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Journal articles on the topic "Land use – Ontario – Toronto"
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Merrens, Roy. "Port Authorities as Urban Land Developers." Articles 17, no. 2 (August 6, 2013): 92–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1017654ar.
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Port authorities have been important presences in Canada's port cities, playing major roles in determining the physical form and land-use functions of urban waterfront lands. Their formative roles warrant attention from scholars concerned with the city-building process in Canada. This study focuses upon one such body, The Toronto Harbour Commissioners, and how and why it has functioned as a land development agency. An analysis of the commissions Outer Harbour project between 1912 and 1968 shows the commissions central concern with land development: ostensibly presented as a harbour facility, the project was actually intended to be a key component in the commissions proposed redevelopment of Toronto's central waterfront for profitable commercial and residential use. The project also reveals the significance of landfilling in the commissions urban development role, and, incidentally, explains the existence of the three-mile artificial headland projecting out into Lake Ontario from Toronto's waterfront. The role of the commission as a development agency is explained in terms of its original 1911 mandate, which in turn reflects the intentions of the Toronto Board of Trade, the body that had led the drive to create the commission.
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Rivers, Ray. "The price of sprawl in Ontario, Canada." Ekistics and The New Habitat 71, no. 424-426 (June 1, 2004): 52–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200471424-426222.
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The author is an environmental economist who provides consulting services to a wide range of clients from private industry, environmental interest groups and the federal and provincial governments. He has worked with the federal departments of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries and Oceans and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment; lectured at Concordia, the University of Ottawa and Wilfred Laurier University in Public Administration and Sustainable Development; and written widely on a range of environmental topics. Ray Rivers was the Canadian co-author of the Land Use sections in the 1996/1998 State of the Lake Ecosystem Conferences. The text that follows is an edited and revised version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "The Natural City," Toronto, 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.
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Dear, Michael, and Glenda Laws. "Anatomy of a Decision: Recent Land Use Zoning Appeals and their Effect on Group Home Locations in Ontario." Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health 5, no. 1 (April 1, 1986): 5–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.7870/cjcmh-1986-0001.
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In this paper we consider the role of land use planning in the location of group homes. Exclusionary zoning policies have been used to restrict the entry of group homes into certain residential neighbourhoods. This has resulted in an unequal distribution of these facilities throughout the community. We concentrate on events in Metropolitan Toronto where it has recently been announced that group homes are to be regarded as a permissible land use in all residential neighbourhoods.
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Vaz, Eric, Richard Ross Shaker, Michael D. Cusimano, Luis Loures, and Jamal Jokar Arsanjani. "Does Land Use and Landscape Contribute to Self-Harm? A Sustainability Cities Framework." Data 5, no. 1 (January 21, 2020): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/data5010009.
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Self-harm has become one of the leading causes of mortality in developed countries. The overall rate for suicide in Canada is 11.3 per 100,000 according to Statistics Canada in 2015. Between 2000 and 2007 the lowest rates of suicide in Canada were in Ontario, one of the most urbanized regions in Canada. However, the interaction between land use, landscape and self-harm has not been significantly studied for urban cores. It is thus of relevance to understand the impacts of land-use and landscape on suicidal behavior. This paper takes a spatial analytical approach to assess the occurrence of self-harm along one of the densest urban cores in the country: Toronto. Individual self-harm data was gathered by the National Ambulatory Care System (NACRS) and geocoded into census tract divisions. Toronto’s urban landscape is quantified at spatial level through the calculation of its land use at different levels: (i) land use type, (ii) sprawl metrics relating to (a) dispersion and (b) sprawl/mix incidence; (iii) fragmentation metrics of (a) urban fragmentation and (b) density and (iv) demographics of (a) income and (b) age. A stepwise regression is built to understand the most influential factors leading to self-harm from this selection generating an explanatory model.
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Abdulazim, Tamer, Hossam Abdelgawad, Khandker M. Nurul Habib, and Baher Abdulhai. "Framework for Automating Travel Activity Inference Using Land Use Data." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2526, no. 1 (January 2015): 136–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/2526-15.
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This paper introduces a framework for inferring activity travel given nearby land use information that can be obtained from a location-based social network (LBSN) such as Foursquare. The first component of the framework implements a generic method for acquiring land use data from LBSN services, which is a prerequisite for the inference algorithm. Three inference algorithms are suggested, and situations in which each algorithm might be a better fit are discussed. Finally, a case study is presented for activity inference applied to a data set collected in the greater Toronto and Hamilton area, Ontario, Canada, during the fall of 2012. Results are encouraging and suggest that it is possible to infer daily activity travel automatically; this possibility could significantly reduce the burdens of personal travel surveys and allow for collection of long-period travel diary data that is not easily achievable with traditional survey methods.
