Environment (Faculty of)
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Towards Effective Watershed Governance: A Case Study of the Grand River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-26)Watersheds across the country and around the world are governed by many different forms of watershed governance, all of which have their own challenges and benefits. None of them have so far been the perfect solution for ... -
Decommodification Now: Planning for a decommodified housing future
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-25)Canada is experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Rising housing costs in cities over the last two decades have driven increasing gentrification and displacement, forcing lower-income residents into inadequate and ... -
Seasonal and Multi-year Variability of Ice Dynamics of South Croker Bay Glacier, Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic from 2015 to 2021
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)The effects of climate change have already been observed across the globe, impacting weather, ecosystems, and society. These effects have been most pronounced in polar regions, which experience warming at a faster rate ... -
Characterizing Net Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Environmental Performance of Organic Field Crops in Ontario and Quebec
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)Food production systems are at the heart of one of humankind’s greatest challenges – meeting the nutritional demands of a population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 while limiting contributions to environmental ... -
Adaptive Capacity, Collaboration, and Adaptive Governance: The Galapagos small-scale fishing sector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Over the last decades, employing adaptive capacity and vulnerability terms to indicate forms of achieving more sustainable goals, particularly in the management of natural resources, has become increasingly frequent. While ... -
Islands at Risk - Analyzing Resource-use Dynamics from a Socio-metabolic Research Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Our resource-use dynamics have contributed significantly to the improvement in global material standards of living through the provisioning of essential societal services. Nonetheless, these dynamics have also impacted on ... -
Dimensions of age and aging in Toronto: An inter-decade socio-ecological analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)The aging of global populations long forecasted by demographers, governments, and other public and private actors is now rapidly being realized in many countries around the world, particularly in advanced, industrial ... -
Forward Modelling of Multifrequency SAR Backscatter of Snow-Covered Lake Ice: Investigating Varying Snow and Ice Properties Within a Radiative Transfer Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Lakes are a key feature in the Northern Hemisphere landscape. The coverage of lakes by ice cover has important implications for local weather conditions and can influence energy balance. The presence of lake ice is also ... -
Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms for the Classification of Lake Ice and Open Water from Sentinel-3 SAR Altimetry Waveforms
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-18)Lakes cover a significant fraction of the landscape in many northern countries. They play a key role in regulating weather and climate and also have a significant impact on northern communities since the presence (or ... -
Place-Based Experiences in the Work Environment During the Menopausal Transition: A Case Study of Canadian Physiotherapists
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-17)Background: The global workforce is aging, with increasing numbers of employees experiencing the transition to menopause. This transition to menopause, known as perimenopause, involves hormonal changes with secondary ... -
(Re)Organizing Toronto Households during COVID-19 Lockdown: A case study on an Imposed Degrowth Scenario
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-17)By design or by disaster, the growth-oriented capitalist economy must come to terms with the biophysical limits of our finite planet. Many ecological economists make the intentional contraction – or degrowth – of total ... -
Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Toronto – A Case Study of Dixon
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-16)Using the neighbourhood of Dixon as a case study, this project examines what factors influence Dixon residents’ sense of belonging to their neighbourhood. Interviews conducted with twelve residents outline how characteristics ... -
A net-positive energy building assessment: commissioning and COVID-19 insights
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-09)The built sector is responsible for 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, which inspired solutions including net-zero energy buildings to reduce environmental impacts. Several factors impact energy consumption including ... -
Assessing hydrometeorological controls on subalpine plant community evapotranspiration and evaluating the METRIC method using high-resolution UAV imagery in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-06)Subalpine wetlands in the Canadian Rocky Mountains function as buffers for snowmelt runoff towards downstream systems and communities. However, hydrological regimes are changing rapidly in these ecosystems due to climate ... -
Investigation of intra-annual glacier velocity and seasonality of White and Thompson Glaciers, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) is undergoing rapid atmospheric warming at rates that are twice that of the global average and are greater than any other time in the past four millennia. Consequently, changes in ... -
Developing a radar-based machine learning snowfall retrieval algorithm
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)As global temperatures continue to rise, snowfall patterns are expected to respond in a complex, nonlinear manner. Changes in the quantity of snowmelt-derived freshwater will impact global water-energy budgets, flood ... -
Investigating the current approach to developing data governance in the Canadian smart city
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-03)Smart cities have grown in prevalence as cities take advantage of big data and connected technologies to address the issues of sustainable urban development in the face of their growing urban populations. Data governance ... -
THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA TO CHARACTERIZE FISH ASSEMBLAGES IN TEMPERATE ESTUARIES OF VARYING LEVELS OF NUTRIENT IMPACT
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)The inner region has been identified as an important area for evaluating the health of estuaries, as many riverine inputs, like excessive nutrients (eutrophication), are more concentrated here than in the lower reaches of ... -
Can alluvial landforms attenuate post-wildfire lake sedimentation rates and external phosphorus inputs?
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Severe large-scale landscape disturbance in forested source water regions by wildfire can increase the transfer of fine sediment and associated phosphorus (P) to aquatic systems. Notably, the subsequent mobilization of ... -
Impact of the Horse River wildfire on the form and mobility of particulate phosphorus in a drinking water reservoir: Efficacy of dredging to manage internal phosphorus loading
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Forests are critical source water regions that are under increasing threat of wildfire which can accelerate the transfer of sediment from hillslope to receiving streams and downstream environments such as reservoirs. These ...
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