• Transitioning the Fashion Industry towards Sustainability 

  Weber, Sabine (University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)

  A growing body of literature addresses fashion industry's sustainability problems including resource depletion, toxic emissions, and unfair labour practices. The impacts of these sustainability problems only multiply with ...

• Towards democratizing water quality monitoring processes for the lower Grand River and nearshore Lake Erie 

  Ho, Elaine (University of Waterloo, 2021-10-01)

  Freshwater quality issues are among the most pressing challenges of our time. Such issues are increasingly complex and tend to recur when we fail to acknowledge the interacting stressors that influence them. One example ...

• Systematic Conservation Prioritization Centered on Sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), in a Region of Competing Land Uses 

  Racioppa, Marie (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-27)

  The once expansive sagebrush habitat in the western United States has suffered substantial losses largely due to the encroachment of development for extractive and renewable resource-based industries. Sage-grouse (Centrocercus ...

• Sustainable Diets, Population Growth & Regional Food Production: A Case Study of Waterloo Region, Ontario 

  Bass, Emily (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-24)

  The industrialized food system poses significant human health challenges, while simultaneously compromising planetary boundaries that we depend on for human flourishing. In 2019, the Canada Food Guide was updated to ...

• Social Finance for Sustainable Food Systems 

  Stephens, Phoebe (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-22)

  The scholarly literature demonstrates that dominant financial investment patterns tend to contribute to unsustainable outcomes in the food system. Mainstream lending hurts prospects for building more sustainable food systems ...

• The socio-political dimensions of sustainability transitions: Applying discursive approaches to examine energy transitions 

  Labonte, Dane (University of Waterloo, 2021-09-13)

  In the IPCC’s (2018) Special Report on 1.5°C, international climate scientists emphasized that increased climate change is expected to impose considerable, wide-ranging impacts on natural and human systems. The Special ...

• Wyrd Ecology 

  Davy, Barbara Jane (University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)

  This work investigates what motivates environmental action through developing a case study on how ecological conscience forms in the ritual practices of a new religious movement. I conducted a two-year ethnographic study ...

• Investigating Food Waste Diversion and Compost Use in Urban Agriculture for Soil Management in Mwanza, Tanzania 

  Esmail, Shefaza (University of Waterloo, 2021-08-16)

  African countries are urbanizing at a rapid rate. Studies on African agriculture have focused on rural food production, but research on urban agriculture may be key to ensuring urban food and soil security. In this ...

• Plastic Film and Packaging Waste Management in Southwestern Ontario: An analysis of current diversion patterns and trends 

  Lim, Amanda Yan Yan (University of Waterloo, 2021-07-27)

  The production of plastics has drastically grown through the years. In the age of convenience, single use plastics (especially film) have become ubiquitous in everyday life and so has its waste. Plastic waste can be found ...

• Ecological legacies of long-term plant management along the Central Coast of British Columbia 

  Closs, alana (University of Waterloo, 2021-07-22)

  Quantifying long-term human impacts to landscapes allows us to understand the ways in which ecosystems respond to constant human pressure and the effects this pressure has on permanently influencing ecological processes ...

• Coping with the Climate Crisis: Investigating the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change on Youth 

  Grant, Beth (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-01)

  The devastating impacts of climate change take a toll on the mental health and well-being of individuals around the world. Research suggests that young people experience compounding vulnerabilities to the mental health ...

• The Governance of Global Sand Mining 

  Mark, Melissa Elizabeth (University of Waterloo, 2021-05-04)

  Sand mining is a global ecological and social sustainability challenge. Greater attention to the governance of sand mining is urgently required to address these challenges. Based on a Delphi survey of global experts, this ...

• Landscape Effects on Breeding Habitat Selection and Incubation Behaviour in Boreal Nesting Ducks 

  Johnstone, Ryan Patrick Hilson (University of Waterloo, 2021-04-26)

  Canada’s western boreal forest is the second most important breeding area for North American duck populations. Over the last several decades, this region has experienced a considerable expansion of industrial development ...

• Patterns of nest survival, movement and habitat use of sagebrush-obligate birds in an energy development landscape 

  Kirol, Christopher (University of Waterloo, 2021-03-09)

  The sagebrush ecosystem in western North America provides habitat for approximately 350 plant and animal species, many of which are species of conservation concern. The sage-grouse and several species of sagebrush associated ...

• Diagnosing the role of non-water factors in water governance situations: assessing the external governance of water 

  Alvarado Revilla, Fabiola (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-26)

  The issue of the scale at which water governance should be organized to best address water challenges is one of the main ongoing debates in the literature. Traditionally, governance of water problems has been approached ...

• Guided Cultural Evolution and Sustainable Development: Proof of Concept and Exploratory Results 

  Kearney, Norman (University of Waterloo, 2021-02-25)

  This dissertation innovatively uses Cross-Impact Balances (CIB) to study how societal cultures evolve, and how societies might steer the evolution of their cultures towards sustainability. Societal cultures have been ...

• Tweets and transitions: Exploring Twitter-based political discourse regarding energy and electricity in Ontario, Canada 

  Labonte, D.; Rowlands, I. H. (Elsevier, 2021-02-01)

  The article explores how Twitter data can inform the study of the socio-political dimensions of sustainability transitions. Twitter is a widely used microblogging platform that allows users to share short comments, media, ...

• Read all about it! Comparing media discourse on energy storage in Canada and the United Kingdom in a transition era 

  Ganowski, S.; Rowlands, I. H. (Elsevier, 2020-12-01)

  Energy storage (ES), both grid-scale and behind-the-meter, will depend largely upon domestic acceptance of the technology in the public sphere. Recognizing the role that media play in this socio-technical process, we compare ...

• Hot off the press! A comparative media analysis of energy storage framing in Canadian newspapers 

  Ganowski, S.; Gaede, J.; Rowlands, I. H. (Elsevier, 2018-12-01)

  Energy storage (ES) is a keystone technology for advancing low-carbon energy transitions, yet energy system change continues to be influenced by socio-political acceptance of emerging innovations such as storage. An initial ...

• Visualizing social acceptance research: A bibliometric review of the social acceptance literature for energy technology and fuels 

  Gaede, James; Rowlands, Ian H. (Elsevier, 2018-06-01)

  This paper conducts content and bibliometric analysis of 857 articles representing the knowledge domain for the social acceptance of energy technology and fuels. The objective is to identify basic trends and characteristics ...

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