Browsing Research and publications by Issue Date
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Feminist Ecological Economics
(UNESCO and EOLSS Publishers, 2008) -
Applying the Total Resource Cost Test to Conservation and Demand Management Initiatives of Local Electricity Distribution Companies in Ontario: Assessment and Recommendations for Reform
(2009)This study has its origins in my participation in the Ontario Power Authority’s Conservation and Demand Management Program Development Advisory Committee in 2006 and 2007 while serving as a Program Director with the Pembina ... -
Ontario's Road Map to Prosperity: Developing Renewable Energy to its Full Potential
(2009)Ontario needs a practical solution that provides strong local economic development and new employment sources to replace the 230,000 manufacturing jobs that have disappeared from the province in the last five years. As ... -
How will disenfranchised Peoples adapt to Climate Change? Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement
(Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability, 2009) -
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 ... -
Women and Deliberative Water Management in Brazil
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Equitable, Ecological Degrowth: Feminist Contributions
(2010)This paper uses feminist ecological economics and ecofeminist methodologies and theory to contribute to Degrowth in theory and practice. These feminist contributions involve highlighting unpaid work and ecological services, ... -
Multiple acts of birding: the Education, ethics and ontology of bird watching in Ontario
(2010-12-08)While bird watching has captured the attention of those interested in fostering an experiential connection to the more-than-human, research conducted to date often assumes birding to be a heterogeneous act. As an example ... -
Promoting Health and Well-Being by Managing for Social–Ecological Resilience: the Potential of Integrating Ecohealth and Water Resources Management Approaches
(Ecology and Society, 2011)In coupled social–ecological systems, the same driving forces can result in combined social and environmental health inequities, hazards, and impacts. Policies that decrease social inequities and improve social cohesion, ... -
Public participation in watershed management:international practices for inclusiveness
(Elsevier, 2011)This paper outlines a number of examples from around the world of participatory processes for watershed decision-making, and discusses how they work, why they are important, their social and ecological potential, and the ... -
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 ... -
A research collection of historical maps and prints of the Caribbean Islands. Part 1: photographic prints, photocopies and facsimiles
(2011-10-13)Part 1 of the collection of historical Caribbean maps and prints is composed of facsimiles, photographic copies, and photocopies of originals, acquired over a period of approximately 30 years (beginning in 1980). All of ... -
Climate Justice Partnership Linking Universities and Community Organizations in Toronto, Durban, Maputo and Nairobi
(Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, 2012)This paper describes a project based at York University in Toronto, funded through the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program of the International Development Research Centre and the UK Department for International ... -
Praxis Mapping: A methodology for evaluating the political impacts of international projects
(2012)This report describes the participatory development of a process we have used to consider the political implications of a climate justice project we worked on together from 2010 to 2013, called Strengthening the role of ... -
International Synergies to Address Climate Change: Participatory Community Organizing in Toronto and the Baixada Fluminense, Brazil
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2012) -
Strengthening the role of civil society in water sector governance towards climate change adaptation in African cities – Durban, Maputo, Nairobi
(2013)Water resources management is one of the most important climate change-related issues on international, national and urban public policy agendas. Income inequality in South Africa, Mozambique, and Kenya is among the largest ... -
Women and water management in times of climate change: participatory and inclusive processes
(Journal of Cleaner Production, 2013)This paper focuses on community engagement, and particularly the inclusion of women, in water management as a response to climate change. Addressing water-related problems is central to climate change adaptation, and civil ... -
Environmental activism and gender
(Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) -
Social Diversity, Globalization, and Sustainability in Community-Based Economies
(Inanna Publications and Education, 2013)