Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Small Holds Sway: How Small Businesses Mobilize Knowledge to Support Action in Learning Processes for Sustainability Transformations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)Transformations of the industrialized food sector toward more sustainable food production, manufacturing, and consumption take place through individual and collective learning processes. Achieving transformational change ... -
Small Towns in Transitions, an Exploratory Study in Collingwood, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-25)Collingwood, Ontario is experiencing an economic and social transition away from resource-dependent orient toward place-based development trajectory, after its economic breakdown of the traditional industries (e.g., ... -
Small-scale producers and the governance of certified organic seafood production in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)As food scares have hastened the growth of safety and quality standards around the world, certification schemes to assure various attributes of foods have proliferated in the global marketplace. High-value food commodities ... -
Small-Scale Tourism Development in Communist Cuba
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Tourism is arguably the world’s largest industry today, and has been adopted as an economic staple by countless low-income countries. However, while the tourism industry can bring much needed foreign capital into a country’s ... -
Smart City Governance: A comparison of models and COVID-19 related implications within the GTA
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-16)The first part of this research asks the question “what is good smart city governance” and analyzes the relevant body of literature on smart cities and smart city governance. Based on the theoretical research, 13 potential ... -
Smart Grid Deployment and Climate Change Response: Evaluating Climate Change Integration in Ontario's Smart Grid Deployment Regime
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-19)Smart grid (SG) is modern electricity infrastructure that has the capacity to facilitate mitigation and adaptation to climate change through technological, institutional, and behavioral interventions. However, despite the ... -
Smart Growth and Parking: An Analysis of Downtown Revitalization in Mid-Sized Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-09)The post-WWII period saw significant suburban expansion in North American cities. This push outward utilized the abundant available land to satisfy the demand for housing, and saw the rise in use of the personal automobile. ... -
Smartphone Applications in Government: Characterizing and Evaluating Municipal Smartphone Applications for Service Requests
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Using advanced information and communication technologies to deliver information and services, which is referred to as e-government, is trending at different levels of governments. Through the evolution of web technologies ... -
Smokeless Tobacco Use among Canadian Youth in Grades 9-12
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-01)Youth represent a substantial portion of smokeless tobacco (ST) users in Canada compared to the general population. Highest prevalence of use is typically seen in males, in current smokers, and in the Western provinces. ... -
Snow Depth Retrieval from Wide Band Radar in Trail Valley Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)Snow is an essential component in hydrology systems, and more speci cally, monitoring variations in snow cover can provide valuable information about water supply, wildlife habitats, and climate changes. In recent years, ... -
Snow Mapping from Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature and MODIS Snow Product with Machine learning Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Snow cover is one of the cryosphere's most critical components, representing a vital geophysical variable for climate and hydrology. Monitoring snow cover in Arctic regions has gained increasing significance, particularly ... -
Snow Properties Retrieval Using Passive Microwave Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Seasonal snow cover, the second-largest component of the cryosphere, is crucial in controlling the climate system, through its important role in modifying Earth’s albedo. The temporal variability of snow extent and its ... -
The social acceptance of energy storage in Canada and the United Kingdom: Media and public framing of an energy transition technology
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Growing climate and energy security pressures call for more ambitious deployment of transformative low-carbon energy technologies worldwide. By supporting renewable energy integration and evolving power grids, energy storage ... -
The Social Acceptance of School-based Solar Photovoltaic Projects: An Ontario, Canada Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)The installation of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) technology on elementary and secondary schools has been undertaken around the world in an attempt to tie together positive environmental action, innovative environmental ... -
Social and Spatial Determinants of Adverse Birth Outcome Inequalities in Socially Advanced Societies
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-27)The incidence of adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight and preterm births, has steadily risen in recent years in Canada. Despite the fact that numerous individual and neighbourhood risk factors for low birth ... -
Social Capital and the Significance of Pre-Migration Context among Burmese Refugee Communities In Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2004)What happens in the case of immigrant groups who have had such pre-migration experiences as to require specialized assistance in the adaptation process, and yet whose population is not substantial enough to convince ... -
Social capital, collective action and the water-health nexus in rural Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-20)Access to safe water and adequate sanitation is widely recognised as an important means of protecting public health and human dignity. For example, the introduction of clean water and sewerage disposal (the Sanitary Movement) ... -
Social Equity Dimensions of Flood Risk Management in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-21)Disproportionate exposure to hazards among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and racial/ethnic minority communities contributes to rising environmental injustices worldwide. Examining the link between race/ethnicity, ... -
Social Experiments in Innovative Environmental Management: The emergence of ecotechnology
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Human production needs are met through the use of modern technology that is increasingly recognised as a threat to the planetary ecosystem and social sub-system. In light of this recognition, there is evidence that a ... -
Social Finance for Sustainable Food Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)The scholarly literature demonstrates that dominant financial investment patterns tend to contribute to unsustainable outcomes in the food system. Mainstream lending hurts prospects for building more sustainable food systems ...