Changemakers for a Just and Sustainable Future
York University’s new Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change has been created as a call to action to respond to the most pressing challenges facing people and the planet.
As a community, we believe that making positive change requires bold and diverse thinking, ambitious action, and community engagement. We are research intensive, student centric, inclusive, and devoted to making the world a better place for all.
Join us as we strive to create a more just and sustainable future!
Why Study with Environmental & Urban Change at York University?
We are focused on ensuring our students receive a high-quality education in our undergraduate and graduate programs. We offer all students a unique learning experience within a supportive and inclusive learning environment. Our focus on fundamental knowledge, critical thinking, and hands-on experiences will prepare future global citizens & changemakers make positive change for a better world.
EUC Programs
Undergraduate Programs
We offer undergraduate programs in Cities, Regions, Planning (BES), Environmental Arts & Justice (BES), Environmental Science (BSc), Global Geography (BA) and Sustainable Environmental Management (BES).
Graduate Programs
We are home to two graduate programs, Environmental Studies (MES & PhD) and Geography (MA, Msc & PhD).
Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is committed to providing accessible education, embracing diversity, and empowering all students as changemakers in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Mobilizing Knowledge for a Just and Sustainable Future
Our Faculty brings together geographers, physical scientists, social scientists, humanities researchers and artists whose innovative research seeks to advance sustainability and social justice. Using field-based science, policy analysis, critical social theory, planning skills, geomatics, and cultural and arts-based approaches, our researchers drive action to address the world’s environmental and urban challenges.
York seed grants empower Black scholars to lead transformative research
By Kelly Ninh | August 15, 2025 York University is supporting a dynamic range of research led by Black faculty members whose projects aim to reshape scholarship across disciplines. Nine researchers across four Faculties have received more than $223,000 in
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Queer art faces widespread museum censorship, curators say
By Dan Allen | August 13, 2025 Across the country, exhibitions with LGBTQ art and themes are being altered, postponed or outright canceled under Trump 2.0. From left: “Trans Forming Liberty” by Amy Sherald; Marinna Shareef with Andil Gosine’s “God of
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Plight of the Bumblebees
Story by Jude Isabella Bumblebees are lovable, adorable, and admirably occupied. They tumble along like toddlers drunk on the sweet smells of pretty flowers, breathing in one, then another, and another. If Winnie-the-Pooh were an insect, he would be a bumblebee—a
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The right-wing attacks on the academic left in India
by Raju Das Raju Das A spectre is haunting the world – the spectre of right-wing or fascistic authoritarianism. All the right-wing groups, small or big, local/national or diasporic, have entered into a holy alliance to promote this spectre in
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‘Canada is not for sale’ — but new Ontario law prioritizes profits over environmental and Indigenous rights
by Martina Jakubchik-Paloheimo Despite province-wide protests, Ontario’s Bill 5 officially became law on June 5. Critics warn of the loss of both environmental protections and Indigenous rights. The law empowers the province to create special economic zones where companies or projects don’t have to comply
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Exploring Toronto’s queer suburbanism
Infrastructure – material and social – enables urban life for some people and not others. Unevenly distributed between centers and peripheries,it affords differential capacities for action and shapes regimes of social reproductive labor. — Alison Bain and B. Wiley Sharp
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Land Acknowledgement
We recognize that many Indigenous Nations have longstanding relationships with the territories upon which York University campuses are located that precede the establishment of York University. York University acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It is now home to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes Region