Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Type "Article"
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ABCD and beyond: From grain merchants to agricultural value chain managers
(Canadian Food Studies, 2015-09-08)The world of agricultural commodity trading firms has changed over the years, although corporate concentration has long been a defining feature of this sector. The four dominant agricultural trading firms—the ABCDs (ADM, ... -
Access roads impact enzyme activities in boreal forested peatlands
(Elsevier, 2019-02-15)We investigated the impacts of resource access roads on soil enzyme activities in contrasting forested boreal peatlands (bog and fen). In August 2016, a total of 72 peat samples were collected from twelve 20 m long transects ... -
Addressing Systemic Barriers to Truth and Reconciliation in Canadian Higher Education Institutions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-24)Education served as a driving force for the colonization of Indigenous Peoples in what is now known as Canada. Today, education is essential for truth and reconciliation. In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission ... -
Amplifying “Keep It in the Ground” First-Movers: Toward a Comparative Framework
(Society & Natural Resources, 2020-06-17)This article offers a framework for analyzing and extending the recent wave of national “keep it in the ground” (KIIG) bans on fossil fuel exploration and production. We situate this discussion in new theoretical work on ... -
Annual carbon balance of a peatland 10 yr following restoration
(Copernicus Publications, 2013-05-02)Undisturbed peatlands represent long-term net sinks of carbon; however, peat extraction converts these systems into large and persistent sources of greenhouse gases. Although rewetting and restoration following peat ... -
Assessing the Use of Government Open Data and the Role of Data Infomediaries The Case of Nova Scotia’s Community Counts Program
(Center for E-Government, 2016)This study examines the Nova Scotia Community Counts program, a common platform that aggregates data from many sources mirroring what is generally considered as government open data. The role of Community Counts as a data ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
Can virtual water trade save water resources?
(Elsevier, 2019-10-15)At times, certain areas of China suffering from water shortages. While China's government is spurring innovation and infrastructure to help head off such problems, it may be that some water conservation could help as well. ... -
Carbon dioxide flux and net primary production of a boreal treed bog: Responses to warming and water-table-lowering simulations of climate change
(European Geosciences Union, 2015-02-20)Midlatitude treed bogs represent significant carbon (C) stocks and are highly sensitive to global climate change. In a dry continental treed bog, we compared three sites: control, recent (1–3 years; experimental) and older ... -
Characterizing New Channels of Communication: A Case Study of Municipal 311 Requests in Edmonton, Canada
(Cogitatio Press, 2016)City governments around the world are developing and expanding how they connect to citizens. Technologies play an important role in making this connection, and one frequent way that cities connect with citizens is through ... -
Characterizing the immiscible transport properties of diesel and water in peat soil
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Extensive pipeline and railway corridors crossing Canadian peatlands make them vulnerable to hydrocarbon spills, potentially impairing ecosystem health, so it is important to be able to forecast hydrocarbon fate and transport ... -
Civic Hackathons: New Terrain for Local Government-Citizen Interaction?
(Cogitatio Press, 2016)As more and more governments share open data, tech developers respond by creating apps using these data to generate content or provide services that citizens may find useful. More recently, there is an increase in popularity ... -
Competitive transport processes of chloride, sodium, potassium, and ammonium in fen peat
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)There is sparse information on reactive solute transport in peat; yet, with increasing development of peatland dominated landscapes, purposeful and accidental contaminant releases will occur, so it is important to assess ... -
Controls on plot-scale growing season CO2 and CH4 fluxes in restored peatlands: Do they differ from unrestored and natural sites?
(International Peatland Society (IPS) and the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) - Jointly published, 2016-06-14)This study brings together plot-scale growing season fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from six Canadian peatlands restored by the moss layer transfer technique (MLTT) and compares them with fluxes from ... -
Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
(IGI Global, 2016-10-01)Crowdsourcing is a communication platform that can be used during and after a disastrous event. Previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response efforts by non-government ... -
Developing approaches for linear mixed modeling in landscape genetics through landscape-directed dispersal simulations
(Wiley, 2017-06-01)Dispersal can impact population dynamics and geographic variation, and thus, genetic approaches that can establish which landscape factors influence population connectivity have ecological and evolutionary importance. Mixed ... -
Distant agricultural landscapes
(Springer, 2015-04-01)This paper examines the relationship between the development of the dominant industrial food system and its associated global economic drivers and the environmental sustainability of agricultural landscapes. It makes the ... -
Distribution of priority grassland bird habitats in the Prairie Pothole Region of Canada
(Resilience Alliance, 2018-02-09)Grassland ecosystems and the species that rely on them are one of the most urgent habitat conservation concerns in North America. Fundamental to any landscape conservation efforts is the identification of priority habitats ... -
Effect of climate change and mining on hydrological connectivity of surficial layers in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region
(Wiley, 2018-09-28)This research analyses the impact of climate change and surface mining activities on the hydrologic connectivity of surficial (soil and geological) layers located in a watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Surface ...