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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Power of the People: A Review of Citizen Science Programs for Conservation
(Biological Conservation, 2020-09)Citizen science is a rapidly growing field whereby volunteers can collect and/or analyze data to contribute to research and gain an appreciation for the environment. There are countless programs currently underway around ... -
Gender and Climate Justice in Canada: Stories from the Grassroots
(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, 2017-07)Climate change has gendered effects across Canada. Extreme weather events, warming cities, melting sea ice and permafrost, ice storms, floods, droughts, and fires related to climate change are directly and indirectly causing ... -
SCALE, ECOLOGY AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS
(2020-02)The relationship between political jurisdictions and ecologically-sensible geographic areas is a central concern of political ecologists; few are the cities, provinces, states or countries which map closely onto watersheds, ... -
EQUITY, ECONOMIC SCALE, AND THE ROLE OF EXCHANGE IN A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
(1999-05)This paper explores these theoretical and practical issues, considering the question of the environmental and ecological impacts of economic activity from the viewpoint of the scale at which this activity takes place and ... -
The Ecological Economics of Sustainability: Making Local and Short-Term Goals Consistent with Global and Long-Term Goals
(The World Bank, 1990-06)There is increasing awareness that our global ecological We support system is endangered Decisions made on the basis of local, short-term criteria can produce disastrous results globally and in the long run. There is also ... -
Women Scholar-Activists Trace Connections Between Colonialism, Capitalism, Injustice and Environmental Decline
(Women and Environmental International, 2019-09)This issue has been inspired by a path-breaking conference held by the Canadian Society for Ecologi-cal Economics (CANSEE), which took place this past May 2019 in Waterloo, Ontario. Entitled Engaging Economies of Change, ... -
Public Participation and Ecological Valuation: Inclusive=Radical
(2005)This paper discusses the gender and class implications of “public participation” processes, which are increasingly used in Europe, North America, and elsewhere as a basic component of environmental and public policy ... -
Introduction: Exploring feminist ecological economics
(Feminist Economics, 2005-11)These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions ... -
Canadian Indigenous female leadership and political agency in climate change
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Climate Justice, Gender, and Intersectionality
(Routledge, 2019)Women are generally more vulnerable than men to environmental disasters and extreme weather events due to four main factors, which are related to women’s gendered roles in society: women are economically disadvantaged ... -
Gender Justice and Climate Justice: Community-based strategies to increase women’s political agency in watershed management in times of climate change
(2011-06)Socially vulnerable people, and women in particular, are disproportionately affected by global climate change because of their gendered socioeconomic roles and often their geographic location; yet they are least equipped ... -
Gender Justice and Climate Justice: Building women’s economic and political agency in times of climate change
(Routledge, 2014-06)Socio-economically vulnerable people, and women in particular, are generally those most impacted by global climate change (because of their gendered/racialized socio-economic roles and often their geographic location). The ... -
Feminist Ecological Economics
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International Synergies to Address Climate Change: Participatory Community Organizing in Toronto and the Baixada Fluminense, Brazil
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An overview of international institutional mechanisms for environmental management with reference to Arctic pollution
(Elsevier, 1995)Evidence is mounting of the environmental impact in the Far North of economic and industrial activity elsewhere in the world. While the sources of pollutants found in the Arctic are many and widespread, it is up to just a ... -
Introduction: Women, ecology, and economics: new models and theories
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Trade, transition paths, and sustainable economies
(Routledge, 1999)The main criticisms of trade from a sustainability viewpoint are that it accelerates resource depletion and pollution, harms income distribution both locally and internationally, and undermines democratic institutions. ... -
Diversity, local economies, and globalization’s limits
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Pedagogies of resistance: community-based education for women’s participation in watershed management in São Paulo, Brazil
(2009)Informal and community-based education and organizing are fundamental to creating the conditions for equitable democratic participation by women and marginalized people. This paper overviews recent Brazilian initiatives ...
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