Welcome to Yorkspace
YorkSpace is York University's Institutional Repository. It is a platform that enables York community members to organize and preserve their research online in an institutional context. It showcases the scholarship of the York University community through the use of a special standards-based software platform that collects usage statistics and provides exceptional visibility on the web.
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Affordable Housing: Exploring Alternative Housing Methods
(2019)For the past three decades, government investments in social and affordable housing in Canada have drastically declined. The Toronto housing market is increasingly expensive and the lower and middle classes struggle to ... -
Toronto Community Health Centres: Environmental Perspectives
(2019)Although environmental health and justice concerns have long since been recognized as determinant of human health, environmental health is not frequently viewed as a primary health concern within healthcare centres. This ... -
Freshwater Scarcity: The Current Situation in Southern Ontario
(2019)Access to clean drinking water is essential for survival of humanity and the earth. With the global population approaching eight billion (Population Reference Bureau, 2018), protecting the availability of clean drinking ... -
An Environmental Led Response to Black Creek Community Farm
(2019)An Environmental Led Response to Black Creek Community Farm is the documentation of my process of building a curriculum that is a directly responds to the site itself. My is based around the concept of land-based education ... -
Transnational Modernity/Coloniality: Settler Colonialism, Environmental Justice, and Punjabi Diasporic Positionalities for Critical Solidarity on Turtle Island
(2019)This paper offers a transnational framework on colonialism, indigeneity, and environmental justice by connecting the historical contexts of Punjab and Turtle Island. Specifically, I analyze the origins of Punjabi out-migration ...