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Investigating the impacts of time-of-use electricity rates on lower-income and senior-headed households: A case study of Milton, Ontario (Canada).
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-23)Through the Smart Metering Initiative in the Canadian province of Ontario, all residential electricity customers will be converted from a tiered rate regime to a time-of-use (TOU) rate regime by the year 2010. Although TOU ... -
Investigating the Process of Developing a KDD Model for the Classification of Cases with Cardiovascular Disease Based on a Canadian Database
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-10)Medicine and health domains are information intensive fields as data volume has been increasing constantly from them. In order to make full use of the data, the technique of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) has ... -
Investigating the Relationship between Householders’ Engagement with Feedback and Electricity Consumption: An Ontario, Canada Case-Study
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-22)In this study, 22 homes in Milton, Ontario had their electricity consumption monitored for between seven and 15 months, and they were provided access to their data via an online webportal. The webportal provided appliance-level ... -
Investigating the sustainability and resilience criteria for evaluation of land use plans and related policies: The case of rural Niagara
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Most land use plans and policies, including those concerning growth management, are created in urban hubs (Afshar, 1994; Summer, 2005). My interest in this thesis started by asking the question: What are the criteria that ... -
An Investigation into the Consequences of Performing Emotional Labour in Mental Health Care
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-28)Performing emotional labour in health care has been widely studied. However, there is a gap in the literature regarding mental health care. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify (1) the method of emotional labour ... -
Investigation of Milk and Alternatives Intake and the Impact of School Nutrition Programs in First Nations Schoolchildren
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Objectives: To assess the intake of milk and alternatives, calcium, and vitamin D in on-reserve First Nations youth in Ontario, Canada; and the relationship of these nutrients to body mass index. To assess the impact of ... -
Investigation of vegetable and fruit intake of First Nation schoolchildren: Do school nutrition programs make a difference?
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)Objectives: To investigate the vegetable and fruit, “other” foods, fibre, folate, vitamin A, and vitamin C intakes of First Nations children and adolescents residing in seven communities in northern and southern Ontario, ... -
The Involvement of Spiritual Organizations in Sustainability Initiatives, as seen in the Transition Towns Movement in the United Kingdom
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Spiritual organizations have historically played an important role in social and civil movements (Aminzade & Perry 2007). This research is one investigation of how spiritual organizations may benefit sustainability ... -
Irritations from Shaving Peaks: Barriers to the Implementation of Residential Seasonal Water Rates in Southwestern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-01)The water soft path (WSP) has been formulated as a progressive paradigm in water management. The WSP has four main principles: water should be viewed as a service; ecological sustainability is of utmost importance; water ... -
It's not Just Food, Sustainable Food Security for Immigrants: Barriers and Opportunities
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-05)Despite enough food production to feed everyone on the planet, there are 850 million people around the world who are food insecure. This includes people in developing and industrialized countries. Food insecurity may not ... -
Keeping Up With the Joneses: Electricity Consumption, Publicity and Social Network Influence in Milton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)Abstract This study used an exploratory research focus to investigate if making electricity consumption public and subject to social norms and networks resulted in consumption decreases for households in Milton, Ontario. ... -
Key Principles for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Collaborative Impact Assessment in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-07)Impact assessment (IA) is an influential planning tool used to evaluate the potential effects, benefits, and risks of project-level resource development. Indigenous peoples are often disproportionately affected by the ... -
Knowledge engagement in collaborative water governance: A New Brunswick example
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-26)Authoritative, top-down forms of environmental governance are presently giving way to more collaborative approaches in which decision making is an ongoing negotiation between government and non-government actors. There is ... -
Land Tenure, Ecotourism, and Sustainable Livelihoods: 'Living on the Edge' of the Greater Maasai Mara, Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-19)Since its introduction into mainstream society two decades ago, ecotourism has become an international phenomenon. Claimed by its proponents to endorse ecologically, socially, and economically sustainable travel to natural ... -
Landscape characteristics influencing the genetic structure of greater sage-grouse within the stronghold of their range: a holistic modeling approach
(Wiley, 2015-05-01)Given the significance of animal dispersal to population dynamics and geographic variability, understanding how dispersal is impacted by landscape patterns has major ecological and conservation importance. Speaking to the ... -
Landscape Effects on Breeding Habitat Selection and Incubation Behaviour in Boreal Nesting Ducks
(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 ... -
Landscapes for Energy and Wildlife: Conservation Prioritization for Golden Eagles across Large Spatial Scales
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Proactive conservation planning for species requires the identification of important spatial attributes across ecologically relevant scales in a model-based framework. However, it is often difficult to develop predictive ... -
Large Mammal Movement: Differences in Primary and Branch Logging Road Use in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-23)There is an expansive network of roads in Algonquin Provincial Park (APP) to facilitate forestry resource extraction. This leaves a research need for examining how the logging road network in APP affects the large mammals, ... -
A large-scale multi-seasonal habitat prioritization and an analysis of structural connectivity for the conservation of greater sage-grouse in Wyoming
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-18)Habitat loss is widely recognized as the primary cause of global declines in biodiversity and is linked to human disturbances through widespread land-use changes (Menon et al., 2001). As a consequence, wildlife species ... -
Learning from Experience to Operationalize Integrated Coastal and Marine Management
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-16)Integrated coastal and marine management (ICM) is a system of governance that moves beyond traditional sector-based management. ICM is compatible with the holistic vision of a social-ecological systems (SES) approach. ...