Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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The Voluntary Adoption of Green Electricity by Ontario-Based Businesses
(University of Waterloo, 2005)This paper explores the contextual factors that promote and inhibit firms? motivations to adopt a voluntary environmental initiative that is good for the environment but does not provide a clear competitive or legitimating ... -
Volunteer Participation in Ecological Restoration: Motivations, Organizations, and Conviviality
(University of Waterloo, 2024-02-28)The state of ecosystems worldwide are increasingly dire. Ecological restoration is a practice that has the potential to remedy ecosystem degradation. Engaging people in ecological restoration can help ensure project success, ... -
Volunteered Drone Imagery: Challenges and constraints to the development of an open shared image repository
(2017-01-04)Orthorectified imagery is valuable for a wide range of initiatives including environmental change detection, planning, and disaster response. Obtaining aerial imagery at high temporal and spatial scale has traditionally ... -
Vulnerability and Viability: The Intersectionality among Small Scale fisheries (SSF) in James Town and Teshie Nungua - Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) contribute to food security and income for millions of people around the world. Women in small-scale fisheries communities, on the other hand, are often marginalized and vulnerable because of ... -
Vulnerability Assessment of Rural Communities in Southern Saskatchewan
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Water resources in Canada are of major environmental, social and economic value. It is expected that climate change will be accompanied by more intense competition for water supply in water-stressed agricultural areas such ... -
Vulnerability to Climate Related Events: A Case Study of the Homeless Population in Waterloo Region
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-24)Waterloo Region (population 470,000) is the eleventh largest urban region in Canada (2006 Census tract). Within this region, in 2007, 2,831 homeless people defined as commonly living or sleeping in indoor or outdoor spaces ... -
Waste Diversion and Reduction in a Green Office Building: A Social Practice Theory Lens
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-13)A workplace, as an organisational setting, offers a suitable environment for reorienting employees’ daily routines toward the practice of environmental sustainability. This study addresses three central research questions: ... -
The water and energy balance of Lake Miwasin: a pilot-scale oil sands pit lake
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-21)Energy companies in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region in Alberta, Canada are studying the viability of incorporating pit lakes into reclamation closure designs to both sequester tailings and re-integrate the mining lease into ... -
Water and Social Well-Being in the Northwest Territories
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-19)Water security recognizes human and ecological needs for sustainable access to an adequate quantity and quality of water. However, in northern Canada, many Aboriginal communities are struggling to ensure that current and ... -
Water Conservation in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, and the Proposed Pipeline
(University of Waterloo, 2008-06-17)The Region of Waterloo relies on groundwater for 80% of the water supplied to its growing population. Ontario’s Places to Grow Act (2005) designates the Region as a growth corridor, and over the next 20 years, significant ... -
Water Governance and Pollution Control in Peri-Urban Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: The Challenges Facing Farmers and Opportunities for Change
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-11)Encompassing both urban and rural processes, the peri-urban interface (PUI) provides a unique and challenging arena for environmental management. As the urban core expands, the PUI industrializes and urbanizes, undergoing ... -
Water Quality as a Measure to Understand Vulnerability and Viability Issues in Small-Scale Fisheries of Chilika Lagoon, India
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-05)Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) sustain millions of livelihoods worldwide by contributing to food security and income. However, small-scale fishing communities are marginalized and vulnerable due to cumulative impacts of ... -
Water Secure and Climate Resilient Ontario: Developing a Transdisciplinary Water Risk Management Framework and Decision Support Tool to Guide Multi-Sector Sustainable Water Management Policies and Strategies
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-03)Sustainable management of water resources, which provide critical social, economic, cultural, and ecological functions, is essential for sustainable development, yet risks to water security are growing. The province of ... -
Water Soft-Path Application in Industrial Systems: A Pulp and Paper Case Study
(University of Waterloo, 2007-08-29)Freshwater availability, allocation and quality are increasingly becoming a concern in Canada. Canada’s apparent availability of abundant freshwater is not what it was thought to be. With increasing competition for water ... -
Water Use on Ontario Golf Courses
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-21)The golf industry is an important sector of the recreation and tourism economy in Canada. In 2009, the Canadian golf industry generated an estimated total direct economic activity of CND$29.4 billion dollars and created ... -
Water, Governance and Sustainability: A Case Study of Water Allocation in Whiteman's Creek, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-02)This research focuses on the role of water governance in building resilience and fostering sustainability in socio-ecological systems (SES). Water governance refers to the structures, processes and actors – and the dynamic ... -
Waterfowl management in stormwater management ponds
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-31)Urbanization, which is ever increasing on a global scale, can negatively affect wildlife and habitat as well as biotic realms including air, soil, and water. One of the impacts of urbanization is urban runoff. A method ... -
Waterfront Development: A Case Study of Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Waterfront development has been an issue of wide concern and extensive discussion since the 1970s. This study provides more insight into the phenomenon by applying the existing knowledge to a different political and ... -
Waterfront Toronto's Design Review Panel: A Case for Clear Indicators
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-10)Toronto’s waterfront is undergoing a large-scale redevelopment effort led by the arm's length public corporation Waterfront Toronto. Since 2005, Waterfront Toronto has operated a design review panel as a discretionary ... -
Watershed Classification in the Great Lakes Basin: Implications for Water Quality and Agricultural Management Practices
(University of Waterloo, 2024-05-28)In recent years, the Great Lakes have faced a resurgence of cyanobacterial harmful algae blooms (cHAB), primarily attributed to non-point sources, notably agricultural activities. While significant efforts have been directed ...