EUC Professor Jennifer Foster releases new book on the importance of abandoned industrial sites

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is proud to announce the launch of Professor Jennifer Foster’s latest book, Post-Industrial Urban Greenspace: Ecology, Aesthetics and Justice (2022).   All are welcome to attend the book launch on Friday, May 19 at 1PM in HNES 142. The event will also be broadcast on zoom – for […]

Film Screening and Q&A: The Changing Face of Iceland

On Thursday, March 9 at 12:30 p.m., join renowned filmmaker Mark Terry, an adjunct professor in York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), for a film viewing and Q&A on The Changing Face of Iceland, his latest documentary about the impacts of climate change on the island nation of Iceland. The documentary examines […]

Meet the author: Stefan Kipfer’s ‘Urban Revolutions’

The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is celebrating the launch of Professor Stefan Kipfer’s new book, Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context On Jan. 24, from 1 to 2:20 p.m. in HNES 141, Kipfer will be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, professor of geography and planning at the University of Toronto, and York […]

Scholar’s Hub @ Home | Rough seas: Working conditions in the fishing industry and the impact on sustainability

Peter Vandergeest, Professor Emeritus& Senior Scholar, Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change Do Canadians have a role or obligation to act with respect to working conditions for the seafarers who catch the seafood we consume? Industrial fisheries provide much of the seafood that enters into global seafood supply chains, such as the ubiquitous canned or […]

EUC Seminar Series on Polishing the Chain: We are all Treaty People

Indigenous peoples negotiated nation-to-nation treaties with the Crown. The British North America Act of 1867 and the Canadian constitution both clearly establish responsibility for and relations with Indigenous peoples as a federal jurisdiction. What then, is our role as treaty people? In this panel speakers will explore how non-Indigenous led social movements understand and take […]