| Improving Accessibility of Research Ethics Boards for Community-Based Research in Canada | |
| Co-Investigators: | Sarah Flicker, Robb Travers (Laurier), Stephanie Ann Nixon (UofT), Jacqueline Gahagan (Dalhousie), Catherine Anne Worthington (UCalgary), Louise Binder (CTAC), Adrian Guta, UofT, and Mike Wilson (OHTN) |
| Agency: | CIHR |
| Terms: | 2008-2011 |
Description: |
The research aims to provide a platform that advocates for a dual focus on community and individual rights in community-based research (CBR) that respects multiple ethical norms and traditions. Reviews of current Research Ethics Board (REB) practices are conducted in Canada to explore common HIV/AIDS related CBR ethical dilemmas and to develop and pilot test an assessment tool for CBR ethics review. |
| Memory, Urban Violence and Performance in Jamaica | |
| Investigator: | Honor Ford-Smith |
| Agency: | SSHRC |
| Term: | 2008-2011 |
Description: |
The research aims to document ways in which communities perform their responses to violence in practices of remembering and forgetting. It will also review these performances against official responses to national inquiries and media reports, as well as analyze the relationship between performed practices of remembering and forgetting in the reproduction of urban violence |
| From Rubble to Refuge: Ecological Restoration and the Aggregate Product Cycle in Toronto, Canada | |
| Investigator: | Jennifer Foster |
| Collaborator: | Anders Sandberg |
| Agency: | SSHRC |
| Terms: | 2008-2012 |
Description: |
The research aims to advance knowledge and understanding of the relationship between urban industrialization and environment naturalization in the GTA. It uses the aggregate product cycle as a case study to explore the reconstitution of the urban landscape and the ways aesthetic conceptualizations of urban space affect conversion of industrial sites into ecological habitats. |
| Environmental Assessment Processes of Canadian Frontier Oil and Gas | |
| Co-Investigators: | Gail Fraser, Anna Zalik and Angela Carter (Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
| Agency: | SSHRC |
| Term: | 2009-2012 |
Description: |
The project aims to create a pan-Canadian network for communities to share information and experiences about oil and gas developments and to provide analysis to inform environmental policy at the provincial and federal levels. The mentoring of graduate students involved in the project will serve to train the next generation of critical Canadian oil scholars. |
| Global Suburbanisms: Governance, Land, and Infrastructure in the 21st century | |
| Co-Investigators: | Roger Keil (York), Ute Lehrer (York), Lisa Drummond (York), Shubhra Gururani (York), Douglas Young (York), Fulong Wu (Cardiff), Jill Grant (Dalhousie), Richard Harris, (McMaster), Zhigang Li (Sun Yat-sen University), Jochen Monstadt (Technische Universitat Darmstadt), Jamie Peck (UBC), Elvin Wyly (UBC), Pierre Hamel (University of Montreal), Nick Phelps (University College London), Rob Shields (University of Alberta), Jan Nijman (University of Miami), Solomon Benjamin (National Institute of Advanced Studies), Pierre Filion (University of Waterloo), Alan Mabin (University of Witwatersrand), Robin Bloch (University of Wolverhampton), Sonia Hirt (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), and Paul Knox (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) |
| Colaborators: | Liette Gilbert (York), Stefan Kipfer (York), Laam Hae (York), Karl Schmid (York), Julie-Anne Boudreau, (Institut national de la recherche scientifique - INRS), Anne Rademacher (New York University), Christian Schmid (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Ludger Basten (Technische Universitat Dortmund), Matthias Bernt (Universitat Leipzig), Dirk Heinrichs (Universitat Leipzig), Byron Miller (UCalgary), George Owusu (University of Ghana), David Wilson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Richard Milgrom (University of Manitoba), Per Gunnar Roe (University of Oslo), Caroline Andrew (UOttawa), Deborah Cowen (UofT), Phuc To (UofT), Alan Walks (UofT), Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly (University of Victoria), Mark Whitehead (University of Wales, Aberystwyth), and Alison Todes (University of Witwatersrand). |
| Agency: | SSHRC |
| Term: | 2010-2017 |
Description: |
Based on the experience of Canadian suburbanization, but ranging from North America’s wealthy gated communities to Europe’s high-rise-dominated suburbs, the exploding outskirts of Indian and Chinese cities to the slums and squatter settlements of Africa and Latin America, this project is the first to systematically take stock of worldwide suburban developments while analyzing their governance models, land use, infrastructure and suburban everyday life. |
| Environmental Stewardship and Product Branding - Modeling GWP Reductions Associated with Sub-Watershed - Wide Transition to Organic Farming | |
| Co-Investigators: | Rod MacRae and Martin Bunch |
| Agency: | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) subgrant) |
| Term: | 2010-2012 |
Description: |
This project is a co-application with NSAC for AAFC’s Organic Science Cluster research program. Rod and Martin are collaborating on a project on environmental stewardship and product branding to model global warming potential reductions associated with watershed transition to organic farming. |
| Effects of Experimental Sulfate Additions on Nutrient Cycling, Cyanobacterial Abundunce and Mercury Methylation Lake 227, Experimental Lakes Area | |
| Investigator: | Lewis Molot |
| Agency: | NSERC |
| Term: | 2009-2012 |
Description: |
The research aims to assess the effect of sulphate levels on several impacts associated with excessive fertilization of lakes. The study is conducted in a remote, fishless lake in northwestern Ontario’s Experimental Lakes Area. Sulphate is believed to play a key role in regulating various microbial processes in North American lakes and differences in sulphate concentrations may explain variance among individual lakes. |
