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Biodiesel Energy in Small Island Developing States: Addressing Challenges to Development
(University of Waterloo, 2010-06-11)Petroleum-based fuel dominates the global energy system despite the fact that this resource is diminishing. Additionally, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) face a number of challenges to development such as resource ... -
Bioretention cells under cold climate conditions: Effects of freezing and thawing on water infiltration, soil structure, and nutrient removal
(Elsevier, 2019-02-01)Bioretention cells are a popular control strategy for stormwater volume and quality, but their efficiency for water infiltration and nutrient removal under cold climate conditions has been poorly studied. In this work, ... -
Birding Trail Development from a Tourism Planning Perspective
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-17)As bird-watching gains popularity, there have been various techniques utilized by tourism planners to attract birdwatchers. One method of drawing birders to a specific region is through the development of a birding trail. ... -
Boomeranging home: understanding why millennials live with parents in Toronto, Canada
(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, ... -
Bridging Mining-Scarred Landscapes and Nature- and Resource-Based Tourism and Recreation in Northern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2015-02-17)The lifecycle of resource towns in Canada has been a topic of study for many decades, but recently, the role of diversification has become a key point in the discussion. Tourism and recreation are a potential route to ... -
Bridging Organizations to Improve Conservation Fit in the Coral Triangle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)This dissertation investigates how bridging organizations influence the processes and outcomes of coastal-marine governance and conservation. Novel ways of governing are crucial in conservation to navigate the ‘messiness’ ... -
Bridging the health equity gap: examining the effects of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) gender-based violence on health and wellbeing in Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) is widely recognized as an important pathway to promoting human health and wellbeing. Despite the progress in access to water and sanitation in Low-and Middle-Income Countries ... -
Building a movement – Solidarity, activism and travel from North America to Nicaragua
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-22)Many new forms of tourism have emerged over the past two decades claiming to provide an alternative, responsible approach to international travel. Unlike ecotourism and volunteer tourism, travel centered on solidarity ... -
Building Consensus using a Collaborative Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-01-23)This thesis studies the use of a collaborative spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis tool in site evaluation with multiple participants. The approach is situated within the context of three concepts of space, choice and ... -
Building Detection from Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Imagery Using Deep Neural Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)The past decades have witnessed a significant change in human societies with a fast pace and rapid urbanization. The boom of urbanization is contributed by the influx of people to the urban area and comes with building ... -
Can alluvial landforms attenuate post-wildfire lake sedimentation rates and external phosphorus inputs?
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-22)Severe large-scale landscape disturbance in forested source water regions by wildfire can increase the transfer of fine sediment and associated phosphorus (P) to aquatic systems. Notably, the subsequent mobilization of ... -
Canadian Tourism SMEs: Understanding the Motivations, Valuations of Success and Experiences of Business Owners in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-30)This research explores aspects of small tourism businesses in a Canadian context. A number of authors (e.g., Getz and Nilsson, 2004; Hall and Rusher, 2004; Lynch and Tucker, 2004; Morrison and Teixeira, 2004a/b) have noted ... -
Carbon dioxide flux and net primary production of a boreal treed bog: Responses to warming and water-table-lowering simulations of climate change
(European Geosciences Union, 2015-02-20)Midlatitude treed bogs represent significant carbon (C) stocks and are highly sensitive to global climate change. In a dry continental treed bog, we compared three sites: control, recent (1–3 years; experimental) and older ... -
Carbon gas exchange, primary production and litter decomposition of a restored fen on a former oil well-pad
(University of Waterloo, 2018-02-16)Over 500,000 oil and gas wells have been drilled in Alberta. Recently updated peatland restoration criteria for well-pads creates incentive for peatland restoration, but little is known about functional outcomes of restoration ... -
Changes in Sea Ice Motion and Exchange in the Beaufort Sea: 1997-2012
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-04)Sea ice motion and area exchange are investigated within the Beaufort Sea to examine the effects of a diminishing sea ice cover on the dynamics in the region. Monthly sea ice motion estimates are produced by applying a ... -
A changing North: The implications of high-volume groundwater extraction and reduced water availability on sub-arctic peatland hydrology, connectivity, and geochemistry
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-05)Patterned bog and fen peatlands of the Hudson Bay Lowlands (HBL) currently make up 90% of land cover in this region and form one of the largest continuous peatland complexes in the world. A globally significant storage of ... -
Characterization of Surface Urban Heat Island in the Greater Toronto Area Using Thermal Infrared Satellite Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-08)For the past decades, there have been increasing concerns about urban environmental degradation, especially under the circumstance of urbanization. This thesis compares the trends between air temperature and surface ... -
Characterization of the Physical and Hydraulic Properties of Peat Impacted by a Temporary Access Road
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-07)Due to the disruption of hydrology and water quality, permanent installation of roads and well pads is a practice that is discouraged. It is becoming more common to install temporary structures, which can subsequently be ... -
Characterizing controls on plot-scale evapotranspiration and soil water dynamics of a constructed fen in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)In the Athabasca oil sands region of the Western Boreal Plains (WBP) mining companies now recognize the importance of reclaiming peatlands, as they cover > 50% of the pre-mined regional landscape. Open-pit mining operations ... -
Characterizing New Channels of Communication: A Case Study of Municipal 311 Requests in Edmonton, Canada
(Cogitatio Press, 2016)City governments around the world are developing and expanding how they connect to citizens. Technologies play an important role in making this connection, and one frequent way that cities connect with citizens is through ...