Social and economic geography

This group comprises research and experimental development in social and economic geography.

Parent Category

Social sciences

Sub-Categories

Human geography

Urban and regional planning

Other social and human geography

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Graduate Degree Programs in Social and economic geography

Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration in Organizational Behaviour (PhD)

The emphasis of the PhD Program in Organizational Behaviour and Human Resources (OBHR) is on developing research-oriented academics who study problems related to organizations, including the effects of management practices on people, between people within organizational settings, and between...

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Our program introduces students to independent research while broadening and deepening their contact with a selected aspect of Geography. Research can be conducted in these general thematic sub-disciplines: Biogeography; Climatology; Economic Geography; Environment and Sustainability; Feminist...

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

SCARP is interested in attracting students to its PhD program who are interested in topics broadly related to the transition to sustainability through the democratization of planning approaches. Under this broad umbrella, our faculty have diverse interests, ranging from sustainable transportation...

Master of Arts in Geography (MA)

Our program introduces students to independent research while broadening and deepening their contact with a selected aspect of Geography. Research can be conducted in these general thematic sub-disciplines: Economic Geography; Feminist Geography; Historical Geography; Indigenous Geographies;...

Master of Arts in Planning (MAP)

SCARP's Research Masters degree is a thesis-based research program of study, intended for any of the following: Those interested in progressing to Doctoral research Mid-career professionals not prepared to undertake a PhD Those building a professional platform of high-level planning and public-...

Master of Community and Regional Planning (MCRP)

The field of planning has long been recognized as a professional field in Canada and the world. ��'s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) is one of the larger graduate planning schools in North America. Its Vision is “Knowledge in action - planning in partnership",��and in achieving...

Master of Engineering Leadership in Urban Systems (MEL)

TRANSFORM THE FUTURE IN A RAPIDLY EVOLVING INDUSTRY Elevate your career to new heights with the Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) in Urban Systems, an advanced degree crafted for visionary system thinkers eager to tackle complex challenges in infrastructure. This unique interdisciplinary...

Master of Science in Geography (MSc)

Our program introduces students to independent research while broadening and deepening their contact with a selected aspect of Geography. Research can be conducted in these general thematic sub-disciplines: Biogeography; Climatology; Geomorphology; Hydrology and Glaciology; Environment and...

Master of Science in Planning (MSCP)

Master of Urban Design (MUD)

Urban design is the discipline of the design and management of our ever-changing cities driven by urbanization, global economics, and advancing technologies. The Master of Urban Design program is offered in an one-year curriculum with a central focus on urban design at all scales - from the...

Master of Urban Forestry Leadership (MUFL)

Highly-qualified urban forestry professionals are becoming increasingly necessary in cities around the world due to the rapid pace and scale of urbanization, the need to adapt to multiple impacts of climate change in cities, and increasing demand from the public for the recreational, psychological...

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�� Researchers conducting research in Social and economic geography

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Arefin, Mohammed

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Human geography; History of sciences and technology (except medicine and health care); urban geography; discard studies; urban political ecology; Environmental justice; waste; sanitation; geographical political economy

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Bergmann, Luke

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and economic geography; Geomatics; Globalization

Bigazzi, Alex

Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Civil engineering; Transport planning; active transportation; Pedestrians; bicycles; travel behaviour; Transportation Systems; motor vehicle emissions; Climate impacts

Byrne, Fionn

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Landscape architecture; Design innovation; Landscape studies (except architecture); Landscape design; Landscape ethics

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Campbell, Heather

School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Urban and regional planning; how academics can work more effectively with non-academics to enhance impact of research; how academics can work more effectively with non-academics to enhance the relevance of research; how ethical values can be incorporated into public policy relating to city and regional planning

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Everhart, Avery

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Health geography; Population geography; Geographic information system (GIS and GPS) applications; Health and community services; Bioinformatics, n.e.c.; Social and cultural geography; Sex and gender-based analysis; Ethical, legal, and social issues in health, health systems and health research; Gender and health relationship; Health information systems (including surveillance); Geographic Information Science; Medical Geography; Demography & Population Studies; Critical Data Studies, Critical GIS & Digital Geographies; Transgender Studies; Intersectionality in Empirical Social Science; Health Services Research & Access to Healthcare; Community-Based Participatory Research; Feminist & Queer Theories; Measuring & Combatting STructural Racism