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Steedman, Robert J. "Modification and Assessment of an Index of Biotic Integrity to Quantify Stream Quality in Southern Ontario." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45, no. 3 (March 1, 1988): 492–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f88-059.
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A multivariate measure of stream quality, the Index of Biotic Integrity (IBI), was adapted to southern Ontario and calibrated to watershed land use on a variety of spatial scales. The fish fauna at 209 stream locations on 10 watersheds near Toronto, Ontario, was sampled with a backpack electrofisher in the summers of 1984 and 1985 to provide biological information for the IBI. Watershed urbanization, forest cover, and riparian forest were measured from 1:50,000 scale topographic maps and related to IBI estimates by linear regression. Of the biological measures tested, species richness, local indicator species (brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and Rhinichthys spp.), abundance of large piscivores, fish abundance, and incidence of blackspot disease were found to contribute significantly to IBI estimates. Variation in IBI estimates at the same location ranged from 0 to 8% within the sample season and from 0 to 24% between years. Linear models based on measures of watershed urbanization and forest cover accounted for 11–78% of the variation in IBI scores, depending on the spatial scale of the analysis. Significant IBI/land use relationships were found with whole-basin IBI estimates and for IBI estimates from individual stream reaches. Land use immediately upstream of sample stations was most strongly associated with stream quality as measured by the IBI.
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Mashford-Pringle, Angela, and Suzanne L. Stewart. "Akiikaa (it is the land): exploring land-based experiences with university students in Ontario." Global Health Promotion 26, no. 3_suppl (April 2019): 64–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757975919828722.
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Indigenous learning traditionally comes from the land. Akiikaa (‘it is the land’ in Algonkian) is designed to assist graduate students in thinking beyond the classroom and understanding the elements of life as known by Indigenous people to live a healthy life. Akiikaa will provide graduate students (both Indigenous and non-Indigenous) with opportunities to learn about Indigenous ways of knowing. They will learn from an instructor, Elders and their peers about how the land is an instrumental part of all aspects of Indigenous life including health and well-being. One of the goals of the Master of Public Health in Indigenous Health program (at the University of Toronto) and the land-based experiences is to shift the thinking away from humans being the dominating force on Mother Earth to equality amongst all aspects of life. Graduate students are introduced to ‘personhood’ rights for plants, animals, water, and air, which is a shift from the current World Health Organization’s view of public health that builds upon a population health approach but neglects the elements that surround humans as necessary for living a healthy life. It has been suggested that Indigenous land-based education acts as a method of decolonization through reclamation of Indigenous ideology and use of land. Land and land experience are highly prized by Indigenous people around the world as cultures and languages are based on the interaction of people with nature/land. This move to delivering the curriculum in the natural environment using Indigenous knowledges as its pedagogy is anticipated to change attitudes about Indigenous people and issues as well as improving the health and well-being of graduate students and, over time, Indigenous peoples’ health and well-being.
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Perera, Nandana, Bahram Gharabaghi, Peter Noehammer, and Bruce Kilgour. "Road Salt Application in Highland Creek Watershed, Toronto, Ontario - Chloride Mass Balance." Water Quality Research Journal 45, no. 4 (November 1, 2010): 451–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wqrj.2010.044.
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Abstract Occurrence of increasing chloride concentrations in urban streams of cold climates, mainly due to road salt application, has raised concerns on its adverse effects on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Therefore, there is a need for a better understanding of processes associated with road salt application and subsequent discharge into the environment in order to develop management practices to minimize detrimental effects of chlorides. The chloride mass analysis for the Highland Creek watershed based on four years of hourly monitoring data indicates that approximately 60% of the chlorides applied on the watershed enter streams prior to subsequent salting period, 85% of which occurs during the period between November and March. Contribution of private de-icing operations on chloride mass input within Highland Creek watershed was estimated to be approximately 38%, indicating its significance in overall chloride mass balance. Salt application rates, as well as chloride output in the streams, vary spatially based on land use, influencing chloride concentrations in surface waters. The estimated groundwater chloride concentration of 275 mg/L indicates that some aquatic organisms in Highland Creek would potentially be at risk even outside the winter period under dry weather flow conditions.
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Webber, Steven, and Tony Hernandez. "Big box battles: the Ontario Municipal Board and large-format retail land-use planning conflicts in the Greater Toronto Area." International Planning Studies 21, no. 2 (December 10, 2015): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13563475.2015.1114451.
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Yoo, E. H., D. Chen, Chunyuan Diao, and Curtis Russell. "The Effects of Weather and Environmental Factors on West Nile Virus Mosquito Abundance in Greater Toronto Area." Earth Interactions 20, no. 3 (January 1, 2016): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/ei-d-15-0003.1.
