Changemakers for a Just and Sustainable Future
91ÑÇɫ’s new Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change has been created as a call to action to respond to the most pressing challenges facing people and the planet.
As a community, we believe that making positive change requires bold and diverse thinking, ambitious action, and community engagement. We are research intensive, student centric, inclusive, and devoted to making the world a better place for all.
Join us as we strive to create a more just and sustainable future!
Why Study with Environmental & Urban Change at 91ÑÇÉ«?
We are focused on ensuring our students receive a high-quality education in our undergraduate and graduate programs. We offer all students a unique learning experience within a supportive and inclusive learning environment. Our focus on fundamental knowledge, critical thinking, and hands-on experiences will prepare future global citizens & changemakers make positive change for a better world.
EUC Programs
Undergraduate Programs
We offer undergraduate programs in Cities, Regions, Planning (BES), Environmental Arts & Justice (BES), Environmental Science (BSc), Global Geography (BA) and Sustainable Environmental Management (BES).
Graduate Programs
We are home to two graduate programs, Environmental Studies (MES & PhD) and Geography (MA, Msc & PhD).
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is committed to providing accessible education, embracing diversity, and empowering all students as changemakers in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Mobilizing Knowledge for a Just and Sustainable Future
Our Faculty brings together geographers, physical scientists, social scientists, humanities researchers and artists whose innovative research seeks to advance sustainability and social justice. Using field-based science, policy analysis, critical social theory, planning skills, geomatics, and cultural and arts-based approaches, our researchers drive action to address the world’s environmental and urban challenges.
91ÑÇÉ« researcher advances more equitable water science across the world
Researchers have long used hydrology – the science of water – to better understand everything from floods and droughts to watershed health and water security. Assistant Professor Adeyemi Olusola has contributed to a new international study that examines how colonial histories continue ...
FIFA Has Made World Cup Tickets a Financial Instrument
Read the whole story: socialeurope.eu/fifa-has-made-world-cup-tickets-a-financial-instrument
91ÑÇÉ« research calls for more accessible cities
A new study co-authored by 91ÑÇÉ«'s Mahtot Gebresselassie calls for a more integrated approach to planning communities that support people of all ages and abilities. Read the whole story: yorku.ca/yfile/2026/07/24/york-research-calls-for-more-accessible-cities/
Understanding how economies depend on energy, resources and the environment
Oleksandr Galychyn EUC warmly welcomes Dr. Oleksandr Galychyn as a postdoctoral visitor from Ukraine. Dr. Galychyn’s research explores how economies depend on energy, materials, water, and ecosystems. His work brings together ecological economics, environmental accounting, life cycle assessment, and systems modelling to ...
Las Nubes Summer Study Abroad Program offers immersive learning experience
Felipe Montoya (right) welcomes students to the rainforest reserve. Taking place within the forests of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor in Southern Costa Rica, 91ÑÇɫ’s Las Nubes Study Abroad Program offers an incredible, hands-on education opportunity surrounded by rich ...
Mapping flood exposure inequities across river basins in Southern Ontario
Adeyemi Olusola Rivers are not merely channels for water conveyance but function as dynamic corridors where the atmosphere, ecosystems, and human floodplains continuously interact. In specialized research on how these complex river processes shift within a rapidly changing global environment, ...
Events
Land Acknowledgement
First Nations peoples have lived on this part of Turtle Island for millennia, stewarding the land, the water and all that contributes to life in this region. Today, the culture and presence of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples enrich the lands and people of this territory.
More than two centuries ago, the Mississauga people welcomed settlers to this territory, providing sustenance and engaging in trade and commerce. Between 1781 and 1820, eight treaties were signed with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, who opened their territory to settlement. Today, 91ÑÇɫ’s Keele Campus is located on Toronto Purchase Treaty, No. 13 lands and is situated on the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee.
Treaty history is foundational, and it is our collective responsibility to honour the land, as we honour and respect those who have gone before us, those who are here and those who have yet to come. We are grateful for the opportunity to be learning, working and thriving on this land, and we commit to learn the truth and be active in the process of reconciliation.