Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Understanding the Ecohydrological Role of Seasonal Ground Ice in a Boreal Peatland
(University of Waterloo, 2022-07-13)Seasonal Ground Ice (SGI) in peatlands forms in late fall when air temperatures begin to cool, and water in peat pores freeze. It differs from permafrost peatlands in that the SGI freezes and completely melts away every ... -
Understanding the Impact of COVID-19 on the Livelihood Resilience of Small-Scale Fisheries: A Comparative Analysis
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-21)Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) serve as a vital economic cornerstone in many nations, and play a pivotal role in reinforcing food security and eradicating poverty. Despite their significance, SSF systems and the communities ... -
Understanding the Influence of Money Variables on the Outcomes of Sustainable Community Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)Globally, there is a growing popularity among local governments to apply Cross-Sector Social Partnerships (CSSP) to implement Sustainable Community Plans (SCPs). The aim of this study is to understand the link between the ... -
Understanding the influence of weather and warning information on trip and activity decisions, behaviour, and risk outcomes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-10)Winter storms present challenges to the safe design, operation and maintenance of transportation systems. Weather warning information, often originating from publicly funded meteorological services, is intended to support ... -
Understanding the Location Choices of Logistics Firms
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-06)Distribution, warehousing and logistics facilities located in Canadian municipalities have significant impacts on surrounding land uses and on nearby transportation infrastructure, not to mention the broader socio-economic ... -
Understanding the Reasons for Part II Order Requests in Municipal Class Environmental Assessments
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-07)The practice of environmental assessment (EA) in Ontario, Canada and elsewhere has been criticized for resulting in projects that are not necessarily “good” for the environment or society, but simply “less bad.” In Ontario, ... -
Understanding the Strategic Engagement of Partner Organizations in Large Cross-Sector Social Partnerships Implementing Community Sustainability Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-10)Sustainability is a grand challenge that diverse communities of interest all over the world are currently focusing on at the local and global level. At the local level, thousands of cities have decided to address their ... -
Understanding University Students’ Intercity Transport Mode Choice: A Case Study of the University of Waterloo Students’ Travel Behavior Between the Region of Waterloo and the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-15)The ongoing population growth is an essential driver to support the Greater Golden Horseshoe (GGH)’s long-term economic development and competitiveness, but it could also create substantial issues and challenges on the ... -
Understanding Youth Transition as 'Becoming': Identity, Time and Futurity
(Elsevier, 2009-11-01)Drawing on recent work in psychology, philosophy, and youth geographies, this article responds to calls for theoretical rigour in children's geographies by developing the concept of becoming for youth transitions research. ... -
Understanding “What Could Be”: A Call for ‘Experimental Behavioral Genetics’
(Springer, 2018-08-13)Behavioral genetic (BG) research has yielded many important discoveries about the origins of human behavior, but offers little insight into how we might improve outcomes. We posit that this gap in our knowledge base stems ... -
Unearthing the power in GMO discourse: An analysis of Canadian agriculture and agrifood debates
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)The overall purpose of this doctoral research project is to add to our knowledge and understanding of power relations embedded in discourses regarding Canadian agriculture and agrifood debates. Power can be obscured by ... -
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as an Operationalized Framework for the Global Food and Beverage Industry and the Subsequent Financial and ESG Impacts
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-10)In 2015, the United Nations (UN) created Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs], a framework for better addressing sustainable development (Stafford-Smith et al., 2017). While these goals were originally intended for use ... -
University, Downtown, and the Mid-size City: An Examination of the Roles of University in Downtown Revitalization within the Context of Community-University Partnerships
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-17)Planning practitioners and academics continually search for ways to help revive ailing downtowns and to better understand the factors that influence the success or failures of downtown revitalization. Most of the literature ... -
Unpacking the Intention-Behaviour Gap in Canadian Consumers’ Food Purchasing Decisions
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-21)Canada has a deep-rooted reliance on single-use plastic in the food industry, with little evidence of changing its use of plastic as a durable, convenient, and cost-effective choice of packaging material to process, package, ... -
Upland Hardwood Forest Restoration: Testing Combinations of Vegetation in the Progress of Early Restoration
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-10)Progress in early ecological restoration is a measure which has not been extensively studied in the relatively new body of literature surrounding this field of study. Early restoration is an extremely beneficial area of ... -
Upsampling Indoor LiDAR Point Clouds for Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-24)As an emerging technology, LiDAR point cloud has been applied in a wide range of fields. With the ability to recognize and localize the objects in a scene, point cloud object detection has numerous applications. However, ... -
Urban Aboriginal Health: Using individual and contextual approaches to better understand the health of Aboriginal populations living in Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-29)INTRODUCTION: Canada’s Aboriginal population is growing at a faster rate than the rest of Canada. While Aboriginal health has improved in the last few decades, life expectancy of First Nations, Inuit and Métis continues ... -
Urban and architectural design for the young mind: An ecological investigation of the relationship between urban form and adolescent mental health
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-22)Around 50% of lifetime mental illnesses begin at or prior to the age of 14 years old—or roughly halfway through adolescence (10-19 years old)—with contemporary trends from multiple geographical and cultural contexts ... -
Urban Design and Planning in Adapting to Climate Change: Advances, Applications, and Challenges
(University of Waterloo, 2016-06-21)The current sea-level rise predictions are expected to lead to a loss of anywhere between 6000 to 17000 km2 of land area around the globe during the 21st century –a loss that would force around 1.6 to 5.3 million people ... -
Urban Economic Perspectives on Residential Real Estate: Does Access Matter?
(University of Waterloo, 2009-03-06)This thesis explores the transportation-land use connection through an investigation of accessibility and residential property values. Accessibility, broadly defined as the ability for locations to interact (Hansen, 1959) ...