Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Using stakeholder perceptions to inform organizational actions: Case study of the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority
(University of Waterloo, 2015-11-30)The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) has been primarily responsible for the management of watersheds in the Toronto region since the late 1950s. Guided by provincially mandated responsibilities, they have ... -
Using Very High Resolution Remotely Piloted Aircraft Imagery to Map Peatland Vegetation Composition and Configuration Patterns within an Elevation Gradient
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-28)GIS has developed over the decades from theory to highly accurate scientific observation using satellites that provide high resolution imagery. Over the last decade drones have been introduced to the world of GIS and ... -
Utilizing Indigenous Conservation in Canada to Strengthen Contributions to Environmental Targets and Reconciliation Goals
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Indigenous-based conservation provides enhanced safeguarding techniques and hands-on stewardship over lands, waters, and ice, resulting in numerous environmental welfare and reconciliation processes that can be applied to ... -
Vadose zone flow patterns and their implications for sodium transport and aquifer recharge in a reclaimed fen watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The reclaimed Nikanotee Fen watershed consists of an upland tailings sand aquifer, capped with a finer soil cover (LFH-mineral mix, or LFH) to support vegetation, that supplies groundwater to a low-lying fen peatland. ... -
Validating CloudSat-CPR retrievals for the estimation of snow accumulation in the Canadian Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-31)Snow is a critical contributor to our global water and energy budget, with profound impacts for water resource availability, snow albedo feedback and flooding in cold regions. The vast size and remote nature of the Arctic ... -
Validation of precipitation phase estimates from CloudSat-CPR across Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Snow is an important component of the global climate system with significant impacts on local weather, fresh water resources, and energy balance in high latitude cold countries. Therefore precise snowfall monitoring is ... -
Value Chain and Vulnerabilities in Small-Scale Fisheries Communities of Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)This thesis aims to understand the value chain in the Makoko fishing community historically as well as the current perspective. The study examined how value chain contributes to vulnerabilities in a small-scale fishing ... -
The value of multiple perspectives: Problem-solving and critique in the evaluation of social acceptance research—A response to M. Wolsink
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Established social acceptance scholar Maarten Wolsink recently published in these pages a critique of an earlier paper of ours, also published in ERSS. In this response, we will review some of Wolsink’s specific methodological ... -
Vegetation Response to Climate Change in North American National Parks: Policy & Management Implications
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-28)Climate change is no longer debated in the context of whether or not it is occurring, but rather in the context of how rapid and extensive that change will be. This is the global situation to which the biomes of national ... -
Vernacular Knowledge and Water Management - Towards the Integration of Expert Science and Local Knowledge in Ontario, Canada
(Water Alternatives Association, 2015-10)Complex environmental problems cannot be solved using expert science alone. Rather, these kinds of problems benefit from problem-solving processes that draw on ‘vernacular’ knowledge. Vernacular knowledge integrates expert ... -
Villagers’ Life Transformation and Community Governance in China’s Land Expropriation-induced Resettlement Neighborhoods: A Shanghai Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-15)In China, urban lands belong to the state and rural lands belong to village collectives. To meet the demand for land to use in expansive urbanization, the state expropriates rural land from village collectives and offers ... -
Visioning Diversity: Planning Vancouver's Multicultural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2002)The roles and responsibilities of planners in managing culturally diverse cities are beginning to be articulated in the literature. "Visioning,"as planners have used it in recent years, has the potential to help realize ... -
Visual and Text Coverage of Skin Cancer and Recreational Tanning in Popular North American Magazines from 2000 to 2012
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-04)Background: Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in North America and its incidence is increasing globally. It is a largely preventable disease through avoiding ultraviolet (UV) exposure and, when detected early, ... -
Visual Impairment in the City: Young People's Social Strategies for Independent Mobility
(Sage, 2013-02-01)This article examines the mobility strategies that visually impaired (VI) young people employ as they negotiate their daily lives in the city. In contrast to research which foregrounds difficulties navigating the built ... -
Visualizing social acceptance research: A bibliometric review of the social acceptance literature for energy technology and fuels
(Elsevier, 2018-06-01)This paper conducts content and bibliometric analysis of 857 articles representing the knowledge domain for the social acceptance of energy technology and fuels. The objective is to identify basic trends and characteristics ... -
The Voluntary Adoption of Green Electricity by Ontario-Based Businesses
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This paper explores the contextual factors that promote and inhibit firms? motivations to adopt a voluntary environmental initiative that is good for the environment but does not provide a clear competitive or legitimating ... -
Volunteer Participation in Ecological Restoration: Motivations, Organizations, and Conviviality
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-28)The state of ecosystems worldwide are increasingly dire. Ecological restoration is a practice that has the potential to remedy ecosystem degradation. Engaging people in ecological restoration can help ensure project success, ... -
Volunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository
(2017-01-04)Orthorectified imagery is valuable for a wide range of initiatives including environmental change detection, planning, and disaster response. Obtaining aerial imagery at high temporal and spatial scale has traditionally ... -
Vulnerability and Viability: The Intersectionality among Small Scale fisheries (SSF) in James Town and Teshie Nungua - Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) contribute to food security and income for millions of people around the world. Women in small-scale fisheries communities, on the other hand, are often marginalized and vulnerable because of ... -
Vulnerability Assessment of Rural Communities in Southern Saskatchewan
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Water resources in Canada are of major environmental, social and economic value. It is expected that climate change will be accompanied by more intense competition for water supply in water-stressed agricultural areas such ...