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Towards a Strategic Communications Plan: Providing Community-Informed Insight into the Role of the Biosphere Reserve on the Oak Ridges Moraine
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)The implementation of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BR) in Canada is strongly dependent on grassroots community-based support and understanding. The recent calls for the Oak Ridges Moraine and adjacent Greenbelt lands (ORMGB) ... -
Towards democratizing water quality monitoring processes for the lower Grand River and nearshore Lake Erie
(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 ... -
Towards sustainable energy materials: broadening life cycle assessment for emerging technology development and resource-effective choices
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-09)Energy materials are particularly important from a sustainability perspective for advancing renewable energy systems, including energy production and storage. Their appropriate use and development require quantitative ... -
Traditional Food Knowledge: Renewing Culture and Restoring Health
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Traditional food knowledge (TFK) refers to a cultural tradition of sharing food, recipes and cooking skills and techniques and passing down that collective wisdom through generations. The value of this knowledge is hidden ... -
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 ... -
Transitioning the Fashion Industry towards Sustainability
(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 ... -
Transparency in Federal Policy-Making: the Case of Biotechnology in Animals Intended for Human Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)This research project examines the degree of transparency of the Canadian Federal Government’s decision-making processes and institutions with respect to the human consumption of animals produced through modern biotechnology ... -
“Trash is just treasure in the wrong place”: The social metabolism of waste in Grenada
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-05)Within a modern, globalized world, islands face evolving and complex development constraints related to managing scarce resources, maintaining fragile natural environments, reducing consumption and waste within bounds of ... -
Tuktu Past, Present, and Future: State of Torngat Mountains Caribou and their Forage in a Changing Environment
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-20)Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) populations are in decline across Canada, making this charismatic species a major conservation concern. For Inuit of Northern Labrador and Quebec, caribou are a cultural keystone species with ... -
Tweets and transitions: Exploring Twitter-based political discourse regarding energy and electricity in Ontario, Canada
(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, ... -
Under the Skin: Assessing the Ideological Underpinnings and Material Reality of Cultured Meat
(University of Waterloo, 2022-11-24)The relationship between industrial animal agriculture, resource depletion, and environmental instability has become increasingly clear in recent years. In keeping with the longstanding focus on consumers, and consumption’s ... -
Understanding and Supporting Sustainable Housing Innovators
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-16)Canadian societies have developed a paradoxical relationship with change, where we commend “bold and visionary” leaders and adventurers, yet staunchly resist major change in our own lives. Nonetheless, instances of extensive ... -
Understanding Depressive Symptoms in Individuals with Schizophrenia: Analyses Using the Resident Assessment Instrument – Mental Health (RAI-MH)
(University of Waterloo, 2007-11-05)Objective: The primary aim of this study was to better understand the role of depressive and negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia. As such, two specific research questions guide this analysis: (1) What factors ... -
Understanding Energy Contexts: An Assessment of Emerging Methods for the Thermo-Behavioural Characterization of Residential Households
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-26)Unlocking the full potential of residential-sector energy efficiency gains will require the efforts of external agents (whether in the public, private, or not-for profit sectors) engaging with individual homeowners in order ... -
Understanding Institutional Change and Resistance to Change Towards Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Theoretical Framework and Illustrative Application to Provincial-Municipal Aggregates Policy
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-31)This study develops an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for understanding institutional change and resistance to change towards sustainability. The research rests on two leading theories of change within the social ... -
Understanding the Reasons for Part II Order Requests in Municipal Class Environmental Assessments
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-07)The practice of environmental assessment (EA) in Ontario, Canada and elsewhere has been criticized for resulting in projects that are not necessarily “good” for the environment or society, but simply “less bad.” In Ontario, ... -
Understanding the Strategic Engagement of Partner Organizations in Large Cross-Sector Social Partnerships Implementing Community Sustainability Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)Sustainability is a grand challenge that diverse communities of interest all over the world are currently focusing on at the local and global level. At the local level, thousands of cities have decided to address their ... -
Unearthing the power in GMO discourse: An analysis of Canadian agriculture and agrifood debates
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)The overall purpose of this doctoral research project is to add to our knowledge and understanding of power relations embedded in discourses regarding Canadian agriculture and agrifood debates. Power can be obscured by ... -
Upland Hardwood Forest Restoration: Testing Combinations of Vegetation in the Progress of Early Restoration
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)Progress in early ecological restoration is a measure which has not been extensively studied in the relatively new body of literature surrounding this field of study. Early restoration is an extremely beneficial area of ... -
Urban Aboriginal Health: Using individual and contextual approaches to better understand the health of Aboriginal populations living in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)INTRODUCTION: Canada’s Aboriginal population is growing at a faster rate than the rest of Canada. While Aboriginal health has improved in the last few decades, life expectancy of First Nations, Inuit and Métis continues ...