Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Contemporary Forest Harvesting Impacts on Drinking Water Quality and Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)Forested watersheds supply ~75% of global accessible freshwater resources and serve as important sources of drinking water. Both natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbances in these regions can deteriorate water quality ... -
Contesting Identity, Space and Sacred Site Management at Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-01)The purpose of my dissertation is to bring cultural geographic theory, including the ideas of representation, power, cultural and religious identity, and the contested and negotiated nature of places and identities, into ... -
The Contribution of Open Frameworks to Life Cycle Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Environmental metrics play a significant role in behavioural change, policy formation, education, and industrial decision-making. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful framework for providing information on environmental ... -
Contribution of Point Source Inputs of Phosphorus from a Bunker Silo in a Small Agricultural Watershed in Southern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)Nutrient losses from agricultural operations contributes to the issue of eutrophication of freshwater systems. Although many studies have been conducted on diffuse nutrient losses from fertilizer application, there is a ... -
Contributions of Strategic Environmental Assessment to planning and decision making: The case of York Region, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-06-17)Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has a prominent position in the ongoing search for instruments that can help governments and other organizations to pursue the goal of sustainability. SEA is presented here as a ... -
Controls on plot-scale growing season CO2 and CH4 fluxes in restored peatlands: Do they differ from unrestored and natural sites?
(International Peatland Society (IPS) and the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) - Jointly published, 2016-06-14)This study brings together plot-scale growing season fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from six Canadian peatlands restored by the moss layer transfer technique (MLTT) and compares them with fluxes from ... -
Convolutional Neural Networks for Land-cover Classification Using Multispectral Airborne Laser Scanning Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)With the spread of urban culture, urbanisation is progressing rapidly and globally. Accurate and update land cover (LC) information becomes increasingly critical for protecting ecosystems, climate change studies and ... -
Coping with the Climate Crisis: Investigating the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change on Youth
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-01)The devastating impacts of climate change take a toll on the mental health and well-being of individuals around the world. Research suggests that young people experience compounding vulnerabilities to the mental health ... -
Corporate Social Performance of Firms in Conflict Mineral Global Supply Chains
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-31)The corporate social performance of a diverse group of firms in global supply chains was assessed. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a global issue that affects not only enterprises themselves, but also their ... -
Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance of Bangladeshi Banks
(University of Waterloo, 2018-12-07)Purpose- This study analyzes the connection between the sustainability performance and financial performance of Bangladeshi banks to ascertain whether the implementation of sustainability regulations has an impact on ... -
Corporate Sustainability and Financial Performance of Middle Eastern Islamic Banks
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)Purpose: This research analyzes the connection between the sustainability performance and the financial indicators of Middle Eastern Islamic banks to determine whether the implementation of sustainability regulations had ... -
Correlates of Physical Activity among Métis
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-27)Adult Métis suffer from a high prevalence of obesity and chronic health conditions such as diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Insufficient physical activity, a strong predictor of these conditions, has not ... -
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Single Session Walk-In Counselling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)Background: Increased costs and demand for accessibility to mental health services accompanied by a decline in resources has forced mental health service providers and government to innovate and develop a variety of new ... -
A Coupled Snow Operations-Skier Demand Model for the Ontario (Canada) Ski Region
(EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2016-04-01)The multi-billion dollar global ski industry is one of the tourism subsectors most directly impacted by climate variability and change. In the decades ahead, the scholarly literature consistently projects decreased reliability ... -
COVID-19 FOOTPRINTS AND POST PANDEMIC VISUALIZATION OF SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES: CASE STUDY OF CHILIKA LAGOON IN INDIA
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)Small-scale fisheries and local communities reflect a way of life, and provide critical contributions to nutrition and food security, poverty alleviation and livelihoods, and local and national economies. Fisherfolk suffer ... -
Creating Healthy Communities Through Urban Form
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-18)ABSTRACT The manner in which we design and build our communities can affect our physical and mental health. When we think about urban planning, we reflect on the form and arrangement of community, of urban, city and town ... -
Creative Destruction and Participatory Tourism Planning in Rural British Columbia: The Case of Salt Spring Island
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-28)This study determines if participatory tourism planning has played a role in the creative destruction process on Salt Spring Island. This is important because it links together two bodies of literature that have formerly ... -
Creative Destruction and Rural Tourism Planning: The Case of Creemore, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)This study assesses the relationship between planning and creative destruction in the village of Creemore, Ontario. The study has four objectives. The first is to describe the evolution of tourism in Creemore by tracking ... -
The Creative Food Economy and Culinary Tourism through Place Branding: Terroir into a Creative and Environmentally Friendly Taste of a Place
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-13)Culinary tourism can contribute to the economic development of many rural communities. Creating competitive advantage for a rural community by establishing a culinary cluster requires a strategy designed to leverage the ... -
Crisis Crowdsourcing in Government: Characterising efforts by North American Agencies to Inform Emergency Management Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Crowdsourcing is proven to be a useful communication platform during and in the direct aftermath of a disastrous event. While previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response ...