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Strategic Investigation of the Jackpine Mine Expansion Dispute in the Alberta Oil Sands
(IGI GLOBAL, 2015-03-01)The Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) methodology is employed to ascertain strategic insights into a serious conflict over environmental concerns connected to the expanded exploitation of oil sands at the Jackpine ... -
Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Investigating the Impact of Water Demand Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018-03-01)This paper proposes an agent-based modeling approach to assess water users' behavior for water demand management (WDM) in a river basin. In this procedure, each agent controls its own strategy regarding whether to conserve ... -
Incorporating Water Demand Management into a Cooperative Water Allocation Framework
(Springer, 2016-07-01)The impact of a water demand management plan on a water system and its users is investigated within a comprehensive cooperative water allocation framework. In particular, a demand management plan is incorporated into a ... -
Power asymmetry in conflict resolution with application to a water pollution dispute in China
(Wiley, 2015-10-01)The concept of power asymmetry is incorporated into the framework of the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution (GMCR) and then applied to a water pollution dispute in China in order to show how it can provide strategic ... -
Analysis of a brownfield management conflict in Canada
(Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, 2017)A strategic analysis of an ongoing brownfield management conflict in Elmira, Ontario, Canada is conducted using the Graph Model for Conflict Resolution. This investigation of the situation as it existed in late 2016 ... -
Elimination Method of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA): A Simple Methodological Approach for Assessing Agricultural Sustainability
(MDPI, 2017-02-01)In the present world context, there is a need to assess the sustainability of agricultural systems. Various methods have been proposed to assess agricultural sustainability. Like in many other fields, Multi-Criteria Decision ... -
Water pricing conflict in British Columbia
(Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, 2017)The Water Sustainability Act in British Columbia, Canada is a source of conflict among citizens, the provincial government, and industrial groundwater users. The water extraction fees stipulated in the act highlight the ... -
Developing Composite Indicators for Agricultural Sustainability Assessment: Effect of Normalization and Aggregation Techniques
(MDPI, 2017-12-01)The assessment of the sustainability of agricultural systems is multidimensional in nature and requires holistic measures using indicators with different measurements and units reflecting social, economic, and environmental ... -
A New Model for Thin Film Solar Cells Using Photon Cycling
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-19)The solar energy has emerged as one of the most promising and reliable renewable energy resources attracting much attention to the study of photovoltaics. A principal aim of solar cells is to maximize the absorption of ... -
Lot-Sizing of Several Multi-Product Families
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-19)Production planning problems and its variants are widely studied in operations management and optimization literature. One variation that has not garnered much attention is the presence of multiple production families in ... -
Wildfire and Forest Harvesting Effects on Natural Organic Matter: Implications to Drinking Water Treatability
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-19)Forested catchments are critical for water supply globally and provide ~60% of the water supplies for the world’s 100 largest cities and 2/3 of all water supplies, including drinking water for ~180 million people in the ... -
The Impact Of Aggregating Serogroups In Dynamic Models Of Neisseria Meningitidis Transmission
(BioMed Central, 2015-07-30)Background: Neisseria meningitidis (Nm) is a pathogen of multiple serogroups that is highly prevalent in many populations. Serogroups associated with invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in Canada, for example, include A, ... -
Disease Dynamics And Costly Punishment Can Foster Socially Imposed Monogamy
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-04-01)Socially imposed monogamy in humans is an evolutionary puzzle because it requires costly punishment by those who impose the norm. Moreover, most societies were-and are-polygynous; yet many larger human societies transitioned ... -
Sexual Behavior, Risk Perception, And Hiv Transmission Can Respond To Hiv Antiviral Drugs And Vaccines Through Multiple Pathways
(Nature Publishing Group, 2015-10-28)There has been growing use of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) for HIV and significant progress in developing prophylactic HIV vaccines. The simplest theories of counterproductive behavioral responses to such ... -
Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation Of Quadrivalent Influenza Vaccines For Seasonal Influenza Prevention: A Dynamic Modeling Study Of Canada And The United Kingdom
(BioMed Central, 2015-10-27)Background: The adoption of quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) to replace trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) in immunization programs is growing worldwide, thus helping to address the problem of influenza B lineage mismatch. ... -
Coupled Human-Environment Dynamics Of Forest Pest Spread And Control In A Multi-Patch, Stochastic Setting
(Public Library of Science, 2015-10-02)Background The transportation of camp firewood infested by non-native forest pests such as Asian long-horned beetle (ALB) and emerald ash borer (EAB) has severe impacts on North American forests. Once invasive forest pests ... -
Evaluation Of Serogroup C And Acwy Meningococcal Vaccine Programs: Projected Impact On Disease Burden According To A Stochastic Two-Strain Dynamic Model
(Elsevier, 2015-01-01)Objective: Advisory committees in Canada and the United States have updated recommendations for quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccines against serogroups A, C, W135, and Y. Our objective was to evaluate optimally ... -
Dynamics Of The Global Wheat Trade Network And Resilience To Shocks
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-08-03)Agri-food trade networks are increasingly vital to human well-being in a globalising world. Models can help us gain insights into trade network dynamics and predict how they might respond to future disturbances such as ... -
Critical Dynamics In Population Vaccinating Behavior
(National Academy of Sciences, 2017-12-26)Vaccine refusal can lead to renewed outbreaks of previously eliminated diseases and even delay global eradication. Vaccinating decisions exemplify a complex, coupled system where vaccinating behavior and disease dynamics ... -
Emergence and spread of drug resistant influenza: A two-population game theoretical model
(Elsevier, 2016-10-01)Background The potential for emergence of antiviral drug resistance during influenza pandemics has raised great concern for public health. Widespread use of antiviral drugs is a significant factor in producing resistant ...