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Abstract We investigated how weather conditions and environmental factors affect the spatiotemporal variability in Culex pipiens population using the data collected from a surveillance program in Ontario, Canada, from 2005 to 2008. This study assessed the relative influences of temperature and precipitation on the temporal patterns of mosquito abundance using harmonic analysis and examined the associations with major landscape predictors, including land-use type, population density, and elevation, on the spatial patterns of mosquito abundance. The intensity of trapping efforts on the mosquito abundance at each trap site was examined by comparing the spatial distribution of mosquito abundance in relation to the spatial intensity of trapping efforts. The authors used a mixed effects modeling approach to account for potential dependent structure in mosquito surveillance data due to repeated observations at single trap sites and/or similar mosquito abundance at nearby trap sites each week. The model fit was improved by taking into account the nested structure of mosquito surveillance data and incorporating the temporal correlation in random effects.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Land use – Ontario – Toronto"
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Mees, Paul. "Public transport policy and land use in Melbourne and Toronto, 1950 to 1990 /." Connect to thesis, 1997. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000155.
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Moorman, David (David Thomas) Carleton University Dissertation History. "The district land boards: a study of early land administration in Upper Canada, 1788-94." Ottawa, 1992.
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Gill, Kara M. "Computer reservations systems in the Montreal and Toronto tourism industries : adoption and use trends." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=28053.
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A combination of technical innovations, system cost reductions, and post-1970's tourism industry restructuring has led to the development and diffusion of a variety of sophisticated computer reservation systems, or CRSs. Questions remain as to the extent to which tourism suppliers and destinations have achieved CRS links. In this case study of two urban destinations, Montreal and Toronto, tourism supplier relationships with CRS technology are examined. Drawing on results from the accommodation and attraction sectors of each city, the varying degrees of CRS adoption and impact are illustrated. CRS adoption by firms is shown to be constrained by a variety of management market, and tourism product-oriented barriers. Strategies employed by tourism suppliers to counter and overcome these barriers are identified. Following a review of tourism and information technology policies within Canada, some regulatory initiatives that may assist in facilitating successful technology adoption and use among the various components of the urban tourism product are proposed. The constantly evolving 'technological' channels and networks of tourism marketing and distribution are shown to be important influences on tourism destination policy. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Forrest, Anne. "Labour law and union growth : the case of Ontario." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1988. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4386/.
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What role the law should play in encouraging the growth of trade unions is a matter of considerable controversy in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Limits to growth in other sectors of the economy coupled with heightened employer hostility to unionism have made the extension of collective bargaining to the tertiary sector the most pressing task for unions in the 1980s. In a limited way, the Canadian procedure for certifying and recognizing unions is being considered as a model for labour law reform. And there is much to recommend the Canadian system. It is far more efficient than its American counterpart. There are fewer delays, fewer unlawful interventions by employers, and a substantially higher likelihood that newly organized unions will be granted certification. Even so, unions have failed to break into the trade, finance, and services industries that are so critical to their future. Taken as a whole, Canadian labour law tends to block rather than promote the growth of unions in the unorganized sectors of the economy. The certification procedure is only one aspect of a legal regime that has as its primary purpose the preservation of industrial peace, not the encouragement of union growth. By shaping bargaining structure and regulating bargaining tactics, Canadian labour law tilts the balance of power in favour of employers. Small, fragmented unions are frequently pitted against large corporations and as there is nothing to stop anti-union employers from using their overwhelming strength to frustrate the collective bargaining process, efforts to organize the tertiary sector have failed.
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Walker, Glenn. "The changing face of the Kawarthas: land use and environment in nineteenth century Ontario." Thesis, McGill University, 2013. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119407.
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This dissertation examines how changes in material culture and patterns of land use recreated the landscape of Fenelon and Verulam Townships, Ontario, between 1820 and 1900. Immigrants brought new visions of the landscape, productive techniques and forms of recreation. Though they had a clear understanding of the landscape they wanted to fashion, it was largely based on experience in Britain. As settlers and Ojibwas transformed the Kawarthas, they had to adapt this foreign culture to the conditions they found. This study explores processes of planning, surveying and distributing land; the establishment and operation of farms; manufacture of timber, lumber and other forest produce; the construction of canals and railways; hunting, trapping, fishing, recreation and tourism. A generation or two after resettlement began, the nascent communities finally created an agricultural landscape, prosperous villages, large-scale forest production, improved transportation networks and infrastructure for leisure. The emerging economies, cultures, societies and ecological relationships represented ways of life that had evolved to suit the Kawartha Lakes region.Comment les changements de la culture matérielle et des modèles d'utilisation des sols ont restructuré le paysage des cantons de Fenelon et de Verulam en Ontario, entre 1820 et 1900. C'est le sujet de la présente thèse. Les immigrants ont insufflé leur vision de l'aménagement des terres, des techniques de production et des types d'activités récréatives. Certes avaient-ils une idée claire du type d'aménagement qu'ils souhaitaient implanter mais leur expérience reposait essentiellement sur le contexte britannique. Ainsi, à mesure que les colons et les Ojibwas transformaient les Kawarthas, ils ont dû adapter cette culture étrangère aux conditions locales. Cette thèse examine les processus de planification, d'arpentage et de distribution des terres; l'établissement et l'exploitation de fermes; l'exploitation forestière et l'industrie connexe; la construction de canaux et de chemins de fer; la chasse, la trappe, la pêche, les loisirs et le tourisme. Une ou deux générations après le début du remembrement territorial, les collectivités naissantes ont réussi à mettre en place un aménagement des terres agricoles, des villages prospères, une production forestière à grande échelle, des réseaux de transport améliorés et une infrastructure du loisir. Les économies, cultures, sociétés et relations écologiques émergentes représentaient des modes de vie qui ont évolué en fonction du contexte de la région de Kawartha Lakes.
