Last year, judges at the 28th International Berkeley Springs WaterTasting competition deemed the best bottled water in the world to be an Australian brand “infused with the sound frequencies of love, the moon, and light spectrums of the rainbow”.
All signs point toward a future affected by climate change.
From higher temperatures to droughts and more extreme weather, experts are searching for ways to sustain our growing population, as well as our planet.
Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Catherine McKenna, has announced recipients of the highly competitive “Advancing Climate Change Science in Canada” initiative. Of the nine recipients announced today, two projects led by Waterloo researchers were selected for funding over three years.
In a new paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Policy, authors Tariq Aziz and Water Institute member Philippe Van Cappellen compare the spatial distribution and use intensity across Southern Ontario of a bundle of six ecosystem services: water provisioning and supply, water quality, carbon sequestration, carbon storage, flood regulation, and nature-based tourism.
Dr. Homa Kheyrollah Pour, a member of Ecohydrology research group, has been named the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change and will join the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU) starting July 1st, 2019. Homa is an expert in using satellite observations and field data to study cold regions hydrology.
For resource managers charged with maintaining important assets like croplands or fisheries, quantitative modelling is a critical tool. But these sophisticated decision-support models often overlook an essential element of resource management: governance.
In a new study, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, experts and stakeholders, shows that discounting factors of governance could fundamentally compromise the models officials rely on to inform sound resource management strategies.
