by Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, William Quinton The Scotty Creek Research Station (SCRS) is a world-class climate research hub located 50 km south of Fort Simpson, in the Dehcho region of the southwest Northwest Territories, Canada. The station has hosted researchers and students since its establishment in 1999, and helped reveal how permafrost thaw is
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In 2022, the Partnership for Research with African Newcomers (PRAN) was launched with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Consisting of a network of researchers led by Professor Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika from University of Alberta’s Faculty of Arts – Women and Gender Studies, the research team include faculty members from University
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by Adeyemi Olusola, Samuel Ogunjo, and Christiana F. Olusegun SynthesisWe investigated the impacts of six major climate oscillations on river flow at three stations within the Humber catchments (located in Ontario, ON and Newfoundland and Labrador, NL) from 1970 to 2020 using sensitivity and wavelet analyses. Results indicate that the discharge at East Humber River
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Professor Visiting Professor, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (July 1st 2024 to June 30th 2025) Associate Professor & Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine at Al Azhar University Gaza Credentials Post Doctorate in Environmental Sociology, University of Wisconsin – Madison , USA Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Magna cum laude, University of Hohenheim Stuttgart,
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The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is pleased to welcome Visiting Artist-in-Residence Angie Quick this January. Quick is a visual artist based in London, Ontario and her work is featured at York’s Cross Road Gallery until March. Hosted by Andil Gosine, she is part of Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Known for her evocative, emotionally
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by Charles Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tamara Soma For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel. In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,
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by Andrew Reeves I’m the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ecological Macroeconomics and Metrics, working in the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab (IEFLL). My work encompasses several strands of research, all relating to the core assumption of ecological economics: that our economy is an interrelated subset of the natural world. Understanding the economy’s impact on and relationships
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In Fall 2024, EUC hosted an event titled ‘Confronting Scholasticide,’ where visiting professor Dr. Ahmed Abu Shaban recounts the struggles of developing independent Palestinian educational institutions amid the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dr. Shaban, an Associate Professor and Dean at the Al-Azhar University in Gaza, Palestine shares his experiences managing a university while facing considerable barriers. Also
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by Daniela Palma “The truth is, the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water, and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.” – David Attenborough Every day, countless people in Toronto grab a coffee to go, but
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EUC welcomes Professor Joseph Palis as a scholar-in-residence from the Department of Geography at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Palis specializes in cultural geography, media geographies, island and archipelagic geographies as well as film and music geographies. As part of his residency in Toronto, he will undertake research on Filipinos in diaspora and their conceptions
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