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Controls on plot-scale growing season CO2 and CH4 fluxes in restored peatlands: Do they differ from unrestored and natural sites?
(International Peatland Society (IPS) and the International Mire Conservation Group (IMCG) - Jointly published, 2016-06-14)This study brings together plot-scale growing season fluxes of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) from six Canadian peatlands restored by the moss layer transfer technique (MLTT) and compares them with fluxes from ... -
Convolutional Neural Networks for Land-cover Classification Using Multispectral Airborne Laser Scanning Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-21)With the spread of urban culture, urbanisation is progressing rapidly and globally. Accurate and update land cover (LC) information becomes increasingly critical for protecting ecosystems, climate change studies and ... -
A Coupled Snow Operations-Skier Demand Model for the Ontario (Canada) Ski Region
(EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, 2016-04-01)The multi-billion dollar global ski industry is one of the tourism subsectors most directly impacted by climate variability and change. In the decades ahead, the scholarly literature consistently projects decreased reliability ... -
Creative Destruction and Participatory Tourism Planning in Rural British Columbia: The Case of Salt Spring Island
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-28)This study determines if participatory tourism planning has played a role in the creative destruction process on Salt Spring Island. This is important because it links together two bodies of literature that have formerly ... -
Creative Destruction and Rural Tourism Planning: The Case of Creemore, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-23)This study assesses the relationship between planning and creative destruction in the village of Creemore, Ontario. The study has four objectives. The first is to describe the evolution of tourism in Creemore by tracking ... -
The Creative Food Economy and Culinary Tourism through Place Branding: Terroir into a Creative and Environmentally Friendly Taste of a Place
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-13)Culinary tourism can contribute to the economic development of many rural communities. Creating competitive advantage for a rural community by establishing a culinary cluster requires a strategy designed to leverage the ... -
Crisis Crowdsourcing in Government: Characterising efforts by North American Agencies to Inform Emergency Management Operations
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)Crowdsourcing is proven to be a useful communication platform during and in the direct aftermath of a disastrous event. While previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response ... -
A Critical Analysis of News Media Coverage of Hurricane Events and Caribbean Tourism
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)There is mounting evidence that the media is able to shape public risk perceptions of extreme weather events, which includes influencing tourists’ willingness to travel to destinations impacted (directly or indirectly) by ... -
A Critical Frame Analysis of Northern Ontario's 'Forestry Crisis'
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-21)Since 2001, the forest sector and forest communities across Northern Ontario have experienced many challenges. In response, there has been significant provincial debate and policy reform surrounding the use and control ... -
A Critical Realist Approach to Evolutionary Path Dependence: The Role of Counterurbanite Entrepreneurs in Tourism Regions of Rural Newfoundland
(University of Waterloo, 2018-03-22)Path dependence has emerged as an approach to understanding economic decline in peripheral areas, consisting predominantly of space-based economic activities. Evolutionary economic geography is one lens through which ... -
Crowdsourcing the Disaster Management Cycle
(IGI Global, 2016-10-01)Crowdsourcing is a communication platform that can be used during and after a disastrous event. Previous research in crisis crowdsourcing demonstrates its wide adoption for aiding response efforts by non-government ... -
Dark Spot Detection from SAR Intensity Imagery with Spatial Density Thresholding for Oil Spill Monitoring
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-28)Since the 1980s, satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been investigated for early warning and monitoring of marine oil spills to permit effective satellite surveillance in the marine environment. Automated ... -
Data-driven climate indices as a climate translation service
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)Weather and climate have a powerful influence on humans and society. The ways in which individuals, organizations, and communities are sensitive to weather and climate varies considerably due to social, economic, institutional, ... -
Deconstructing ‘Community’ in Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM): Investigating Traditional Method of Subsistence (TMoS), Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), and Ethnic Diversity for more effective resource management in the Kedougou Region of Senegal
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-30)This thesis seeks to highlight the importance of a geographic and culturally specific knowledge base to guide natural resource management and governance policy, particularly within the West African context. In order to ... -
Deep Learning for 3D Information Extraction from Indoor and Outdoor Point Clouds
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-07)This thesis focuses on the challenges and opportunities that come with deep learning in the extraction of 3D information from point clouds. To achieve this, 3D information such as point-based or object-based attributes ... -
Deep Residual Networks for Hyperspectral Image Classification
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-07-25)Deep neural networks can learn deep feature representation for hyperspectral image (HSI) interpretation and achieve high classification accuracy in different datasets. However, counterintuitively, the classification ... -
Deeper Burning Increases Available Phosphorus, Promotes Moss Growth, and Carbon Dioxide Uptake in a Fen Peatland One-Year Post-Wildfire in Fort McMurray, AB
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)Carbon storage in northern peatlands is estimated to be ~795 Tg, equivalent to ~40% of atmospheric CO2. Peatlands are dominant features of the Western Boreal Plains (WBP), which are experiencing a regime shift to a ... -
Deriving Spatial Patterns of Severe Rainfall in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-13)Severe weather is a natural product of the earth’s atmosphere. Water delivered by storms sustains important biophysical functions whereas from a human perspective severe weather can have negative effects when damage is ... -
Designing successful stakeholder participatory processes for environmental planning: A case study of subwatershed planning in Hamilton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)Stakeholder participation has become a valuable tool for agencies in the field of environmental planning. The potential benefits, for both agencies and individuals, of involving stakeholders in the planning process have ... -
Detecting Land Cover Change over a 20 Year Time Period in the Niagara Escarpment Plan Using Satellite Remote Sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2009-04-27)The Niagara Escarpment is one of Southern Ontario’s most important landscapes. Due to the nature of the landform and its location, the Escarpment is subject to various development pressures including urban expansion, ...