Environment (Faculty of): Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Growing pains: Overcoming barriers to nature-based coastal adaptation projects through collaboration
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-26)Coastal climate impacts have evolved so that the solutions that infrastructure managers have historically used to adapt to flooding may no longer be sufficient. Consequently, many have begun to consider alternatives to ... -
The Impacts of China’s ETS on Firm Competitiveness; Evidence from the Power and Heat Production Sector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-25)Carbon emissions are one of the primary causes of climate change. In the coming decades, the economic costs to deal with climate change are estimated to be 10% of the global GDP. To mitigate the threats, Emission Trading ... -
Characterizing the Dynamics of Otto Glacier, Ellesmere Island, Canadian High Arctic: 1992-2020
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)The mass loss observed from glaciers in the Canadian Arctic is unprecedented over recent decades (Hugonnet et al., 2021) and is the third largest contributor to global sea level rise (Derksen et al., 2019). One way in which ... -
Political movement: The role of grassroots activism on the development of wastewater treatment policy in Victoria, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)The City of Victoria has been discharging untreated sewage into the Pacific Ocean since 1894 (CRD 2017b; Kines 2020; Meissner 2021). On December 15th, 2020, this practice stopped after the opening of the $775 million ... -
Impacts of COVID-19 on Municipal Solid Waste Systems in Ontario, Canada: A Retrospective Reflection of Learnings from Municipalities
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)Over the last decade, Ontario’s waste management industry has been under immense strain that could be considered a crisis. Between high waste generation, rapidly depleting landfill space, and land availability to replenish ... -
Adaptation for whom? Assessing Environmental Equity within British Columbia’s Climate Change Adaptation Policies
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)Climate change is expected to disproportionately affect social groups and geographical regions made vulnerable by persistent social inequalities understood in terms of race, Indigenous status, age, gender, and disability ... -
Sustainable Urban Development - a Nexus of Understanding, Methodology, and Governance
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)Sustainability management requires facing tradeoffs between socioeconomic and environmental objectives, while integrating contextual variations into strategic and business goals to create a win-win situation. However, ... -
Waste Diversion and Reduction in a Green Office Building: A Social Practice Theory Lens
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-13)A workplace, as an organisational setting, offers a suitable environment for reorienting employees’ daily routines toward the practice of environmental sustainability. This study addresses three central research questions: ... -
Governing Carbon Removal: Deploying Direct Air Capture Amidst Canada’s Energy Transition
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-08)Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies, such as direct air carbon capture and storage (DACCS), will be critical in limiting the rise of the global temperature over the next century. Compared to other forms of CDR, DACCS ... -
Improving the efficiency of Calibration in Earth System Modelling with Short-term Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-07)Calibration is an important process in developing Earth system models to reduce the deviations between model and observations and improve model performance. Current calibration process is quite resource demanding, requiring ... -
Exploring the Feasibility of Enhancing Indigenous Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Communities for Sustainable Soybean Production in northern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi have been widely recognized as a promising approach to attain sustainability in the agricultural industry. These fungi have been known to offer numerous benefits to crops and have been ... -
A Big Tiny Problem: Flows of Primary Microplastics in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Microplastics are ubiquitous across ecosystems, posing chemical and physical risks to wildlife and human health. To effectively monitor and manage the microplastics problem, a baseline of the mass of primary microplastics ... -
Flooded with terror: Identifying existential threat in water crisis communication and exploring gender bias in the depths of water management
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)The purpose of this dissertation was to advance understanding of gender inequity in water management and the ways in which threatening water communication may contribute to that inequity. Water crises are increasing with ... -
Improving Predictions of Precipitation Phase over Canada with the Development of a Spatially Aware Parameterization of Rain/Snow Partitioning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-30)Partitioning precipitation into rain or snow is an important aspect of hydrologic and climatological modelling, affecting a wide variety of downstream processes (Harpold et al., 2017). Current conventional methods typically ... -
Rural-to-urban resettlement and resettled villagers’ post-resettlement adaptation in Hangzhou, China
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)In recent years, rural-to-urban resettlement as a specific form of urbanization and its long-lasting impact on landless villagers have garnered increasing scholarly and policy attention in China. Urbanization through ... -
Intra-annual and Long-term Dynamic Behaviour of Hubbard and Valerie Glaciers, Alaska
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Western North American mountain regions are warming at a faster rate than the global average, which is influencing the retreat and melting of glaciers, with a 75% disappearance of glacier volume in Western North America ... -
Optimization of Rooftop Delineation from Aerial Imagery with Deep Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)High-definition (HD) maps of building rooftops or footprints are important for urban application and disaster management. Rapid creation of such HD maps through rooftop delineation at the city scale using high-resolution ... -
A Study in the Comparative Viability of Green Roofs Constructed Using Native Accent Species Relative to Green Roofs Using Sedum Accent Species: A First Step Toward the Potential Development of Green Roofs as a Tool for Creating a Transition Zone Between Native and Urban Ecosystems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)Modern urban development over the last 200 years has led to the construction of cities which create severe issues for native ecology, human health, and the safety of both people and property. Among these issues are the ... -
Analysis of Environmental and Social Performance of Sustainability-linked Bonds and Loans (SLBLs) in the Fashion Industry
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)The fashion industry has been criticized for its adverse effects on the environment and society. To address this, fashion retailers and brands are increasingly using Sustainability Linked Bonds and Loans (SLBLs) which aim ...