Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC)
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This collection includes award-winning papers, Major Research Papers and Major Research Projects, and specific course outputs from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC). It also includes research and scholarship produced by faculty members and graduate students. This faculty was previously known as the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) from 1968-2020. Starting 1 September 2020, all scholarly outputs from faculty and graduate students previously affiliated with FES and the Department of Geography at York University will be deposited under this collection.
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Trends in historical mercury deposition inferred from lake sediment cores across a climate gradient in the Canadian High Arctic
(ScienceDirect, 2018-10)Recent climate change may be enhancing mercury fluxes to Arctic lake sediments, confounding the use of sediment cores to reconstruct histories of atmospheric deposition. Assessing the independent effects of climate warming ... -
Strategic Litigation and Advancing the Right to Housing in Canada
(2019-04-30)Strategic litigation in the context of promoting human rights requires the identification of legal cases that have the capacity to set precedents for long term social justice objectives. Strategic litigation is typically ... -
It Takes a Village: Strengthening Parent Engagement for Racialized Youth
(2018-12-31)This research paper set out to explorer the barriers and challenges of communication between racially marginalized parents and high schools. The aim was to examine ways that could potentially contribute to strengthening ... -
The 15-Minute City in Toronto: Insights from Lefebvre and Fanon
(2021-08-31)This major paper examines the spatial and political project of the 15-minute city by drawing on the insights of Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon. This research paper interrogates the 15-minute city urban vision and explores ... -
Simulating the Evacuation of Students Attending Classes at the York University’s Keele Campus
(2015-12-31)Since 1901, Canada has recorded over a thousand disasters (CDD, 2015). Ontario, a province possessing the highest number of incidents and evacuations, has adapted and learned from these experiences. The Emergency Movement ... -
A Materialist Acoustemology of Urban Atmospheres in Mexico City’s Centro Histórico
(2017-08-31)The resonant frequency of sound, that is to say, the vibratory quality of sound, is felt and registered by our bodies in a way that goes beyond the audible. In an urban environment, the combination of sounds creates a sonic ... -
Delivering Value: Best Practices for Alternative Models of Sustainable Regional Food Distribution in Canada
(2018-12-31)Canadian food producers with annual gross receipts totaling less than $1 million CAD and small to medium-sized farms find it difficult to compete with the conventional food system on price and availability (Stott et al., ... -
Vast Perceptions and Ambivalent Attitudes: The Cultural Construction Of The “Raccoon Capital” Of The World
(2018-12-31)Encounters between humans and raccoons are increasing in frequency as both population densities rise. These encounters spur a vast range of individual perceptions and attitudes concerning raccoons. Moreover, human perceptions ... -
Planning for the First Mile & Last Mile in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
(2018-12-31)This paper brings together topics surrounding transportation planning issues and opportunities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Using the concept of transit urban design around major transit station areas, I examine ... -
Inuit Technology: Conservation Policy and Innovation in Nunavut
(2020-10-01)This paper investigates how Inuit will continue to be the most effective advocates for their own landscapes and ways of life by using the Lancaster Sound region and recent development of Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine ... -
Non-profiting for “a more inclusive creative city” Tracking the gentrification frontier from Toronto’s downtown to the disinvested inner-suburbs
(2017-01-31)By tracking the shift to “more inclusive creative city” planning from Toronto’s economically- prioritized downtown to its disinvested inner-suburbs, this Major Paper argues that the non- profit sector is increasingly playing ... -
Conceptualizing Water: A Critical Reflection
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A Path Forward? Community Perspectives on the First Nations Land Management Regime in the Context of Renewable Energy Planning
(2018-04-30)The First Nations Land Management Regime (“FNLMR”) allows communities to develop a Land Code establishing local law-making powers for a variety of land use planning and environmental matters. The FNLMR draws authority from ... -
Freshwater Microplastics And Lake Ontario Municipalities
(2018-12-31)In 2005, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) identified plastic pollution as a top environmental crisis facing our species (Mason, et al., 2016, p. 1045), and yet plastic production and pollution has drastically ... -
Resource Management and Reconciliation: Co-management for conflict reduction
(2018-04-30)In North Bay, Ontario, Lake Nipissing walleye exist in a state of crisis. Walleye are a popular target for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike; the Nipissing First Nation (NFN) exercise ... -
The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals
(2021-12-31)We live in an era of unprecedented planetary and social challenges, including: the climate crisis, globalization of economic markets, social injustice, inequalities, poverty, food insecurity, biodiversity ... -
Investigating Gender Aspects of the Health Impacts of Climate Change in the Lake Chilwa Basin, Malawi
(2021-12-31)Climate change affects human health and well-being directly through physical effects and indirectly through a myriad of interconnected pathways. Although global in nature, local impacts of climate change differ immensely ...
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