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Fall 2021

Stout, Madeleine

The concept of ‘winter cities’ speaks to a particular relationship between place and winter. However, winter cities are largely under examined in urban research, particularly Canadian cities. This thesis asks what type of place is a winter city and what types of placemaking occur in this context?...

Fall 2021

Mohamed, Emad

Wind energy is emerging as a primary source of renewable energy in Canada, attracting over $23 billion in investment. Steadily increasing, a total capacity of 31,640 MW of wind energy must be installed by 2040 to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement on Climate, requiring the construction...

Fall 2017

Rahman, Sholeh

Background: Physical activity in children is an important part of a healthy lifestyle and contributes to the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity. However, Canadian children are not physically active enough. Weather conditions may limit physical activity levels, but little is known...

Fall 2020

Gong, Crystal

The unprecedented impacts from climate change have been documented and are projected to continue to dramatically effect human health and wellbeing. East Africa is projected to experience an increase in average surface temperatures and decrease in precipitation levels, impacting ecosystems, food...

Spring 2024

Mirhadi, Seyed Nima

Canada experiences a significant number of landslides each year, posing substantial risks to safety, infrastructure, economic activities, and the environment. Over the last two and a half centuries, Canada has witnessed approximately 800 fatalities attributed to landslides, which has made...

Fall 2020

Macauley, Kiera AP

In many regions of the world, fires are the primary environmental disturbance producing a mosaic of burned and unburned patches varying at temporal and spatial scales and providing a variety of ecosystem services. Fire perimeters mark the separation between the burned and unburned matrix of a...

Spring 2015

Fredrickson, Rebecca L

This dissertation develops a “Northern Textual Ecology,” a methodological approach that posits a correlation between the geo/meteorological forces of the north and the literary texts, Indigenous and other, of the north. I suggest that both the actual land and literary texts are environments: both...

Spring 2017

AL-Alawi, Mubarak K

Construction projects are unique and complex in nature. They are associated with many challenges regarding the randomness, complexity, and interdependency related to the operation/process, the environment hosting the operation, and the product being constructed. These challenges are also common...

Fall 2024

Biswas, Simita

Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) are considered one of the most critical highway intelligent transportation system (ITS) infrastructures, combining several advanced technologies to collect, process, and disseminate road weather information. The collected information is used by road...

Spring 2018

Isaac-Renton, Miriam G

As climates warm and extreme climatic events occur with more frequency and severity, maintaining forest health and productivity may involve planting seed sources from warmer, drier areas. To guide such reforestation strategies, this work analyzes the risks of both climate change and assisted...