Recreation and conservation along the Metropolitan Toronto Waterfront, Lake Ontario, Canada

Jolliffe, I.P.

doi:10.1016/0951-8312(88)90013-6

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“…Toronto's waterfront has an active recreational boating presence (Joliffe, 1988). One of the first large, visible waterfront projects undertaken by the TWRC was the construction of a new watercourse to host the 2006 World Dragonboat competition (Daly, 2006;Moloney, 2005).…”

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What’s News Got to Do with It?: Examining the Contribution of Toronto’s Press in Maintaining an Environmentally-Detrimental Social Paradigm, 2003-2006

Botticella¹

2021

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This content analysis examines print media coverage of Toronto's waterfront development to determine whether story frames perpetuate the dominant social paradigm. Articles from 8 newspapers are analysed in two content dimensions, the sub-issues which surround waterfront development and the ways of understanding the environment presented as relevant to Toronto's waterfront development. Findings show presence of conflict, use of a non-routine information channel and broad source mix do not result in more diverse content. Likewise, characteristics such as a news organization's conventionality (i.e., alternative or mainstream), size and ownership (i.e., independent or group-owned) exert limited influence over story content. Organized around the competitive city concept described by Kipfer and Keil's (2002), this research examines whether media coverage aligns with the capitalist urbanization process, concluding story frames in news discourse de-emphasize the environment as an issue and rely on the least-progressive environment paradigms when reporting on Toronto's waterfront development.

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confidence: 99%

What’s News Got to Do with It?: Examining the Contribution of Toronto’s Press in Maintaining an Environmentally-Detrimental Social Paradigm, 2003-2006

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2021

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“…The lake is quite shallow near shore, but the depth rapidly increases to 20 metres at 1 km from shore. Jolliffe (1988) analyzed in detail the influence of the Metropolitan Toronto area to the Waterfront. Simons and Schertzer (1989) described the local cur-rents, and Greenwood and McGillivray (1978) explained the influence of waves on the littoral zone.…”

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Impact on the Fate of Toxic Contaminants in the Toronto Waterfront — Should the Toronto Main Sewage Treatment Plant Outfall Be Moved Farther Offshore?

Halfon¹

2001

Water Quality Research Journal

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A fate model, TOXFATE, is coupled with a hydrodynamic model of the waters off the Toronto waterfront, Lake Ontario. The Toronto waterfront is here defined as a rectangular area, 48 km long by 10 km wide, of the lake delimited on the west by Etobicoke Creek and in the east by the Rouge River. Data were collected in 1987 in support of the Toronto Main Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) pilot site study, Municipal and Industrial Study for Abatement (MISA). It provides an excellent baseline database. The object of the fate-modeling study is to assess the change in organics concentration if loadings from the Main STP and other local sources were changed or the outfall location moved farther offshore. Loadings of contaminants from local sources in the Toronto waterfront area are between 0.5% to 25% of contaminants that enter Lake Ontario from other sources. Results show that if sources of local loadings were reduced, changes in water concentrations would be noticeable within 1 to 2 kilometres from shore. Only a small area of the waterfront is affected directly by local sources since waters in the Toronto waterfront area are replaced approximately every 9 days (as computed from the hydrodynamic simulation). Therefore, toxic contaminants that enter from local sources are readily dispersed in the rest of the lake. Simulations also show that the extension of the Toronto Main STP outfall to a new location farther offshore will result in a dilution of toxic contaminants 10 times greater than that obtained at the present STP outfall. A complete set of figures, including an interactive analysis of the computer simulations, is available on the Web site www.butx.com/toronto.

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Can Urban Lake Recreational Pressure Be Measured? The Impacts of Urbanization on Wuhan’s Lakes

Gao

Zhang-ying

Morrison

2017

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Recreation and conservation along the Metropolitan Toronto Waterfront, Lake Ontario, Canada

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What’s News Got to Do with It?: Examining the Contribution of Toronto’s Press in Maintaining an Environmentally-Detrimental Social Paradigm, 2003-2006

What’s News Got to Do with It?: Examining the Contribution of Toronto’s Press in Maintaining an Environmentally-Detrimental Social Paradigm, 2003-2006

Impact on the Fate of Toxic Contaminants in the Toronto Waterfront — Should the Toronto Main Sewage Treatment Plant Outfall Be Moved Farther Offshore?

Can Urban Lake Recreational Pressure Be Measured? The Impacts of Urbanization on Wuhan’s Lakes

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