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Welcome to the July 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Luisa Sotomayor: Vertical peripheries and the embodied costs of social […]
By Luisa Sotomayor Over the last two decades, the Colombian government has developed a national housing policy of low-cost and privately built Social Interest Housing or “VIS” housing (as per its Spanish acronym). Following the example of the Chilean model, the Colombian policy provides housing subsidies and discounted mortgage rates to the demand, specifically, to […]
A multi-institutional research team led by York University has developed and tested three different “Burr on Fur” prototypes to study their effectiveness in studying and tracking polar bears. The paper, Telemetry without collars: Performance of fur- and ear-mounted satellite tags for evaluating the movement and behavior of polar bears, published in Animal Biotelemetry, details the first […]
Sébastien Lambelet has joined the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) and The CITY Institute as a postdoctoral fellow since February 2024, under the supervision of Prof. Roger Keil. Before that, he was a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) where he also obtained […]
Celebrating GIS Day at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024 Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm Location: HNES 140, York University Keele Campus Join us as we mark GIS Day, a global event celebrating the transformative power of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geomatics. Every year, institutions and enthusiasts […]
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Welcome to the June 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Loren March on understanding the particularities of how queer urban […]
by Loren March While there have been many studies on queer geographies and geographies of sexualities in the city of Toronto, these have – with some notable exceptions (for example Sandilands & Hobbs 2013) – tended not to focus on urban ecologies or more-than-human worlds. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Environmental and […]
We are thrilled to invite you to a special event on June 26th, organized by EUC, Maloca Garden, and Regenesis. It promises to be a day filled with fun, food, and awareness. Event Details: · Date: June 26th, 2024 · Time: 12 - 2pm · Location: We all start together at 11:50am from EUC main entrance. Highlights: · Enjoy a guided hike […]