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EUC Research Updates - February 2025

Welcome to the February 2025 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and scholarly activities at York University's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, and William Quinton: (Re)building Canada’s first […]

(Re)Building Canada’s First Indigenous-led research station

by Jennifer Korosi, Dieter Cazon, William Quinton The Scotty Creek Research Station (SCRS) is a world-class climate research hub located 50 km south of Fort Simpson, in the Dehcho region of the southwest Northwest Territories, Canada. The station has hosted researchers and students since its establishment in 1999, and helped reveal how permafrost thaw is […]

Supporting African newcomers’ resilience and ability to thrive in Canada

In 2022, the Partnership for Research with African Newcomers (PRAN) was launched with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Consisting of a network of researchers led by Professor Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika from University of Alberta’s Faculty of Arts – Women and Gender Studies, the research team include faculty members from University […]

Imprints of large-scale climate oscillations on river flow in selected Canadian river catchments

by Adeyemi Olusola, Samuel Ogunjo, and Christiana F. Olusegun SynthesisWe investigated the impacts of six major climate oscillations on river flow at three stations within the Humber catchments (located in Ontario, ON and Newfoundland and Labrador, NL) from 1970 to 2020 using sensitivity and wavelet analyses. Results indicate that the discharge at East Humber River […]

The Computer Renewal Program

The Computer Renewal Program (CRP) is a faculty-funded contribution to the purchase of an Apple or Dell desktop/ laptop computer for full-time faculty members. At the end of the CRP period of four years, full-time faculty members may arrange with EUC Technology Services to have a replacement computer ordered. Their data will be transferred to […]

Internal Documents for Faculty and Staff

This page is dedicated to providing access to important resources, policies, and forms to support faculty members and staff within EUC. Graduate Curriculum Development  Graduate new courses and changes to existing courses begin at the program level, in accordance with program procedures. Once approved at the program level, these proposals will be forwarded to Faculty-level committees for […]

EUC Research Updates - January 2025

Welcome to the January 2025 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and scholarly activities at York University's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our other recent updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Andrew Reeves: Understanding the economy’s impact on, and relationships with, […]

Exploring intersections between ecology and sexuality

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is pleased to welcome Visiting Artist-in-Residence Angie Quick  this January. Quick is a visual artist based in London, Ontario and her work is featured at York’s Cross Road Gallery until March. Hosted by Andil Gosine, she is part of Gosine’s Nature’s Wild exhibition series. Known for her evocative, emotionally […]

Colonialism, starvation and resistance: How food is weaponized, from Gaza to Canada

by Charles Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tamara Soma For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the October 2023 Hamas attack against Israel. In March 2024, Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, […]

Understanding the economy’s impact on and relationships with ecosystems

by Andrew Reeves I’m the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ecological Macroeconomics and Metrics, working in the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab (IEFLL). My work encompasses several strands of research, all relating to the core assumption of ecological economics: that our economy is an interrelated subset of the natural world. Understanding the economy’s impact on and relationships […]