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Aishwarya Bhattacharyya
Aishwarya Bhattacharyya
Alexander Quesnel
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Cryptogeographies: Bitcoin Mining and the Production of Space
Amanda Little
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Seasons of change: the influence of seasonality and climate change on arsenic toxicity to plankton communities in mining-impacted lakes near Yellowknife (Northwest Territories, Canada).
Arushi Singh Parmar
Arushi Singh Parmar
Ayesha Shahid
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Precarious Livelihoods and ‘Nowhere People’: Between the Agrarian Crisis, Urbanization and Migration in Pakistan
Baillie Weiderick
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Examining Interspecific Competition of Colonial Waterbirds at Tommy Thompson Park, Toronto, ON
Brian Waters
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Seasonal Changes of Water Insecurity in the Informal Settlements of Freetown, Sierra Leone
Carli Melo
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Inclusion and Exclusion in Global Production Networks: The Case of Myanmar Migrant Seafood Processing Workers in Thailand
Charlie West
Research Topic: Algal Pigments and Thaw Slumps: How Arctic Lake Phytoplankton Respond to Disturbance.
Cheryl Forest
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Understanding the Gendered Experiences of Female Urban Greenspace Users in Master-Planned Communities
Christopher Sorio
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Best Before Date: 2nd Feb 2024—The Breakdown of Protections for Precarious Workers in the GTA: The story of Del Monte in Oshawa
Claire O’Hagan
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Assessing the impacts of recent, intense permafrost thaw slumping on lakes in the Mackenzie Delta uplands, Northwest Territories, Canada
Claire Perttula
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Tackling Transitions: Informing a New Food Systems Planning for Ontario
Darren Gens
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Political Ecology, Agriculture, and Development in Bangladesh
Dominik Formanowicz
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An Immigrant Neighborhood as a Site of Planetary Urbanization: An Example of St. James Town, Toronto
Esmond Lee
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Elusive Territories: Spatial Vocabularies of Racialized Suburbs in Scarborough, Toronto
Farida Abdelmeguied
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Spatio-Legal Exclusion, Migrantization, and Permanent Displaceability: Transnational Trends in Illegalizing the Urban Poor
Fatma Taran
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The socio-ecological and political dynamics of multiple hydropower dam developments, exploitation of natural resources, development-based displacement, and immobility in the Eastern Black Sea, Türkiye
Fatma Ugur
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Borders within Toronto: Exploring Inaccessibility in Relation to Food, Housing and Transportation within the Jane Finch Community (Analysis of the Jane Finch Initiative)
Federico Arevalo
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Comparative studies on housing through the use of gamification and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Felicia Achamah
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Mercury Supply at Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Africa: Actors, Distribution and Networks
Genevieve Minville
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Climate-induced displacement, Disasters, Post-Disaster Recovery and Climate Justice
Grace Hoskin
Grace Hoskin
Grace Pawliw-Fry
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Labour geographies of neurodivergent adults in the workplace and local labour markets
Haley Klassen
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Comparison of Two Reanalysis Models, NARR and ERA5 for Describing the Behaviour of Sea-Ice on Hudson Bay
Jacob Roberts
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Staging an Olympic Myth: Democracy and the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
Jad Aswad
Research Topic: Comparing Ephemeral Stream Detection Methods Using Remote Sensing.