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Houlahan, Jeff E. "The effects of adjacent land-use on water quality and biodiversity in southeastern Ontario wetlands." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6453.
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Over the last 150 years the 'natural' landscape in southeastern Ontario (as in much of the world) has undergone a dramatic transformation due, in large part, to widespread deforestation, wetland destruction and degradation, and increased agricultural activity. The negative impacts of such land-use modifications may include declines in wetland water quality and biodiversity. Here, I develop models to predict the effects of adjacent land-use on wetland water quality, and amphibian and plant diversity using indices of land-use intensity such as, forest cover, road density, building density, fertiliser application, livestock density etc. I find negative relationships between land-use intensity and wetland water quality, and amphibian and plant species richness. The strongest relationships tend to be with forest cover, however, other important variables include wetland size, road density, and the proportion of adjacent lands that is wetland. Moreover, there are complex interactions among variables. For instance, part of the effect of forest cover on plant and amphibian species richness may be indirect, through effects on wetland water quality but there are also effects of forest cover on both plants and amphibians that are independent of wetland water quality. In a conservation context, one important question is 'what is the scale of adjacent land-use effects?' I find that landscape modifications up to 2000--4000 meters from a wetland edge have the strongest correlations with wetland water quality and amphibian species richness while, land-uses 250--400 meters from the wetland edge are most strongly correlated with plant species richness. The conservation implication is that the current Ontario Wetland Policy which (1) evaluates and protects wetlands on a site-by-site basis and, (2) regulates adjacent land-use out to 120 meters from the wetland edge, is not likely to ensure long-term protection of wetland water quality and biodiversity in Ontario.
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Moss, Daniel R. "Evaluating the use of mediation to settle land use disputes : a look at the Provincial Facilitator's Office of Ontario." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/68784.
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Tremblay-Racicot, Fanny Rose. "Can Institutional Reforms Promote Sustainable Planning? Integrating Regional Transportation and Land Use in Toronto and Chicago (2001-2014)." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/365483.
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Although governments have implemented several reforms to better integrate or coordinate regional transportation and land use decisions, little is known about the effects of new institutional designs on planning and development outcomes. This study compares the effects of two different types of institutional reforms on the planning process, transportation investments and land use decisions, while assessing their characteristics in terms of accountability, democracy, and effectiveness. Using semi-structured interviews, planning documents, as well as transportation spending and land use decisions, this longitudinal, comparative case study assesses the effects of the centralized, regulatory framework implemented in Toronto in 2005-2006, to the collaborative governance framework adopted in Chicago in 2005. Although each institutional design features different sets of constraints and opportunities, both reforms improved the planning process by establishing a renewed commitment to the exercise of regional planning. However, their impact on transportation investments was limited because the allocation of transportation funds is still primarily controlled by the province and the state governments who continue to control the purse strings and allocate money to advance their own political agendas. Both cases also show how difficult it is to increase densities and curb urban sprawl because local land uses, zoning and development approvals remain the prerogative of local governments and a function of locational preferences of individuals and corporations, which are contingent upon the market and shaped by global economic forces. Besides stronger regional institutions, the evidence presented in this study calls for new political strategies that address the fiscalization of land use and that offer financial incentives for the adoption of smart growth policies.
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Ouellet, Fernande. "La participation des agriculteurs aux démarches volontaires en agroenvironnement : le cas du programme Alternative Land Use Service (ALUS) en Ontario." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/33146.
