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Social Capital and the Significance of Pre-Migration Context among Burmese Refugee Communities In Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2004)What happens in the case of immigrant groups who have had such pre-migration experiences as to require specialized assistance in the adaptation process, and yet whose population is not substantial enough to convince ... -
Social capital, collective action and the water-health nexus in rural Kenya
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-20)Access to safe water and adequate sanitation is widely recognised as an important means of protecting public health and human dignity. For example, the introduction of clean water and sewerage disposal (the Sanitary Movement) ... -
Social Equity Dimensions of Flood Risk Management in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-21)Disproportionate exposure to hazards among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations and racial/ethnic minority communities contributes to rising environmental injustices worldwide. Examining the link between race/ethnicity, ... -
Social Resilience to Flooding: The Implications of Scale
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Resilience to environmental hazards refers to the capacities and abilities to resist, adapt and recover from the impacts of a potential hazard, such as flooding. Building resilience is increasingly recognized as a strategy ... -
The Socio-Cultural Side of Certification Programs: a Case Study of Green Globe in Barbados
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-31)Certification programs have grown exponentially over the past decade to respond to the increasing demand for more green and sustainable modes of operation from the part of customers. These schemes can be used as powerful ... -
Solar Energy Potential Analysis at Building Scale Using LiDAR and Satellite Data
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-07)The two main challenges of the twenty-first century are the scarcity of energy sources and global warming; trigged by the emission of greenhouse gases. In this context, solar energy became increasingly relevant. Because ... -
Sounding the alarm: Is the Sri Lankan tourism sector prepared for climate change?
(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 ... -
Spaceborne monitoring of Arctic lake ice in a changing climate
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-19)Lake ice phenology (timing of ice-on and ice-off) and thickness are changing in response to generally warmer climate conditions at high northern latitudes observed during recent decades. Monitoring changes in the lake ice ... -
Spatial Analysis of Participation in the Waterloo Residential Energy Efficiency Project
(University of Waterloo, 2008-12-11)Researchers are in broad agreement that energy-conserving actions produce economic as well as energy savings. Household energy rating systems (HERS) have been established in many countries to inform households of their ... -
A Spatial Analysis of the Nansen Ice Shelf Basal Channel, Using Ice Penetrating Radar
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-21)The stability of floating ice shelves in the Antarctic is of great concern as their current thinning and future collapse will release mass from grounded ice sheets into the ocean, contributing to sea level rise. The study ... -
Spatial Patterns of Neighbourhood Crime in Canadian Cities: The Influence of Neighbourhood and City Contexts
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)The main goal of this study is to investigate the spatial patterns of police-reported crime rates across select Canadian urban neighbourhoods and to explore their relationships with both neighbourhood- and city-level ... -
Spatial Patterns of Soil Organic Carbon Distribution in Canadian Forest Regions: An Eco-region Based Exploratory Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-03)As the largest carbon reservoir in ecosystems, soil accounts for more than twice as much carbon storage as that of vegetation biomass or the atmosphere. The goal of this study is to examine spatial patterns of soil ... -
A Spatio-Temporal Model for the Evaluation of Education Quality in Peru
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-13)The role of information and communication technologies in the development of modern societies has continuously increased over the past several decades. In particular, recent unprecedented growth in use of the Internet in ... -
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Human Mobility based on Land Use Types in the Greater Toronto Area during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-26)The 2019 Coronavirus disease COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It undoubtedly poses a huge challenge in terms of public health and social ... -
The Stability of the Drygalski Ice Tongue
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Antarctica has the potential to contribute to sea-level rise by up to 58 m if it were to entirely melt. The Antarctic Ice Sheet is fringed by floating ice in the form of ice shelves and ice tongues, which help to buttress ... -
Stakeholder Involvement in Waterfront Planning and Development in Manado, Indonesia
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-27)Waterfront development is acknowledged as being significant to urban tourism planning and, ideally, the involvement of multiple stakeholders should be required in the development program. This research explores why and how ... -
The State as a High Modernist Planner: Planning of Food System Transitions in Nanjing, China
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-23)Food system planning is a nascent concept in both food studies and planning studies. Recent food planning studies point out that food issues have been mostly left out in modern planning practices and research, despite the ... -
Statistical Geocomputing: Spatial Outlier Detection in Precision Agriculture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-03)The collection of crop yield data has become much easier with the introduction of technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), ground-based yield sensors, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This explosive ... -
A Step Towards Sustainable Transportation Behaviour: Understanding automobile ownership and mode choice through qualitative research
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)It is now widely recognized that society’s over-reliance on the automobile contributes to environmental problems, especially in urban areas. Nevertheless, efforts to bring about modal shifts through transportation demand ... -
The Structure and Composition of Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Communities on St. Lucia
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-19)Dry forests of the Caribbean islands are regarded as highly disturbed ecosystems and have been characterized as having a high density of small diameter stems, a lower basal area at maturity and a lower species-richness ...