• Affordable Housing: Exploring Alternative Housing Methods 

  White, Reva (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 

  Wong, Kaila (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 

  Watters, Andrew (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 

  Rissin-Rosenfeld, Danielle (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 

  Ranauta, Jaspreet (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 ...

• The Roles of Community Land Trusts in Providing and Protecting Affordable Housing for Canadian Cities 

   Procopio, Paul (2019)

  In Canadian cities, the opportunities for accessing affordable homes for lower to moderate income households has become increasingly difficult. Rising housing prices and prevalent issues revolved around affordability are ...

• Addressing Community Exposure to Hydrogen Sulfide in the Saskatchewan Oilpatch: Interdisciplinary Investigations as a Lever to Expose Industrial Risk 

  Malivel, Garance (2019)

  How can communities from poorly regulated industrial regions assess their exposure to environmental contaminants? And what resources could their collaboration with interdisciplinary research groups provide to address the ...

• Participatory Research for Resilience in EE Programs: Paying Attention to Ecological Identity, Place, and Community 

  Martin, Timothy (2019)

  The following is based on a qualitative study guided by Grounded Theory and Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodologies alongside two Hamilton-based notfor-profits, A Rocha and Good Shepherd Centres, examining A ...

• Smart Cities Should Look ‘Smart’: Innovating Policy Towards More Liveable Telecommunications Infrastructure 

  Maciejewski, Ada (2019)

  This Major Paper presents research on the physical execution of the Smart City, ICT infrastructure implementation and the role of urban design policy, using the City of Toronto as a case study. The research is focused ...

• Education Tools for Mitigating Human-Wildlife Conflict in Urban Areas 

  Kerrison, Heather (2019)

  This major project report represents a substantive effort to create educational tools and opportunities for a wide range of audiences in hopes that an increase in ecological knowledge will help reduce instances of ...

• Aging in dignity: Wrap Around Support in Toronto Community Housing 

  Jama, Sulekha (2019)

  An increasing number of senior tenants who are aging in place face isolation and barriers which impact their ability to manage their lives. The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics and issues faced by ...

• Coral Reefs: Anthropogenic Impacts and Restoration in the Caribbean 

  Pikulak, Yana (2019)

  Coral reefs present a multitude of ecosystem services and benefits, but these ecosystems are becoming increasingly threatened. Internationally, coral reefs are facing a multitude of challenges with many of these deriving ...

• A feasibility analysis of transactive energy systems in Ontario 

  Hurtado, Cristian (2019)

  This research paper explores the potential for transactive energy systems (TESs) and blockchainenabled microgrids (BEMs) to be integrated into Ontario’s existing electrical grid as a sustainable energy solution for climate ...

• Planning Healthy Cities: Privately-owned publicly-accessible spaces in Toronto 

  Nievas, Mallory (2019)

  Privately-owned publicly-accessible spaces (POPS) are a common feature of the urban landscape in major North American cities, including Toronto, Ontario. These spaces typically accompany urban developments that have requested ...

• Open Access 

  Gordon, Niambi (2019)

  The founding of a formal education system in Canada was influenced by religious, racial and classist biases and bigotry that continues to perpetuate within and throughout our institutional systems today; creating barriers ...

• Birds, Buildings, People: Are Birdsafe Guidelines Enough? 

  Murphy, Amber (2019)

  This Major Paper considers songbird conservation in the City of Toronto as it is implemented through the fulfillment of bird-safe guidelines in the Toronto Green Standard. It explores how concerns about the issue of ...

• Corporate Environmental Responsibility: A Study of Single-Use Plastics in Canada 

  Morden, Kelsey (2019)

  Globally, millions of people are beginning to acknowledge that a wide-scale environmental crisis is occurring with the deforestation of rainforests, severe weather events, marine plastic pollution, and rising global ...

• From “Gentrification” to Community Control: An exploration into urban restructuring in New York City 

  Mas, Aida (2019)

  Discriminatory land use policies and the whims of global capital have stripped many low-income communities and people of colour from their ability to secure adequate housing. This has resulted in a deeply inequitable status ...

• THREATS TO WILD ORANGUTANS: A CASE STUDY IN KUTAI NATIONAL PARK OF EAST KALIMANTAN, INDONESIA 

  Guild, Ryan (2019)

  The Northeast Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus morio) currently remains the only orangutan subspecies for which extinction risks cannot be accurately assessed due to a severe lack of information around the habitat conditions ...

• Sustaining the Coast, Economy and Citizens Through Planning: An Analysis of Resort Development in Barbados 

  Garnes, Maria (2019)

  Abstract My portfolio comprises of five papers that discuss sustainable development in coastal regions on small island developing states through a planning perspective. I examined the cohesiveness of international, national, ...

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