Research interests
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Bengi Akbulut
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Economic Alternatives Political Ecology, Feminist Economics, Social Movements -
Pascale Biron
- Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Hydro-geomorphology and river dynamics, River management in agricultural watersheds, Geographical Information Systems, Morphodynamic numerical modelling, Stream restoration for fish habitat. -
Sébastien Caquard
- Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Cartography, GIS, Mapping narratives, Geovisualization, Geoweb, Geomedia, Oral History -
Silvano De la Llata
- Associate Professor - Co-Director of Next Generation Cities Institute’s Cluster of Design, Art and Culture (On Sabbatical), Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: public space, urban design, social movements, collaborative community planning, open-source cities, planning theory, urban environmental psychology, subaltern urbanisms and insurgent planning/design. -
Martin Danyluk
- Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Urbanization, political economy, infrastructure, housing, logistics, inequality, environmental justice -
Pierre Gauthier
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Urban morphogenesis, History of development and planning practices in Quebec, Impact of normative planning theories on urban form, Transportation infrastructure and the quality of urban form. -
Leila Ghaffari
- Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Neighborhood transformation, Gentrification, Territorial inequalities, Housing policies, and Social aspects of urban spaces -
Kevin A. Gould
- Associate Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Political ecology, historical and economic geographies of the Americas and particularly Guatemala, social theory, entanglements of development and militarization, politics of expertise, post-disaster reconstruction -
Jochen A. G. Jaeger
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Landscape ecology, including road ecology, Quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, Urban sprawl, Ecological modelling, Impact assessment. -
Angela Kross
- Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Remote sensing; Geographic Information Systems; Ecosystem structure, function and services; vegetation dynamics; land use change and climate change; biodiversity, -
Alexandra Lesnikowski
- Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Climate change adaptation, vulnerability, adaptation policy and governance, knowledge synthesis, comparative methods -
Damon Matthews
- Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Climate change, global climate modelling, climate impacts, allowable emissions for climate mitigation targets, national contributions to climate change -
Nalini Mohabir
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Indentured Labour; Postcolonialism, Caribbean Studies, Decolonization; Diaspora, Migration, and Transnationalism; Protest and Resistance -
Monica E. Mulrennan
- Associate Vice-President, Research (Development and Impact), Office of the Vice-President, Research, Innovation & Impact and Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Indigenous stewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous conservation and protected areas; traditional fisheries; seaweed harvesting; ethno-geomorphology -
Alan Nash
- Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean. -
Judith Patterson
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Geology of modern environments, impact of fossil fuel combustion on the atmosphere, environmental impact assessment in the transportation sector. -
Norma M. Rantisi
- Professor , Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring -
Ted Rutland
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Urban politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada. -
Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: North American freshwater availability, decadal-to-centennial water variability, regional hydrology and climate, impacts of global warming, water management for sustained droughts and floods, paleoclimatology, tree-rings, pollen, instrumental data, climate models. -
Craig Townsend
- Associate Professor and Chair, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Transportation policy, projects and politics; built environment characteristics of Canada's metropolitan areas; urban sprawl and the effect of legally protecting non-urban land; urban planning in the developing world. -
Sarah E. Turner
- Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
Research areas: Primatology, Behavioural ecology, Japanese macaques and disability, Animal behaviour and behavioural plasticity, Human-animal interactions, Animal responses to human-induced environmental change, Conservation and biodiversity in northeastern Brazil