Browsing University of Waterloo by Supervisor "Bauch, Chris"
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Challenges in epidemiological modelling: from socio-virulence dynamics to HIV interventions in MSM populations.
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)The spread of infectious diseases is one of the biggest challenges that public health faces nowadays. Their control is often not an easy task. Social behaviour plays an important role in disease prevention. However, the ... -
Coupled models of structured contagion processes in human-environment systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-15)Models of infectious processes are a common feature in the landscape of applied mathematics. It is rare that these processes are isolated from other significant dynamics in nature, and therefore we can incorporate some of ... -
Detecting and distinguishing transitions in ecological systems: model and data-driven approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-22)There exists a plethora of systems that have the capacity to undergo sudden transitions that result in a significantly different state or dynamic. Consider the collapse of fisheries, outbreak of disease or transition to a ... -
Early Warning Signals of Vaccine Scares.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)There exists strong evidence that vaccines are extremely effective in the prevention of pediatric infectious disease, yet despite this evidence, vaccine refusal is still popular amongst some parents. Existing mathematical ... -
Emergence and Implications of Conservation Opinion Propagation in Dynamic Coupled Socio-Ecological Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-22)Human behaviour is rarely a static phenomenon. In life, individuals are presented with choices that define the trajectories they will experience days, weeks or months later. As an example consider farmer decision-making ... -
The forest transition and ecological thresholds: resilience, recovery, and predictions
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-19)A central topic in modeling land use change is to understand the forest transition from deforestation to net reforestation. Agricultural land use change is the main driver of this phenomenon; classically, agricultural ... -
Global land use and the future of sustainable consumption: projections of a coupled social-land use model
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-10)Throughout history, agricultural land use activities have shaped the environment and its inhabitants. Humans have sought to maintain their well-being for centuries by finding revolutionary ways to produce and gather food. ... -
Modeling human-coupled common pool resource systems with techniques in evolutionary game theory and reinforcement learning
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-26)Shared resource extraction among profit-seeking individuals involves a tension between individual benefit and the collective well-being represented by the persistence of the resource. In these systems, the decisions of ... -
Modelling resilience and sustainability of complex human-environment systems in agriculture and ecology
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-01)As we move further into the Anthropocene, numerous challenges to sustainable development present themselves. Questions abound: How do we feed a growing population? What steps must we take to conserve ecologically valuable ... -
Sparse Identification of Epidemiological Models from Empirical Data
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-20)Current modelling practices in mathematical epidemiology are predicated on mechanisms stemming from theoretical assumptions, such as mass action incidence. Deterministic disease models can describe many patterns observed ... -
Spatial and Temporal Discounting in a Social-Climate Model
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-25)This thesis analyzes how individuals' devaluation of distant impacts of climate change affects mitigation behaviours and projected climate conditions. To approach this question, spatial and temporal discounting is applied ... -
A spatially explicit modelling approach for predicting and managing the effects of coral reef stressors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-09)Coral reefs represent simultaneously one of the most beloved and one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world. Millions of people visit coral reefs every year for tourism purposes, and millions of people living in ... -
Viewing Trends in Graph Connectivity as Early Warnings of Epidemics and Vaccine Crises
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)When measles was rampant, suffering apparent, and relief desired, the prospect of vaccination was received with open arms by a grateful public. But it worked \emph{too} well, and opinions slowly diverged; scientists saw ...