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Faculty List
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(Joint appointment with School for the Environment) (PhD, McGill University) Peasant livelihoods in tropical forests; cultural/political ecology; environmental conservation and development; human responses to environmental change; Latin America; Amazon & Mexico Phone: (416) 978-3373 Location: Room 5025B, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George St.) Email: christian.abizaid@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, University of the Aegean, Greece) Aquatic biogeochemical
modelling; aquatic ecosystem responses to climatic variability;
plankton ecology/food web dynamics; watershed-aquatic ecosystem
interactions Phone: (416) 208-4858 Location: Room SW410A (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: georgea@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, McGill) Biogeochemistry and microbial ecology of northern forest
and wetland ecosystems; soil science; global and environmental change;
natural resource management and ecosystem restoration Phone: (905) 569-4515 Location: Room SB3102 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: nathan.basiliko@utoronto.ca |
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(Habilitation, PhD, University of Gießen, Germany) Economic geography; relational economic geography; clusters, innovation systems and knowledge-creation; political economy; industrial restructuring and globalization; regional policy and governance
Phone: (416) 946-0183
Location: Room 3121, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George Street)
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
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(Undergraduate Coordinator) (PhD, Washington) Environment and development; political geography; China Phone: (416) 978-1587 Location: Room 5006, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: boland@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Western) Geographic information systems (GIS) and science;
technology and pedagogy; urban forestry; remote sensing; northern
environments; GIS project management, implementation; use of GIS in
northern and aboriginal organizations Phone: (416) 978-1585 Location: Room 5011, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: don.boyes@utoronto.ca |
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Michelle Buckley Postcolonial urbanisms; Migrant construction workers and capitalist urbanization; Urban masculinities and Neo-Marxian political economies; Political economies of the Gulf and Middle East Phone: (416) 208-5122 Location: Room MW289 (UTSC) Email: mbuckley@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, McMaster) Transportation geography; interaction and feedback
between transport, land use and environmental systems; activity-travel
analysis and modelling; family, gender and daily activities;
accessibility; spatial behaviour; spatial analysis and geographic
information systems (GIS) Phone: (905) 569-4419 Location: Room SB3104 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: ron.buliung@utoronto.ca |
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Urban sustainability and communities, urban political ecology, community-based planning and development in cities, urban waterfront regeneration Phone: (416) 287-7296 Location: Bladen Wing 526C (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: scbunce@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(Associate Chair, Graduate)
(PhD, Reading, UK) Remote sensing; geographical information systems; biogeochemical cycle modelling; hydrology; micrometeorology Phone: (416) 978-7085 Location: Room 306A, PGB (45 St. George) Email: chenj@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Rutgers) Land use/land cover modelling; urban vegetation; human drivers of urban ecosystems Phone: (905) 828-3928 Location: Room SB3108 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: tenley.conway@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Geographies of citizenship, security and war; sub/urban political geography Phone: (416) 946-0567 Location: Room 5033, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: deb.cowen@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Lund University, Sweden) Earth system science; biogeography; paleoecology/paleoclimatology; physiological plant ecology Phone: (416) 978-0714 Location: Room 201C, PGB (45 St. George) Email: cowling@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(Vice-Dean, Graduate (UTM)) (PhD,
Harvard) Urban infrastructure in developing countries; political
economy of cities particularly in Southeast Asia and Latin America Phone: (416) 978-3236 Location: Room 5063, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: amrita.daniere@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, UBC) Fluvial and glacial geomorphology; environmental reconstruction Phone: (416) 978-5234 Location: Room 208, PGB (45 St. George) Email: desloges@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Montreal) Economic development; technological innovation;
entrepreneurship; international trade; business-environment,
business-university interactions Phone: (905) 828-5206 Location: Room SB3109 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: pierre.desrochers@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Sources, fate, exposure and health effects of, and policies related to, chemical contaminants, focusing on lakes, urban areas, and indoor environments Phone: (416) 978-1586 Location: Room 207B, PGB (45 St. George) Email: miriam.diamond@utoronto.ca |
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(Acting Chair and Graduate Chair) (PhD, McMaster; MCIP) Multiregional dynamic modelling; economic
development in lagging regions; geopolitics and economic development
planning in the Northwest Territories Phone: (416) 978-2935 Location: Room 5058, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: difrance@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD McMaster) Applied Ecohydrology, Wetland Hydrology and Biogeochemistry, Catchment Hydrology and Biogeochemistry, Stream and Wetland Restoration, Forest Disturbance and Stream Water Quality, Urbanization and Water and Solute Cycling Phone: 905-569-4558 Location: Room 3265, DV (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH 5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: tim.duval@utoronto.ca |