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Devant les externalités négatives découlant de l’intensification de l’agriculture, plusieurs pays industrialisés, dont le Canada, ont mis en place des mesures d’interventions allant de la réglementation à l’accompagnement. Pourtant, la littérature montre que l’adoption de pratiques de gestion bénéfiques (PGB) par les agriculteurs demeure relativement limitée à une clientèle déjà convaincue et que la pérennité de la participation et des aménagements n’est souvent pas assurée au-delà du versement des aides. L’absence de marché pour monétiser les bienfaits environnementaux découlant de l’adoption de PGB ne permet pas non plus une régulation par le marché. Basé sur la collaboration entre les acteurs locaux et l’implication en partie du privé dans le financement de rétribution des agriculteurs pour les services rendus à l’environnement, le programme Alternative Land Use Service (ALUS) se présente comme une voie alternative entre réglementations d’État, démarche volontaire et régulation par le marché. Cette représentation de ce qu’est le programme pourrait bien se traduire dans la réalité, dans la mesure où le programme arriverait dans les faits à faire participer les agriculteurs en grand nombre, et ce, de façon pérenne. Cette étude s’appuie sur une recherche documentaire et une série de 45 entretiens semi-dirigés avec des agriculteurs participants, des coordinateurs et des membres du Partnership Advisory Committee (PAC) dans quatre communautés ALUS de l’Ontario. En mobilisant l’économie de la proximité, le présent travail vise à comprendre les raisons pour lesquelles les agriculteurs participent au programme, et tente de vérifier si les spécificités dont se revendique ALUS incitent les agriculteurs à participer de façon pérenne. L’analyse montre que les spécificités du programme ont un effet différent sur la participation et la pérennité selon le type d’agriculteur, et que la coordination des acteurs est fortement assujettie aux réseaux et au contexte.Faced with the negative externalities arising from the intensification of agriculture, several industrialized countries, including Canada, have put in place intervention measures ranging from regulation to support. However, the literature shows that the adoption of beneficial management practices (BMPs) by farmers remains relatively limited to a clientele already convinced and that the sustainability of participation is not assured beyond the payment of aid. The absence of a market to monetize the environmental benefits of adopting BMPs also does not allow regulation by the market. Based on the collaboration between local actors and the involvement of the private sector in the financing of farmers' fees for producing environmental services, the Alternative Land Use Service (ALUS) program promote itself as an alternative between regulations, voluntary approaches and regulation by the market. This representation could well be translated into reality, since the program manages to involve farmers in large numbers, on a long-term basis. This study is based on documentary research and a series of 45 semi-structured interviews with participating farmers, coordinators, and Partnership Advisory Committee (PAC) members in four ALUS communities in Ontario. By mobilizing the economy of proximity, the present work aims at understanding farmers' reasons for participating in the program and tries to verify if the specificities that ALUS claims encourage farmers to participate on a long-term basis. The analysis shows that the specificities of the program have a different effect on participation and sustainability depending on the type of farmer, and that the coordination of the actors is highly dependant on networks and context.
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Teare, Gary Frederick. "A prospective study of chemotherapeutic use on Ontario land-based trout farms over one production cycle." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq24429.pdf.
Full textBooks on the topic "Land use – Ontario – Toronto"
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Walker, Gerald Earl. An invaded countryside: Structures of life on the Toronto fringe. [North York, Ont.]: York University, Atkinson College, 1987.
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Dill, Paula M. Toronto, official plan. Toronto: Urban Development Services, 2002.
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Allison, Roland. Urban land-use and planning in Metropolitan Toronto. Plymouth: Canadian Studies Geography Project for Sixth Forms and Colleges, 1987.
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Canada. Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Round Table. Lands for Life: Preliminary land use scenarios. Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Ontario, 1998.
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New planning for Ontario. Toronto, Ont: Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario, 1993.
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Ontario. Ministry of the Environment. Recreation benefits arising from lake reclamation in Ontario. Toronto: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, 1987.
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Toronto (Ont.). Planning and Development Dept. Section 36 guidelines: Further report on guidelines for bonusing pursuant to Section 36 of the Planning Act. [Toronto, Ont.]: Planning and Development Department, 1988.
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Resources, Ontario Ministry of Natural. Ontario's living legacy: Land use strategy. Peterborough, Ont: Ministry of Natural Resources, 1999.
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Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario. Draft report on planning and development reform in Ontario. Toronto, Ont: The Commission, 1992.
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Martin, Larry R. G. Monitoring urban development in the Toronto Region employing Landsat Earth Satellite data. [Ottawa, Ont: Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation], 1985.
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Eimers, M. Catherine, Freddy Liu, and Jennifer Bontje. "Land Use, Land Cover, and Climate Change in Southern Ontario: Implications for Nutrient Delivery to the Lower Great Lakes." In The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 235–49. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/698_2020_519.
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Bitterman, Alex. "The Rainbow Connection: A Time-Series Study of Rainbow Flag Display Across Nine Toronto Neighborhoods." In The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods, 117–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66073-4_5.
