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Planning for Social Change Towards Sustainability? Investigating Local Government Strategic Sustainability Planning in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-08)This dissertation investigated the condition of local government strategic sustainability planning (SSP) in Canada as well as the contextual underpinnings of prevailing practices. It asked big questions about where we are ... -
Plastic Film and Packaging Waste Management in Southwestern Ontario: An analysis of current diversion patterns and trends
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Potential Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Counselling and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Coverage in Reducing Smoking-Attributable Lung Cancer Burden in Urban China
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-23)Background: Currently, there are no population-level smoking cessation interventions widely promoted in China. Economic concerns are one of the major barriers to a greater promotion of smoking cessation interventions in ... -
Poverty Alleviation and Environmental Conservation through adoption of Appropriate Housing Improvement Technologies (AHITs): a case study of the Appropriate Housing Improvement Technologies developed by Building and Construction Improvement Program in the Northern Areas of Pakistan
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-20)This paper is an attempt to determine the impacts of Appropriate Housing Improvement Products (AHITs) on poverty alleviation and environmental conservation with special reference to the housing improvement technologies/techniques ... -
A Practice-Based Exploration of Knowledge Utilization in the Canada Post Rural Mail Safety Review: Applying Pragmatic Inquiry and Engaged Scholarship to a Workplace and Public Health Challenge
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-08)The purpose of this research undertaking is to explore the form and content of one of the most extensive workplace occupational health and safety interventions undertaken to date by a Canadian employer: Canada Post ... -
Predictors of Catecholamine, Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Activity During the Type A Structured Interview : Anger-management Style
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-01)A subset of data was used from the Waterloo Longitudinal Reactivity Study (WLRS)to examine predictors of cardiovascular reactivity during the Type A Structured Interview (SI). Sex, age, total cholesterol, body mass index ... -
Predictors of Emergency Room Visits or Acute Hospital Admissions Prior to Death among Hospice Palliative Care Clients in the Community
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-29)Background: The demand for hospice palliative care (HPC) services is expected to grow due to the increasing number of seniors living into advanced old age, the changing nature of death, and the changing family structure. ... -
Predictors of Home Care Costs among Persons with Dementia, ALS and MS in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)Purpose: The purpose of this project was to look at the costs of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD), ALS, and MS in long stay home care in Ontario, Canada. The specific goals were to produce ... -
Preliminary validation of a single self-report question as a screening tool for depression in older adult populations: Analyses using the Minimum Data Set Depression Rating Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-24)Objectives: The primary objective of this research was to inform the criterion validity of the single self-report depression screening question in the interRAI-Contact Assessment (CA) against the validated Depression Rating ... -
Prevalence and perceptions of food insecurity and coping strategies in Fort Albany First Nation, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-23)Background: Food insecurity has been described as an urgent and pervasive public health issue for Aboriginal people (First Nations [FN], Métis, and Inuit) in Canada. However, national health surveys have generally excluded ... -
Private Carbon Credit Initiatives in the Agricultural Sector: Investigating Motivations and Understanding Their Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-15)This thesis project examines the emergence of privately led soil carbon sequestration (SCS) credit programs, specifically for traditional cropping systems, in the agriculture sector in North America. Carbon credits have ... -
A process evaluation of the Breakfast For Kids (BFK) student nutrition programs: perspectives of program coordinators
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-30)Ensuring students are well fed can have positive social, behavioural, and academic benefits. Schools reach almost all children and the food they consume there can significantly contribute to their overall dietary intake. ... -
Project Finance Contribution to Environmental and Social Sustainability: An Inquiry into the Implementation of the Equator Principles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-24)The Equator Principles are at the center of the financial industry’s voluntary codes for assessing environmental, social, and sustainability risks in project finance transactions. The financial industry’s umbrella association ... -
Proposing A Water Ethic: A Comparative Analysis of <em>Water for Life: Alberta's Strategy for Sustainability</em>
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Because water is basic to life, an ethical dimension persists in every decision related to water. By explicitly revealing the ethical ideas underlying water-related decisions, human society's relationship with water, and ... -
Provincial Class Environmental Assessment: The Examination of Whether the Process can be Effectively Applied in a Northern Ontario Context
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)As Canada employs a federated system of government, there are separate environmental assessment (EA) processes. In Ontario, Canada, there is a streamlined, pre-approved, self-assessed process (i.e., the Minister of the ... -
Public Participation in Integrated Water Resource Management: Villages in Lao PDR and the Mekong River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-08)Several authors have challenged Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as inoperable and technocratic for the issues surrounding water resources known as contemporary water resource politics. As a result, new methods ... -
Pushing for Better: Confronting Conflict, Unsustainability & Colonialism through Sustainability Assessment and Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)The Ring of Fire is a mineral resource-rich area of approximately 5,120 km2 located in the James Bay Lowlands region of Northern Ontario, about 500 kilometers northeast of Thunder Bay. The Ontario Ministry of Northern ... -
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Tibet Tourism: Travelers’ Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-22)With the distinguished natural and cultural tourism resources, Tibet is undoubtedly a desirable travel destination both domestically and internationally. With the newly opened Qinghai-Tibet railway to Lhasa in July 2006, ... -
Quality of Care for Long-term Care Residents Living with Heart Failure in Ontario and Predictors of Hospitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-22)Background Heart failure (HF) is a disease that is on the rise, particularly in the aging population. It is common amongst residents of long-term care homes (LTCHs). Complicating the diagnosis and treatment of HF is ...