Ghanaian researchers visit York for collaborative project on women's health and trade

The Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change recently hosted a renowned group of visitors from Ghana as part of an ongoing collaboration, marking a significant step in their collaborative project under the IDRC Women RISE initiative. The partnership focuses on action-oriented, gender-transformative research exploring improved understanding of an insufficiently known livelihood activity for women, increased

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Bringing degrowth to York University

From Fall 2023-Summer 2024, a series of monthly webinars titled "Aim High, Degrow: Dialogues on Degrowth" was held that brought together degrowth scholars from various countries with EUC faculty as moderators for virtual discussions on degrowth. The seminars explored definitions and reflections on degrowth, key debates in this emerging academic field and social movement, and

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Shallow depths: Anomalies of consent in nuclear waste siting

by Laura Tanguay Nuclear energy is often touted as a critical solution to decarbonize our day-to-day lives. Walking through the city of Toronto, you’ll see Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG) posters plastered as part of the “recast nuclear” campaign, which is centered on the premise that the nuclear industry’s bad reputation is a consequence of pop

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Shaping climate philanthropy through cellphilm making

What do you get when you combine cellphones, filmmaking and intention? “Cellphilm making”, according to MES candidate, Lauren Castelino. As a young racialized climate justice activist aspiring to secure funding for her grassroots activism, projects and nonprofit organizations, Castelino sought to focus on inequities within the realm of climate philanthropy for her major research project.

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Integrating real-world case studies highlighting the impacts of climate change and market systems on vulnerable communities

EUC warmly welcomes Dr. Ahmed Abu Shaban as a visiting professor from July 2024 to June 2025. Dr. Shaban brings a wealth of knowledge and over 15 years of academic experience in environmental sociology, climate change, green circular economy, and the socioeconomics of rural development. An Associate Professor and Dean at Al-Azhar University in Gaza,

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Sindy Singh

About Sindy Singh Sindy Singh (she/her) (BES ’09, MES ’13) has dedicated over a decade to environmental management and climate change. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, she now resides in Queens, New York, though her heart remains tied to her upbringing in South Trinidad. Her education at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC)

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Vertical peripheries and the embodied costs of social housing financialization

By Luisa Sotomayor Over the last two decades, the Colombian government has developed a national housing policy of low-cost and privately built Social Interest Housing or “VIS” housing (as per its Spanish acronym).  Following the example of the Chilean model, the Colombian policy provides housing subsidies and discounted mortgage rates to the demand, specifically, to

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Multi-institutional research team led by York finds innovative ways of tracking polar bears in the Arctic

A multi-institutional research team led by York University has developed and tested three different “Burr on Fur” prototypes to study their effectiveness in studying and tracking polar bears. The paper, Telemetry without collars: Performance of fur- and ear-mounted satellite tags for evaluating the movement and behavior of polar bears, published in Animal Biotelemetry, details the first

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Revitalizing preemptive power by investigating the housing policies and the development dynamics of Toronto and Ottawa-Gatineau

Sébastien Lambelet has joined the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) and The CITY Institute as a postdoctoral fellow since February 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Roger Keil. Before that, he was a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where he also obtained

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Understanding the particularities of how queer urban ecologies have taken shape in Toronto

by Loren March While there have been many studies on queer geographies and geographies of sexualities in the city of Toronto, these have – with some notable exceptions (for example Sandilands & Hobbs 2013) – tended not to focus on urban ecologies or more-than-human worlds. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Environmental and

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