Browsing FES Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series by Title
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Active Citizenship Reviving and Extending Democratic Practices
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)Contending that our current liberal understanding of politics is exclusive and unresponsive, this paper explores the possibilities for reviving and extending democratic practices through a renewed understanding of citizenship. ... -
Alexandra Park: Dynamics of Redevelopment
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)Mixed-income planning has become the common-sense approach to public housing redevelopment in Toronto. Based on the premise of physical design dictating behaviour, social mix theory hinges on the idea that diluting the ... -
An Alternative Agricultural Future for a Maitland Valley sub-watershed
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2010)It is well established that conventional agriculture imposes external costs on society and reduces the many benefits that agroecological systems produce, especially in highly cultivated watersheds where farm fields and ... -
Animal Scents: Tracking the Betrayal of Animality Otherwise with/in Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Levinas
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)This book is a guide for tracking an animal in a text or in a jungle. It offers a non-dichotomous, non-totalizing, primordially ethical relation of self to animal. A relation where the self is not radically detached, ... -
The application of ecosystem approaches in the Golden Horseshoe Region, Ontario’
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2007-12-10)Environmental crises have prompted a re-evaluation of traditional approaches to environmental management that has often highlighted their inability to deal with the complexity of social-ecological systems. The ecosystem ... -
The Beaufort Sea Maritime Boundary Dispute: High Stakes for Canadian Arctic Sovereignty and Resource Extraction in a Changing Climate
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)This paper analyzes the Beaufort Sea maritime boundary dispute and the risk it poses to Canadian Arctic sovereignty and resource extraction in the North as the effects of climate change become more apparent. The confluence ... -
The Bicycle and Urban Sustainability
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)This paper presents a rationale for promoting bicycles for basic transportation, in the context of global efforts to achieve more sustainable urban development. The importance of urban transportation systems, and the ... -
Biodiversity Conservation in Agroecosystems: A Comparison of Surface-dwelling Beetle Diversity in Various Shade Coffee Production Systems in Costa Rica
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)Beetle diversity was determined in six coffee agroecosystems representing a spectrum of structural complexity including (in increasing order) a chemical free site without shade, Poró (Erythrina poeppigiana), Eucalyptus ... -
“The Call of the World, A Levinasian Response”
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2007-09)This paper addressed my desire to respond to the devastation of nature through the postphenomenological thought of Emmanuel Levinas. Its intent was to describe Levinas’s event of the pre-cognitive face-to-face encounter ... -
“Cashberta:” Migration Experiences of Somali-Canadian Second Generation Youth in Canada
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2011)My paper examines the circumstances that have pushed Somali-Canadian male youth from Toronto to Alberta; a region with a growing and booming economy. Once in Alberta, Somali youth are caught in situations where many are ... -
The Changing Face of Non-Traditional NGO Governance: The Case of the Chinmaya Rural Primary Health Care and Training Centre (CRTC), India
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2004)Nonprofit literature suggests that non-governmental organizations (NGOs), even those that intentionally want to maintain a collectivist structure, tend to adopt bureaucratic governance features when subject to growth and ... -
Colonial natures? Wilderness and culture in Gwaii Haanas National Park reserve and Haida heritage site
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2006-10-17)National parks in Canada have never only been about camping and wilderness preservation. Instead these parks are hubs of political, cultural, economic, and biophysical interaction that are subject to diverse national ... -
'Community-Based Sustainable Tourism within Conservation Areas: A paradigm for environmental and socio-economic alleviation of Mexicans?'
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2008-07-30)This research examines the role of community participation in the implementation of a project of sustainable tourism within a conservation area in México. It aims to illustrate the value and challenges involved in promoting ... -
Compromising the Environment?: The Spruce Budworm, Aerial Insecticide Spraying, and the Pulp and Paper Industry in New Brunswick
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)Continual growth of the New Brunswick's pulp and paper industry since the late 1920s eventually brought the industry into conflict with the eastern spruce budworm (Choristineura fumiferana). This paper explores the evolution ... -
Conditions of Possibility: Bio-power and governance in the quest for a supervised injection site in Toronto
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2012)Drawing on Michel Foucault’s bio-power lens, this paper argues that supervised injection sites are political and governmental spaces that have emerged from the harm reduction movement as an alternative to prohibitionist ... -
Constructing a Foundation for Change: The Ecosystem Approach and the Global Imperative on Toronto’s Central Waterfront
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2005-08-05)This paper explores the micro-level politics involved in the processes of planning Toronto’s Central Waterfront in the period between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s. Using a conceptual framework that reviews and integrates ... -
Creating Affordable Housing in Toronto Using Public-Private Partnerships
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2003)This major paper explores observed trends in residential urban infill and intensification and the need for improved affordability in this type of development. Following detailed analysis of the affordability crisis within ... -
A Critical Examination of Pedagogy and Ways of Knowing of People with Autism
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2007-11-30)Traditionally, autism has been treated as a disability in that individuals with autism have been thought to have deficits that need to be remedied. This notion has been perpetuated by the definition of autism provided by ... -
Crying Wolf – Perceptions and Realities of Algonquin Park Wolves
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2003)A multidisciplinary video documentary on Algonquin Park wolves was produced. Entitled Crying Wolf – Perceptions and Realities of Algonquin Park Wolves, the documentary used qualitative research techniques and mail-out ... -
Cycling Advocacy, DIY Urbanism and the Transformation of Automobility
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2012)Automobile dependency has had a broad impact on Canadian society, and has become one of the most important influences on how cities are planned. It is widely recognized that increasing the modal share of cyclists, as a ...