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Small Holds Sway: How Small Businesses Mobilize Knowledge to Support Action in Learning Processes for Sustainability Transformations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-13)Transformations of the industrialized food sector toward more sustainable food production, manufacturing, and consumption take place through individual and collective learning processes. Achieving transformational change ... -
Small Towns in Transitions, an Exploratory Study in Collingwood, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-10-25)Collingwood, Ontario is experiencing an economic and social transition away from resource-dependent orient toward place-based development trajectory, after its economic breakdown of the traditional industries (e.g., ... -
Small-scale producers and the governance of certified organic seafood production in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-28)As food scares have hastened the growth of safety and quality standards around the world, certification schemes to assure various attributes of foods have proliferated in the global marketplace. High-value food commodities ... -
Small-Scale Tourism Development in Communist Cuba
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-13)Tourism is arguably the world’s largest industry today, and has been adopted as an economic staple by countless low-income countries. However, while the tourism industry can bring much needed foreign capital into a country’s ... -
Smartphone Applications in Government: Characterizing and Evaluating Municipal Smartphone Applications for Service Requests
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-06)Using advanced information and communication technologies to deliver information and services, which is referred to as e-government, is trending at different levels of governments. Through the evolution of web technologies ... -
Snow Depth Retrieval from Wide Band Radar in Trail Valley Creek
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-18)Snow is an essential component in hydrology systems, and more speci cally, monitoring variations in snow cover can provide valuable information about water supply, wildlife habitats, and climate changes. In recent years, ... -
Snow Properties Retrieval Using Passive Microwave Observations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Seasonal snow cover, the second-largest component of the cryosphere, is crucial in controlling the climate system, through its important role in modifying Earth’s albedo. The temporal variability of snow extent and its ... -
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 ...