IPEE course highlights land-based learning and practice,collaborative and critical engagement
Every year since 1991, York University has hosted the International Political Economy and Ecology (IPEE) Summer School organized by the Graduate Programs in Environmental Studies, Geography (Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change) and Politics (Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies). The IPEE Summer School presents a unique interdisciplinary opportunity ...
Understanding how and why environmental geohazards are impacting ecosystem sensitivity across Canada
Adeyemi Olusola and Joshua Thienpont Our planet’s surface is constantly being reshaped by natural processes and occurring on a range of timescales. Today, however, human activities are accelerating these changes faster than ever before. To better understand these rapid shifts, EUC Professors Adeyemi Olusola and Joshua Thienpont from York University’s ...
Podcast dives into the deep relationships between Indigenous languages and ecological knowledge
Tania Willard and Lisa Myers The Sounds Like Land (SLL) podcast officially launched in March 2025. Created by York Research Chair in Indigenous art and curatorial practice, Associate Professor Lisa Myers and Tania Willard, a Secwépemc and settler artist/curator whose research intersects with land-based art practices, the podcast dives into ...
International Working Group seeks to address the severe environmental degradation in Nigeria’s Bayelsa State
IWG members from left to right: Michael Watts, Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, Engobo Emeseh, Anna Zalik, Emem Okon, Isaac Asume Osuoka. In May 2026, the International Working Group (IWG) on Petroleum Pollution and Just Transition in the Niger Delta held a week of activities that included a town hall meeting and engagement ...
Advancing climate resilience through AI, geophysics, and geotechnics
Adedibu Sunny Akingboye EUC recently welcomed Dr. Adedibu Sunny Akingboye as a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellow, collaborating with Dr. Adeyemi Olusola on interdisciplinary research that integrates geotechnical engineering, artificial intelligence, and environmental systems. His work focuses on understanding how climate-related hazards, particularly flooding, influence both surface and subsurface conditions, shaping ...
Ethnic political identities, multicultural policies, and land rights in Northern Chile
by Ximena Cecilia Martinez Trabucco The materiality of land is ductile, not simply because tectonic forces shift the Earth’s plates or because the interaction of water and soil continuously reshapes the landscape, but because land acquires different valences and uses across time and among different actors. Under Dr. Carlota McAllister’s ...
Teetering on the edge of surplus: Neurodivergent work, social reproduction, and bodyminds in the Ontario labour market
by Anna Grace Pawliw-Fry Anna Grace Pawliw-Fry Discriminated against within employment, ND workers put in a lot of work to make work possible. They take up many ‘teetering’ behaviours to cope. These are protective but also unsustainable, causing high temporal, financial, social, and mental costs and, at times, pushing workers ...
“You can’t say, ‘bye cows it’s too cold’”: Multidimensional precarities and the ruralization of im/migrant workers’ lived experience in southern Alberta feedlots
by J. Lawrenz Decano My father moved to Canada almost twenty years ago as a temporary foreign worker (TFW). Nearing the end of his employment contract, the animal shelter that recruited him and other Filipino migrant workers refused to offer them support to become permanent residents despite initial promises to ...
The demise of Trudeau’s promising carbon pricing policy
By Gurneet Singh This research was presented at the inaugural Undergraduate Research Fair at EUC and received an Honourable Mention. In a world of unprecedented environmental destruction and a looming climate crisis, successful policies mean the difference between decisions that bring us closer to or farther from a sustainable existence ...
Circular Innovation Hub: Driving evidence-based change
Calvin Lakhan The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University is home to the Living Lab Circular Innovation Hub, a leading initiative advancing circular economy and waste research in Canada. Through applied and collaborative work, the Hub brings together academia, industry, and government to support more informed and ...