Browsing Geography and Environmental Management by Type "Doctoral Thesis"
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The Accessibility of the Jamaican and Aruban All-Inclusive Resorts
(University of Waterloo, 2012-12-19)An impairment is an attribute of an individual whereas the extent to which it is a disability is influenced strongly by the environment in which they operate which is a product of society. This research focuses on people ... -
Activating Values to Enhance e-Participation in Environmental Decision-making
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-26)A participatory modeling approach is designed to connect citizens and decision-makers during the selection of the most appropriate alternative solution to an environmental project based on user values systems. First, a ... -
Adaptive Capacity, Collaboration, and Adaptive Governance: The Galapagos small-scale fishing sector
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Over the last decades, employing adaptive capacity and vulnerability terms to indicate forms of achieving more sustainable goals, particularly in the management of natural resources, has become increasingly frequent. While ... -
An Adaptive Ecosystem Approach to Rehabillitation and Management of the Cooum River Environmental System in Chennai, India
(University of Waterloo, 2000)This research investigates the application of an adaptive ecosystem approach to the problem of the Cooum River and environs in Chennai (formerly Madras), India. The Cooum River is an extremely polluted urban stream that ... -
Addressing groundwater over-extraction in India: assessments, monitoring methods and interventions
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-19)Groundwater is a vast distributed source of water that is critical for meeting the demands of various socio-environmental systems globally. However, the management of groundwater resources has proven to be challenging with ... -
The Agency of Infrastructure: A Critical Acquisition Framework for Understanding Infrastructure Development within Inequitable Societies
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)Infrastructure development is a topic that has occupied a noble niche within development thinking since the middle of the twentieth century. However, despite over half a century of research concerning infrastructure ... -
The Agricultural Community and its Contribution to Collaborative Environmental Problem-Solving
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-23)Collaboration has been proposed as an inclusive forum for bringing together state and non-state stakeholders to deliberate and negotiate solutions to complex environmental problems. A key aspect of collaborative approaches ... -
Alternative Food Networks and Rural Development Initiatives in China: Characterization, Contestations and Interactions
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-08)Agrifood studies have examined the alternativeness, embeddedness and ‘transformative potential’ of various alternative food networks (AFNs) in developed market economies from sociological and geographical perspectives. ... -
Alternative Food Networks with Chinese Characteristics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-18)Scholars studying Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) have struggled with the question of whether these initiatives are a type of entertainment for a few middle class consumers, or the part of a political struggle to configure ... -
Analysis of An Urban Food System Through the Lens of Multi-level Governance: A Case Study of Mzuzu, Malawi
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-02)Urban food systems exist in a paradox – there are large amounts of available food, as well as hungry people. Urban governments are often held responsible for food insecurity in their jurisdiction, however the governance ... -
Application of Integrated Sustainability-based Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA): a Case Study of the Master Planning Process in Dalian, China
(University of Waterloo, 2008-10-27)Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) has gained increasing prominence as a means of accommodating the goals of sustainability in development planning since the 1990s. However, SEA faces considerable difficulties before ... -
Assessing Consistency of Scenarios Across Scales Developing globally linked internally consistent scenarios under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways framework
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-02)In global environmental change research, anticipating the implications of large-scale environmental changes on local development is an important endeavour for mitigating and adapting to difficult challenges. Researchers ... -
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 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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Balancing Interests in Regulatory Institutions: A Comparison of the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL Pipelines
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-20)Canada and the United States are facing crucial decisions about the future of their energy resources. The severity of climate change, increasing salience of the social impacts of fossil fuel development, and mounting calls ... -
Bridging Organizations to Improve Conservation Fit in the Coral Triangle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-12)This dissertation investigates how bridging organizations influence the processes and outcomes of coastal-marine governance and conservation. Novel ways of governing are crucial in conservation to navigate the ‘messiness’ ... -
Bridging the health equity gap: examining the effects of water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) gender-based violence on health and wellbeing in Ghana
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-24)Access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH) is widely recognized as an important pathway to promoting human health and wellbeing. Despite the progress in access to water and sanitation in Low-and Middle-Income Countries ...