Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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Assessing Local Community Involvement in Tourism Development around a Proposed World Heritage Site in Jerash, Jordan
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-04)Research on community involvement in development has been conducted in diverse fields of study including planning, geography, community development, anthropology, and others. In the disciplines of tourism, many attempts ... -
Assessing the Influence and Effectiveness of Watershed Report Cards on Watershed Management: A Study of Watershed Organizations in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-28)The concept and practice of watershed management have evolved since the early twentieth century and continue to change. Contemporary watershed management, as a means to improve environmental, social, and economic well-being, ... -
Assessing the Role of Discourse in Influencing Water Quality Policy in Lake Erie Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-27)This research examines the usefulness of a discourse approach to better understand freshwater policy and governance, with a specific focus on the involvement of non-state actors in the policy making process. Previous ... -
Assessment of Drivers of Algal Biomass in North American Great Lakes via Satellite Remote Sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-02)Lakes are regarded as sentinels of change, where shifts in environmental conditions significantly affect lake phenology. A significant consequence of the change is the perceived increase in the frequency, magnitude, and ... -
Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in the MESH Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Soil moisture information is critically important to weather, climate, and hydrology forecasts since the wetness of the land strongly affects the partitioning of energy and water at the land surface. Spatially distributed ... -
Attaining climate justice through the adaptation of urban form to climate change: flood risks in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-24)Empirical evidence points out that entrenched cost-benefit rationales behind urban form adaptations to climate change unequally exacerbate vulnerabilities and hazard exposures, engendering risk inequalities and triggering ... -
Attaining climate justice through the adaptation of urban form to climate change: flood risks in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2023-02-24)Empirical evidence points out that entrenched cost-benefit rationales behind urban form adaptations to climate change unequally exacerbate vulnerabilities and hazard exposures, engendering risk inequalities and triggering ... -
Authenticating Cultural Tourism: Folk Villages in Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2001)Cultural tourism provides opportunities for ethnic minorities to showcase their cultures, customs and heritage. At the same time, it causes a series of tensions and issues of authenticity and commodification have been ... -
Automated Extraction of Road Information from Mobile Laser Scanning Data
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-20)Effective planning and management of transportation infrastructure requires adequate geospatial data. Existing geospatial data acquisition techniques based on conventional route surveys are very time consuming, labor ... -
Balancing Interests in Regulatory Institutions: A Comparison of the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL Pipelines
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-20)Canada and the United States are facing crucial decisions about the future of their energy resources. The severity of climate change, increasing salience of the social impacts of fossil fuel development, and mounting calls ... -
Barriers to Growth Management: Local Challenges Implementing the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-15)To combat urban sprawl and its negative effects on ecosystem services and human health, regional growth management and containment policies have been used with increased frequency to manage urban growth. Yet, local ... -
Biomedical Pollutants and Urban Waste Management in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana: A Framework for Urban Management of the Environment (FUME)
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-26)Ecosystems provide essential necessities required for the sustenance of life including food, water, medicine, aesthetics, recreational and spiritual outlets. Preserving and maintaining the integrity, carrying capacity, ... -
Bridging Organizations to Improve Conservation Fit in the Coral Triangle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)This dissertation investigates how bridging organizations influence the processes and outcomes of coastal-marine governance and conservation. Novel ways of governing are crucial in conservation to navigate the ‘messiness’ ... -
Bridging the health equity gap: examining the effects of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) gender-based violence on health and wellbeing in Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) is widely recognized as an important pathway to promoting human health and wellbeing. Despite the progress in access to water and sanitation in Low-and Middle-Income Countries ... -
Bridging Theories, Concepts, Organisations, and Collective Knowledge for Health and Sustainability Integration
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-28)Complex environmental health issues are examples of ‘wicked problems’ that require cross-sectoral collaboration of the public, private, not-for-profit, and academic sectors together with the communities in which they ... -
A Broad-Scale Characterization of Corn (Zea mays)-Soybean (Glycine max) Intercropping as a Sustainable-Intensive Cropping Practice
(University of Waterloo, 2019-03-22)Sustainable-intensification (SI) is known as a strategy to enhance agriculture productivity, while minimizing negative impacts on the environment, and promoting social benefits. The SI concept broadened over the years to ... -
Care Planning at the End-of-Life: Potential Use of the interRAI Palliative Care Assessment Instrument Clinical Assessment Protocols (interRAI PC CAPs) to Identify the Needs of Persons Receiving Palliative Home Care Services in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)Relief from pain and distressing symptoms associated with a life limiting illness is an issue relevant to all Canadians. Provision of high quality care for persons nearing the end of life may improve the health and quality ... -
Cervical cancer screening among immigrant women in Ontario: The influence of acculturation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-17)Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women worldwide and its incidence is higher for certain ethnic groups in Canada, compared to White Canadians. As more women immigrate to Canada, the potential ... -
The Challenges and Opportunities Associated with Climate Change for First Nations Living in the Canadian Subarctic
(University of Waterloo, 2017-06-29)Background: The impacts of climate change are more pronounced in high latitude regions of the world, which includes the Canadian arctic and subarctic. Warming events are triggering widespread ecological and social impacts ... -
Challenging Big Food Sustainability: Dietary Change and Corporate Legitimacy in the Agrifood Landscape
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)Growing awareness of the environmental, health, and social impacts from the foods we eat has meant renewed attention on the concept of 'sustainable diets'. The sustainable diets literature, to date, has focused on the ...