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EUC Research Updates - July 2024

Welcome to the July 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at 91亚色'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 […]

Vertical peripheries and the embodied costs of social housing financialization

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 鈥淰IS鈥 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 […]

Multi-institutional research team led by 91亚色 finds innovative ways of tracking polar bears in the Arctic

A multi-institutional research team led by 91亚色 has developed and tested three different 鈥淏urr on Fur鈥 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 […]

Revitalizing preemptive power by investigating the housing policies and the development dynamics of Toronto and Ottawa-Gatineau

S茅bastien 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 […]

EUC Research Updates - June 2024

Welcome to the June 2024 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research and other scholarly activities at 91亚色'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 […]

Understanding the particularities of how queer urban ecologies have taken shape in Toronto

by Loren March While there have been many studies on queer geographies and geographies of sexualities in the city of Toronto, these have 鈥 with some notable exceptions (for example Sandilands & Hobbs 2013) 鈥 tended not to focus on urban ecologies or more-than-human worlds. As a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Environmental and […]

Coming full circle: Indigenous knowledge & climate futures

鈥淭he only way to appropriately understand Indigenous Knowledge Systems or Indigenous Knowledges is to establish meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples on their own terms.鈥 - Deborah McGregor What is Indigenous knowledge and how does it contribute to the achievement of UN鈥檚 Sustainable Development Goal on climate action? How can the integration of Indigenous knowledge contribute […]

Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure beyond Extractivism

Co-Principal Investigators: Dayna Nadine Scott and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant Term: 2021-2027 Resource conflicts and legal uncertainties have dominated the political landscape over the last decade; conflicts over extraction and its infrastructures have intensified, catalyzing a fierce Indigenous resurgence. As the research team conceived this project, hereditary leaders were blocking a pipeline […]

Rabia Munir

About Rabia Munir Rabia is currently working as Associate Development Manager at GWL Realty Advisors. She has experience with urban planning, quantitative and qualitative research, and building construction. Rabia draws on past projects and education to develop creative solutions to contemporary projects. Could you share how you decided on the stream that you鈥檇 be focusing […]

Land assembly, financialization and agriculture in Canada鈥檚 North

by Sarah Rotz Building on her long-lasting interest in settler-colonial land transformations in Canada, Sarah Rotz focuses on a hitherto neglected topic: The expansion of large-scale agriculture in the country鈥檚 north. Focusing on the intertwined processes of capitalist frontier-making, large-scale land assembly, and financialization, she engages with the questions of whether such processes reify settler colonial land […]