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‘Of Turtles and Tactics: Conservation and Sustainable Community Development in San Francisco, Costa Rica.’
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2007-07-27)
A question often faced by conservationists in developing countries is whether their efforts to protect endangered species will ever work if they do not also address human poverty. Sea turtles are a classic example, and the ...
Energy Planning for Sustainable Communities: Sustainable Pickering’s Journey
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2008-07-31)
Energy is essential to the quality of life that citizens have come to expect but it has come at a price. Increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have contributed to climate change – altering weather patterns and rendering ...
Learning the Livelihoods Way: Understanding Rural Livelihood Sustainability in Northeastern Cambodia
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2003)
In Cambodia, as in rural areas worldwide, serious problems of increasing poverty, declining traditional livelihood activities, decreasing access to resources, and growing ecological destruction are necessitating new ...
Planning for Diversity in the Global City: The Toronto Case
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)
This paper examines the contemporary treatment of difference as "diversity" and explores its articulation through planning. The utility of this approach to difference is set in the urban context to illuminate the role of ...
UnderCurrents
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, 2008)
UnderCurrents is an independent non-profit journal of critical environmental studies produced by students, faculty and staff in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Since 1988, with a brief hiatus from ...
Urban Expansion and Industrial Nature: A Political Ecology of Toronto's Port Industrial District
(Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2008)
This article analyses political and economic practices involved with the production of an industrial form of socio-nature - the Port Industrial District - during the early decades of the twentieth century in Toronto, Canada. ...
‘Peri-urban Participation in Urban Watershed Management in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo, Brazil’
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2005-09-09)
This research paper explores the power transformations that have been and are occurring with the reconstruction of water management from traditional political scales to the watershed scale, and with the production of new ...
'Implementing the Growth Plan: Examining Opportunities for Local Interpretation in a Globalizing Region'
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2008-07-31)
This major paper examines the implementation of the Province of Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe and utilizes the Region of Peel and its three area municipalities as a case study subject. Premised ...
Privatization, Segregation and Dispossession in Western Urban Space: An Antiracist, Marxist-Feminist Reading of David Harvey
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2005-09-13)
Within the shifting geography of capitalist imperialist power, the war on the home front has become a critical line of battle. Western urban centres are more than empty landscapes for the enactment of global agendas. They ...
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 ...