Research on urban health and environments at EUC involves interdisciplinary attention to the ways in which social processes intersect with health, well-being and sexuality for urban communities. We also examine how urbanization impacts the environment and creates new ecologies of city life. In recent years, several research projects have sought to understand the urban contexts […]
EUC research is directed towards creating a more just and sustainable world. Our research projects and collaborations cut across many disciplinary and thematic boundaries, and encompass the environmental arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. There are some specific areas of focus and strength described under the themes listed below. These six themes, which are also […]
Our research examines environmental and ecological processes through field-based science, computer modelling, data analysis, and laboratory testing. EUC-based research projects in this area address: water, soils, sediments and climates in various Canadian landscapes; remote sensing and GIS applied to landscape change; changing forest landscapes; polar bear ecology in the Arctic; water quality and lake ecosystems; […]
How can sex, relationships, and health education pedagogies meaningfully address the role new media plays in young people’s relational lives? How can these pedagogies also take an intersectional and holistic lens to young people’s seemingly individual experiences of sex, gender, relationality, and violence? These are the research questions that have guided Dr. Alanna Goldstein’s work […]
How is the Covid-19 pandemic impacting the everyday lives of the urban poor along gendered and racial lines? As part of her latest research, Nasya Razavi, Post-doctoral Visitor at the City Institute at York University, is examining how women are navigating the changing dimensions of production and social reproduction in the “pandemic city.” The Covid-19 […]
by DT Cochrane When I began my post-doctoral work with Professor Kean Birch, I was excited to engage with the faculty and students of the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. With an academic background in economics, and a PhD from York’s Graduate Program in Social & Political Thought, I thought I had much both […]
The mud at the bottom of a lake isn’t just mud, it contains within it clues that, once decoded, tell us how the environment has changed over time. Clues can be anything that sinks to the bottom of the lake and is deposited into the mud. Often, this includes things that were living (and died) […]
What is the link between the immigration status of workers, the workplace conditions meat packers face and their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic? Why do meatpacking plants hire temporary foreign workers, recent immigrants, and former refugees as employees? What policy changes are needed to improve workplace safety of temporary foreign workers and newcomers? These are […]
How does the socio-political landscape shape our natural one? This is the driving question for Dr. Rachel Nalepa, a Postdoctoral Visitor with Professor Sheila R. Colla’s Native Pollinator Research Lab. As a human geographer grounded in the field of political ecology, she examines environmental issues that emerge in rural spaces through the lens of the […]
What does environmental justice mean to Indigenous Peoples? How can it be achieved? These are two foundational questions being addressed by the Indigenous Environmental Justice (IEJ) project, a research initiative since 2015 by Osgoode and EUC Professor Deborah McGregor funded by the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program as well as by the Social Sciences & […]