Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Water is essential to human life. SDG 6 targets sustainable, universal, and equitable access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Researchers from EUC are investigating issues in clean water supply, boil water advisories, and learning with Indigenous leaders in water governance. The Assertion of […]
Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable world. By 2030, SDG 5 seeks to achieve gender equality and to empower all women and girls. EUC research integrates a gender-based analysis into many different research […]
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. Obtaining a quality education strengthens a range of fundamental development drivers. SDG 4 seeks inclusive and equitable quality education and promotes lifelong learning opportunities for all. EUC researchers and educators are working across diverse institutions to support accessible education, experiential learning and […]
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. SDG 3 aspires to achieve universal health coverage and provide access to safe and effective medicines and vaccines for all. Through research and advocacy, EUC faculty and graduate students have supported initiatives in human health and well-being, and have examined the impacts of COVID-19 […]
Have you already applied to our undergraduate programs? Or, considering submitting an application? Speak directly to a current student in your program of interest and discover more information. Join us to listen to our current students dive deeper into their experience with the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. Tim Ong Program: Sustainable Environmental Management […]
How do we think about animals? Where do we put them, where do they belong? How do we interact with them? Are these human-animal relations good, bad, or otherwise? These are some of the questions that EUC Dean and Professor Alice J. Hovorka has investigated through two SSHRC Insight Grants on The Lives of Animals […]
How do migrants settle in different local contexts and develop capacities to overcome settlement challenges? Why do particular migrants do better than others even when compared to their peers from the same background? How can institutions facilitate and support migrant settlement and integration in urban areas across Quebec and Ontario? These are some of the […]
In Toronto, Canada, core-periphery relations have shifted through re-mappings of city boundaries and districts over the past seventy years: austerity-led amalgamations resulting in new peripheralizations, with subsequent attempts at addressing disparity with an emphasis on place. Publicly disinvested, the now inner-suburbs of Toronto are driven into new competitive relationships, and therefore becoming vulnerable to private […]
by Zachary Dark As part of my broader research into the contemporary politics of hydroelectricity in Canada, I am interested in how hydroelectric infrastructure both physically and symbolically remakes environments. In 2009, Manitoba Hydro (a provincially-owned electricity utility in Manitoba, Canada) opened its new headquarters on the edge of downtown Winnipeg. The award-winning headquarters building, […]
Professor Emeritus Senior Scholar Research Interests My interests lie in how the writing and study of geography developed in what today is Canada. This has taken me from exploration literature to the scientific exploration of Canada, the mapping of Canada, settlement studies, early teaching of geography in Canadian universities, and regional writing on Canada whether […]