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AbstractRecently, the display and use of the rainbow flag in historically defined gay neighborhoods has grown even as gay residents and businesses have been driven away by gentrification, rising real-estate costs, and cultural homogenization. At the same time, prevelence and use of the rainbow flag and the rainbow motif has increased in areas not usually considered part of recognized gay neighborhoods. This chapter explores the prevalence and persistence of the display of the rainbow flag and rainbow motif in nine neighborhoods across Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The visual assessment of rainbow flag use across these neighborhoods serves as a potential model for examining the rate of spread of rainbow flags and visual rainbow motif symbols as a means for tracking the movement of the LGBTQ+ community across urban neighborhoods. Initial results suggest potential significance of the prevalence and persistence of the rainbow flag and the rainbow motif. These include; (1) a possible diaspora of LGBTQ+ residents from traditionally defined gay neighborhoods to newly emerging gay or LGBTQ-friendly neighborhoods, (2) a newfound inclusivity or pride among residents of other neighborhoods, and (3) “rainbow washing” due to overuse of the rainbow motif by non-LGBTQ businesses and organizations connected with pride celebrations. While overuse of the rainbow flag may diminish historically coded meaning of the rainbow, that well-intentioned use of the rainbow flag is a positive and welcoming indicator for LGBTQ+ individuals and it may lead to the emergence of additional LGBTQ-friendly enclaves that, over time, could potentially emerge as new gay neighborhoods.
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"Land Use Regression in Sarnia, “Chemical Valley,” Ontario, Canada." In Environmental Chemistry, 203–18. Apple Academic Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b12224-17.
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Elafros, Athena. "Michie Mee." In Scattered Musics, 109–30. University Press of Mississippi, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496832368.003.0006.
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This chapter analyses the formation, maintenance, and transformation of the Caribbean diaspora in the formation of rap music in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It discusses the marginalization of rap music and people of color within the music industry in Toronto. The author focuses especially on the way artists use rap music to challenge racist and racialized conceptions of Canadian identity and, at the same time, help redefine Canadian identity in ways that emphasize the importance of diasporic identities.
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Liu, Kwong Yuen, Bonnie H. Y. Wong, Maria Chu, and William Y. W. Leung. "The Continuum of Care." In Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population, 71–90. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2633-9.ch004.
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This chapter examines the continuum of care in use at the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The service continuum is a response to the needs of a diverse Chinese Canadian population, where services in the appropriate language and culture are limited. Within the funding context, service coordination for seniors within Ontario can be characterized as fragmented, with over-use of acute care hospitalization and long-term care institutionalization. Community agencies must find a way to adapt to changing systems as the Ontario government moves away from institutionalization and toward community care. This chapter explores challenges that are faced by a socially-minded organization within a medically-minded funding system. It also addresses ways to cope with the constraints.
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Viswanathan, Leela. "Decolonization, Recognition, and Reconciliation in Reforming Land Use Policy and Planning With First Nations in Southern Ontario." In Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6, 157–73. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315628127-8.
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"Water and Land Pollution." In Environmental Toxicology, edited by Sigmund F. Zakrzewski. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195148114.003.0016.
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Water covers 70% of the earth’s surface. Only 3% of this is freshwater, which is indispensable in sustaining plant and animal life. The amount of freshwater is maintained constant by the hydrological cycle. This cycle involves evaporation from oceans and inland waters, transpiration from plants, precipitation, infiltration into the soil, and runoff of surface water into lakes and rivers. The infiltrated water is used for plant growth and recharges groundwater reserves. Although the global supply of available freshwater is sufficient to maintain life, the worldwide distribution of freshwater is not even. In some areas the supply is limited because of climatic conditions or cannot meet the demands of high population density. In other places, although there is no shortage of freshwater, the water supply is contaminated with industrial chemicals and is thus unfit for human use. Moreover, fish and other aquatic species living in chemically contaminated water become unfit for human consumption. Thus, water pollution deprives us and other species of two essential ingredients for survival: water and food. An example of hydrologic changes caused by urbanization is given in Figure 11.1. Conditions before and after urbanization were measured in Ontario, Canada, by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (1). In the urban setting, pervious areas are replaced with impervious ones (such as streets, parking lots, and shopping centers). Groundwater replenishment is greatly reduced and runoff is considerably increased by these changes. Thus, urbanization not only contributes to water pollution; it also increases the possibility of floods. Nitrogen is an important element for sustenance of life. However, in order to be incorporated into living matter it has to be converted into an assimilative form—an oxide or ammonia. Until the beginning of the twentieth century most of the atmospheric nitrogen was converted into assimilative form by soil microorganisms and by lightning. Nitrogen compounds which were not utilized by living matter did not accumulate because the denitrifying bacteria decomposed them to elemental nitrogen which was then released back into the atmosphere. In this way the nitrogen cycle was completed.
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"Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages." In Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages, edited by Bruce W. Kilgour and Les W. Stanfield. American Fisheries Society, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569766.ch30.
