• Boomeranging home: understanding why millennials live with parents in Toronto, Canada 

  Worth, Nancy; Tomaszczyk, Alicia (Routledge, 2018)

  This article examines young adults’ experiences of living at home with their parents in the Greater Toronto Area. Although media frequently references co-residence as part of the trope of struggling/lazy millennial adulthood, ...

• Effect of climate change and mining on hydrological connectivity of surficial layers in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region 

  Kompanizare, Mazda; Petrone, Richard M.; Shafii, Mahyar; Robinson, Derek T.; Rooney, Rebecca C. (Wiley, 2018-09-28)

  This research analyses the impact of climate change and surface mining activities on the hydrologic connectivity of surficial (soil and geological) layers located in a watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Surface ...

• Making sense of precarity: talking about economic insecurity with millennials in Canada 

  Worth, Nancy (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  While there are many effective metrics for quantifying economic precarity, talking to young people about their experiences in the labour and housing markets reveals a gap in explanatory language around living in/through ...

• Open Aerial Map, Drones and Archaeology: The implications of using drones to contribute and share aerial data on an open data repository 

  Jorz, Veronika (University of Waterloo, 2019-11-04)

  The purpose of this research is to determine the potential benefits and challenges of volunteered aerial imagery by looking at OpenAerialMap (OAM) and by presenting how a repository like OAM may be applied in archaeological ...

• Future projections of rain-on-snow events and their spatiotemporal distribution across the Fraser River Basin, British Columbia, Canada 

  Neupane, Santosh (University of Waterloo, 2019-11-01)

  This study analyzes the projected changes of rain-on-snow (ROS) event characteristics (frequency, mechanism and runoff) for the future (2020 – 2099) period with respect to the historical period (1970 – 1999) over the Fraser ...

• Contemporary Forest Harvesting Impacts on Drinking Water Quality and Treatability 

  Bahramian, Soosan (University of Waterloo, 2019-10-31)

  Forested watersheds supply ~75% of global accessible freshwater resources and serve as important sources of drinking water. Both natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbances in these regions can deteriorate water quality ...

• 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 ...

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