Birds are important in human cultures, inspiring art, technology and in some cases, are significant sources of food. Migratory birds, those that spend parts of the year in different places, present challenges in understanding their ecology and conservation because their migration across jurisdictions requires a coordinated effort to manage their populations. This is true for […]
The Canadian and global challenge of living within the Earth's carrying capacity requires robust measures of this capacity and its use by humans to meaningfully inform policy. Currently, Canada does not employ any such accounting system to monitor transition towards a carbon neutral future. Various measures and measurement systems are used to quantify carrying capacity […]
The Las Nubes project in Costa Rica supports the protection of the biological, ecological and social values of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor which contains the Las Nubes forest reserve that borders the largest protected area in Central America. Originally created by Professor Howard Daugherty following a donation made by Toronto physician and medical researcher, Dr. Woody […]
“Water is life” is a key slogan for anti-extractivist movements, particularly in the Americas. In a project that examines a dam conflict in the remote Aysén region of Chilean Patagonia, Professor Carlota McAllister explores how gauchos living in river valleys threatened with damming draw on this substance and the histories of its use on this “last frontier” […]
What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits? This is the overall question that the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) led by Professor Tim Jackson from the University of Surrey and participated in by York University’s Peter Victor and a network of experts is addressing to develop pragmatic steps towards a shared […]
With diverse geographic interests, Professor Patricia Wood's research focuses on citizenship, identity, mobility, and attachment to place. She does both contemporary and historical work in Canada, the United States and Ireland, analyzing a wide range of sources and activities concerning political expression and identity, as well as conducting community-based research with an emphasis on participatory, collaborative research practices. She […]
With a history of researching and teaching a wide, interdisciplinary array of environmental topics, as well as engaging in social and political activism, Peter Timmerman began his academic work in the early 1980s on emergency and risk research, climate change, and disaster and nuclear waste management. He has developed an overall environmental philosophy and ethic, grounded […]
Global climate chaos unfairly and disproportionately harms those already living in poverty and in polluted, unhealthy environments. Accelerating climate-related impacts including extreme weather events threaten cities, public safety, agriculture, infrastructure and human livelihoods worldwide. Since marginalized populations are first and most severely affected, their situated knowledge is crucial for timely and efficient policy-making. Governance systems […]
One of the central promises in the 2018 platform of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party was to “clean up the hydro mess.” And a mess there certainly is with the costs of subsidies out of general provincial revenues to artificially lower hydro rates now approaching the level of the province’s total pre-COVID-19 deficit. There is […]
Research is at the heart of EUC. The time and effort that faculty members devote to securing research funding and to engaging in knowledge mobilization activities help our faculty, postdoctoral fellows/visitors, and students get involved in innovative research that showcases the interdisciplinarity and the broad relevance of our work. Our research culture, however, goes far […]