| Predicting the Influence of Mixing Hydrodynamics and Food Web Structure on Spatial Variability of Phosphorous Concentrations in Lake Simcoe | |
| Investigator: | Lewis Molot |
| Agencies: | Environment Canada (EC)/Ontario Ministry of Environment (ENE) |
| Term: | 2009-2012 |
Description: |
The project applies lessons learned in developing the Estuary and Lake Computer Model (ELCOM) hydrodynamic 3D model and Computational Aquatic Ecosystem Dynamics (CAEDYM) biological/biogeochemical models for Lakes Erie and Ontario to
Lake Simcoe. It examines the effects of climate change, biological community structure and phosphorus concentrations on oxygen depletion offshore and macrophyte growth and fish habitat inshore. |
| York-MOE Partnership on Lake Simcoe | |
| Investigator: | Lewis Molot |
| Agency: | NSERC |
| Term: | 2009-2014 |
Description: |
The project aims to develop and enhance understanding of the ecological issues pertaining to Lake Simcoe to protect, improve or restore the elements that contribute to the ecological health of its watershed, including water quality, hydrology, heritage, and hydrologic features and functions. (Wikimedia Commons file photo) |
| Particulate Organic Carbon (POC) Formation and Phosphorus/Iron Supply Ratios Along pH and Trophic Gradients in Lakes | |
| Investigator: | Lewis Molot |
| Agency: | SSHRC |
| Term: | 2001-2013 |
Description: |
This is an extended research project on particulate organic carbon formation and production of labile iron in boreal streams to a broader range of lake and stream types along trophic and pH gradients. The project is intended to provide critical biogeochemical information that is directly relevant to climate change scientists, freshwater ecologists and environmental managers (Wikimedia Commons file photo). |
| Strengthening the Role of Civil Society in Water Sector Governance Towards Climate Change Adaptation in African Cities: Durban, Maputo and Nairobi | |
| Investigator: | Ellie Perkins |
| Collaborators: | University of Kwazulu-Natal, University of Nairobi, Eduardo Mondlane University, Community Development Foundation, IUCN Mozambique, Jubilee South Africa. |
| Agency: | International Development Research Centre (IDRC) - Climate Change Adaptation in Africa |
| Term: | 2010-2013 |
Description: |
This CCAA research and capacity development program links civil society organizations, universities, local governments, students, and low-income community groups in the search for governance structures that enable civil society groups to play an active part in urban water governance and urban water policy making. The project will open up opportunity for learning and capacity building of civil society organizations in the three cities to address climate change vulnerabilities in urban Africa. |
| Modeling Forest Fires and Area Burned for Sustainable Forest Management | |
| Investigator: | Justin Podur |
| Agency: | NSERC |
| Term: | 2008-2012 |
Description: |
The research aims to provide an improved understanding of fire activity under climate change and fire suspension as well as to contribute to a more informed decision making-processes for sustainable development in forest management. |
| Social Sustainability, Diversity, and Public Space in Three Canadian Cities | |
| Co-Investigators: | Barbara Rahder (Principal Investigator), Liette Gilbert, Ranu Basu, Susan McGrath, and Patricia Wood (Co-Applicants) |
| Agency: | SSHRC |
| Term: | 2006-2010 (Extended: 2011) |
Description: |
The project uses participatory research to examine how well urban public spaces are actually meeting the needs of diverse communities in Canada, and how planning for social sustainability and diversity might better address the needs of a diverse urban populace. The project involves diverse low-income communities in Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary in exploring their experiences and perceptions of public space, mapping the opportunities and barriers they encounter within the city, and articulating what needs to change to promote a more equitable and sustainable urban future. |
| Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Sustainability and Culture | |
| Investigator: | Catriona Sandilands |
| Agency: | Canada Research Chairs |
| Term: | 2004-2014 |
Description: |
The CRC aims to develop an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability and culture – investigating relations between environmental literature and environmental politics. The research emphasizes writing as an analytical realm and research tool to explore environmental cultures and conflicts – probing humanities’ contribution to sustainability and role of literary activity in promoting and extending the environmental public sphere. |
| Predator-Prey Interactions in Dynamic Arctic Ecosystems | |
| Investigator: | Greg Thiemann |
| Agency: | NSERC |
| Term: | 2008-2013 |
Description: |
The research aims to identify the natural and anthropogenic factors that influence predator foraging over multiple temporal and spatial scales. It will produce improved and innovative methods for studying the foraging habits of free-ranging predators (i.e., polar bears, wolves and wolverines). |
| Normative Application for Ecological Economics and the Tools for Its Assessment | |
| Investigator: | Peter Victor |
| Agency: | SSHRC-McGill subgrant |
| Term: | 2010-2012 |
Description: |
The research examines the relationship between complexity and ethics within the general framework of the moral foundations of ecological economics. The project will update and extend the macroeconomic model LowGrow, including re-specification and/or re-estimation of equations with a capacity to represent Canada’s ‘fair’ share of planetary boundaries, disaggregation of investment, and explicit representation of the financial sector. |