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Grant, Amber

Faculty of Forestry

Postdoctoral Fellow

Political geography; Environmental policy; Community planning; urban forests; Environmental justice; community stewardship; sustainability

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Hudson, Peter

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Historical studies, n.e.c.; Economic geography; American history; Pan-Africanism and the Black radicalism; Political Economy, capitalism, imperialism; Historical Studies; Social and Economic Geography

Huot, Suzanne

Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Occupational therapy; Human geography; asylum seekers; bilingualism; community-engaged research; critical theory; francophone minority communities; francophones; french; Gender; immigration; intersectionality; Migration Studies; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; occupational science; Qualitative research; refugees; social inclusion; social integration; Platform economy

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Jorgenson, Andrew

Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Sociology and related studies; Social and economic geography; Other social sciences; climate change; environmental sociology; global political economy; Global Environmental Change; sociology of development; Population health; Comparative-International Sociology; sustainability science

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Lerner, Jackie

Faculty of Science

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Environmental impact assessment; Land use and environmental planning; cumulative effects assessment; gender-based analysis

Liu, Tina

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Atmospheric pollution and air quality; Earth system sciences; Natural hazards; Climate change impacts and adaptation; Environmental geography; modern human-fire relationships; role of fire in the Earth system; impacts of extreme events on planetary health; air quality and public health; satellite remote sensing and big geospatial data

Low, Margaret

School of Community and Regional Planning, Faculty of Applied Science

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Urban and regional planning; Indigenous community planning; Indigenous sovereignty; Reconciliation

LU, JULIET

Department of Forest Resources Management, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forest ecology; Economic geography; Environmental sociology; conflicts and governance issues around resource extraction and intensive land use; transnational land investments; promotion of monoculture plantations at the expense of more biodiverse systems; private sector sustainable governance initiatives

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Narayan, Priti

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and economic geography; urban development; South Asia; state-society relations

Nesbitt, Lorien

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Land use and environmental planning; Environmental justice; urban forestry; Liveable and equitable urban environments; Socio-ecological interactions in cities; climate change; Ecosystem services; Cities

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Park, Keun

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Smart city design and development and related analysis; Landscape studies (except architecture); Urban design and studies; Geographic information system (GIS and GPS) applications; Design of healthy, just, and resilient cities through urban nature; Environmental justice; Human Behaviours in public space; Urban planning; urban forestry

Peck, Jamie

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and economic geography; Socio-Economic Conditions; Economic geography

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Schwartz, Naomi Beth

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and economic geography; community ecology; Ecosystem Services and Conservation Policy; Environmental Change; GIS; remote sensing; Tropical forest landscapes

Sunderland, Terence

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Earth and related environmental sciences; Social and economic geography; biodiversity; Communications; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Conservation Biology; Ecosystem services; Environmental communication; Forest policy; Land-use Change; Landscape ecology; Natural Resource Management; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Developing countries; Forest management

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Valadares, Desiree

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Landscape architecture; Environment, space and place; Media, visual and digital culture; Social and cultural geography; heritage politics and preservation; Asian North American history; war memory and war commemoration; cultural landscapes and architectural history

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Wyly, Elvin

Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Social and economic geography; Urban Spaces and Urbanity; Specialized Services (Housing, Transportation); gentrification; housing; the politics of data and quantitative methods; U.S. politics

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Zerriffi, Hisham

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental geography; Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Modelling and applications of systems; Environment and natural resources economics; Environmental policy; Biomass (Energy); Energy Transformation and Energy Using; International development; Environment and Society; Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; energy poverty

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Student & Alumni Stories in Social and economic geography

Bronwyn Bragg

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Citizenship and the city: How migrant status shapes neighbourhood life

Wesley (Wes) Regan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Planning in the infodemic: the impacts of digital misinformation and anti-government conspiracism on urban sustainability planning

Nina Ebner

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Working the Border: Economic Restructuring and Uneven Development on the US-Mexico Border

Meghna Mohandas

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Private space as sites of ‘othering’: Housing experiences of Indigenous migrant women in Bengaluru, India

Kelsey Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Social and economic geographies of blood plasma donation in the United States

Rapichan Phurisamban

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Relationalities and River Flows: Toward a Socially-Equitable and Bioculturally-Conscious Environmental Flow Management

