), Dana Glenn Wells

Theses/Dissertations from 1993

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User fees for residential waste disposal: Issues, feasibility and a case study of decision-making (Ontario), Pietro Bertollo

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Seasonal hydrology and geochemistry of two small high Arctic catchments, Axel Heiberg Island, Northwest Territories, Julia Boike

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Voronoi diagrams as a visualization technique for spatial autocorrelation in point data sets, Martin A. Cassel

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Agro-climatic hazards and the political economy of food insecurity in West Africa: A case of a rural food economy, Raphael Lawer Djabatey

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Barriers to achieving sustainable development in North America: Historical naivety, media limitations and non-anticipatory governance, Blair Wayne Feltmate

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Theoretical and empirical examinations of spatial scale and aggregation effects on the principal axis factoring technique when the observations are areal units, Len Michael Hunt

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Pandemic influenza: An analysis of the spread of influenza in Kitchener, October 1918 (Ontario), Niall Phillip Alan Sean Johnson

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An analysis of Canadian international & interprovincial manufacturing export flows: 1974-1990, H. Lillian Kucsma

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The potential environmental consequences of utilizing sewage sludge as fertilizer on agricultural lands: A case study of the region of Waterloo (Ontario), Benjamin C. Mohabir

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Iceberg severity off the Canadian east coast (an analysis of the 1991 iceberg season), Jerome Edward Salloum

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Organizations and attitudes in the local economic development process: A case study of the West Parry Sound Area (Ontario), Darin Gregory Tucci

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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Rapid population growth and its impact on residential land use in Ghana: The case of Madina-Adenta in the Accra metropolitan area, Louis Awanyo

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River channel stability and the implications for fish habitat, John T. Beebe

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Investigation of hydrometeorological relationships, Pasu Glacier basin, northern Pakistan, Bob Boyce

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Ontario's blue box as an agent of change, Robert Nathaniel Burgess

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The Campus Map: The Case of Wilfrid Laurier University, Tanya Dykshoorn

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The impact of the Bruce Nuclear Power Development planned workforce increase on Kincardine, Ontario, Robert Mark Flesch

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The benefits trickled up: The political geography of water provision in Paris, Ontario, 1882-1924, John Solomon Hagopian

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National and provincial park service responses to human-induced ecological change in Ontario, Maria Theresia Kothbauer

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The energy crisis: The case of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with special reference to Nigeria, Ghana and Burkina Faso, Francis Bliss Lagbo

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The role of the vadose zone in the generation of runoff from a headwater basin in the Canadian shield, Robert Alex MacLean

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Hydrologic investigations of meltwaters draining Gornergletscher and Findelengletscher, Switzerland using hydrochemistry and isotopic analyses, Robert A. Metcalfe

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Multiple hazard research in Kananaskis Country, Alberta: A Geographical Information System approach, Alastair J. Small

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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Population concentration or deconcentration in Ontario? An examination of recent patterns and probable causal factors, Sinisa Aleksa

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Determination of morphologic and volumetric change, Peyto Glacier, Alberta, 1966-1989, Peter J. Glenday

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Rural-urban migration and squatter settlement formation in African cities: A case study of a Ghanaian squatter settlement (Tema), Thomas Y. Owunsu

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A case study of black West Indian migrants in urban Canada: The decision to migrate, Patrick Richardson

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Gentrification in Canadian inner cities: An investigation of major factors (Montreal, Quebec, Toronto, Ontario, Winnipeg, manitoba, Vancouver, British Columbia), M. Anne Sinclair-Puchtinger

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Technological development in Mississauga and Canada's Technology Triangle: A calibrated application of the product life cycle, J. Colin Wright

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Consumer spatial shopping behaviour analysis: A case study of the Kitchener CMA (Ontario), Yalin Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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Water quality dynamics in meltwaters draining Peyto Glacier, Alberta, Christopher Bradley

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Bed load measurements: Nottawasaga River and selected tributaries, Ontario, Canada, Marylou B. Burkard

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The impact of multi-stop, multi-purpose shopping on the location and efficiency of a supermarket chain: A location-allocation approach, Andrea K. Dawkins

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Elderly housing choice: A case study of Brantford, Ontario, David Owen Diegel

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The effect of mid-winter snowmelt events on nitrate and ammonium concentration in the unsaturated and shallow saturated zones: A case study, Richard J. Elgood

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Characteristic discharge and suspended-sediment relationships in two glacier-fed rivers in the Karakoram, Richard E.J. Kelly

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Depositional and deformational structures in three 'esker-like' ridges, southwestern Ontario, John D. Parish

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An evaluation of phosphorus export from four urban land uses during summer rainfall-runoff events in the Laurel Creek watershed, E. Martin Pemberton

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Summer stormflow generation in a small Precambrian Shield basin, Larry C. Pezzutto

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Identifying directional properties of spatial point patterns an investigation of two methods, Rolf Puchtinger

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The impact of teaching cartographic lexicon and of geographic experience on map use, James Cuame Saku

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High technology industry and material linkages in the Toronto region, Jim Torretto

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Regulatory reform and the Ontario for-hire motor carrier industry: An investigation of associated impacts, Clarence G. Woudsma

Theses/Dissertations from 1989

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The changing Canadian inventive spatial economic pattern: An urban and regional analysis between 1881 and 1986, S.L. Brian Ceh

