StudentMoveTO: From Insight to Action on Transportation for Post-secondary Students in the GTHA

Co-Principal Investigator: Roger Keil Funding: SSHRC Term: 2017-2021 The StudentMoveTO is a research and partnership project based at Ryerson University focusing on an improved understanding of the travel behaviour of 600,000 post-secondary students in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) in Ontario, Canada. The project explores transportation patterns of post-secondary students, and the potential

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Inundation and Environmental Politics in Southeast Asia

Principal Investigator: Abidin Kusno. Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2016-2021. The research builds on the insights of current scholarship from critical geography and anthropology of infrastructure to make sense of a social formation (such as Jakarta) in which environmental degradation, informality and lack of planning have led to both disaster and opportunities as well as modes of

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Ocean frontiers: An interdisciplinary workshop on the changing contours of marine space and resource access

This two-day workshop, titled “Ocean Frontiers: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Changing Contours of Marine Space and Resource Access,” brought together a network of interdisciplinary scholars to explore the political-economic and ecological dynamics that shape new resource practices in marine zones. The overall goal was to unite social scientists and ecologists to share their understanding

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Economics for the Anthropocene (E4A)

Co-Investigators: Patricia Perkins and Peter Victor. Funding: SSHRC. Term: 2014-2021. Human beings have had such a powerful impact on planetary environmental systems since the Industrial Revolution that scientists say Earth has entered a new geologic age: the Anthropocene, the era of humanity and its effects on Earth. York and University of Vermont are collaborating on

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