Sara Cannon

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Coral reefs, climate change, and resilience in the central Pacific

Zana Mody

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Counting blue carbon for coastal communities: understanding socio-ecological contexts of nature based climate solutions and mangrove restoration

Douglas Robb

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Canadian energy landscapes

Rebekah Kartal

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

The search for solidarity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands/occupied O'odham land

Kirsten McIlveen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Prison Paradox and Post-Secondary Education: Challenges to Developing Innovative Curriculum in Women’s Prisons

Fernanda Rojas-Marchini

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

'Naturalezas emergentes': The Turn toward Market-based Biodiversity Conservation in the South of Chile

Mollie Holmberg

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Finance goes viral? Investigating the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation’s novel strategies for mending vaccine markets and preventing emerging infectious disease outbreak

Lauren Vincent

Student

Master of Science in Geography (MSc)

Alluvial Fan Processes

Debbie Pierce

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

The impact of land rights and deforestation on women in the Colombian Amazon

Erik Post

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Projects of life and death: Extractivism, climate justice, and decolonial futures in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, Mexico

Brandon Hillier

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

How engineers learn to labour: Elite technology work across borders in the United States and Canada

Max Cohen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Placing the Just Transition in Scotland and New Zealand

Elaine Williamson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD)

Empowering Haida Gwaii: Revitalizing Indigenous-Led Tourism as a Pathway to Economic Sovereignty, Cultural Sustainability and Self-Determination

Nick Middeldorp

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Territories in dispute: repression and protection in Indigenous struggles in Northern Cauca, Colombia

Evelyn Arriagada

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Islander women mapping water-related problems and solutions

Rachel N. Stern

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Interdisciplinary and Mixed-Methods Approaches to Extreme Heat: A Community Participatory Study of Older Adults' Heat Experiences in Metro Vancouver

Samuel Adeyanju

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

People, projects, and poverty: Investigating the effectiveness of livelihood interventions implemented in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana

Jeremy Stone

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Discursive Gentrification: Neighborhoods, Resistance, and the Urban Commons

Paul Boniface Akaabre

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Leasehold of Urban Land: Conceptions on Tenure, Practices and Influence on Housing Delivery

Meghna Mohandas

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Private space as political ‘genderscape’: How social and political contexts shape the rental housing experiences of Indigenous migrant women in Bengaluru, India

Atul Aravindakshan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Built environment, metabolomics, and cancer risk

Meryem Belkadi

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

The gendered impact of a nationwide slum clearance program in Morocco on the interrelationship between housing markets and employment outcomes

Jo Fitzgibbons

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes

Dana Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes

Rebecca Mayers

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Beyond Bike Lanes: The Politics of the Cycling Infrastructure Decision-Making Process

Khadija Anjum

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Planning for food security of low-income groups amid rising food price volatility: A gendered analysis

Juliane Collard

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

The global and the intimate in assisted reproduction

Louisa-May Khoo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Ageing in a Neuropolis: The Social Epidemiology of Stress in Late Life among Older Adults in Global-City Singapore

Emily Acheson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Climate change, land use change, or both? How spatio-temporal modelling of the Cryptococcus gattii fungus in the Pacific Northwest may reveal determinants of emerging infectious diseases

Daniel Lipshutz Forrest

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Co-constructing a mutualistic city: Envisioning future scenarios to support people and nature in urban landscapes

Kyle Loewen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

To Market: Experimentation, Labor, and the Re-structuring of Last Mile Logistics

Rachel Ramsden

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Participatory planning with young children: A mixed methods approach to planning outdoor play environments

Michael Fabris (Krebs)

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Geography (PhD)

Assimilation, Place, and Indigenous Identity in the Era of Reconciliation

Juri Kim

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Examining the impacts of barriers and facilitators on post-pandemic economic recovery in Vancouver neighbourhoods

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Program Specializations in Social and economic geography

Geography

Planning

Urban Design

Urban Systems

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Academic Units in Social and economic geography

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences

Department of Forest Resources Management

Department of Geography

Department of Wood Science

Robert H. Lee ��

School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture

School of Community and Regional Planning

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French Name

Géographie sociale et économique

French Description

Ce groupe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en géographie sociale et économique.

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