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(D.Phil Oxford) Phone: 416-208-4764 Location: Management Wing (MW) 366, UTSC Downtown Office: Room SSH 5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: mekers@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, UBC) Militarism and geopolitics; the Cold War; environmental history; American studies; urban culture Phone: (416) 978-6671 Location: Room 5040, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: farish@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Paleoecology; paleclimatology; the Holocene; the Arctic; the Sub-arctic; wetlands; pollen analysis; diatoms; microfossils; lake sediments; peat; biogeography Phone: (416) 978-5613 Location: Office, 3129 Earth
Sciences Centre; Lab: Room 205B, PGB (45 St. George)
Email: finkelstein@es.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Harvard; MCIP) Regional investment patterns; capital mobility and economic development Phone: (416) 978-5992 Location: Room 5063, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: gertler@geog.utoronto.ca |
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E. Gilbert (Director, Canadian Studies Program)
(PhD, Bristol, UK) Citizenship, borders and security; nationalism, postcolonialism, globalization; the culture and politics of money; social and political theory; North America Phone: (416) 978-0751 Location: Room B301, University College Email: emily.gilbert@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Cornell) Critical theory and Marxist philosophy; architecture and urban planning; colonialism, imperialism and nationalism; South Asia (Sri
Lanka) Phone: (416) 978-2974 Location: Room 5062, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: kanishka.goonewardena@utoronto.ca |
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(Vice-Dean, Graduate Education and Program Development, UTSC) (PhD, McGill) Climatic change; climate and ocean modelling; physical mixing processes in oceans Phone: (416) 287-7245 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: gough@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Rutgers) Political economy; comparative urban policy; declining cities; urban abandonment Phone: (416) 946-8764 Location: Room 5010, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD,
UC Berkeley) Religion and secularism, travel and mobilities, gender and
sexuality, urban political geography. East Asia (Korea).
Phone: 416-208-2968
Location: MW202 (UTSC)
Email: judy.han@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Climate modelling; climatic change; energy and environment Phone: (416) 978-1588 Location: Room 5032, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: harvey@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD University of Saskatchewan) Remote sensing; advanced spatial analysis; invasive and endangered species detection and mapping; grassland productivity modelling; critical wetland habitat monitoring for the endangered species; climate change Phone: (905) 569-4679 Location: SE2113F (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: yuhong.he@utoronto.ca |
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(Director, Program in Planning) (PhD, Washington) History of planning; travel behaviour; urban form analysis Phone: (416) 978-4955 Location: Room 5067, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: hess@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, UC, Berkeley) Health; AIDS; sexuality; critical development studies; Africa; labour; ethnographic methods; education and class Phone: (416) 208-4764 Location: B527 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: mhunter@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD University of Toronto) Agroecology; plant-soil interactions; biogeochemical cycling; environment and development; social-ecological systems; agrarian resource networks; temperate and tropical agroforestry
Email: Marney.Isaac@utoronto.ca Phone: 416-287-7276 Location: SW517 (UTSC)
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(PhD University of Massachusetts Amherst) The political economy of food; agricultural biodiversity; peasant livelihoods; land reform and agrarian transformation; Latin America; substantive economics; political ecology; critical development studies
Email: risakson@utsc.utoronto.ca Phone: 416-287-7345 Location: MW334 (UTSC)
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(PhD, Western Cape, South Africa) People-environment interactions; land
rights; politics of development projects; Africa/Southern Africa Phone: (416) 287-7281 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: kepe@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, UBC) Urban-economic, cultural and feminist geography Phone: (416) 978-8467 Location: Room 5066, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: leslie@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, McGill) Historical geography of urban industrial change
(1850-1950); unemployment and labour markets (1900-1939); industrial
and working class suburbs (1850-1950) Phone: (416) 978-1590 Location: Room 5003, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: lewis@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, University of Toronto) Regional geography of North America; colonial North America and the Caribbean; population dynamics; retail analysis Phone: (416) 946-0270 (St. George) / 905 569-4854 (UTM) Location: Room 5037, Sidney Smith Hall (St. George) / SE2113C (UTM) Email: joseph.leydon@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, University of Toronto) Atmospheric chemistry-climate interactions; Remote sensing of the atmosphere and land; Public health-air quality relationship; Atmospheric environmental modeling; Atmosphere-biosphere interactions
Location: Room 200A, Physical Geography Building Tel: (416) 946-8257 Fax: (416) 946-3886 Email: liu@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Waterloo) Cultural politics of conservation; nature-society
theory; natural hazards; place and cultural identity; transnationalism;
development; South Asia (Pakistan, India) Phone: (416) 287-7294 Location: Room B584 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: kmacd@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(On leave until July 1, 2013) (PhD, Cornell) Waste management; sustainable urban development; environmental assessment; South East Asia (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia); China Phone: (416) 978-4977 Location: Room 5050, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: maclaren@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, University College, London, UK) "Mixed race" identity; media and
