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Lake Huron Shoreline Analysis, Shubham Satish Nandanwar Jan 2022

Lake Huron Shoreline Analysis, Shubham Satish Nandanwar

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Lake Huron is a popular tourist destination and is home to several businesses and residents. Since the shoreline is dynamic and is subject to change over the years due to several factors such as a change in water level, soil type, human encroachment, etc., these locations tend to encounter floods due to increased water levels and wind speed. This causes erosion and loss to the properties along the shoreline.

This study is based on two areas of interest named Pinery Provincial Park and Sauble Beach which are located on the shoreline of Lake Huron where Pinery Provincial Park is a …


Frye As Forefather?: The Bush Garden And Canadian Ecocriticism, Matthew Zantingh Feb 2016

Frye As Forefather?: The Bush Garden And Canadian Ecocriticism, Matthew Zantingh

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This review considers the importance of Northrop Frye's collection of writings on Canada in The Bush Garden from an ecocritical perspective. It asks how Frye's thinking remains problematic but might also be re-engaged from a contemporary perspective.


Animals As Neighbours: The Past And Present Of Commensal Animals By Terry O'Connor, Derek Woods Feb 2015

Animals As Neighbours: The Past And Present Of Commensal Animals By Terry O'Connor, Derek Woods

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Review of Terry O'Connor's Animals as Neighbours: The Past and Present of Commensal Animals.


Spatial And Structural Determinants Of Residential Burglary Rates In Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario), Martin Christopher Anstey Jan 1998

Spatial And Structural Determinants Of Residential Burglary Rates In Kitchener-Waterloo (Ontario), Martin Christopher Anstey

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Traditional ecological analyses of burglary have a number of shortcomings. First, break-ins occurring within a neighbourhood have been regarded as a solely the product of local residents. Second, the relationship between burglary and its determinants has been considered constant across space. Third, the data used in ecological analysis has been treated as statistically independent. The purpose of this study is to expand upon previous ecological studies through an analysis of residential burglary in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada Theory from environmental criminology (a discipline concerned with the spatial aspects of crime) is used in conjunction with spatial data analysis techniques and GIS technology …