Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Remote sensing of reef fish communities
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-28)During the last three decades of coral reefs studies, the large areal coverage of data derived from satellite images has increasingly been used to complement the more detailed but spatially limited data produced by ... -
Remotely Sensed Data Segmentation under a Spatial Statistics Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-18)In remote sensing, segmentation is a procedure of partitioning the domain of a remotely sensed dataset into meaningful regions which correspond to different land use and land cover (LULC) classes or part of them. So far, ... -
Representations of polar bears in tourism: Exploring power relations through discourse analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-02)Historical and contemporary relationships between human beings and polar bears are dynamic and complex, and the lives of these two animal species continue to be intimately intertwined in the tourism context. The polar bear ... -
Reproducing youthified landscape character: An evaluation of diversity of built-forms in young adult neighbourhoods
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-28)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the built-form of young adult neighbourhoods across North America to assess the similarities and differences that exist across these landscapes. The thesis seeks to answer the ... -
Requirements and Barriers to Strengthening Sustainability Reporting Among Mining Corporations
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-28)Mining depletes, processes, and relocates mineral resources while profoundly changing landscapes and socio-economic patterns of affected regions and communities. For millennia these impacts have been “accepted” by society ... -
Researching Global Environmental Politics in the 21st Century
(MIT Press, 2016-02-01)This forum article highlights three major research trends we have observed in the journal Global Environmental Politics since 2000. First, research has increasingly focused on specific and formal mechanisms of global ... -
Resident Perceptions of Tourism in a Rapidly Growing Mountain Tourism Destination
(University of Waterloo, 2006)It is generally agreed that tourism results in both positive and negative impacts for residents of tourism destinations. There is a need to study resident perceptions of tourism because local residents are the ones who ... -
Residential encroachment within suburban forests: Are Ontario municipal policies sufficient for protecting suburban forested natural areas for the long term?
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-25)Many natural areas and systems within urban landscapes are small or narrow. Landscape ecology studies within forested and agricultural landscapes have found that small natural areas that are protected from development or ... -
Residential Solar Energy Adoption in a Community Context: Perceptions and Characteristics of Potential Adopters in a West Toronto Neighbourhood
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-25)In the summer of 2007, a single neighbourhood in downtown Toronto contributed at least 13 percent of all residential grid‐tie solar photovoltaic (PV) systems sold in the Canadian province of Ontario. On average, PV ... -
Residents’ and tourists’ perspectives on potential introduction of casino industry and its role in tourism and community development: the case of the Republic of Cyprus
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-25)For years, the gambling industry has been gaining popularity among a variety of countries and communities for its contribution to tourism development and thus, to the economy. At the same time, the addictive nature of the ... -
Resilience in the tantalum supply chain
(Elsevier, 2018-02-01)Tantalum, considered one of the critical elements by many countries, is a widely used metal in industries such as electronics, aerospace and automotive. The tantalum market has experienced several disruptions and subsequent ... -
Resilient Disaster Recovery: A Critical Assessment of the 2006 Yogyakarta, Indonesia Earthquake using a Vulnerability, Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal areas of several countries in South East Asia, there has been renewed interest in disaster recovery operations. Although governments and aid organizations have ... -
Resort Morphology: Chinese applications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-28)This paper adopts a geographical perspective to understand the conceptual and theoretical issues of resort morphology. Resort morphology refers to “the forms and associated functions of a destination area and their ... -
Resource allocation in the public health sector: Current status and future prospects
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-01)Background: Funding practices in Ontario's acute care sector have undergone a substantive shift away from ‘lump-sum funding’ towards a combination of population-needs and performance-based financing (MOHLTC, 2013). In ... -
Respecting Outcomes in Collaborative Processes: a low water response case study
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-15)Government agencies in Canada are increasingly using collaborative approaches to inform decision-making for complex policy problems. Collaborative approaches encourage participants to share resources and knowledge to build ... -
Responding to COVID-19: Characteristics and Outcomes of Strategic Planning in Social-service Nonprofits
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-15)Forty years after its initial introduction in the nonprofit space (Bryson, 1988; Bryson & Roering, 1987; Nutt & Backoff, 1987), the value of formal strategic planning still remains disputed and lacking an appropriate ... -
Response of Peatland Microbial Community Function to Contamination by Naphthenic Acids and Sodium in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-20)Reclamation of closed oil sands mining operations in former pristine boreal ecosystems of the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of Alberta, Canada (AOSR) requires construction of new fen land uses such as peatlands in order to ... -
Responses of carbon dioxide flux and plant biomass to water table drawdown in a treed peatland in northern Alberta: a climate change perspective
(European Geosciences Union, 2014-02-11)Northern peatland ecosystems represent large carbon (C) stocks that are susceptible to changes such as accelerated mineralization due to water table lowering expected under a climate change scenario. During the growing ... -
Responsibility to the rescue? Governing private financial investment in global agriculture
(Springer, 2017-03)This paper examines the recent rise of initiatives for responsible agricultural investment and provides a preliminary assessment of their likely success in curbing the ecological and social costs associated with the growth ... -
Restoring a wetland complex for amphibian populations, south Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, Canada (2003 to 2014)
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)The arid south Okanagan Valley is a highly anthropogenic landscape experiencing intense development pressure from agriculture and urban expansion. Ecologically, wetland and riparian habitat loss now exceeds 84% of what ...