Calvin Lakhan, PhD and Co-Investigator, Waste Wiki Project Eco-modulation is a term that is gaining significant traction in recent legislative discussions surrounding extended producer responsibility for packaging waste. While eco-modulation is not a new concept, its application to managing end of life packaging waste is still in its relative naissancey. This article attempts to shed […]
by Kennedy Halvorson My MES research partnered with Semaa (Nicotiana rustica; Goodspeed, 1954), a species of wild tobacco, to better understand the dynamics of their nectar secretion and reveal potential pollinator associations. This research is part of Finding Flowers, an interdisciplinary project of Drs. Lisa Myers and Sheila Colla that integrates art, ecology and education […]
How is violence targeted at people leaving Northern Central America to southern Mexico gendered? How do migrant women navigate and contest this violence? And what is the relationship between spectacularized representations of displaced peoples’ lives, bodies and actions and conventional geopolitics of displacement in the Americas? These are questions that SSHRC and GFAD doctoral candidate […]
Polar bears in Ontario are at the southern limit of their species’ range. As part of the Southern Hudson Bay subpopulation, these roughly 800 bears migrate onto land when the sea ice of Hudson Bay melts completely each summer. On shore, polar bears primarily fast and rely on stored fat for energy. With increasing global […]
by Mark Winfield Major wars are often watershed moments in history. Their outcomes define governance structures, politics and policy directions for decades, even centuries, to come. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine already seems certain to have these kinds of effects at the national, regional and global scales. The invasion has quickly come to dominate political and […]
The 15-minute city urban development is an approach which comprises compact and transit-oriented development, mixed-use, smart and strategic growth. It focuses on meeting all the requirements that a person would need within a 15- to 20-minute radius of their household. The main goal of Mariyan Boychev’s MES major paper is to appraise the adoption of […]
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children - Native American Proverb What factors contribute to the vulnerability of Canadian children and youth to climate change? How can education and other factors enhance and promote their adaptive capacity? To what extent is Canada’s education system enhancing students’ climate […]
by Wesley Wu The Boreal Disturbance Database (BorealDB) is a spatial database constructed by Ouellette et al (2020) to map wildfire and timber harvesting disturbances within Ontario’s Managed Area (MA). Forest disturbances, such as wildfires and timber harvests, are ecological processes within forested landscapes that are intrinsic to the history and development of boreal forests. […]
by Balikisu Osman Some of the critical discussions in the rural development research literature highlight the desirability and liabilities of conducting fieldwork as an insider versus an outsider. The argument is that a researcher’s immerse familiarity with research setting by birth or personal ties (as an insider) permits ease access, understanding, empathy, and integration of […]
by Kafia Abdulkader I grew up with a passion for film and television, and popular culture. However, I never saw people that looked like me represented in mainstream media. Instead, those who occupy a similar social location to me were often put in positions of servitude, their identities pathologized, and a site of ridicule. The […]