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Assessing hydrometeorological controls on subalpine plant community evapotranspiration and evaluating the METRIC method using high-resolution UAV imagery in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-06)Subalpine wetlands in the Canadian Rocky Mountains function as buffers for snowmelt runoff towards downstream systems and communities. However, hydrological regimes are changing rapidly in these ecosystems due to climate ... -
Assessing Local Community Involvement in Tourism Development around a Proposed World Heritage Site in Jerash, Jordan
(University of Waterloo, 2016-11-04)Research on community involvement in development has been conducted in diverse fields of study including planning, geography, community development, anthropology, and others. In the disciplines of tourism, many attempts ... -
Assessing the challenges and potential of implementing composting as part of a municipal solid waste management system in Baisha, Hainan, China
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-24)China currently produces the largest quantity of municipal solid waste (MSW) in the world at 190, 000, 000 metric tones (World Bank 2005). China faces the continuing challenge of increased waste generation due to population ... -
Assessing the Circulation Response to Snow Albedo Feedback in Climate Change
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-19)Snow Albedo Feedback (SAF) in response to climate change is a process that can amplify the climate warming response to increases in anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 concentrations from the 20th to the 21st Century. Warmer ... -
Assessing the Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Caribbean using Geographic Information Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Numerous studies project that climate change will accelerate the rise in global sea levels, leading to increased coastal inundation, greater potential damage from storm surge events, beach erosion and other coastal impacts ... -
Assessing the Influence and Effectiveness of Watershed Report Cards on Watershed Management: A Study of Watershed Organizations in Canada
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-28)The concept and practice of watershed management have evolved since the early twentieth century and continue to change. Contemporary watershed management, as a means to improve environmental, social, and economic well-being, ... -
Assessing the influence of canopy snow parameterizations on snow albedo feedback in boreal forest regions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-09)Variation in snow albedo feedback (SAF) among CMIP5 climate models has been shown to explain much of the variation in projected 21st Century warming over Northern Hemisphere land. Prior studies using observations and models ... -
Assessing the Performance of Two Stormwater Management Ponds in Waterloo, Ontario
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-07)Stormwater (SW) runoff in urban areas represents a major pathway for pollutant transfer to receiving waters. Best management practices (BMP) were introduced in the 1970s to help mitigate the negative effects of SW. In the ... -
Assessing the role of tree growth patterns on the spatial variability of evapotranspiration on a subalpine transition zone in Kananaskis, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-28)Canada’s Rocky Mountains provide a large and essential supply of freshwater to downstream ecosystems and communities. Previous research has demonstrated that warmer temperatures, associated with climate change, are expected ... -
Assessing the Use of Government Open Data and the Role of Data Infomediaries The Case of Nova Scotia’s Community Counts Program
(Center for E-Government, 2016)This study examines the Nova Scotia Community Counts program, a common platform that aggregates data from many sources mirroring what is generally considered as government open data. The role of Community Counts as a data ... -
Assessment of Affordable Housing Options using Collaborative Geospatial Software
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-03)The scale of the affordable housing problem in Canada is enormous and the situation is worsening due to a number of recent social trends. Continued wealth inequality, an aging population, increased immigration, changing ... -
Assessment of Drivers of Algal Biomass in North American Great Lakes via Satellite Remote Sensing
(University of Waterloo, 2024-04-02)Lakes are regarded as sentinels of change, where shifts in environmental conditions significantly affect lake phenology. A significant consequence of the change is the perceived increase in the frequency, magnitude, and ... -
Assessment of remotely piloted aircraft data classification of wetland vegetation communities and changes in their pattern with elevation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-11-01)Wetlands host a myriad of services both to the environment and society. While the provision of those services are partly dependent on the terrestrial plant communities that both comprise and are adjacent to a wetland, ... -
Assessment of the Emission Trading Policy: A case study for the Acid Rain Program in the United States
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Various environmental standards have been established for the sake of public health and ecosystem diversity since environmental awareness was awakened in the late 1960s. However, the results were often unsatisfactory. ... -
Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in the MESH Model
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-25)Soil moisture information is critically important to weather, climate, and hydrology forecasts since the wetness of the land strongly affects the partitioning of energy and water at the land surface. Spatially distributed ... -
Associations between Greenspace and street Crimes in Toronto: Evidence from a spatial analysis study at dissemination area level
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-03)Introduction: Earlier criminologists have explored various factors generating or attracting crime in urban cities coupled with crime studies focusing on the influence of social, built and natural environments in urban ... -
At the Intersection of People, Politics, and Protected Areas: A Mixed Methods Case Study on the Human Dimensions of Conservation in the Buffer Zone of Chitwan National Park, Nepal
(University of Waterloo, 2015-10-05)Protected areas impinge on the livelihoods of people, especially in the Global South. In Nepal, a constellation of conservation initiatives including, and tangential to, Chitwan National Park (CNP) have a polarizing ... -
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition and nitrogen dynamics of a reclaimed fen-upland in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region, Alberta
(University of Waterloo, 2021-09-03)Surface mining in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region (AOSR) has resulted in the alteration of over 895 km2 of wetland and forest ecosystems in the Western Boreal Plain (WBP) of northeastern Alberta. After surface mining ceases, ... -
Automated Extraction of 3D Building Windows from Mobile LiDAR Data
(University of Waterloo, 2016-03-28)The three-dimensional (3D) city models have gained more and more attentions because of their considerable potential applications at present. In particular, the demands for Level of Detail (LoD) building models become urgent. ... -
Automated Extraction of Road Information from Mobile Laser Scanning Data
(University of Waterloo, 2014-02-20)Effective planning and management of transportation infrastructure requires adequate geospatial data. Existing geospatial data acquisition techniques based on conventional route surveys are very time consuming, labor ...