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Social Resilience to Flooding: The Implications of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Resilience to environmental hazards refers to the capacities and abilities to resist, adapt and recover from the impacts of a potential hazard, such as flooding. Building resilience is increasingly recognized as a strategy ... -
Understanding the Decline in Milk and Milk Alternatives Consumption Among Secondary School Students in Ontario, Canada: A Qualitative Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Milk products are the most readily consumed food source of calcium among Canadians, yet milk and milk alternatives (MMA) consumption has declined over the past decade, and the prevalence of calcium inadequacy is high ... -
Tweets and transitions: Exploring Twitter-based political discourse regarding energy and electricity in Ontario, Canada
(Elsevier, 2021-02-01)The article explores how Twitter data can inform the study of the socio-political dimensions of sustainability transitions. Twitter is a widely used microblogging platform that allows users to share short comments, media, ... -
Read all about it! Comparing media discourse on energy storage in Canada and the United Kingdom in a transition era
(Elsevier, 2020-12-01)Energy storage (ES), both grid-scale and behind-the-meter, will depend largely upon domestic acceptance of the technology in the public sphere. Recognizing the role that media play in this socio-technical process, we compare ... -
Hot off the press! A comparative media analysis of energy storage framing in Canadian newspapers
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)Energy storage (ES) is a keystone technology for advancing low-carbon energy transitions, yet energy system change continues to be influenced by socio-political acceptance of emerging innovations such as storage. An initial ... -
Visualizing social acceptance research: A bibliometric review of the social acceptance literature for energy technology and fuels
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)This paper conducts content and bibliometric analysis of 857 articles representing the knowledge domain for the social acceptance of energy technology and fuels. The objective is to identify basic trends and characteristics ... -
The value of multiple perspectives: Problem-solving and critique in the evaluation of social acceptance research—A response to M. Wolsink
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Established social acceptance scholar Maarten Wolsink recently published in these pages a critique of an earlier paper of ours, also published in ERSS. In this response, we will review some of Wolsink’s specific methodological ... -
How ‘transformative’ is energy storage? Insights from stakeholder perceptions in Ontario
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)‘Energy storage’ comprises a range of technologies of varying maturity and cost-effectiveness, which are increasingly considered to be an important part in building the electricity system of the future. As with any potentially ... -
Is competition sufficient to drive observed retail location and revenue patterns? An agent-based case study.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-20)Agent-based models (ABMs) have been widely used to represent and investigate complex systems and are a contemporary modelling approach used in the study of land-use and land-cover change. While many ABMs have been constructed ... -
A Comparative Study on Agent Based Decision Making Models: A Proof of Concept Focused on Farmers’ Decisions Regarding Best Management Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-19)In recent times, with the increasing availability of large datasets, applications of machine learning techniques have grown at a rapid speed. However, due to the black-box nature of these tools, it can be hard for model ... -
Amplifying “Keep It in the Ground” First-Movers: Toward a Comparative Framework
(Society & Natural Resources, 2020-06-17)This article offers a framework for analyzing and extending the recent wave of national “keep it in the ground” (KIIG) bans on fossil fuel exploration and production. We situate this discussion in new theoretical work on ... -
"Everybody should have choice": Municipal & Regional Planning, Social Policy, and Housing Options for Disabled Persons in Waterloo Region, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-13)The purpose of this study was to analyze how municipal planning impacts housing options for disabled people in the Waterloo region of Ontario. Through analysis of relevant local and provincial planning-related documents ... -
Deep Learning for 3D Information Extraction from Indoor and Outdoor Point Clouds
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)This thesis focuses on the challenges and opportunities that come with deep learning in the extraction of 3D information from point clouds. To achieve this, 3D information such as point-based or object-based attributes ... -
Culture of Female Leadership in a Business Case for Gender Diversity
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-05)Globally, just under half of the workforce is currently comprised of women, and yet, upper management and executive positions in the corporate world continue to be dominated by men (Terjesen & Sealy, 2016). For example, ... -
The Green Energy Act: Definition, Consultation, and a Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-23)The Green Energy Act (2009) has had weathered various forms of criticism during its decade-long existence from 2009 to 2019. One of the vital points of concern is housed within the Act in the form of the ambiguity of the ... -
Learning from Experience to Operationalize Integrated Coastal and Marine Management
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-16)Integrated coastal and marine management (ICM) is a system of governance that moves beyond traditional sector-based management. ICM is compatible with the holistic vision of a social-ecological systems (SES) approach. ... -
Progressing Towards Understanding Water Use Efficiency in Southern, Ontario Canada: Quantifying Water Use Efficiency Metrics (WUE) and Investigating Soil and Plant Physiology Influences on WUE
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)Climate change, and corresponding temperature increases of 1.4 - 4.8 ºC by the end of the century, are expected to cause shifts in agricultural production. Additionally, shifts in precipitation patterns are expected to ... -
Nesting Ecology of Ducks in the Boreal Forest
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-14)The western boreal forest (WBF) is an important breeding area for North American ducks, second only to the prairie pothole region (PPR). The WBF is experiencing intensive industrial development, causing habitat loss and ... -
Transitions to Ecological Agriculture in Nanjing, China: Farm Types, Social-Political Networks, and Rural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-09)China’s rural and agricultural sector has been undergoing a dramatic transformation in the form of three major trends. First, the modernization and capitalization of agriculture has significantly modified traditional ... -
Disintermediating Government: The role of Open Data and Smart Infrastructure
(Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019)Governments are increasingly negotiating the adoption of civic technologies to improve government functioning and to better connect with citizens. Despite the benefits of civic technology to make government more efficient, ...
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