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Tracing the Trajectories of Objects of Travel in a Practice of trekking to the Mount Everest Base Camp
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-30)Objects are an inseparable part of travel networks. Travel objects, as non-human actors of tourism networks, play a significant role in shaping the travel experience. However, despite the importance of ‘tourism things’ in ... -
Tradition and Commerce in Cultural Districts: A Case Study of Insadong In Seoul Korea
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-20)Cultural clusters with an agglomeration of heritage and historic assets represent national or local history, culture and tradition. Hence, they often become distinctive urban tourism resources supplying multifunctional ... -
Transformations in Water Governance: An Examination of the Lake Simcoe Watershed
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Individuals, communities, non-government organizations and governments are in constant pursuit of intelligent responses to the complex socio-environmental challenges they encounter. The capacity to respond effectively to ... -
Transitions to Ecological Agriculture in Nanjing, China: Farm Types, Social-Political Networks, and Rural Communities
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-09)China’s rural and agricultural sector has been undergoing a dramatic transformation in the form of three major trends. First, the modernization and capitalization of agriculture has significantly modified traditional ... -
Transport of chloride and deuterated water in peat: The role of anion exclusion, diffusion, and anion adsorption in a dual porosity organic media
(Elsevier, 2019-08)The dual-porosity structure of peat and the extremely high organic matter content give rise to a complex medium that typically generates prolonged tailing and early 50% concentration breakthrough in the breakthrough curves ... -
Traps and Transformations of Grenadian Water Management
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-25)The adaptive cycle metaphor provides insight into how and why social-ecological systems change. Literature on 'resilience thinking' has built upon this foundation and further developed the concepts of resilience, adaptation, ... -
Understanding Pro-Environmental Behaviour as Process: Assessing the Importance of Program Structure and Advice-Giving in a Residential Home Energy Evaluation Program
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-07)Despite recognition that reductions in fossil-fuel usage are necessary to reduce environmental harm, energy consumption continues to rise globally. There is a growing need to understand how to effectively influence individuals ... -
Understanding scuba divers’ response to coral bleaching: An application of Protection Motivation Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-07)Numerous studies have shown that healthy coral reefs are important to the dive experience. Thus, the expected increase in frequency and magnitude of coral bleaching events has the potential to alter global flows of dive ... -
Understanding the Decline in Milk and Milk Alternatives Consumption Among Secondary School Students in Ontario, Canada: A Qualitative Investigation
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-22)Milk products are the most readily consumed food source of calcium among Canadians, yet milk and milk alternatives (MMA) consumption has declined over the past decade, and the prevalence of calcium inadequacy is high ... -
Understanding the Ecohydrological Role of Seasonal Ground Ice in a Boreal Peatland
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-13)Seasonal Ground Ice (SGI) in peatlands forms in late fall when air temperatures begin to cool, and water in peat pores freeze. It differs from permafrost peatlands in that the SGI freezes and completely melts away every ... -
Understanding the influence of weather and warning information on trip and activity decisions, behaviour, and risk outcomes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Winter storms present challenges to the safe design, operation and maintenance of transportation systems. Weather warning information, often originating from publicly funded meteorological services, is intended to support ... -
Understanding Youth Transition as 'Becoming': Identity, Time and Futurity
(Elsevier, 2009-11-01)Drawing on recent work in psychology, philosophy, and youth geographies, this article responds to calls for theoretical rigour in children's geographies by developing the concept of becoming for youth transitions research. ... -
Upsampling Indoor LiDAR Point Clouds for Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)As an emerging technology, LiDAR point cloud has been applied in a wide range of fields. With the ability to recognize and localize the objects in a scene, point cloud object detection has numerous applications. However, ... -
Urban Growth and LULC Change Dynamics Using Landsat Record of Region of Waterloo from 1984 to 2013
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-20)Frequent human activities resulted by rapid urbanization lead to a variety of urban-related environmental and socio-economic issues. Therefore, for effective environmental management and urban planning, monitoring urban ... -
Urban Regeneration through Public Space: A Case Study in Squares in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Urban regeneration has been accompanying urban development since the earliest human settlement, and was emphasized after the World War Two. Several decades' experience and billions of dollars forced the decision makers ... -
Urban Roadside Tree Inventory Using a Mobile Laser Scanning System
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-11)the road environment. Thus, effective methods are needed for the MLS data processing. The main goal of this thesis is to establish a feasible workflow by testing a series of methods to extract geometrical information of ... -
Urban Tourism: Global-Local Relationships in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-19)China used to impress the outside world as a country that was focused on its own development with few links to the rest of the globe. However, things have changed and now China is an increasingly important global player. ... -
The use of a filter product to remove phosphorus from surface runoff in agricultural fields
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-28)Nutrient losses from agricultural fields are the largest sources of phosphorus (P) entering the Great Lakes in North America. Research has suggested that multiple conservation practices (CPs) used together (stacked) are ... -
Using a hierarchy of climate models to investigate snow processes influencing surface albedo
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropical land has experienced dramatic warming over the past century, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming decades. There is however, significant uncertainty surrounding projections ... -
Using Geographic Relevance (GR) to contextualize structured and unstructured spatial data
(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 ...