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<em>Abstract.</em>—Assessments of stream fish or benthos assemblages normally involve a contrast of conditions at test sites to conditions represented by regional reference sites that are either minimally or least disturbed. Identification of reference sites is difficult and normally involves a variety of subjective criteria. The development of reference models for stream fish and benthos in the Canadian tributaries of Lake Ontario is particularly challenging because there are few undeveloped areas and there is no consensus on criteria for a least-disturbed condition. Rather than identify sites as representing a least-disturbed condition, we developed a series of models that relate the existing biophysical condition of streams (i.e., the fish, benthos, and instream habitat) to landscape (i.e., slope, geology, catchment area) and land use/land cover (percent impervious cover [PIC]). Relationships between indices of biophysical condition and PIC can be used to hindcast or estimate the expected biophysical condition at a variety of land cover scenarios. The models cannot be used to predict conditions outside the calibration data range, but this approach does allow us to make use of a disturbance gradient and make predictions with a minimal number of least-disturbed sites. The difference between the hindcast reference and present day conditions is an estimate of present-day impacts. Results from this exercise provided an estimate of the magnitude of impairment of streams in the Canadian portion of the Lake Ontario region.
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Brister, Evelyn, Elizabeth Hane, and Karl Korfmacher. "Visualizing Plant Community Change Using Historical Records." In Geographic Information Systems, 2063–79. IGI Global, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch123.
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Ecological data from land surveys from 1811 for the 100,000-acre Connecticut Tract in western New York were transcribed and then analyzed using ArcGIS and IDRISI GIS software. The surveys contained both witness tree data and line descriptions, which were analyzed for species composition and community type. Results illustrate that many changes have occurred in species composition. Possible causes of these changes to the mature forests may include introduced pests and diseases or anthropogenic land-use change. Comparisons to the National Wetlands Inventory Database reveal that while some of the wetlands that were present in 1811 still exist today, particularly in the Byron-Bergen Swamp and in the wetlands along the Lake Ontario shoreline, other original wetlands have been lost while new wetlands have replaced some upland forests. This study helps elucidate past causes of temporal and spatial variability, and it provides a reference point for land managers who need to understand the effects of land-use history for ongoing restoration efforts.
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"Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages." In Landscape Influences on Stream Habitats and Biological Assemblages, edited by Les W. Stanfield and Bruce W. Kilgour. American Fisheries Society, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.47886/9781888569766.ch28.
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<em>Abstract.</em>—–We demonstrate the effects of percent impervious cover (PIC) on biophysical properties of Lake Ontario tributary streams. Biophysical data (fish assemblages, benthic invertebrate assemblages (benthos), instream physical habitat, and temperature) were collected from more than 575 wadeable stream sites. A geographic information system application was developed to characterize the landscape upstream of each site (i.e., drainage area, surficial geology, land use/land cover, slope, stream length, and climate). Total PIC of catchments was estimated from land use/land cover, and a base flow index was derived from the surficial geology. The relationship between PIC and biophysical responses was determined after statistically removing the effects of natural landscape features (i.e., catchment area, slope, base flow index) on those responses. Contrasts in PIC from natural conditions (<3% to 10%) were related to variations in fish and benthos assemblages. Both coldwater sensitive and warmwater tolerant fish and diverse benthos assemblages were found in catchments with low PIC. At more than 10 PIC (i.e., about 50% urban), both fish and benthos consisted of mainly warmwater or tolerant assemblages. For example, trout were absent and minnows were dominant. While some of the apparent PIC effect may have been confounded by land use/land cover and surficial geology, the consistency of the findings even after natural catchment conditions were considered suggests that the threshold response is valid. Percent impervious cover had a weaker effect on instream geomorphic variables than on biological variables. The models derived from this study can be used to predict stream biophysical conditions for catchments with varying levels of development.
Conference papers on the topic "Land use – Ontario – Toronto"
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Buszynski, Mario E. "Public Issues Associated With Planning a Large Diameter Pipeline in a Multi-Use Urban Corridor." In 2004 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2004-0142.
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The lack of foresight by municipalities and others in preserving corridors for utilities means that there are increasingly fewer opportunities to locate linear facilities in large urban centers such as the City of Toronto. In those corridors that do exist, there are competing land uses that make it difficult to accommodate any new use. Many of these land uses are directly related to the people living adjacent to and in the vicinity of the corridors. In 2003, the Ontario Energy Board approved new “Environmental Guidelines for the Location, Construction and Operation of Hydrocarbon Pipelines and Facilities in Ontario”. The Guidelines include specific new requirements for planning pipelines in urban areas. Among other things, these new requirements involve the identification of indirectly affected landowners and a more detailed analysis of public issues and how they were resolved. Through the use of a case study, this paper identifies the public issues that were encountered in planning the location of a NPS 36 (Nominal Pipe Size 914 mm or 36 inch diameter) natural gas pipeline through residential neighbourhoods in the City of Toronto and the Town of Markham. It also describes how the public involvement requirements contained in the Ontario Energy Board’s new guidelines were incorporated into the planning process. The case study begins with a rationale for the study area selected. A description of the public issues follows. The techniques used to address these issues and the success of the public involvement program that identified 180 directly affected and 3,200 indirectly affected landowners is documented. The study results illustrate that it is possible to plan a right-of-way through an urban corridor in such a manner as to satisfy the general public, be compatible with existing development, conform to the new Ontario Energy Board Guidelines and minimize the amount of remedial work required to mitigate the impacts occurring on and adjacent to the right-of-way.
