Browsing Geography and Environmental Management by Subject "Canada"
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Aboriginal Participation in Tourism Planning in British Columbia
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-22)Tourism has been identified as a strategy for Indigenous communities worldwide to adopt in order to stimulate economic and social development. The goal of this research was to evaluate Aboriginal participation in tourism ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Community-Led Energy Planning and Sustainability Assessment: A Partnership with Inuit in NunatuKavut, Labrador
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)Canada is a global leader in renewable energy development. However, electricity-generation differs dramatically in off-grid communities, wherein 190 of 258 communities rely almost exclusively on diesel-generation. Of these ... -
A Comparison of Post-Disaster Experiences in Two Canadian Riverine Communities: Evaluating Managed Retreat as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-09)Natural hazards pose a significant risk to local economies, critical infrastructure and public health and safety. Climate change compounds this risk by introducing a new existential threat to Canadian riverine communities, ... -
Exploring the Implementation Potential of a Proposed Water Ethic: A Canadian Case Study into Underlying Ethical Considerations for Water Resources Management
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)Ideas about water use and ethics have been linked for many thousands of years. In this millennium, water resources remain a primary area of concern throughout the world, including such issues as shortages, supply, flooding, ... -
Feeling Precarious: Millennial Women and Work
(Sage, 2015-12-18)In Precarious Life (2004), Judith Butler writes about how a shared sense of fear and vulnerability opens the possibility of recognizing interdependency. This is a wider understanding of precarity than is often present in ... -
Making sense of precarity: talking about economic insecurity with millennials in Canada
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)While there are many effective metrics for quantifying economic precarity, talking to young people about their experiences in the labour and housing markets reveals a gap in explanatory language around living in/through ... -
Methane Cycling in Northern Peatlands Following Wildfire
(University of Waterloo, 2024-03-26)Peatlands are an important component of the global carbon (C) cycle, they operate as long-term global sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and sources of methane (CH4). However, they are becoming increasingly ... -
Mining Geotagged Tweets: Tracking Spatiotemporal Variation of Mental Health in Canada during COVID-19 Pandemic
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-29)This thesis explores and analyzes the evolution of the pandemic as a stressor on mental health in Canada through monitoring the sentiment polarity dynamics, emotion trends, and changes in keywords being discussed on Twitter, ... -
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Ice Cover on Large Northern Lakes: Great Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2012-07-11)Time series of brightness temperature (TB) measurement obtained at various frequencies by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer–Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) are investigated to determine ice phenology parameters ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
“That’s Our Traditional Way as Indigenous Peoples”: Towards a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Community Support of Sustainable Energies in NunatuKavut, Labrador
(MDPI, 2020-07-28)There is a substantial body of literature in North America regarding the social acceptance of renewable energies, particularly wind energy. However, limited research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous Peoples. ... -
Validating CloudSat-CPR retrievals for the estimation of snow accumulation in the Canadian Arctic
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-31)Snow is a critical contributor to our global water and energy budget, with profound impacts for water resource availability, snow albedo feedback and flooding in cold regions. The vast size and remote nature of the Arctic ... -
Validation of precipitation phase estimates from CloudSat-CPR across Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-23)Snow is an important component of the global climate system with significant impacts on local weather, fresh water resources, and energy balance in high latitude cold countries. Therefore precise snowfall monitoring is ...