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How Context Influences Knowledge Use in Public Health Units
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-07)Objective: The effectiveness and efficiency of health promotion programs and policies relies on evidence to inform and guide these practices in an age of increased cost-efficiency and accountability. To achieve impact and ... -
How Ontario's urban householders manage their ecosystem: A ten-year study in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2006)As much of the growing population of North America is accommodated within cities or on their fringes, one needs to understand how these people are managing their private outdoor space. Within the cities of Kitchener and ... -
How Sustainable Fashion Brands Communicate with Online Customers in Comparison with Fast Fashion Brands
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-13)Sustainability in the fashion industry is a very debatable concept as this industry is commonly known for being unsustainable due to environmental, social, economic, and supply chain issues. As the fashion industry is ... -
How the Contributions of Conveners Achieve Collaboration Goals
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-29)Collaboration is considered to be an alternative strategic planning approach for delivering services and addressing organization mandates. These initiatives provide an opportunity “in which autonomous actors interact ... -
How to Evaluate a Third Sector Approach to Place-Based Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Pathways to Education
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-04)This dissertation examines how to evaluate a place-based poverty reduction program across different sites and scales. Unpacking urban planning’s dominant, normative construction of poverty, neighbourhoods, youth, and ... -
How ‘transformative’ is energy storage? Insights from stakeholder perceptions in Ontario
(Elsevier, 2018-10-01)‘Energy storage’ comprises a range of technologies of varying maturity and cost-effectiveness, which are increasingly considered to be an important part in building the electricity system of the future. As with any potentially ... -
The Human Dimensions of Climate Risk in Africa's Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries
(University of Waterloo, 2018-04-30)Climate change impacts are a result of the intersection between the level of climate change, and the socioeconomic conditions that characterize the locale under question. For the low income countries in the world, they ... -
Human dimensions of ecosystem-based management: Lessons in managing trade-offs from the Northern Shrimp Fishery in Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland
(Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Fisheries can have significant impacts on the structure and function of marine ecosystems, including impacts on habitats and non-target species. As a result, management agencies face growing calls to account for the ecosystem ... -
The Hydrochemical Fate and Transport of Treated Domestic Wastewater Contaminants During a Wastewater Polishing Experiment in a Sub-Arctic Ladder Fen Peatland
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)Protecting northern aquatic ecosystems is critical to ensuring the sustained use of these environments; however, with increasing industrial and residential development pressures in this region the safe and effective treatment ... -
Hydrogeochemical soil dynamics relative to topography for forested land units undergoing reclamation in a post-mined landscape in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-25)Natural forest soils of the Western Boreal Forest rarely witness near-surface soil flushing events during the growing season due to the forest’s excessive evapotranspiration demands and large unsaturated zone storage ... -
The Hydrogeochemistry of a Constructed Fen Peatland in the Post-Mined Landscape in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-28)Large areas of land within the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) have been subjected to open pit mining to recover bitumenous oil sands. Following extraction, oil sands require the addition of solvents to optimize the ... -
Hydrologic function of a moderate-rich fen watershed in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of the Western Boreal Plain, northern Alberta
(Elsevier, 2019-03)Peatlands are a dominant land feature in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of the Western Boreal Plain (WBP), comprising >50% of the total land area, many of which are moderate-rich fens. The carbon stocks of moderate-rich ... -
Hydrological and Geochemical Implications of Aquifer Depressurization on Expansive Peatland Systems in the Hudson/James Bay Lowlands
(University of Waterloo, 2016-04-08)The ecological integrity of the peatlands of the Hudson/James Bay Lowlands (HJBL) is vulnerable to hydrological changes associated with climate change and resource development. Dewatering of an open-pit mine (the DeBeers ... -
The hydrological interactions within a mine impacted peatland, James Bay Lowland, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2015-08-05)The development of a large open-pit diamond mine in the James Bay Lowland, one of the world’s largest wetland complexes, provides insight into hydrological processes that sustain wetlands in the region. The bog and fen ... -
The hydrology and geochemistry of a saline spring fen peatland in the Athabasca oil sands region of Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-01)Due to the nature of the regional geology and the bitumen extraction process, the post-mined landscape of Canada’s oil sands region will have a much higher concentration of dissolved salts than it did prior to mining. As ... -
Hydrology and Nutrient Biogeochemistry of Shallow Pond-Peatland Complexes, Hudson Bay Lowlands
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-25)Across the circumpolar north, the degradation of permafrost in tundra and peatland landscapes has resulted in significant changes to land cover, including an increase in the extent of thermokarst landforms. Climatically-driven ... -
Hydrology of a Constructed Fen Watershed in a Post-mined Landscape in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta, Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-20)Peatlands (i.e., wetlands with organic soil) cover approximately 12% of Canada’s total land area, 18% of Alberta’s land base and nearly half of the landscape in Canada’s Western Boreal Plain. Some of these peatlands overlay ... -
Hydrology of a Moderate–Rich Fen Watershed Prior to, and Following Wildfire in the Western Boreal Plain, Northern Alberta, Canada,
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Peatlands are a dominant land feature in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) of the Western Boreal Plain (WBP), northern Alberta, Canada, comprising >50% of the total land area, many of which are moderate–rich fens. The ... -
The hydrology of the Bois-des-Bel bog peatland restoration: A tale of two scales
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-21)Vacuum harvested peatlands typically do not spontaneously regenerate peatland species and more importantly the peat-forming Sphagnum mosses. Thus harvested and abandoned peatlands require restoration to return the peat-forming ... -
Hydrophysical evolution, soil water dynamics, and productivity of Sphagnum carpets in a regenerating cutover peatland
(University of Waterloo, 2014-11-26)The physical and hydrologic characteristics of cutover peatlands often inhibit the regeneration of typical peatland vegetation, particularly the keystone peat-forming genus <i>Sphagnum</i>, in the absence of active ...