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Bicycle-Light Rail Transit Integration in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-27)Active transportation, such as walking and cycling, are typically considered the first and last mile options for people who live close to transit corridors or transit hubs. Compared to walking, cycling allows faster travel ... -
A Big Tiny Problem: Flows of Primary Microplastics in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, posing chemical and physical risks to wildlife and human health. To effectively monitor and manage the microplastics problem, a baseline of the mass of primary microplastics ... -
A bioassessment of the impact of livestock restriction on benthic macroinvertebrate communities in the Grand River watershed in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Livestock exclusion from streams is a best management practice applied in attempts to improve water quality in the Grand River watershed in Ontario, Canada. Because of the lack of resources, minimal biomonitoring is conducted ... -
Biodiesel Energy in Small Island Developing States: Addressing Challenges to Development
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-11)Petroleum-based fuel dominates the global energy system despite the fact that this resource is diminishing. Additionally, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face a number of challenges to development such as resource ... -
Biological Control of Disease Vectors: A Case Study Evaluating the Efficacy of Fathead Minnows (Pimephales promelas) for Mosquito Control in Northeast Wyoming
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-12)West Nile virus (WNv) has become a significant and increasing threat to wildlife populations and human health throughout North America. Mosquito control is an important and potentially effective means of controlling the ... -
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, ... -
Bioretention cells under cold climate conditions: Effects of freezing and thawing on water infiltration, soil structure, and nutrient removal
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Bioretention cells are a popular control strategy for stormwater volume and quality, but their efficiency for water infiltration and nutrient removal under cold climate conditions has been poorly studied. In this work, ... -
BIPV/BAPV Barriers to Adoption: Architects’ Perspectives from Canada and the United States
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-28)Solar photovoltaic technology (PV) is a promising clean energy source that assists in climate change mitigation. This is due to solar PV having minimal greenhouse gas emissions when operating compared to burning fossil ... -
Birding Trail Development from a Tourism Planning Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-17)As bird-watching gains popularity, there have been various techniques utilized by tourism planners to attract birdwatchers. One method of drawing birders to a specific region is through the development of a birding trail. ... -
Boomeranging home: understanding why millennials live with parents in Toronto, Canada
(Routledge, 2018)This article examines young adults’ experiences of living at home with their parents in the Greater Toronto Area. Although media frequently references co-residence as part of the trope of struggling/lazy millennial adulthood, ... -
Bottled Water and Packaging Waste: Policy Options and Instruments for Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-20)Ontarians are producing more waste per capita than previous generations and consuming more bottled water. Using the product policy quadrangle developed by Oosternhuis (1996), the research examines four components of Ontario ... -
Bridging Mining-Scarred Landscapes and Nature- and Resource-Based Tourism and Recreation in Northern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-17)The lifecycle of resource towns in Canada has been a topic of study for many decades, but recently, the role of diversification has become a key point in the discussion. Tourism and recreation are a potential route to ... -
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 ... -
Bringing Prosperity to the Poor: A Systematic Review of Microfinance and Agricultural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Microfinance is popularly described as small scale financial services to lower-income groups which may take the form of not only micro-savings and micro-loans but also, insurance, fund transfers and assets leasing packages. ... -
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 ... -
Building a movement – Solidarity, activism and travel from North America to Nicaragua
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)Many new forms of tourism have emerged over the past two decades claiming to provide an alternative, responsible approach to international travel. Unlike ecotourism and volunteer tourism, travel centered on solidarity ... -
Building Consensus using a Collaborative Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This thesis studies the use of a collaborative spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis tool in site evaluation with multiple participants. The approach is situated within the context of three concepts of space, choice and ... -
Building Detection from Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)The past decades have witnessed a significant change in human societies with a fast pace and rapid urbanization. The boom of urbanization is contributed by the influx of people to the urban area and comes with building ...