Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Urban Infrastructure and Household Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Maputo, Mozambique
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-21)Infrastructure is an important foundation for urban sustainability. Infrastructure includes both a system of institutions like banks and hospitals (known as social infrastructure) and a network of physical utilities like ... -
Urban infrastructure finance and its relationship with land market, land development, and sustainability: Case study of the City of Islamabad, Pakistan
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-21)Cities are responsible for 70% of global carbon emissions. As a result, cities worldwide have been met with the challenge of urban sustainability. Urbanization results mostly from the conversion of agricultural land into ... -
Urban Landscape Connectivity in Southern Ontario: Evaluating Current Approaches and Exploring the Potential of Climate Connectivity Considerations
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-16)Landscape connectivity facilitates the movement of organisms, is important for the maintenance of ecological integrity, and supports the resilience of ecosystems to withstand the impacts of climate change. Land use change ... -
An Urban Morphology Analysis of Urban Innovation Districts in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-14)Since the economic transition towards a knowledge-based economy in the 1990s, technological innovation has been an essential driver of economic growth and development. As a reaction to such phenomena, Urban Innovation ... -
Urban Regeneration through Public Space: A Case Study in Squares in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Urban regeneration has been accompanying urban development since the earliest human settlement, and was emphasized after the World War Two. Several decades' experience and billions of dollars forced the decision makers ... -
Urban Roadside Tree Inventory Using a Mobile Laser Scanning System
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-11)the road environment. Thus, effective methods are needed for the MLS data processing. The main goal of this thesis is to establish a feasible workflow by testing a series of methods to extract geometrical information of ... -
Urban Sustainability Planning and the Ecosystem Services Approach in select Canadian cities and Ontario watersheds
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-06)Fifteen years ago, the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a global assessment of the world’s ecosystems, found that 60% of global Ecosystem Services (ES) examined were being degraded or used unsustainably. Net economic ... -
Urban Tourism: Global-Local Relationships in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-02-19)China used to impress the outside world as a country that was focused on its own development with few links to the rest of the globe. However, things have changed and now China is an increasingly important global player. ... -
The use of a filter product to remove phosphorus from surface runoff in agricultural fields
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-28)Nutrient losses from agricultural fields are the largest sources of phosphorus (P) entering the Great Lakes in North America. Research has suggested that multiple conservation practices (CPs) used together (stacked) are ... -
The Use of Control Interventions in Adult Mental Health Inpatient Services in Ontario Hospitals and Identification of Risk Factors
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-03)The use of control interventions (CI) such as mechanical/physical restraints (MP), chairs that prevent rising (Chair), and acute control medications (ACM) with mental health (MH) patients is not without controversy. ... -
THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL DNA TO CHARACTERIZE FISH ASSEMBLAGES IN TEMPERATE ESTUARIES OF VARYING LEVELS OF NUTRIENT IMPACT
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)The inner region has been identified as an important area for evaluating the health of estuaries, as many riverine inputs, like excessive nutrients (eutrophication), are more concentrated here than in the lower reaches of ... -
Use of Medications for Management of Alzheimer’s Disease in Ontario’s Home Care Population
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-07)Abstract Background: Home care is an important care setting for those with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). It provides support that allows individuals with AD to remain at home and may delay the transition to long-term care ... -
The use of plant functional traits to detect changes in urban wetland management regimes within Kitchener, ON
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-14)Humans have modified their surrounding environment in ways that often lead to changes in ecosystem structure and function. Ecosystem management efforts are necessary to bring back functioning attributes of ecosystems for ... -
THE USE OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY MAKING AND THE IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH: A CASE STUDY OF BISMUTH SHOTSHELLS
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Scientific information is required to make environmental policy that will enhance and protect the health of ecosystems. The issues placed on the policy agenda come from the interactions amongst stakeholders, decision ... -
Use of the interRAI Acute Care Assessment Instrument to Predict Adverse Outcomes Among the Hospitalized Elderly
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-01)Abstract Objectives: This research project was undertaken to review two commonly used screening instruments for the elderly who attend at hospital emergency departments in Ontario. These instruments were then contrasted ... -
A Use of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Determine the Social Barriers to the Implementation of Stormwater Green Infrastructure on Private Properties in Dundas, Hamilton, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-22)Climate change has resulted in more extreme rainfall events and most municipalities’ stormwater infrastructure is not prepared to deal with the increased flooding instances that may be associated with the increased rainfall. ... -
The Use of Traditional Environmental Knowledge to Assess the Impact of Climate Change on Subsistence Fishing in the James Bay Region, Ontario, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)This thesis used traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) to assess the impacts of climate change on food security for First Nations communities located in the western James Bay region of northern Ontario. In addition, ... -
Using a hierarchy of climate models to investigate snow processes influencing surface albedo
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-16)Northern Hemisphere (NH) extratropical land has experienced dramatic warming over the past century, a trend that is expected to continue in the coming decades. There is however, significant uncertainty surrounding projections ... -
Using a Remotely Piloted Aircraft System to Investigate the Relationship between Canopy Temperature Depression and American Beech Health in Southern Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-30)The unprecedented spread of invasive pest and pathogens, along with climate change and human activity/development is degrading forest system health. American beech trees are a principal tree species that dominates Ontario’s ... -
Using Geographic Relevance (GR) to contextualize structured and unstructured spatial data
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-12)Geographic relevance is a concept that has been used to improve spatial information retrieval on mobile devices, but the idea of geographic relevance has several potential applications outside of mobile computing. Geographic ...