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Community Characteristics and Their Influence on Community Renewable Energy Projects: A Case Study of Cang Dong Village, Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This thesis examines the characteristics of a community that positively influence the success of a community renewable energy project. As the first stage of a two-stage inductive research process, a review of relevant ... -
Comparing the Functional Independence Measure and the interRAI/MDS for use in the functional assessment of older adults
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-20)Background: The rehabilitation of older persons is often complicated by increased frailty and medical complexity – these in turn present challenges for the development of health information systems. Objective investigation ... -
A Comparison of Addiction and Efficacy Oriented Messages for Smoking Cessation
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Background: Tobacco use remains a major public health issue. Population-level efforts to curb tobacco use include media to promote smoking cessation. However, these campaigns (including tobacco package warning labels) ... -
A Complex Systems Approach to the Exploration of Environmental Ideologies
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-28)Understanding that the current socio-ecological challenges create a need for large scale technological, institutional and ideological changes, this research explores environmental ideologies. Starting with a review of ... -
Comprehension of Online Cancer Information: A Propositional Assessment of Readability, Inferences, and Coherence
(University of Waterloo, 2006)This study was designed to examine the comprehension processes used when reading cancer information found on the Internet and its relation to readability. The focus of the research was on the utilization of an alternative ... -
A Computer-Based Decision Tool for Prioritizing the Reduction of Airborne Chemical Emissions from Canadian Oil Refineries Using Estimated Health Impacts
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-17)Petroleum refineries emit a variety of airborne substances which may be harmful to human health. HEIDI II (Health Effects Indicators Decision Index II) is a computer-based decision analysis tool which assesses airborne ... -
Concentrations and Latitudinal Variations of PBDEs in First Nation Peoples of the James Bay Region
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-22)Concerns regarding the persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transport, and adverse health effects of polybrominated dipheyl ethers (PBDEs) have recently come to light. PBDEs are quickly becoming a ubiquitous pollutant ... -
CONCEPTUALIZING A SUSTAINABLE SKI RESORT: A CASE STUDY OF BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORT IN ONTARIO
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-25)Sustainability has become a goal for many recreational tourism businesses. For ski resorts, the goal of sustainability has been driven by a growing understanding of the impacts ski resorts have on the biophysical environment ... -
Conservation on a Regional Scale: Assessing the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
(University of Waterloo, 2003)Trends in environmental and resource management point to a more collaborative, integrated and regional approach, discussed in terms of concepts such as ecosystem management and collaborative planning. Such an approach ... -
Conservation or Exploitation? Assessing the Education Impact of Accredited Zoological Institutions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-11)Zoological institutions, and the animals that inhabit them, have fascinated people since their inception. Over time, the mandates of zoos and aquariums have evolved and diversified beyond their sole anthropocentric focus ... -
The Contribution of Open Frameworks to Life Cycle Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Environmental metrics play a significant role in behavioural change, policy formation, education, and industrial decision-making. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful framework for providing information on environmental ... -
Coping with the Climate Crisis: Investigating the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change on Youth
(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 ... -
Correlates of Physical Activity among Métis
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-27)Adult Métis suffer from a high prevalence of obesity and chronic health conditions such as diabetes, respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Insufficient physical activity, a strong predictor of these conditions, has not ... -
Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Single Session Walk-In Counselling
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)Background: Increased costs and demand for accessibility to mental health services accompanied by a decline in resources has forced mental health service providers and government to innovate and develop a variety of new ... -
Crisis Overstated? Knowledge Gaps and the Aging Water Workforce
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-27)ABSTRACT Beginning in 1946 fertility in Canada and other Western countries increased to rates unequaled throughout the rest of the 20th century. Sixty five years since the beginning of the baby boom, as this generation ... -
Critical Investigation of the Pulse Contour Method for Obtaining Beat-By-Beat Cardiac Output
(University of Waterloo, 2001)The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of two existing pulse contour analysis (PCA) models for estimating cardiac stroke volume from the arterial pressure waveform during kicking ergometer exercise and head-up ... -
A cross sectional examination of the associations between physical activity and school facilities among youth in the COMPASS study (Year 2)
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-21)Objective: This study examined the prevalence of physical activity of secondary students in Ontario and Alberta, Canada. This study also examined between school variability in physical activity levels, and identified school ... -
A Cross-national Comparison Study of Metabolic Syndrome among Canadian and Korean Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of traditional cardiovascular risk factors including central obesity, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and hypertension. The prevalence of MetS increases risk of ... -
Cultivating Human and Planetary Health in a Time of Social-Ecological Transformation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-11-17)Human health is fundamentally dependent on the health of the Earth’s biophysical systems, but continued dependence on economic growth to pursue social goods is rapidly undermining the ecological foundations of health. If ... -
Cumulative Effects Assessment and Sustainability: Diamond Mining in the Slave Geological Province
(University of Waterloo, 2001)The pace of development in Canada's North has renewed concerns about the potential cumulative effects of increasing industrial growth on fragile northern ecosystems. Recent developments in the diamond industry in the ...