EUC researchers study how social power relations are entwined with environmental processes. This includes contexts such as food production, extractive industries, vulnerability to the climate crisis, and urbanization. Current funded projects take our researchers to contexts as diverse as Indigenous communities and urban peripheries in Canada, the forests of Costa Rica, river valleys in Chile, conservation areas and cities in Southern Africa, and the fishing ports of Southeast Asia.
Representative faculty members: Birch, Brand Correa, Bunch, Fawcett, Foster, Hovorka, Kapoor, Keil, Kipfer, Kusno, MacRae, McAllister, McGregor, Montoya, Mulvihill, Perkins, Podur, Rotz, Sandberg, Scott, Stiegman, Vandergeest, Warkentin, Wood, Zalik
Projects
Researcher Spotlights
Ilan Kapoor
Professor Ilan Kapoor’s research centers on the politicization of global development: showing how it is contested, and opening it up to debate.
Martha Stiegman
Professor Martha Stiegman’s interdisciplinary research is community-based, facilitating dialog within and across communities to strengthen their capacity for action.
Sarah Rotz
Professor Sarah Rotz’s academic and organizing work is grounded in environmental justice with a focus on land and food systems.
Nilanjana (Nell) Ganguli
Nilanjana (Nell) Ganguli is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. Her research focuses on modelling the gendered health impacts of climate change using a combination of community participatory methods and soft systems methodologies.
Kürşad Atalay
Kürşad Atalay is a visiting scholar at EUC through York’s International Visiting Research Trainee (IVRT) program. His research is focused on social and ecological impacts of extractivist activities in Canada and Turkey.
Laura Tanguay
Laura Tanguay is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Her research focuses on consent mechanisms in nuclear waste siting processes in the Canadian landscape.
