Browsing Environment (Faculty of) by Title
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Exploring, Understanding, and Determining the Quality of Plan Monitoring and Evaluation in Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-28)Planning takes place in the context of diverse stakeholder interests and complex decision-making processes. Planning activities are often complicated by a range of factors: increasing pressure on municipalities with ageing ... -
Extension of geopolitical supply risk methodology: Characterization model applied to conventional and electric vehicles
(Elsevier, 2017-09-20)The diversity of materials employed in modern products and the complexity of globalized supply chains raise the importance of assessing supply risk of commodity inputs to product systems. Therefore, this article extends ... -
An Extensive Green Bond Market Analysis from 2015 to 2021
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-13)Climate change is indubitably one of the biggest challenges for humanity in the coming decades. While the interest in solving this problem has been increasing recently, the window to minimize the temperature increase to ... -
Extraction of Digital Terrain Models from Airborne Laser Scanning Data based on Transfer-Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)With the rapid urbanization, timely and comprehensive urban thematic and topographic information is highly needed. Digital Terrain Models (DTMs), as one of unique urban topographic information, directly affect subsequent ... -
Exurban land cover and land market evolution: Analysis, review and computational experimentation of spatial and agent heterogeneity from the bottom up
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-25)This dissertation investigates selected empirical and theoretical aspects of land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) in exurban areas. Two challenges – observation and monitoring of LUCC, and spatially explicit modeling, are ... -
Facilitators and barriers to safely managed water and sanitation: A spatio-temporal investigation of the association between socioeconomic factors and shigellosis incidence
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-14)The lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation worldwide has contributed to the occurrence of shigellosis, a waterborne infectious disease. Previous research has shown that shigellosis can be prevented by access ... -
Factors Associated with Rehabilitative Service Use by Adults with Cerebral Palsy in Ontario Home Care
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-30)Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a childhood-onset neurological disorder caused by a non-progressive lesion in the developing brain. It causes permanent motor and movement disorders, and can sometimes cause secondary cognitive, ... -
Factors controlling dissolved oxygen in spawning gravels: Evaluation of the Sediment Intrusion and Dissolved Oxygen model (SIDO) for fisheries management
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-01)Natural and anthropogenic landscape disturbance pressures have accelerated the transfer of fine sediment to streams in forested headwater regions of the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The accumulation of fine ... -
Factors Impacting Housing Tenure Choice of Canadian Young Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-21)Deteriorating housing affordability is a pressing issue in Canada. Whereas there was a sustained housing market correction in the United States after the 2008 global financial crisis, the price of housing in major Canadian ... -
Factors influencing individuals' decision-making during high-risk short-notice disasters: the case study of the August 21st, 2011 Goderich, Ontario tornado
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-23)The hazards literature has identified many factors as being influential in the decision making process during high risk, short-notice disasters. Risk perception and previous disaster experience are commonly identified as ... -
Factors Influencing Landowner Support for Stewardship in the Carolinian Life Zone
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-09)Stewardship is a key tool for the protection of natural areas at the landscape-scale. This is nowhere more evident than in the Carolinian Life Zone of Southern Ontario, where habitat exists for approximately 80% of Canada’s ... -
Fading Inner Suburbs? A Historio-Spatial Analysis of Prosperity Indicators in the Urban Zones of the 15 Largest Census Metropolitan Areas.
(University of Waterloo, 2011-05-16)The possibility of urban decline in metropolitan post-war inner suburbs is currently being examined in the planning literature, particularly in the United States. Inner suburbs are built between 1946 and 1971 and are ... -
‘Fake Meat and Cabbageworms’: Connecting Perceptions of Food Safety and Household Level Food Security in Urban China
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-02)Food security emerged as a term in 1974, and was developed by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization as a strategy to ensure the volume and stability of the global food supply. Since 1974, the internationally ... -
Family Meal Influence on Dietary Quality of Students in Grade Six, Seven, and Eight from Ontario and Nova Scotia
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)In 2004, Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer of Health Report, Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives (Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, 2004) identified the family (as well as the government, food industry, workplaces, schools, ... -
Far from Levelling the Playing Field: Understanding the Gender Differences in Venture Capital Financing in India
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-26)Despite all the government initiatives aimed at empowering women in India, women entrepreneurs continue to face significant financial challenges in the country. The women may gain access to debt capital, but they have ... -
Farmers making sense out of a cartographic landscape: Like a patchwork of clothes, rather than just chunks of... parcels
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-21)Planning maps are not only, as is often silently assumed by planners, neutral technical tools to assist them in their design and analytical tasks or to communicate their findings to others. In complex multi-stakeholder ... -
Feasibility and Initial Efficacy of Home-Based Cardiac Telerehabilitation— A Pilot Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)Background: Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the top health problem all over the world, including China. Home-based rehabilitation after cardiac surgery has been shown to be beneficial. In our study, a clinical study has ... -
The feasibility of field based mechanical compression to reduce the capillary barrier effect and increase CO2 sequestration in a restored cutover peatland
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-28)Ten years after restoration was implemented at the Bois-des-Bel peatland (BdB) in Quebec, there was limited hydrological connectivity between the regenerated Sphagnum moss and the remnant cutover peat due to the formation ... -
Feathered roots and migratory routes: Latin American immigrants and birds
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)In our current age, which some call the Anthropocene, humans experience the combined effects of accelerated human mobility and ecological changes. These changes may affect people’s well-being, including their emotional and ... -
"Feeling out of place suddenly, and you haven't even moved": Food gentrification, alternative foods, and sociospatial justice in Downtown Kitchener, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-15)In recent years, alternative food practices have gained popularity among urban sustainability planners as a way to promote environmentalism and attract affluent residents to the city core. As Slocum (2006) describes, ...