Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental Disasters; Environment and Health; Environmental Sociology.
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Conflict management; Environmental impact assessment; Environmental planning; Integrated resource planning and management; Public participation; Social impact assessment; Urban planning; Facility siting processes.
Professor and Community Arts Practice Certificate Coordinator
Areas of Academic Interest: Community-engaged and activist art; Agri-food sustainability and local/global food movements; Popular education for social and environmental justice; Diverse epistemologies and ways of knowing; Participatory methodologies; Transnational activism (especially in the Americas).
Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research
Areas of Academic Interest: Decision support in GIS; web-distributed GIS; ecosystem approaches; problems of developing area cities (particularly in India); adaptive management; urban development; urban environmental management; complex systems; systems approaches to problem solving.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental and agricultural ethics and philosophy; Spirituality, ethics, and nature; Philosophy of time and technology.
Lecturer
Areas of Academic Interest: Indigenous Research Methodologies; Spiritual Pedagogies; Indigenous Education; Environmental Justice; Cross-cultural Spaces; Research Ethics and Protocols.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Indigenous politics, history and policy; Globalization; Comparative political development and political behaviour; Social movements.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Climate Change Mitigation; International and National Renewable Energy Policies; Rural Electrification; Educational and Capacity Development Networks; New Media and Communications.
Associate Professor, Associate Dean Students and Graduate Diploma in Environmental/Sustainability Education Coordinator
Areas of Academic Interest: Bioregionalism, Community Development and Food; Ecology & Environmental Science; Environmental & Cultural Studies; Environmental Education; Gender & Environments; Globalization & International Development; Sustainability.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health; Community based participatory research; HIV/AIDS; Community Development.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Performance and social movements; Race, gender, nation and colonialism and post-colonialism; Caribbean societies and their diasporas; Community and environmental arts and education.
Associate Professor, Urban Ecologies Certificate Coordinator and Visiting Associate Professor, Géographie et Aménagement, Université Paris Sorbonne
Areas of Academic Interest: Urban planning and design; Ecological restoration and habitat creation; Environmental aesthetics; Deindustrialized space; Landscape ecology; Political ecology.
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
Areas of Academic Interest: Ecology (avian, aquatic, behavioral, marine, terrestrial); Wildlife management; Protected areas management; Extractive industries: oil and gas.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Citizenship (multicultural cities and identities; politics of difference in the city; neoliberalisation of immigration policy; social justice, media representations of immigration and multiculturalism, and North American border politics); Urban and Environmental Politics (planning, design and urbanism; exurban growth and environmental conservation; political ecology of landscapes; and environmental justice).
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Critical Development Studies; Participatory development and democracy/democratic theory; Postcolonial theory/politics and cultural studies; Celebrity humanitarianism/celebrity culture; Ideology critique (drawing on psychoanalytic Marxism); Social/environmental movements in the North and South; 'New' critiques of development (ecological, postdevelopment, postmarxist, feminist, anti-racist, non-western, postcolonial).
Professor and Director, The City Institute at York University
Areas of Academic Interest: Global Suburbanism; Urban Governance; Global Cities; Infectious Disease and Cities; Urban Infrastructures; Urban Political Ecology.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Theories of society, politics and the city; Comparative urban-regional politics and planning; Urban social movements and restructuring; Colonization, racialization and urbanization in post-colonial times; Suburbanization, territorial relations and regional planning; Public housing: gentrification, privatization and redevelopment.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Intercultural views on northern climate change; Ecological worldviews, religion and eco-humanities; Colonial and indigenous knowledges in Canada; Environmental education; Interdisciplinarity in Canadian Environmental Studies.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Cities and Globalization; Economic Restructuring and Urban Form; Political Economy of the Built Environment; Theory and History of Planning, Urban Design and Architecture; Built Environment, Ethnicity and Immigration to Urban Area; Global Suburbanisms.
Associate Professor and MES Program Coordinator
Areas of Academic Interest: Federal food policy making; Regulatory frameworks for pesticide and GE crops; Demand - supply management in the food system; Strategies to localize the food and agriculture system; Farm environmental goods and services payments.
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Photochemical formation of particulate organic carbon in lakes; Fe control of cyanobacterial blooms in lakes.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Future of the environmental movement; Environmental assessment; Scenario planning; Environmental history; Northern Canada; Rural and ex-urban places; China.
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: International trade; Trade and environment; Ecological economics; Community economic development; Metal markets and trade; Debt, poverty, and environmental degradation; Women, ecology and economics.
Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, and GIS and Remote Sensing Certificate Coordinator
Areas of Academic Interest: Forest Fires; Climate Change; Mathematical Modeling; Landscape Ecology; Alternative media.
Professor and Dean of Environmental Studies
Areas of Academic Interest: Urban and community planning history, theory, and practice; Community development and access to public space; Social equity, diversity, and change; Women and environments; Participatory planning and research.
Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Faculty Council
Areas of Academic Interest: Relationship between economics and the natural world focusing on critiques of conservation and development; Application of social theory to the environmental crisis; Cultural studies.
Professor in Environmental Studies and Law, Joint Appointed with Osgoode Hall Law School
Areas of Academic Interest: Communications; Law, science and technology policy standards; Regulation and public policy; Language and political controversies.
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Politics of science and planning; Gentrification of conservation; Pedagogies of space and place; Political economies and ecologies of natural resources; Climate/environmental justice; Sustainability and social democracy; Forest, environmental and conservation history.
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainability and Culture
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental cultural studies; Environmental/ecological literary criticism, environmental writing; Sexuality, gender and environments: queer ecologies, ecological feminisms; Nature and environment in social and political thought.
Associate Professor, Osgoode Coordinator MES/JD Joint Program, Joint Appointed with Osgoode Hall Law School and Director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health.
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental Justice; Globalization/Localization; Critical Sociology of Risk; Trends in Regulation and Governance.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Computer modeling and simulation; Ecological modeling; Nuclear and toxic waste disposal; Risk analysis; Influence of computer technology on culture and society; Facility siting processes.
Associate Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental Education; Environmental thought and First Nations tradition; Folk culture; Media technology and oral cultures; Educational reform on environmental models.
Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Nature Politics: politics of nature in urban expansion; culture/nature studies/ conversation planning (nature politics); Exurban and suburban studies: processes and discourses of landscape settlement and landscape conservation; urban-rural fringe; urban dispersion; sprawl (exurban and suburban studies); Cultural landscape studies: political negotiation of landscape meaning and values; textual landscapes; visual culture studies (cultural landscape studies).
Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Arctic ecosystems; Food web ecology; Wildlife conservation; Resource management; Animal physiology.
Associate Professor, Graduate Diploma in Business & the Environment Coordinator and Chair, Faculty Council
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental ethics; Environmental conflict; Coastal city management.
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Ecological economics; Environmental policy.
Professor and Planning Programs Coordinator
Areas of Academic Interest: Growth, urbanization, sprawl and nature; Public policy, local government and local politics; Social movements; Urban agriculture; Gender and the neoliberal city.
Professor
Areas of Academic Interest: Resource and environmental management; Recreation/tourism geography; Recreation/tourism planning and management; Parks and protected area management.
Associate Professor and MES/JD Program Coordinator
Areas of Academic Interest: Environmental Policy; Environmental Law; Sustainable Energy; Urban Sustainability; Climate Change Policy.
Associate Professor and International Student Advisor
Areas of Academic Interest: Critical Development Studies/International Aid Industry; Critical Geopolitics of the oil industry focusing on the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa; Political Economy, Comparative Historical Studies, Post-Coloniality.