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Some hydrologic aspects of snowmelt runoff under summer conditions, in the Barpu glacier basin, Central Karakoram, Himalaya, northern Pakistan, Ali Ghazanfar

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Ablation on Barpu glacier, Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan a study of melt processes on a faceted, debris-covered ice surface, Mohammad Inamullah Khan

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Environmental planning of large-scale water projects: The Three Gorges Dam case, China, Long Li

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The perception of refuse in West African cities the case of Techiman, Ghana, Joseph Mensah

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University growth-poles and the Canadian aggregate situation, Stephen Paul Meyer

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Carbon dioxide emissions and fossil fuel consumption a Canadian perspective, John Peter Doucet

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Interbasin water transfers: An appropriate management practice for the Great Lakes?, David M. Krentz

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Canadian railway museums and visitor attraction, Walter Gordon Miller McWilliams

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Scarcity-Induced Conflict: The Lebanese-Israeli Conflict Over Water, Hussein A. Amery

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Irrigation agriculture in high mountain communities the example of Hopar villages, Pakistan, David Aaron Otto Butz

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An assessment and comparison of hazardous waste management Hessen, FRG and Ontario, Canada, Elaine F. Collis

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Irrigation water use in southern Ontario, Kenneth Iain MacDonald

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The evolution of retail business in central business districts in response to the introduction of a downtown shopping mall a case study of the CBD in Thunder Bay North, Mark Jordan Smith

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The effect of particle size on phosphate adsorption by fluvial sediment, Michael F.A. Stone

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Spatial and temporal variation of snow accumulation in the central Karakoram, northern Pakistan, Cameron Parker Wake

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The incorporation of environmental perception information into wilderness park safety planning, Thomas Craig Waldichuk

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Housing Policy and Housing Satisfaction in the People’s Republic of China: A Behavioural Approach Applied in the City of Xian, Jidong Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 1986

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An Analysis of the Spatial and Economic Variations of Ethnic Groups, Ontario, Jayati Ghosh

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An Assessment of Hybrid Poplar Biomass Plantations for Ontario, Peter Caleb Sturrup

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The Changing Residential Structure of Toronto’s Core, Ann C. Weiss

Theses/Dissertations from 1985

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Current, erosional and depositional patterns at a river confluence and bend in the Nottawasaga River, Angus, Ontario, Gregory Robert Brooks

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Towards the measurement of regional inequities through patterns of ideally generated socio-economic indicators, Richard C. Campbell

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The pilgrimage to Elvis Presley's Graceland: A study of the meanings of place, James W. Davidson

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The role of federal programs and policies in the conversion of wetlands in southern Ontario, Terrie Gwladys Radke

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Environmental Perception and its Impacts on the Tourist Industry: A Case Study of the Niagara Region, Donna Marie Senese

Theses/Dissertations from 1984

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Communities in transition Elmira and St. Jacobs, Ontario : a study of resident and retailer attitudes toward tourism, Frances Hohol

Theses/Dissertations from 1983

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The custom profile extrusion industry in southern Ontario an economic and geographic examination of a growth-pole, Melvyn William Beetham

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Consumer images of shopping centres a socio-economic analysis, David W. Bell

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Community access in northern Ontario the problem of orphan roads, David A. Frentress

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Arson in Toronto: A geographical perspective (Ontario), James Richards

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Regional variations among ethnic groups in Ontario a core-periphery model, Robert George Sharpe

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Institutional arrangements for flood plain management in Ontario an analysis of the West Ferris Flood Plain management Study, Dan Shrubsole

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The utilization of wood as an energy resource in Ontario, Ronald Harvey Walder

Theses/Dissertations from 1982

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Flume experiments on bedforms and structures at the dune-plane bed transition, Francis P.J. Lockett

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Vegetation pattern and disturbance effects in the subalpine-alpine interface, Valley of the Ten Peaks, Alberta, Katherine J. Miller

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Topologic structure of cellular networks a spatial autocorrelation approach, Pamela K. Morgan

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An examination of the geographic and socioeconomic spaces of ethnic groups in Toronto a core-periphery perspective, Amy Chor Yee Wong

Theses/Dissertations from 1981

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An Analysis of Spatial Trends and Factors Associated with Population Growth for Small Towns in Southwestern Ontario, 1961-1976, Michael Lloyd Schnare

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The Quality Outdoor Recreation Component in Multi-Purpose Conservation Areas: A User Assessment Devised, and Applied to Pinehurst Lake Conservation Area, Gerald Carl Thomas

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Tobago: The Spatial Development of a Caribbean Tourist Industry, David Bruce Weaver

Theses/Dissertations from 1980

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The Impact of Physical Design and Surrounding Land Use on Residents’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards High Density Housing, Jeffrey George Ahonen

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Periodic Market Systems in South-East Ghana: A Study of their Spatial Relations for Development Planning, Kofi Aikins Asamoah

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Perception of Shopping Centers: An Empirical Study, Cathy Jean Burns

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Agricultural Land Search Behavior: A Study of Agricultural Relocation in the Niagara Fruit Belt, Peter J. de Boer

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Channel Patterns of the Grand River in Southern Ontario, Canada—An Example in a Post-Glaciated Landscape, George Okoye K’Rhoda