Explore some of the most critical issues facing the earth today: the climate crisis, the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, waste management, energy consumption and sustainable solutions. In the Sustainable Environmental Management program, you will investigate how the environment and natural resources are managed, and how we can transition toward more just and sustainable […]
EUC Research is exploring the thinking, activism and policies that are needed to take action in the climate emergency. We are working with Indigenous communities to define new approaches to, and knowledge of, climate change. We are also critically examining the policies and behaviours that are needed to address environmental sustainability more broadly. The transition […]
The arts, culture and the humanities offer creative ways the understand, and change, the relationship between human societies and the natural environment. EUC researchers are exploring how we think about the natural world through alternative, and especially Indigenous, forms of environmental knowledge; how scientific and cultural knowledge can work in unison; and how racialized and […]
Dean Alice Hovorka As a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators, we are united in a call to action responding to some of the most pressing challenges facing people and the planet. Welcome to 91亚色鈥檚 new Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change! As a community of students, faculty, staff, alumni and collaborators, […]
Our research examines environmental and ecological processes through field-based science, computer modelling, data analysis, and laboratory testing. EUC-based research projects in this area address: water, soils, sediments and climates in various Canadian landscapes; remote sensing and GIS applied to landscape change; changing forest landscapes; polar bear ecology in the Arctic; water quality and lake ecosystems; […]
As major oil and gas producers and exporters, Norway and Canada聽share a particular聽responsibility for confronting the planet鈥檚 existential climate threat. However, their different political, economic and cultural features have resulted in major differences in their climate policy track records. Overall, Norway is a leader on climate change performance and Canada is a laggard. The 2021聽Climate […]
Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson聽announced聽on聽 October 7 that Canada will be banning many single-use plastics by 2021, as a means of achieving the country鈥檚 goal of producing zero plastic waste by 2030. Among the soon-to-be banned items are: plastic straws, plastic cutlery, plastic grocery bags, six-pack rings for beverages, stir sticks, […]
By Marc Montgomery |聽english@rcinet.ca You probably never noticed, but last week we used up all the resources that can be renewed annually by the Earth. That means we鈥檙e now spending more than we earn environmentally, so to speak. Last Saturday was聽Earth Overshoot Day,聽or as they put it on the website, it鈥檚 the date 鈥渨hen humanity鈥檚 […]
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 […]