minority representation; critical journalism; women of colour in
geography Phone: (416) 287-7302 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: mahtani@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(Joint appointment with Aboriginal Studies) (PhD, Toronto) Aboriginal issues; environmental ethics; traditional ecological knowledge; forest management Phone: (416) 978-6591 Location: Room 5063, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: mcgregor@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Location theory; migration and regional economic growth; demographic change and housing demand Phone: (416) 287-7287 Location: CUCC Email: miron@chass.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Hydrology, biogeochemistry, mercury and methylmercury,
anaerobic soils, wetlands, sulfur cycling, biogeochemical hot spots,
snowmelt, redox chemistry, environmental microbiology Phone: (416) 208-2744 Location: Room SY362 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: cmitchell@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, McMaster) Hydroclimatology of wetlands; microclimatology; energy exchange; modelling of glacier response to climate Phone: (905) 828-3929 Location: Room SB3105 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: scott.munro@utoronto.ca |
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B. Murck
(PhD) Environmental issues in developing countries Phone: (905) 828-5426 Location: Room SB3110 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: bmurck@utm.utoronto.ca |
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Geographies of waste and labour, urban political ecology, global urbanism, cities of the global South, South Asia Phone: (416) 287-7297 Location: Room B508 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: rreddy@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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Environmental policy, conservation, private property, arctic politics, indigenous politics, Canada - US relations, public policy Phone: (905) 569-4556 Location: Room Davis 3264 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH3049 (100 St. George Street) Email: andrea.olive@utoronto.ca |
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(Joint appointment with Centre for Environment) (PhD, UC, Berkeley) Political economy; environmental change and environmental politics; political ecology; industrial and alternative forestry regimes in western North America; commodification of nature, including market-based environmental regulation Phone: (416) 978-4975 Location: Room 5007, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Cornell) Politics of
planning and development; feminist and critical theory; culture-economy
articulations; comparative market regulation; ethnographic methods;
South and Southeast Asia Phone: (416) 978-1592 Location: Room 5002, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: rankin@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Development of modern urban landscapes; phenomenologies of place landscape Phone: (416) 287-7354 Location: Room S406 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: relph@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Kent State) Geographic information systems; artificial intelligence; landscape ecology; ecological modelling Phone: (905) 828-5299 Location: Room SB2113D (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: doc.robinson@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, UCLA) Social geography; social planning in North America and Europe; marginal groups (youth and women) Phone: (416) 978-1589 Location: Room 5059, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: ruddick@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, UBC) Transportation policy and planning; infrastructure finance and delivery; community and regional planning Phone: (416) 946-5145 Location: Room 5041, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Washington, Seattle) Migration; Indonesia; feminist theory;
critical development studies; politics of transnationalism and Islam Phone: (416) 978-6640 Location: Room 5036, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: silvey@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, London, UK) Urban Japan; land use; suburban development Phone: (416) 287-5607 Location: Room B350 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: sorensen@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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Z. Taylor
(M.Sc.Pl. Toronto, MA Dalhousie) Urban politics; local government and administration; metropolitan and regional governance and policy; political geography; urban political economy; planning history. Phone: (647) 406-8340 Location: Room MW-232, Social Sciences Building (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: zack.taylor@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, McMaster) Community food security; food systems; environmental justice; urban environmental health; healthy neighbourhoods; community-engaged scholarship Phone: (416) 978-3653 Location: Room 5014, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Toronto) Urban social, economic, and political geography; urban policy and neighbourhood inequality; urban form and political ideology; metropolitan governance; regional planning; housing and homelessness; gated communities; geographies of social justice Phone: (905) 828-3932 Location: Room SB2113E (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: alan.walks@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Australian National University) Environmental fluid dynamics;
turbulence modelling; mixing and dispersion of nutrients and larvae Phone: (416) 208-4879 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: wells@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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(Chair UTM); (PhD, Queen's) Aboriginal health; neighbourhoods and health; immigration and health; access to health care Phone: (905) 828-3864 Location: SB3111 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: kathi.wilson@utoronto.ca |
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Part-Time in the Department
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P. Bedford (Adjunct Professor)
