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Understanding climate justice focus of EUC field course

Understanding climate justice focus of EUC field course

Over the summer, undergraduate student changemakers in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) will hone their knowledge of climate justice issues through a unique experiential education opportunity with Professor P.E. Perkins, an internationally renowned climate justice thought leader. By Elaine Smith York undergraduate students will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in climate justice

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Global warning: greenhouse gases must be cut to limit climate change

Global warning: greenhouse gases must be cut to limit climate change

Deep cuts to global greenhouse gases are imperative to mitigate climate change and keep global warming in check, says a report released by Working Group III of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). York University Professor Patricia Perkins of the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is a lead author of a new chapter

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Ecological Economics, Commons Governance, and Climate Justice

Ecological Economics, Commons Governance, and Climate Justice

Principal Investigator: Patricia Ellie Perkins. Funding: QES/Universities Canada. Term: 2018-2021. This Climate Justice Project aims to build a research network of 18 or more low and middle-income-country (LMIC) and Canadian emerging scholars (PhD researchers and post-doctoral fellows) working to address the injustices resulting from global climate change through participatory democratic governance. It will also introduce

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Sustaining the Commons: Ideas and Actions for a Green Economy

Sustaining the Commons: Ideas and Actions for a Green Economy

The Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE) held its 2013 biennial conference from October 31-November 2, 2013 at York University. The theme of the conference was "Sustaining the Commons: Ideas and Actions for a Green Economy." The "commons" is homage to the late Elinor Ostrom, an ecological economist and Nobel Laureate who pioneered work on

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