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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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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Coming full circle: Indigenous knowledge & climate futures

“The only way to appropriately understand Indigenous Knowledge Systems or Indigenous Knowledges is to establish meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples on their own terms.” – Deborah McGregor What is Indigenous knowledge and how does it contribute to the achievement of UN’s Sustainable Development Goal on climate action? How can the integration of Indigenous knowledge contribute

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Alana Jones

About Alana Jones Alana Jones is the Founder and Executive Director at Borden Place Inc. We caught up with Alana, who shared with us her experience at EUC and her journey post-graduation, which includes forming Borden Place Inc., her own registered non-profit charitable organization formed out of community advocacy and necessity. Their vision was simple:

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Classroom – HNES 104

Rabia Munir

About Rabia Munir Rabia is currently working as Associate Development Manager at GWL Realty Advisors. She has experience with urban planning, quantitative and qualitative research, and building construction. Rabia draws on past projects and education to develop creative solutions to contemporary projects. Could you share how you decided on the stream that you’d be focusing

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Land assembly, financialization and agriculture in Canada’s North

by Sarah Rotz Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on a hitherto neglected topic: The expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country’s north. Focusing on the intertwined processes of capitalist frontier-making, large-scale land assembly, and financialization, she engages with the questions of whether such processes reify settler colonial land

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