(MSc, Southern Illinois University; FCIP) Transportation, regional governance, smart growth, community involvement Email: paulbedford@sympatico.ca |
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(MScPl, Toronto) Effective communication techniques in planning;
housing and homelessness; food and local agriculture; public
consultation techniques Phone: (416) 978-2580 Location: Room 5061, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: p.campsie@utoronto.ca |
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D. Dupuy (Sessional Lecturer)
(PhD, Toronto) Innovation systems; innovation policy; commercialization; knowledge transfer; urban and regional economic development Location: Room 5030, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: damian.dupuy@utoronto.ca |
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J. Farrow (Adjunct Professor)
(MBA, York; MCIP) Urban management and land economics |
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M. Goldhar (Adjunct Professor)
(BA York, 1983) Commercial real estate planning and development, including land development, building construction and property management |
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S. Makuch (Adjunct Professor)
(LLM, Harvard) Municipal government, economic analysis of law, legal aspects of land |
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(DPhil, Oxford) Mixed tenure communities; housing; transportation disadvantage; transportation policy; urban regeneration; planning history Phone: (416) 978-5991 Location: Room 5025B, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George St.) Email: markovich@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD. University of London, UK) Ecology of freshwater subtropical
ecosystems; global water resources; ecosystem health indicators;
natural resource management and ecosystem restoration Phone: (905) 569-4382 Location: (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: harvey.shear@utoronto.ca |
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A. M. Baker (PhD, Chicago) Medical geography; geographic information systems; computer cartography |
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Professor Emeritus (PhD, Chicago; FRSC, MCIP, RPP, D.Litt) Urban policy; comparative urban systems; urban structure, housing Phone: (416) 978-1593 Location: Room 5019, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: bourne@geog.utoronto.ca |
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Professor Emeritus (PhD, LSE) Canadian industrial policy and development initiatives; impacts of technological change Phone: (416) 978-1595 Location: Room 5020, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: britton@geog.utoronto.ca |
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R. B. Bryan
Professor Emeritus (PhD, Sheffield, UK) Experimental geomorphology; soil erosion and conservation; arid lands development Email: rbryan@geog.utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, Sheffield, UK) Agricultural land use and policy in urban regions; rural settlement and planning Phone: (416) 287-7313 Location: Room B534 (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: bunce@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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I. Burton
Professor Emeritus (PhD Chicago, USA; FRSC; WAAS) Scientist Emeritus, Meteorological Service of Canada. Adaptation to climate change, environment and development, risk assessment, science policy. Phone: (416) 538 2034 Email: Ian.Burton@ec.gc.ca
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A. J. Dakin
Professor Emeritus |
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Associate Professor Emeritus
(PhD, Wisconsin) Biogeography; Quaternary climate/vegetation change; peatlands; agroecosystems Phone: (416) 946-0270 Location: Room 5037, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: davis@geog.utoronto.ca |
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Professor Emeritus (PhD, Toronto) Office location and business linkages; historical geography of financial districts Phone: (416) 978-6047 Location: Room 5019, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: gad@geog.utoronto.ca |
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Professor Emeritus (PhD, London, UK) Historical cultural geography; Latin America; historical geography of Brazil Phone: (416) 978-1595 Location: Room 5020, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George) Email: galloway@geog.utoronto.ca |
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Professor Emeritus (PhD, Bristol) Coastal geomorphology Phone: (416) 287-7326 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: greenw@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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J. R. Hitchcock
(PhD, North Carolina; MCIP) Neighbourhood planning; housing and social policy |
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Professor Emeritus (PhD, Waterloo; MCIP) Environmental planning; recreation and tourism Phone: (905) 828-5298 Location: Room SB3113 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street)
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A. V. Jopling
Professor Emeritus |
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T. F. McIlwraith
Professor Emeritus (PhD, Wisconsin) Ontario landscapes; 19th-century technology and transportation Phone: (905) 828-5314 Location: Room SB3113 (UTM) Downtown Office: Room SSH5023 (100 St. George Street) Email: thomas.mcilwraith@utoronto.ca |
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D. A. McQuillan Professor Emeritus (PhD, Wisconsin) Historical geography of rural North America; historical preservation planning Email: aidan.mcquillan@utoronto.ca |
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(PhD, McGill) Canopy water fluxes, water-soil interactions, human changes to hydrologic function Phone: (416) 287-7327 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: tony.price@utsc.utoronto.ca |
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J. W. Simmons
Professor Emeritus (PhD, Chicago) Canadian urban systems; growth and policy Associated with the Centre for the Study of Commercial
Activity at Ryerson University Email: jimsimmons@shaw.ca
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J. B. R. Whitney
Professor Emeritus (Phd, Chicago) Environmental management; East Asia Email: joe.whitney@utoronto.ca |
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