• Rapid Environmental Change, Psychological Distress and Well-being in Chilika Lagoon, India 

  Crisan Szabo, Patricia (University of Waterloo, 2020-02-14)

  As the effects of climate change are increasingly occurring throughout the world, costal fisheries are at risk of experiencing significant impacts on their environment. As recent studies indicate that psychological distress ...

• Selection and Influence: A Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Peer and Personal Offending 

  Gallupe, Owen; McLevey, John; Brown, Sarah (Springer, 2019-06)

  Objectives Whether people are affected by the criminal behavior of peers (the “influence” perspective) or simply prefer to associate with others who are similar in their offending (the “selection” perspective) is a ...

• Hydrologic function of a moderate-rich fen watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of the Western Boreal Plain, northern Alberta 

  Elmes, Matthew C.; Price, Jonathan S. (Elsevier, 2019-03)

  Peatlands are a dominant land feature in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of the Western Boreal Plain (WBP), comprising >50% of the total land area, many of which are moderate-rich fens. The carbon stocks of moderate-rich ...

• Quantifying Tree Community Assemblages on Habitation sites in the Great Bear Rainforest 

  Schang, Kyle (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-31)

  Identifying how past human actions have influenced their environment is important for understanding how current ecosystems function. Heavy intertidal resource use by Indigenous Peoples for the past several millennia has ...

• Tool to Assess Raw Material Social Supply Risks 

  Shaikh, Noor-ur-Rahman (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-29)

  This research considers the use of country-level social indicators of governance, conflict and human rights used by companies to assess social risks in product supply chains. The study developed a computational tool that ...

• Exploring and integrating local angling guide knowledge for examining tourism sustainability in the Bahamian Flats Fishing Sector 

  Karrow, Thomas (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)

  Tourism globally is ranked as the world’s third largest export category, and 2017 marked the eighth consecutive year of sustained growth in the sector (UNWTO, 2018). Tourism represented 10% of the global gross domestic ...

• Assessing the Role of Discourse in Influencing Water Quality Policy in Lake Erie Basin 

  Isaac, Bereket Negasi (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)

  This research examines the usefulness of a discourse approach to better understand freshwater policy and governance, with a specific focus on the involvement of non-state actors in the policy making process. Previous ...

• The Stability of the Drygalski Ice Tongue 

  Indrigo, Christine (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)

  Antarctica has the potential to contribute to sea-level rise by up to 58 m if it were to entirely melt. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is fringed by floating ice in the form of ice shelves and ice tongues, which help to buttress ...

• Linking Services to Material Stocks: A GIS-based material stock-service analysis from island and city perspectives 

  De Kroon, Kristen (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)

  Recent years have seen a growing interest in sustainable development and the shift towards a more resource efficient economy. The concept of “social metabolism” views a socioeconomic system as a system of material throughput. ...

• Development of a Mode Choice Model to understand the potential impacts of LRT on Mode Shares in the Region of Waterloo 

  Saini, Gursimran K (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)

  A new light rail transit system (LRT), ION, began operations in the Region of Waterloo in the June of 2019, and the second phase is yet to begin construction. The main thrust of this growth management project for the ...

• Methane cycling in horticultural extracted, restored, and unrestored peatlands in central Alberta, Canada 

  Bieniada, Aneta (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)

  Horticulture peat extraction drastically changes peatland ecosystems and their carbon and greenhouse gas balance. Comprehensive study on the combined response of methane (CH4) cycling (i.e., CH4 production, oxidation, ...

• Co-Modality: Opportunities and Barriers in the Greater Toronto Area 

  Adu-Mensah, Bernard (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)

  The Greater Toronto Area is said to be one of the fastest growing regions in Ontario experiencing many challenges due to the influx of population and the demand for goods and services. Amongst the challenges include ...

• Framing Urban Resilience: A policy and media analysis of three Canadian Cities 

  Agarwal, Priyal (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)

  Urban Resilience, generally understood as the capability to withstand, prepare, and recover from shocks and stresses (100RC, n.d.-b), has risen in popularity as a means of dealing with change and uncertainty in cities. ...

• Integrating Community‐Based Social Marketing Theory to Improve Waste Sorting Behaviour at the University of Waterloo 

  Yang, Ya Han (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)

  Improving waste sorting has become an urgent matter in the global North since 2017 when China, the world’s largest waste importer, announced that it would no longer accept highly contaminated waste. Consequently, new ...

• Assessing the Pre-occupancy and Post-occupancy Baseline Sustainability Practices of Multiple Tenants in a Zero-Carbon Office Building 

  Paxton-Beesley, Olivia (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)

  This research assesses the baseline sustainable lifestyle patterns of occupants in a multi-tenant office building in Waterloo, ON designed for next-generation sustainability standards. The building is designed to be ...

• Validation of precipitation phase estimates from CloudSat-CPR across Canada 

  Kodamana, Rithwik (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)

  Snow is an important component of the global climate system with significant impacts on local weather, fresh water resources, and energy balance in high latitude cold countries. Therefore precise snowfall monitoring is ...

• Estimating commercial/institutional building energy consumption and carbon emission trends and measuring stair/elevator usage patterns 

  zhu, zheng (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)

  This study identified energy/emission baselines for comparison to the potential savings of new zero carbon buildings. In addition, tenant behavior was studied to see whether the usage of elevators and stairs changed from ...

• Evaluating Aerial Ku-Band Radar Altimetry over Landfast First-Year Sea Ice 

  Donchenko, Paul (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)

  Recent studies have challenged the assumption that Ku-band radar, used by the CryoSat-2 satellite altimetry platform, fully penetrates the dry snow cover of Arctic sea ice in the winter. There is also uncertainty around ...

• Quantifying the role of shade on microclimate conditions and water use efficiency of a subalpine wetland in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta 

  Hrach, Dylan Matthew (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)

  Alpine regions contribute 60 % of annual surface runoff, playing an important role in regulating the global water balance. Many of the world’s major river networks originate from alpine headwater basins, popularizing ...

• Growing Compact and Going Compact 

  Khandelwal, Gaurang (University of Waterloo, 2020-01-16)

  The food system is a major contributor towards climate change and global environmental deterioration. Agriculture has evolved manifold over the years and use of technology in food production has resulted in highly ...

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