• Co-producing spatial information with citizens: Understanding practices, preferences, and challenges within government 

  Khan, Zarin (University of Waterloo, 2019-10-09)

  In today’s era of digital media, collecting and sharing location-based information has become easier and more accessible for many people. This exchange of spatial information, created and shared by the public, is beneficial ...

• The effect of biochar amendment on the health, greenhouse gas emission, and climate change resilience of soil in a temperate agroecosystem 

  Jiang, Runshan (Will) (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-26)

  Biochar has been a successful soil amendment in tropical agriculture for thousands of years. Biochar’s intrinsic chemical and physical properties benefit agriculture in terms of soil health, environmental pollution, and ...

• Climate Change Impacts on Snowmelt-Driven Streamflow in the Grand River Watershed: Implications for Water Resource Management 

  Dietrich, Amy (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-25)

  Climate change is one of the most significant global environmental drivers threatening the quality and quantity of future water resources. Global temperature increases will have significant effects on the hydrologic regime ...

• Inequalities in Health and Wellbeing Among Elderly Populations: A Case Study of Central Uganda 

  Rishworth, Andrea (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)

  Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the fastest aging population in the world. Yet its older population has the lowest life expectancy, lowest ratings of subjective wellbeing, and greatest burdens of disease in old age globally. ...

• Our Common Principles: Exploring Harm Reduction Based Drug Policy as an Avenue for Sustainable Development in Urban Contexts 

  Mercado, Alexander (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-20)

  This thesis explores the conceptual and practical relationship between the goals of sustainable development and of contemporary drug policy in Canadian provinces and municipalities. By failing to address the global issue ...

• Using Geographic Relevance (GR) to contextualize structured and unstructured spatial data 

  Sadagopan, Majuratan (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)

  Geographic relevance is a concept that has been used to improve spatial information retrieval on mobile devices, but the idea of geographic relevance has several potential applications outside of mobile computing. Geographic ...

• From Conflict to Collaboration: Atewa Forest Governance 

  Agbo, Victor Mawutor (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-09)

  Many countries are addressing the problem of deforestation through sustainable ecosystem management collaborations. Successful ones have recognized local participation as being essential to any conservation effort. In ...

• Impacts of resource access road crossings on ecohydrology and carbon dynamics of boreal peatlands 

  Saraswati, Saraswati (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-04)

  Resource access road crossings are expected to alter peatland ecohydrological properties by obstructing surface and sub-surface water flows, providing favorable conditions to stimulate microbial activity, and ultimately ...

• Activating Values to Enhance e-Participation in Environmental Decision-making 

  Philpot, Simone (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-26)

  A participatory modeling approach is designed to connect citizens and decision-makers during the selection of the most appropriate alternative solution to an environmental project based on user values systems. First, a ...

• Engaging beyond the meter: Encouraging residential energy management using smart grid tools 

  Lazowski, Bronwyn (University of Waterloo, 2019-07-15)

  With scientists around the world indicating a brief window of opportunity for reducing irreversible climate change impacts, the time has never been more pressing for sustainability transitions (IPCC, 2018). The role of ...

• Quantifying coniferous subalpine tree transpiration and source water under seasonal and hydrological stress in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta 

  Langs, Lindsey (University of Waterloo, 2019-06-04)

  Fresh water supplies in mountainous regions are at risk as snow and ice stores continue to decline under rising global temperatures, earlier winter snowmelt and changing climate regimes. Alpine forests are of particular ...

• Validating CloudSat-CPR retrievals for the estimation of snow accumulation in the Canadian Arctic 

  King, Fraser (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-31)

  Snow is a critical contributor to our global water and energy budget, with profound impacts for water resource availability, snow albedo feedback and flooding in cold regions. The vast size and remote nature of the Arctic ...

• Intra-urban agriculture in Nanjing, China: Practices, motivations, and challenges 

  Luehr, Geoffrey (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-24)

  China has experienced strong economic growth in the last three decades through urbanization and economic transitions. However, increasing population and rapid urbanization have resulted in profound social, economic, and ...

• Characterizing the immiscible transport properties of diesel and water in peat soil 

  Gharedaghloo, Behrad; Price, Jonathan S. (Elsevier, 2019-02-01)

  Extensive pipeline and railway corridors crossing Canadian peatlands make them vulnerable to hydrocarbon spills, potentially impairing ecosystem health, so it is important to be able to forecast hydrocarbon fate and transport ...

• Sounding the alarm: Is the Sri Lankan tourism sector prepared for climate change? 

  Tam, Sarah (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)

  The United Nations has concluded that climate change is unequivocal and without a rapid decarbonization of the global economy there will be risks of severe, pervasive, and irreversible impacts. The World Bank also emphasized ...

• The influence of winter time boreal forest tree transmissivity on tree emission and passive microwave snow observations 

  Li, Qinghuan (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)

  Forest cover significantly attenuates natural upwelling ground microwave emission from seasonal terrestrial snow. This presents a major challenge for the accurate retrieval of snow from airborne or spaceborne passive ...

• Exploring perceptions of National wellbeing: links between inequalities, health, and wellbeing in Ghana 

  Kangmennaang, Joseph (University of Waterloo, 2019-05-17)

  We live in a world currently faced by unprecedented social and environmental changes (WEF, 2017). In the face of such rapid change, it is becoming difficult to understand what population wellbeing might mean as well as the ...

• Microclimatic Effects of Forest to Peatland Transitions Within the Boreal Plains 

  Green, Adam (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)

  Peatlands cover approximately 50% of the total landscape of the Western Boreal Forest, which includes the sub-humid Boreal Plains (BP) ecozone. The BP experiences persistent water deficit conditions, promoting anaerobic ...

• Extraction of Digital Terrain Models from Airborne Laser Scanning Data based on Transfer-Learning 

  Ye, Weiya (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)

  With the rapid urbanization, timely and comprehensive urban thematic and topographic information is highly needed. Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), as one of unique urban topographic information, directly affect subsequent ...

• Building Detection from Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks 

  Chen, Mengge (University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)

  The past decades have witnessed a significant change in human societies with a fast pace and rapid urbanization. The boom of urbanization is contributed by the influx of people to the urban area and comes with building ...

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