• Co-producing spatial information with citizens: Understanding practices, preferences, and challenges within government 

  Khan, Zarin (University of Waterloo, 2019-10-09)

  In today’s era of digital media, collecting and sharing location-based information has become easier and more accessible for many people. This exchange of spatial information, created and shared by the public, is beneficial ...

• Institutional Barriers and Enablers for Green Infrastructure Implementation: A Case-Study of the City of Brampton, Ontario, using the Institutional Analysis and Development framework. 

  Ghadge, Kanchan (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-26)

  Green infrastructure (GI) has increasingly being deliberated in the planning discourse for its multifunctionality and applicability to address a number of urban issues. However, despite the benefits, the mainstream use ...

• The effect of biochar amendment on the health, greenhouse gas emission, and climate change resilience of soil in a temperate agroecosystem 

  Jiang, Runshan (Will) (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-26)

  Biochar has been a successful soil amendment in tropical agriculture for thousands of years. Biochar’s intrinsic chemical and physical properties benefit agriculture in terms of soil health, environmental pollution, and ...

• Go on play with the words, the effect is the same: how gentrification and liveability feature in public discourses of neighbourhood change 

  Tolfo, Paolo (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)

  Despite its association with displacement, gentrification remains a persuasive model for encouraging economic development and growth. For gentrification strategies to remain politically palatable, policy discourses mask ...

• An Examination of Wetland Conversion and Resulting Effects on Landscape Connectivity in Southern Ontario Municipalities. 

  Birch, Waverley (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)

  The few wetlands that remain in the human-dominated landscape of southern Ontario are affected by degradation and conversion to other land use and land cover types. Conversion has negative impacts on wetland-provisioned ...

• Climate Change Impacts on Snowmelt-Driven Streamflow in the Grand River Watershed: Implications for Water Resource Management 

  Dietrich, Amy (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)

  Climate change is one of the most significant global environmental drivers threatening the quality and quantity of future water resources. Global temperature increases will have significant effects on the hydrologic regime ...

• From Paper to Practice: Exploring Five Canadian Case Studies of Water Efficiency Programs using Community-Based Social Marketing Criteria 

  Fries, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-24)

  Canadian municipalities are facing increasing pressure on their water infrastructure and are seeking to maximize their water efficiency efforts through managing consumption. Residential water consumption is complex because ...

• Comparing different transit strategies to tackle the last-mile issue in low demand areas Case study: York Region Transit 

  mozayani, Samaneh (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-24)

  Providing public transit service in low-density suburban areas is very challenging and inefficient because development patterns and transit demand do not support regular scheduled bus services while flexible and on-demand ...

• Inequalities in Health and Wellbeing Among Elderly Populations: A Case Study of Central Uganda 

  Rishworth, Andrea (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)

  Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the fastest aging population in the world. Yet its older population has the lowest life expectancy, lowest ratings of subjective wellbeing, and greatest burdens of disease in old age globally. ...

• Does Landscape-Scale Habitat Reclamation and the Umbrella Species Concept Work to Conserve Sagebrush Songbirds? 

  Barlow, Natasha (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)

  Declines in the spatial extent of the sagebrush ecosystem have prompted the use of conservation strategies including habitat reclamation and the consideration of the greater sage- grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter ...

• Electronic waste in Ontario: Case study of a primary processing facility 

  Tutton, Carl (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)

  Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the fastest expanding, and valuable waste streams due to its content of precious, critical, and base metals. E-waste is comprised of electronic devices operated below 10,000 volts that ...

• Our Common Principles: Exploring Harm Reduction Based Drug Policy as an Avenue for Sustainable Development in Urban Contexts 

  Mercado, Alexander (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)

  This thesis explores the conceptual and practical relationship between the goals of sustainable development and of contemporary drug policy in Canadian provinces and municipalities. By failing to address the global issue ...

• Using Geographic Relevance (GR) to contextualize structured and unstructured spatial data 

  Sadagopan, Majuratan (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)

  Geographic relevance is a concept that has been used to improve spatial information retrieval on mobile devices, but the idea of geographic relevance has several potential applications outside of mobile computing. Geographic ...

• From Conflict to Collaboration: Atewa Forest Governance 

  Agbo, Victor Mawutor (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)

  Many countries are addressing the problem of deforestation through sustainable ecosystem management collaborations. Successful ones have recognized local participation as being essential to any conservation effort. In ...

• Impacts of resource access road crossings on ecohydrology and carbon dynamics of boreal peatlands 

  Saraswati, Saraswati (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-04)

  Resource access road crossings are expected to alter peatland ecohydrological properties by obstructing surface and sub-surface water flows, providing favorable conditions to stimulate microbial activity, and ultimately ...

• SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL CHANGE AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS: INSIGHTS FROM THE RÍA LAGARTOS BIOSPHERE RESERVE, MEXICO 

  Singh, Hameet (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-28)

  This research examined social-ecological regime shifts (SERSs), and their relation to the governance and human dimensions of marine protected areas (MPAs). Characterized by their rapid and long-term onset, SERSs pose a ...

• The Perspectives and Roles of Multinational Enterprises in Local Sustainable Development 

  Eang, Monida (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-27)

  As the rate of urbanization increases, cities face mounting socio-ecological challenges. At the local level, businesses are essential for developing cities and livelihoods and providing services to local communities. Local ...

• Autonomous Vehicles: Understanding Adoption Potential in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area 

  Zhang, Jiajun (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-23)

  Many Autonomous Vehicle (AV) researchers have done surveys and interviews to assess the relationships between some population or land use characteristics and people’s intention to adopt private AVs (PAVs) and shared AVs ...

• Building inclusive resilience: Exploring justice and social equity in urban resilience planning 

  Fitzgibbons, Joanne (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)

  This thesis explores the process and politics of planning for urban resilience with an eye to issues of social equity and justice. Resilience approaches to urban planning have experienced a rise in popularity in recent ...

• The use of plant functional traits to detect changes in urban wetland management regimes within Kitchener, ON 

  Dunlop, Sheralyn (University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)

  Humans have modified their surrounding environment in ways that often lead to changes in ecosystem structure and function. Ecosystem management efforts are necessary to bring back functioning attributes of ecosystems for ...

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