The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fragilities and inequities within the globalized industrial food system: ecosystem collapse through deforestation, loss of animal habitat, monocultural production, long supply chains dependent on fossil fuel based transportation, loss of access to land through trade agreements, lack of state support for small producers, forced migration and farm labour […]
Professor Luisa Sotomayor鈥檚 new SSHRC Partnership Engage project examines community responses to the siting and development of new homeless shelters and supportive housing in Toronto. As Sotomayor explains, 鈥渢he introduction of new housing for a low-income or vulnerable group in a community is typically not without local conflict. In fact, the acronym NIMBY鈥攐r Not-in-My-Backyard鈥攔efers to an increasingly common […]
Between 2009 and 2015, FES/DIGHR postdoctoral fellow, Mark Terry, produced feature films for the United Nations (UN) reporting on the climate research in the polar regions: The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning and The Polar Explorer, both films back-to-back winners of the Audience Choice Award at the American Conservation Film Festival. The films broke new […]
There is a body of research that indicates the benefits of green spaces on mental health and well-being. As the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic has forced us to stay at home, socially distance from our family and friends, and limit our outdoor interactions, the call to connect with nature and have safe access […]
The megadisaster of Lac-M茅gantic offers important lessons on how disasters and recovery are negotiated within local capacities and contingencies of smaller towns. Born and raised in Nantes, a rural community in Quebec where the catastrophic train disaster happened in 2013, Professor Liette Gilbert, is very familiar with the case and the region. She then started to […]
The issues around flooding have increasingly received attention in a variety of fields, and Jakarta has been a primary case study for a lot of researchers including Abidin Kusno, professor and director at the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research. Existing research has significantly contributed to our understanding of the inadequate institutional, organizational and individual capacities for flood […]
Historical models show that Ghana鈥檚 climatic patterns are getting increasingly drier. The average temperature increased at about 0.21掳C per decade and 1.0藲C per annum, with rainfall declining at an average of 2.3mm per month (or 2.4% per decade) since the 1960s. The northern savannah ecological zone experiences the most rapid and intense climatic changes and […]
As a person who identifies as a homosexual Afro-Asian cis-man, Jc Elijah (Eli) 鈥婱. Bawuah has experienced complex intersectional facets of oppression and isolation that dissociates him from several urban spaces. Drawing on such experiences for his MES project, he delves into creating an exploratory documentary that looks at the socio-spatial impacts of exclusionary planning and design […]
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change 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鈥檚 environmental and urban challenges. By the Numbers […]