Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Subject "Canada"
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The Effect of Season of Fire on Post-fire Legacies in Northwestern Ontario Red Pine (<em>Pinus resinosa</em>) Mixedwoods
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Prescribed burns are employed in the southern boreal forest of northwest Ontario, Canada, as a method of re-instating fire in this fire-dependent landscape. They are also used to manage fuel loads associated with tree ... -
Effective Consultation and Participation in Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning: Advancing Sustainable Development in a Remote First Nations Community in Northern Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-27)INTRODUCTION. Environmental decision-making related to policy, often includes an overall objective that advances opportunities for sustainable development. Advancing the concept of sustainable development draws on, and ... -
Employing Community-based Participatory Research Approaches to Improve Local Influenza Pandemic Preparedness in Remote and Isolated Canadian First Nations Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-31)Background: Public health emergencies, such as influenza pandemics, continue to disproportionately impact Aboriginal Canadians (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis), especially those populations residing in geographically ... -
Environmental and Economic Implications of Small-Scale Canadian Aquaponics: A Life Cycle Study
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-05)Agricultural production will be challenged in the near future to keep up with the rising nutritional demands of a growing global population. Additionally, climate change, through increased frequency of extreme weather ... -
Evaluating Green and Blue Roof Opportunities in Canadian Cities
(University of Waterloo, 2017-03-07)Flat roof surfaces represent a significant proportion of urban areas and perform a variety of functions for buildings, with a corresponding variety of impacts on the urban environment and its infrastructure. One of the ... -
Examining determinants of health numeracy and processing of numeric health information by English-as-a-second language immigrants to Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-28)Health numeracy is a necessary skill for accessing health services. Immigrants have lower levels of health numeracy compared to host populations which constrains their access to health information necessary to make quality ... -
Exploring the Implementation Potential of a Proposed Water Ethic: A Canadian Case Study into Underlying Ethical Considerations for Water Resources Management
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Ideas about water use and ethics have been linked for many thousands of years. In this millennium, water resources remain a primary area of concern throughout the world, including such issues as shortages, supply, flooding, ... -
Exploring the Interconnectedness between Work hours, Income Inadequacy, Time Adequacy, Leisure Time and Wellbeing within the Context of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing: A Case study of Victoria, British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)Sustainability has consistently been linked to the wellbeing of the economy, society, and the environment. It has been viewed as a framework, which focuses on the interconnectedness of different systems, and activities ... -
Feeling Precarious: Millennial Women and Work
(Sage, 2015-12-18)In Precarious Life (2004), Judith Butler writes about how a shared sense of fear and vulnerability opens the possibility of recognizing interdependency. This is a wider understanding of precarity than is often present in ... -
Flexible Fixtures: An Exploratory Study on the Emergence & Mobilization of the Flexible Streets Concept in Ontario Municipalities
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-16)The most plentiful public space within Canadian cities are the streets; however, these spaces are overwhelmingly dominated by automobiles with much of the space designated for vehicular traffic flows. So often, the leftover ... -
Fossil fuel divestment strategies: Financial and carbon related consequences
(Sage, 2018-03-19)Fossil fuel divestment is discussed controversially with regard to its financial consequences and its effect on decarbonizing the economy. Theory and empirical studies suggest arguments for both, financial underperformance ... -
Growing Compact and Going Compact
(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 ... -
Growth Appropriate Planning in Canada: What factors lead to the implementation of progressive planning and economic development policy in Canadian Communities?
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)ABSTRACT A key feature of Canada’s urban system is the uneven distribution of population and economic growth. The 2011 Census showed that in the past five years more than 80% of the country’s growth was concentrated in ... -
Home care in Ontario: Allocation of limited resources and the needs of light-care clients
(University of Waterloo, 2006)There is the desire amongst elderly Canadians to remain living at home, maintaining their independence. As the population ages, the health care system is faced with the challenge of allocating limited resources. Home ... -
It's not Just Food, Sustainable Food Security for Immigrants: Barriers and Opportunities
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-05)Despite enough food production to feed everyone on the planet, there are 850 million people around the world who are food insecure. This includes people in developing and industrialized countries. Food insecurity may not ... -
Making sense of precarity: talking about economic insecurity with millennials in Canada
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)While there are many effective metrics for quantifying economic precarity, talking to young people about their experiences in the labour and housing markets reveals a gap in explanatory language around living in/through ... -
Methane Cycling in Northern Peatlands Following Wildfire
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-26)Peatlands are an important component of the global carbon (C) cycle, they operate as long-term global sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and sources of methane (CH4). However, they are becoming increasingly ... -
Mining Geotagged Tweets: Tracking Spatiotemporal Variation of Mental Health in Canada during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)This thesis explores and analyzes the evolution of the pandemic as a stressor on mental health in Canada through monitoring the sentiment polarity dynamics, emotion trends, and changes in keywords being discussed on Twitter, ... -
Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Community Sustainability Plan Implementation: Understanding Structures and Outcomes at the Partner and Partnership Levels
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-07)Worldwide, the prevalence and complexity of sustainable development challenges require coordinated action from actors in the private, public, and civil society sectors. Partnerships that embody inclusivity and heterogeneity ... -
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Ice Cover on Large Northern Lakes: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-11)Time series of brightness temperature (TB) measurement obtained at various frequencies by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) are investigated to determine ice phenology parameters ...