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Shalaby, Amer. "Socioeconomic, Land Use and Travel Characteristics of the Toronto Area." In Second International Conference on Urban Public Transportation Systems. Reston, VA: American Society of Civil Engineers, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/40717(148)31.
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Buszynski, Mario E. "Securing Pipeline Approvals in a Tough Regulatory Environment." In 2006 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2006-10478.
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The Regional Municipality of York is located immediately north of the City of Toronto. It is the fastest growing municipality in Ontario. The rapid expansion of residential, industrial and commercial development in the municipality has led to a weakness in the electrical and gas infrastructure. The Ontario Power Authority (the agency responsible for managing the power requirements in the Province of Ontario) has recognized this weakness and has developed plans calling for a new gas-fired generating station and improvements to the electrical grid. The shortages of gas supply and electricity have not developed overnight. Hydro One, which runs the electrical grid, initiated a supply study in 2002. The study recommended upgrading a 115 kV transmission line to a double circuit 230 kV transmission line on the existing corridor. The ensuing public outcry resulted in the municipality passing a resolution against the upgrade. Similarly, a large gas-fired generating station proposal was abandoned as the result of citizen opposition. In 2003, the Ontario Energy Board approved new Environmental Guidelines for the Location, Construction and Operation of Hydrocarbon Pipelines and Facilities in Ontario. The guidelines include specific new requirements for planning pipelines in urban areas. Among other things, these requirements involve the identification of indirectly affected landowners and a more detailed analysis of public issues and how they were resolved. It became clear that in order to achieve regulatory success, not only would the public have to become actively engaged in the decision-making early in the process, the technical reviewers (federal, provincial and municipal agencies) would likewise have to be actively involved. Through the use of two case studies of proposed large-diameter natural gas pipelines initiated in York Region in 2005, this paper describes the techniques used to engage the public and the regulators. It also describes how the public involvement requirements contained in the Ontario Energy Board’s new guidelines were incorporated into the planning process. The case studies begin with a rationale for the study area selected. A description of issues follows. The techniques used to address these issues and the success of the program are documented. Techniques include face-to-face project initiation meetings, use of technical and citizens’ advisory committees, sub-committee meetings to resolve specific issues and site-specific field work. The study results illustrate that it is possible to plan a right-of-way in such a manner as to satisfy the general public and regulators, be compatible with existing development, conform to the new Ontario Energy Board guidelines and minimize the amount of remedial work required to mitigate the impacts occurring on and adjacent to the right-of-way.
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Langaker, John T., Christopher Hamker, and Ralph Wyndrum. "Challenges in Designing and Building a 700 MW All-Air-Cooled Steam Electric Power Plant." In ASME 2011 Power Conference collocated with JSME ICOPE 2011. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2011-55251.
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Large natural gas fired combined cycle electric power plants, while being an increasingly efficient and cost effective technology, are traditionally large consumers of water resources, while also discharging cooling tower blowdown at a similar rate. Water use is mostly attributed to the heat rejection needs of the gas turbine generator, the steam turbine generator, and the steam cycle condenser. Cooling with air, i.e. dry cooling, instead of water can virtually eliminate the environmental impact associated with water usage. Commissioned in the fall of 2010 with this in mind, the Halton Hills Generating Station located in the Greater Toronto West Area, Ontario, Canada, is a nominally-rated 700 Megawatt combined cycle electric generating station that is 100 percent cooled using various air-cooled heat exchangers. The resulting water consumption and wastewater discharge of this power plant is significantly less than comparably sized electric generating plants that derive cooling from wet methods (i.e, evaporative cooling towers). To incorporate dry cooling into such a power plant, it is necessary to consider several factors that play important roles both during plant design as well as construction and commissioning of the plant equipment, including the dry cooling systems. From the beginning a power plant general arrangement and space must account for dry cooling’s increase plot area requirements; constraints therein may render air cooling an impossible solution. Second, air cooling dictates specific parameters of major and auxiliary equipment operation that must be understood and coordinated upon purchase of such equipment. Until recently traditional wet cooling has driven standard designs, which now, in light of dry cooling’s increase in use, must be re-evaluated in full prior to purchase. Lastly, the construction and commissioning of air-cooling plant equipment is a significant effort which demands good planning and execution.
Reports on the topic "Land use – Ontario – Toronto"
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Sharpe, D. R., M. Hinton, H. A. J. Russell, and C. Logan. Regional hydrogeology: models and land use planning, Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/216724.
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