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Title Carbon Dynamics in Canada’s Managed Forests from 1991 to 2006: A Comparison of InTEC and CBM

Excerpt This study examined the annual C balance and its shifting trend in Canada’s managed forests from 1991 to 2006 using the Integrated Terrestrial Ecosystem C-budget (InTEC) model. During this period, Canada’s managed forests remained a moderate C sink of 58 Mt C yr¬¬¬-1 on average, but displayed an apparent trend of shifting towards a C […]

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SDGs Climate ActionLife on LandSustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Designing an Optimal Urban Community Mix for an Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage System

Excerpt This research examined what mix of building types result in the most efficient use of a technology known as Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES). Hourly energy simulation models for six different building archetypes were created based on representative building characteristic and energy use data from the Toronto area. A genetic algorithm optimization tool was then […]

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Author Zizzo, Ryan

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyIndustry, Innovation and InfrastructureResponsible Consumption and Production

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Title Sustainability Oriented Feasibility Model for Construction Decision Making: Water Recycling Cases in Buildings

Excerpt Traditionally, feasibility analysis in the construction sector is limited to financial considerations. As the concept of sustainability becomes increasingly important, the methods used in a feasibility analysis have to be reconfigured in a way that incorporates elements of sustainability. This research uses water recycling systems (within the built environment) as an example to demonstrate how […]

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Author Zhang, Yue

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClean Water and SanitationClimate Action

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Keywords environment, recycl*, water

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Title Towards Sustainable Development: Chinese Environmental Law Enforcement Mechanism Research

Excerpt Environmental degradation is one of the most important problems facing by Chinese people. This unsatisfactory situation majorly lies in the weak implementation of environmental laws. The essential reason causing the ineffective enforcement of Chinese environmental law is people’s distorted cognition about the relation between human being and the environment. As an important principle of international […]

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Author Zhang, Yikai Jr.

Advisor Ho, Betty

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SDGs Climate ActionDecent Work and Economic GrowthGender Equality

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Title Connection between Severe Weather and Intense Lightning

Excerpt This Thesis researches, explains and provides conclusions for the question of correlation between data and criteria used by Environment Canada (EC) and Lightning Studies Research Group (LSG) of University of Toronto. The necessity of such correlation arises from the question of common criteria between severe weather, as it shown in graphical data from EC, and […]

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Author Yandulska, Kateryna

Advisor Janischewskyj, Wasyl

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Title Investigation of the Relationship between Transit Network Structure and the Network Effect – The Toronto & Melbourne Experience

Excerpt The main objective of this study was to quantitatively explore the connection between network structure and network effect and its impact on transit usage as seen through the real-world experience of the Toronto and Melbourne transit systems. In this study, the comparison of ridership/capita and mode split data showed that Toronto’s TTC has better performance […]

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Author Woo, Karen Frances

Advisor Shalaby, Amer Saïd

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SDGs Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Title Source Tracing of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) in Watersheds Using UV and Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Excerpt In aquatic ecosystems, dissolved organic matter (DOM) is an important source of detrital energy on which microorganisms rely. However, its dynamics are not well understood in an ecological context. By isolating watershed sources, the work reported in this thesis has attempted to characterize the seasonal patterns of DOM in the hyporheic zone of a temperate […]

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Author Wong, Jessica

Advisor Williams, D. Dudley

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SDGs Affordable and Clean EnergyClean Water and Sanitation

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Departments Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Keywords energy, water

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Title In Their Own Best Interests? Textually Mapping Governmentality in the Lives of Young People without Stable Housing in Canada

Excerpt Working to untangle the multiple interests and “truths” that manifest in decision-making in youth shelters, I draw on the Foucauldian perspective of governmentality as an alternative means of problematizing “youth homelessness” in Canada. Tracing interdiscursivity between levels of authority, I use critical discourse analysis to deconstruct federal and Ontario government, and Toronto youth shelter discourses. […]

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Author Wilson, Tina Esther

Advisor Chambon, Adrienne S.

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SDGs Decent Work and Economic GrowthGender EqualityPeace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Responsible Consumption and Production

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Departments Social Work

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Keywords employment, gender, governance, institution, production

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Title Producing Barrels from Bitumen: A Political Ecology of Price in Explaining the Classification of the Alberta Oil Sands as a Proven Oil Reserve

Excerpt In December, 2002, the oil sands of Alberta, Canada – earlier seen as an obscure, obstacle-ridden scientific project – were for the first time included in the Oil & Gas Journal’s year-end review of worldwide oil reserves. To explain this decision, the editors of this prestigious international petroleum magazine cited the basic neoclassical economic theory […]

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Author Hemmingsen, Emma

Advisor Prudham, W. Scott

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SDGs Industry, Innovation and InfrastructureLife on Land

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Title Adverse Drug Reactions in the Emergency Department Population in Ontario: Analysis of National Ambulatory Care Reporting System and Discharge Abstract Database 2003-2007

Excerpt ADR is an important public health problem which reduces quality of care patients receive and increases cost to healthcare system. Little is known about the incidence and economic burden of ADR-related ED visits and subsequent hospitalizations in Canada. This study estimated the incidence and cost of ADR-related ED visits and subsequent hospitalizations for patients (>65 […]

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Author Wu, Chen

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SDGs Good Health and Well-Being

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Departments Health Policy, Management and Evaluation

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