Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Exploring Householders' Interest in Home Energy Goal-Setting
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)The deployment of advanced metering infrastructure, most notably in the residential electricity sector, and the development of energy monitoring technology, has enabled and justified the exploration of more sophisticated ... -
Exploring Housing Market in Toronto, Ontario: Spatial Hedonic Modeling of Crime Rates, Subway Ridership, Dwelling Density and House Prices
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-10)This thesis explores house prices and its relationship to neighborhood characteristics in Toronto, Ontario. In particular, by applying spatial hedonic models at the census tract level, this study examines the association ... -
Exploring links between citizen environmental monitoring and decision making: three Canadian case examples
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Environmental decision making processes are subject to diverse and at times conflicting pressures. On one hand, an enlightenment perspective places high value on scientific information about complex environmental ... -
Exploring Local Economic Development: The Challenges of Cape Breton Island
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Economic development in the declining Maritime Provinces has proven to be an intractable problem over the last 70 years. Efforts have ranged from capitalist industrial resource extraction to worker-owned producer co-operatives. ... -
Exploring long-stay seniors’ transitions from home care services to self-management
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-05)As a result of longer life expectancies and below-replacement fertility rates, the Canadian population is aging. Approximately 14.8% of the Canadian population was aged 65 years or older in 2011. The senior population is ... -
Exploring Pathways for Social-ecological Transformation in the Cau Hai Lagoon, Vietnam
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-23)The concept of transformations is used in this dissertation to engage with questions surrounding what profound social and ecological changes mean for small-scale fisheries communities, and the implications of such change ... -
Exploring Peel Region’s “Healthy Development Assessment” Healthy Built Environment Tool and Policy-Making Process: Critical Lessons for Future Research and Policy.
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-12)The purpose of this thesis is to contribute to the critical literature on “healthy built environment” planning policy-making. It applies the theories of post-politics and policy mobilities against a case study of Peel ... -
Exploring perceptions of National wellbeing: links between inequalities, health, and wellbeing in Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)We live in a world currently faced by unprecedented social and environmental changes (WEF, 2017). In the face of such rapid change, it is becoming difficult to understand what population wellbeing might mean as well as the ... -
Exploring Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies using I-ADApT Framework for Understanding Vulnerabilities and Responses to Global Changes in Small-Scale Fisheries
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-13)Small-scale fisheries (SSF) support over 90 percent of the 120 million people engaged in capture fisheries globally (FAO, 2020) but are facing multifaceted vulnerabilities due to global change impacts. Despite vulnerabilities, ... -
Exploring Radarsat-2 SAR Cross-Polarization Ratio Capability for Tundra Snow Depth Estimation Using Numerical and Deep Learning Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)Snow is essential to the Earth system, significantly influencing the global climate, freshwater availability, and economic activities. A significant snow cover decline has been reported in vast northern hemisphere areas. ... -
Exploring recreation impacts on Franklin Island and collaborative management options for eastern Georgian Bay
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-02)This research focuses on recreation impacts and management options for the eastern coast of Georgian Bay, a popular destination for summer tourism. Georgian Bay has a rugged coastline of barren rock islands and wind sept ... -
Exploring Rental Housing Market in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-22)Intensification is the key planning policy and growth management approach in Ontario, as well as across most of North America. Under this larger context, the Region of Waterloo, Ontario is building a Light Rail Transit ... -
Exploring Risk Perception of an Emerging Environmental Health Risk: A case study of allergic disease in youth team sport in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children worldwide, and approximately 3.8 million Canadians are diagnosed. Although the relationship is complex, participation in physical activity is recommended as part of ... -
Exploring Social-Ecological Regime Shift and Governance: Coastal-Marine Systems in the Gulf of Thailand, Malaysia
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-16)This research examines social-ecological regime shift in a coastal-marine systems setting. The research investigates the social-ecological factors influencing regime shift, takes into account their resulting impacts, and ... -
Exploring Technology Adoption in Canada’s Mineral Mining Sector: Navigating Through an Interplay of Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2023-10-05)The mining sector is currently experiencing a period of disruption where technological innovations such as electric vehicles, artificial intelligence, and drones are transforming how the industry operates. Little is ... -
Exploring the Accessibility Gap: Quantifying Transport Disadvantage in the City of Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-19)Researchers and policymakers have become increasingly interested in understanding the intersection between transportation and equity. Many scholars argue that it is important to understand transportation through an equity ... -
Exploring the Association between Proximity to Industrial Wind Turbines and Self-Reported Health Outcomes in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-20)Background: Wind turbines are a form of renewable energy, which generate electricity from wind energy, a practice dating back over 100 years. More recently, large-scale wind energy developments have started to employ one ... -
Exploring the biopsychosocial landscape of chronic illness: A case study of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) from epigenetics to education
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-16)Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), or lupus, is a chronic autoimmune condition and global public health issue. SLE is uniquely characterized as gendered, racialized, episodic, invisible and idiosyncratic. SLE primarily ... -
Exploring the Common Ground Between Social Innovation and Indigenous Resurgence: Two Critical Indigenist Case Studies in Indigenous Innovation in Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-24)Preliminary reading and research with Anishanaabe Maamwaye Aki Kiigayewin and the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation (MNCFN) indicated that integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Practices into existing social ... -
Exploring the connections between wellbeing, non-communicable diseases and climate change: a case study of Barbados
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-05)Small island developing states (SIDS) in the Caribbean face the dual burden of climate change (manifested as increased temperatures, more intense/frequent extreme weather events, sea-level rise and higher sea surface ...