Jasper Wong
Jasper Wong
Josh Watterton
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Miltary Spending and Arms Production: A Geographical Analysis
Kyle Derry
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Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure Applications
Lawrenz Decano
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I smell precarity: Exploring the geographies of migrant labour in southern Alberta’s Feedlot Alley
Leonardo Martins Cavalcanti Furtado
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Searching for Belonging and Living With Saudade: Mapping Emotions in Brazil-to-Canada LGBTQ+ Migration
Mallory MacDonnell
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Work at Sea: Labour Complexities Associated with Marine Ecologies, Technologies and Spaces
Misba Chowdhary
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Triggered Town: Situating Communal Violence And Dissonance In The Wake of the Gujarat Earthquake
Nadia Keshmiri
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Characterizing boreal forest fire disturbance boundaries through space and time in Ontario
Navjot Dhaliwal
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Water Governance in Lake Nipigon: Re-imagining the Ecosystem Approach to Incorporate Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge
Nikki Pagaling
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From Caregiver to Personal Support Worker: Canada’s Caregiver Programs and Labour Market Segmentation Among Filipina Women in Toronto
Patricia Farias
Patricia Farias
Philip Lynch
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Learning Post-disturbance Boreal Recovery Trajectories for Backward Prediction
Prateeksha Pathak
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Feminist Geographies of the Intimate: Analysing the Intimate Politics of Afghan Women’s Visual Culture
Rachel Pellegrino
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Assessing environmental changes in Lake Nipigon (NW Ontario, Canada) using siliceous paleolimnological subfossils
Rajinder Singh
Rajinder Singh
Randelle Adano
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Paleolimnological Study Of Chironomidae (Diptera) Assemblage Responses To Climate Change, Past Mining, And Hydroelectric Projects in Lake Nipigon (Northwestern Ontario)
Rebecca Gasman
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Increasing Incidences of harmful Cyanobacteria blooms in lakes across a trophic range in central Ontario and Subarctic Northwest Territories
Rebecca Tuz
Rebecca Tuz
Ria Jhoanna Ducusin
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Flood Disasters in the Coastal Urban Environments: A Political Ecology of Philippine Localities
Romeo Joe Quintero
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Building Liveable Futures in Camps: Everyday Placemaking Practices of Internally Displaced Persons in the Southern Philippines
Rosario del Pilar Rodriguez Romani
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Beyond Beauty Standards: the places and spaces of fatphobia and anit-fatphobia in Lima society
Sabika Zaidi
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Racialized Lives of Property: The (re)Production of ‘Illegal’ Identities in Urban India
Saeideh Sahebivayghan
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Mapping wildland fire risk with hybrid deep learning and optimization method using Google Earth Engine for Ontario’s boreal Managed Forest
Shweta Parajuli
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Estimating soil carbon from vegetation stock using allometry, models and remote sensing
Sophia Ilyniak
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Rebuilding Ukraine: sub/urban geographies of the third sector
Sorin Alexandru Gruia
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Reconstructing Long-Term Ecosystem Change in a Western Arctic Lake with a Highly Active Thaw Slump (NORTHWEST TERRITORIES, CANADA)
Stefanie Kiriazis
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Chronically Excluded? Public Toilet Access for Suburban Youth with Gastrointestinal Illnesses
Sumbal Gillani
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Geographies of Hope and Fear: Public Manifestations of Contrasting Political Ideologies in Two Socio-political Movements in Lahore, Pakistan
Tahmid Rouf
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Civic diasporic organizations, cyberspace and superdiverse locales: Bangladeshis in Toronto.
Tejumade Ojo
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Comparing boreal forest regeneration structures between harvesting and wildfire disturbance with 3D morphology
Theryn Arnold
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The impact of the Canadian and Chinese government’s promotion of green capitalism through state-backed projects such as the NextStar and Xiaomi EV plants
Thomas Wu
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Paleolimnological assessments of climate change and wildfire-stimulated permafrost thaw as drivers of long-term colour shifts in small shallow discontinuous permafrost peatland lakes in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Tyjana Connolly
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The resilience strategies of Afro-Caribbean subsistence based and land-based communities in the Caribbean to cope with the impacts of climate change/the changing physical environment
Victoria Carroll
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A paleolimnological assessment of the impact of cryogenic landslides on low-lying lakes of the Mackenzie Delta (NT, Canada)
Vivien Bediako
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Return Visits to the Homeland through Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Tourism: Ghanaian Canadians’ Negotiations of Home, Belonging and Place Attachment
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