Environment (Faculty of): Recent submissions
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Spatiotemporal Analysis of Human Mobility based on Land Use Types in the Greater Toronto Area during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)The 2019 Coronavirus disease COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It undoubtedly poses a huge challenge in terms of public health and social ... -
Multiple jeopardies: COVID-19 related health and wellbeing among older adults in Uganda
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the disparities in access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) resources and health among various populations and regions, with sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) being affected ... -
Upsampling Indoor LiDAR Point Clouds for Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)As an emerging technology, LiDAR point cloud has been applied in a wide range of fields. With the ability to recognize and localize the objects in a scene, point cloud object detection has numerous applications. However, ... -
Greenhouse Gas Emissions cuts, a set of fuel-based mitigation wedges in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)To combat climate change, a global transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy and low-carbon systems is necessary. The energy sector plays a pivotal role in this transition. This thesis aims to guide the Canadian oil ... -
Life Cycle Assessment of Medical Oxygen
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)Medical oxygen is a vital healthcare resource provided to a patient to achieve their minimum required oxygen blood saturation. There is a growing interest in medical oxygen due to supply shortages experienced during COVID-19. ... -
Assessing the Legitimacy of Sustainability Standard Programs in the Mining and Minerals Sector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-15)This research aims to evaluate the extent to which mining sector sustainability standard programs and their certified entities adopt input legitimacy in their deliberative processes. A framework to assess this was developed ... -
Addressing Human Dimensions within the criteria for conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar Wetlands
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-09)Wetlands are unique ecosystems that provide many direct and indirect services to the human population. Several policy frameworks have been developed and implemented at various levels of government worldwide to address the ... -
Legacy Forest Harvesting Impacts on Phosphorus Transport Dynamics in Hardwood Dominated Canadian Shield Catchments: Evaluating Changing Source Availability and Source Channel Connectivity
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-08)Forests are critical to the safe provision of drinking water across the globe and provide over 4.1 trillion USD per year in savings to drinking water treatment costs. These supplies are threatened by climate change-exacerbated ... -
An Exploration of the Nexus Between Inner and Outer Sustainability
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-08)As sustainability challenges intensify, there is increasing interest in exploring how changes in individual mindsets can support positive transformations at scale. Researchers at the interface of inner and outer ... -
Evaluating flood risk governance with geospatial technologies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-02)The concept of governance for flood resilience has gained traction in scholarship and practice over the last 15 years. Governance is distinct from government as it recognizes that flood risk management (FRM) is carried out ... -
Social-ecological systems analysis of the dried fish value chain for community wellbeing in the Bay of Bengal coast of Odisha and West Bengal, India
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Small-scale fisheries (SSF) support over 90 percent of the 120 million people engaged in fisheries globally. Dried fish is an important sub-sector of SSF, which is characterized by the declining social, economic, and ... -
Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict: social and ecological dimensions of snow leopard-livestock conflict in Shey Phoksundo National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-28)Human-wildlife conflict is one of the world’s leading conservation challenges. Carnivores are often found at the forefront of these conflicts with humans, and livestock depredation as a leading cause of conflict between ... -
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 ... -
Edge of Field Vegetated Buffers as a Potential Source of Dissolved Phosphorus over the Non-Growing Season in Cold Climates
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-26)Phosphorus (P) rich runoff from agricultural landscapes are a major contributor to freshwater eutrophication issues. To intercept this runoff before it reaches waterways, vegetated buffer strips (VBS) are often employed ... -
Effects of seismic lines on peatland carbon cycling in boreal Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Peatlands serve as long-term carbon (C) sinks as well as a significant source of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere. Over 134,000 km2 of peatlands are in northern Alberta, a part of the boreal region of Canada where extensive ... -
An analysis of Canadian young adults’ eating behaviours towards sustainable food choices
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Human health has always been a major concern when it comes to policy design, decision-making, and planning. However, in recent years and with ideas about sustainability gaining traction, planetary health has also been ... -
Unpacking the Intention-Behaviour Gap in Canadian Consumers’ Food Purchasing Decisions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Canada has a deep-rooted reliance on single-use plastic in the food industry, with little evidence of changing its use of plastic as a durable, convenient, and cost-effective choice of packaging material to process, package, ... -
Transforming electrical energy systems towards sustainability in a complex world: the cases of Ontario and Costa Rica
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-19)Electrical energy systems have been major contributors to sustainability-associated effects, positive and negative, and therefore are considered as key components in pursuing overall sustainability objectives. Conventional ... -
Deep Decarbonization in Cities: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measurement, Monitoring, and Reporting
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-18)Municipalities have a significant role in reducing global emissions to net-zero by 2050. Local climate action has immense potential for driving the required emissions reductions, but the practices involved in measuring, ... -
An Extensive Green Bond Market Analysis from 2015 to 2021
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-13)Climate change is indubitably one of the biggest challenges for humanity in the coming decades. While the interest in solving this problem has been increasing recently, the window to minimize the temperature increase to ...