Browsing University of Waterloo by Subject "water quality management"
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Accounting for Risks: Identifying Water Risks in the Food and Beverage Industry Using an Ecosystem Services Benchmarking Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-28)Global population growth and economic development has placed unprecedented demand for freshwater resources. However the supply of freshwater is becoming increasingly uncertain, due to the variability of the hydrological ... -
Assessing Legitimacy Within Collaborative Water Governance: How, When, and by Whom?
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)Collaborative water governance (CWG) is a form of decision-making for water that involves multiple actors with diverse interests working together to solve common problems (e.g., pollution, scarcity, flooding). CWG has ... -
Best practices for household stormwater management programs: A community-based social marketing case study
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)This research investigates how to most effectively develop pro-environmental stormwater management by homeowners in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario. This centres around strategies that focus on the role risk perception ... -
Society be Dammed!: A Terror Management Analysis of Water Infrastructure as a Conduit to Immortality
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conventional response to water scarcity was to develop large-scale water infrastructure, which has created wide-ranging social, economic, and ecological implications. I used ... -
Thinking outside the 'water box' in the Detroit River Area of Concern
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-30)Despite sustained attention to water issues around the world—including attention to shortcomings in water governance—many long-standing water problems persist around the world. This may be because some of the sources or ...