What is the buzz about bees? Why do we need to protect the well-bee-ing of bees? How concerned are you about the health of honeybees and the conservation of wild, native bees? Who is responsible for the protection of wild native bee populations in Canada? These are some of the questions that a team of researchers […]
For more than a decade,聽Professor Sarah聽Flicker聽has been engaged with various community stakeholder groups and allied practitioners in health equity research. In line with her combined roles as 91亚色 Research Chair (Tier2) in Community-Based Participatory Research and Environmental Arts and Justice Coordinator,聽Flicker聽actively extends her capacity-bridging approach with urban and rural racialized youth and women in conducting […]
November 16-20 is Geography Awareness Week, an international celebration of Geography as a field of research and learning. Geography is an interdisciplinary discipline that brings together many forms of knowledge. Geographers seek to understand how space shapes, and is shaped by, social relations, and they study the physical processes and human impacts that create our […]
Rapid urbanization affects everyone, but women living in poverty represent a disproportionate percentage of the urban poor, bearing the brunt of housing and employment insecurity, inadequate transportation infrastructures, violence, and the climate crisis and other environmental disasters. Through research, public education and policy engagement in strategically chosen cities in the global south, Professor Linda Peake鈥檚 […]
Canada鈥檚 polar regions are under siege. Temperatures are warming more rapidly than elsewhere on Earth and model projections see this trend persisting well into the future. Ecosystems are being degraded and permafrost is melting. The effects of climate change and other global environmental phenomena, such as toxic containments, are drivers that challenge the integrity of […]
Ontario鈥檚 boreal forest is a large and heterogeneous area. Not only is it the most extensive of all vegetation types in Ontario (about 45 million hectares and representing 50% of the province), but it also includes at least 7 ecoregions due to its geo-climatic variability. Almost all of this boreal forest area, nearly 30 million […]
It is already known that housing market prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) have been steadily rising for the past decade. Partially due to the financialization of housing, this creates unbalance and limits affordability, putting a strain on potential homeowners as well as those trying to sell their homes. Adding a global pandemic onto […]
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Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies, a postcolonial scholar, and one of the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcoloniality to the field of Development Studies. He first came to prominence in the early 2000s through a series of journal articles on participatory development, that is, the practice of involving beneficiaries of […]
How citizens and communities participate in energy initiatives is critical to the successful transition to a low-carbon economy. Meaningful participation in renewable and low-carbon energy initiatives is linked with enhanced citizen support. Community energy -- characterized by high levels of participation -- is also associated with wide ranging benefits for communities such as new social mechanisms for […]