Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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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 ... -
Building healthy cities in the global south: A case study of the City of Lahore, Pakistan
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-22)Building healthy urban communities is one of the most important challenges countries around the world are facing. The industrial revolution and current technological advancements have resulted in the rapid urbanization of ... -
Building inclusive resilience: Exploring justice and social equity in urban resilience planning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)This thesis explores the process and politics of planning for urban resilience with an eye to issues of social equity and justice. Resilience approaches to urban planning have experienced a rise in popularity in recent ... -
Building Local Resilience To Climate Change Vulnerability In Small-Scale Fishery Communities Of Lake Volta, Ghana.
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-30)Climate change affects fishing globally, and the world’s 100 million small-scale fisheries (SSF) are no exception. Despite the high number of SSFs worldwide and their significant economic contributions, SSFs often go ... -
Building the Iron Horse: The Evolving Transportation and Land Use Planning Philosophy towards Calgary's Light Rail Transit System
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-21)Many cities today are contemplating major investments in rail transit systems, especially Light Rail Transit (LRT), to address two significant planning issues which have characterized North American metropolitan growth ... -
Built Environment Correlates of Asthma in the Region of Peel
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-12)Asthma is one of the most common respiratory illnesses. In Canada, about 3 million people suffer from chronic asthma. Studies have demonstrated association of asthma with built environment, socio-economic, and environmental ...