There are numerous problems created by the industrial food system. These include redefining the relationship between eaters and their food as one between a consumer and a product, and the concomitant consumer deskilling ...

Community engagement has been a core element of York University’s mandate for several years. However, does a conceptual gap prevent university-community engagement from being actualized? The purpose of this project is to ...

Aiming to compete on a global level, local governments have become heavily invested in the development process. Encouraging gentrification through political terms such as revitalization, smart growth, and regeneration, ...

This paper is a case study of the Inspiration Lakeview Master Plan in Port Credit, Mississauga. This paper speaks to the history of urban waterfronts and examines the evolution of urban waterfront (re)development in urban ...

This study is based on review and analysis of Ontario’s climate change mitigation and transportation which is eventually leading to transform into a low-carbon economy. This study is compiled into three sections. The first ...

This paper overviews the question of aboriginal land title, positioning it in the context of the broader Canadian political economy. Aboriginal land title is an evolving legal concept which has carved out a unique social, ...

This Major Research paper asks the questions: What would an ecologically sustainable, system-thinking based vision for planning and development in the Caribbean look like? And how can systems dynamics modelling help to ...

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 ...

As of December 2013, approximately 5,200 building managers and owners in the commercial building sector in the United States have decided to retrofit their buildings and seek qualification for the Energy Star rating ...

Roughly one-third, or 1.3 billion tonnes of edible food produced for human consumption is wasted around the world each year (Gustavsson et al., 2011). The production of food that is ultimately thrown away creates and ...