Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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A Proud Legacy, A New Future: Bringing Ottawa's Growth Management Strategy Into the 21st Century
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-26)As Canada’s capital, the City of Ottawa has benefited from several comprehensive land use planning exercises since the early 1900s. Early plans carried out by the federal government were led by Prime Ministers who, in ... -
Provincial Class Environmental Assessment: The Examination of Whether the Process can be Effectively Applied in a Northern Ontario Context
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)As Canada employs a federated system of government, there are separate environmental assessment (EA) processes. In Ontario, Canada, there is a streamlined, pre-approved, self-assessed process (i.e., the Minister of the ... -
Public Attention to Environmental Hazards
(University of Waterloo, 2017-11-21)Although public attention has been noted as being influential within the hazard-response cycle, it has received almost no consideration within the risk and hazards literature. This is surprising, as attention is often noted ... -
Public Housing Redevelopment: Residents' Experiences with Relocation from Phase 1 of Toronto's Regent Park Revitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2007-04-30)Regent Park is Canada’s largest and among its oldest public housing developments. Like similar large-scale public housing developments across North America, Regent Park has come under considerable criticism for isolating ... -
Public Participation in Integrated Water Resource Management: Villages in Lao PDR and the Mekong River Basin
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-08)Several authors have challenged Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) as inoperable and technocratic for the issues surrounding water resources known as contemporary water resource politics. As a result, new methods ... -
Public participation in the Geoweb era: Geosocial media use in local government
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-21)Advances in spatially enabled information and communication technologies (ICTs) have provided governments with the potential to enhance public participation and to collaborate with citizens. This dissertation critically ... -
Pushing for Better: Confronting Conflict, Unsustainability & Colonialism through Sustainability Assessment and Regional Assessment in the Ring of Fire
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-05)The Ring of Fire is a mineral resource-rich area of approximately 5,120 km2 located in the James Bay Lowlands region of Northern Ontario, about 500 kilometers northeast of Thunder Bay. The Ontario Ministry of Northern ... -
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway and Tibet Tourism: Travelers’ Perspectives
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-22)With the distinguished natural and cultural tourism resources, Tibet is undoubtedly a desirable travel destination both domestically and internationally. With the newly opened Qinghai-Tibet railway to Lhasa in July 2006, ... -
Quality of Care for Long-term Care Residents Living with Heart Failure in Ontario and Predictors of Hospitalization
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-22)Background Heart failure (HF) is a disease that is on the rise, particularly in the aging population. It is common amongst residents of long-term care homes (LTCHs). Complicating the diagnosis and treatment of HF is ... -
Quality of Care Transitions for Rehabilitation Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-24)Background: Care transitions are a common and frequently adverse aspect of health care, resulting in a high-risk period for both care quality and patient safety (Coleman, 2003; Forster et al., 2003; Picker Institute 1999; ... -
The quality of citizen scientists’ bee observations: An evaluation of PollinatorWatch at Royal Botanical Gardens and the rare Charitable Research Reserve
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-12)Citizen science engages members of the nonscientific community in academic research, contributing to our collective knowledge of the natural environment through biological monitoring and environmental observations. Observation ... -
Quantifying and Modelling Post-Wildfire Sediment Production in Waterton Lakes National Park
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-16)High-severity wildfires can increase sediment mobility and erosion rates in burned landscapes which increase the delivery of fine sediment to receiving streams. The downstream propagation of these pyrogenic materials can ... -
Quantifying Aquatic Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Potential in Riparian Agroforestry Zones
(University of Waterloo, 2023-03-27)Agricultural intensification in Canada has led to a loss of riparian areas, which has resulted in the degradation of freshwater aquatic ecosystems due to an increasing amount of fertilizer and nutrients being introduced ... -
Quantifying coniferous subalpine tree transpiration and source water under seasonal and hydrological stress in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-04)Fresh water supplies in mountainous regions are at risk as snow and ice stores continue to decline under rising global temperatures, earlier winter snowmelt and changing climate regimes. Alpine forests are of particular ... -
Quantifying the Impacts of Flash Flooding on Dominica’s Material Stocks in Buildings: A GIS-based methodological framework for Small Island States
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-06)Economic growth is usually accompanied by extensive extraction of natural resources, especially in developing countries. From a “material-stock-flow-service” perspective, the substantial part (e.g., construction materials) ... -
Quantifying the Influence of Soil Prescriptions on Ecosystem Processes in Reclaimed Forests of Varying Age in a Post-Oil Sands Landscape in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-03-03)The Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) in northern Alberta, Canada contains ~4800 km2 available for surface mining, and as of 2017 ~767 km2 had been disturbed for oil sands operations. The Alberta government requires this ... -
Quantifying the role of shade on microclimate conditions and water use efficiency of a subalpine wetland in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Kananaskis, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Alpine regions contribute 60 % of annual surface runoff, playing an important role in regulating the global water balance. Many of the world’s major river networks originate from alpine headwater basins, popularizing ... -
Quantifying the soil organic carbon sequestration performance and carbon emissions offset potential of the City of Calgary’s Willow Biomass and Marginal Land Reclamation Demonstration Project
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-10)The primary objective of this study was to measure the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration performance of The City of Calgary Dewatered Biosolids Land Application Program – Willow Biomass and Marginal Land Reclamation ... -
Quantifying Tree Community Assemblages on Habitation sites in the Great Bear Rainforest
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-31)Identifying how past human actions have influenced their environment is important for understanding how current ecosystems function. Heavy intertidal resource use by Indigenous Peoples for the past several millennia has ... -
Quantifying Variation in Wetland Composition and Configuration for Landscape-Scale Reclamation Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-06)Widespread loss and degradation of wetland ecosystems resulting from human land use highlights the need for a reclamation strategy (i.e converting developed land back to its original state) that can sustain ecosystem ...