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Geography and Planning

Danny Harvey

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climatic change
  • Energy efficiency
  • Energy efficient buildings
  • Global warming
  • Renewable energy

Office: 416-978-1588
Mobile: 416-778-0670
Website
Email: harvey@geog.utoronto.ca

David Roberts

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Cities and mega-events
  • Race and racialization
  • Refugee youth
  • Urban popular culture
  • Urban social movements

Office: 416-978-7790
Website
Email: d.roberts@utoronto.ca

Harald Bathelt

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic geography
  • Economic globalization and international trade fairs
  • Economic, technology and innovation policy
  • German political economy
  • Industrial clusters and regional economic development
  • Inter-regional inequality and connectivity
  • Knowledge creation and innovation over distance
  • Regional and national innovation and technological change
  • Regional impacts of foreign direct investments
  • Socioeconomic impacts of regional industrial and institutional change

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-890-1705
Languages: German,English
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jason Hackworth

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • American cities
  • Detroit
  • Urban decline

Office: N/A
Website
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Jing Chen

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Carbon Cycle
  • Carbon neutrality
  • Climate change
  • Disturbance and forest management effects
  • Ecosystem Modelling
  • Forest carbon cycle
  • Hydrology
  • Physical Geography
  • Remote sensing and applications to environment
  • Vegetation Remote Sensing

Office: (416) 978-7085
Mobile: 905-755-9381
Website
Email: chenj@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Joseph Desloges

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change
  • Geomorphology
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Paleohydrology
  • River processes and flooding
  • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
  • Teaching Field Methods

Office: +1 (416) 978-3709
Website
Email: joseph.desloges@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Karen Chapple

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Governance and cities
  • Housing affordability
  • Job creation
  • Residential and commercial gentrification
  • Transit-oriented displacement

Office: 416-946-7084
Website
Email: karen.chapple@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email

Kristian Larsen

Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Access to health care facilities
  • Cancer prevention
  • Environment and population health
  • Food access/diet
  • Geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Health geography
  • Physical activity, diet and obesity
  • Transportation geography

Office: email preferred
Email: kristian.larsen@utoronto.ca
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Larry Bourne

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Canada: managing growth and decline
  • Form and sprawl
  • Immigration and migration
  • Neighbourhood change
  • Social change in cities
  • Urban growth

Office: 416-978-1595
Mobile: 416-486-7819
Website
Email: bourne@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Matthew Farish

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental history
  • Militarism and geopolitics
  • The Cold War
  • Urban culture

Office: 416-978-6671
Website
Email: matt.farish@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Matti Siemiatycki

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community and regional planning
  • Congestion management
  • Cycling
  • Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
  • Infrastructure finance and delivery
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Transit and commuting
  • Transportation policy and planning
  • Urban planning
  • Urban transit

Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: matti.siemiatycki@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Michael Widener

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Food deserts
  • Food environments
  • Food insecurity
  • Health and transportation
  • Healthy food accessibility
  • Housing and health
  • How transportation networks and infrastructure affect access to health services and healthy opportunities
  • Urban planning and health

Office: 416-946-0270
Website
Email: michael.widener@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Nidhi Subramanyam

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate change adaptation,
  • Environmental justice,
  • Ethnographic,
  • Flood risk management,
  • Participatory and qualitative research methods,
  • Planning in the Global South
  • Sustainable development,
  • Urban governance,
  • Urbanization and rural-urban transitions in South Asia
  • Water-sanitation infrastructures,

Office: N/A
Languages: English,Hindi,Marathi,Tamil
Website
Email: nidhi.subramanyam@utoronto.ca

Romila Verma

Sessional Lecturer

Areas of Expertise

  • Climate Change Impacts on Water
  • Desalination
  • Environmental Education in middle schools and post secondary institutes
  • Hydrology
  • Water Management

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-930-8659
Languages: English, Hindi, Urdu
Website
Email: romila.verma@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Sarah Wakefield

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community development
  • Culture & History
  • Environment & Climate
  • Environmental justice/just sustainability
  • Food access and security
  • Food policy and food systems
  • Policy & Planning
  • Rural
  • Social & Political Geography
  • Sustainable agriculture
  • Urban
  • Urban health inequalities

Office: 416-978-3653
Website
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online

Tyeshia Redden

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Community Development and Housing
  • Humanistic Inquiry and Popular Culture
  • Inequalities and Spatial justice
  • Mega-project Development
  • Social Policy and Planning

Office: N/A
Languages: English
Website
Email: ty.redden@utoronto.ca

William Scott Prudham

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Environmental politics
  • Long term agrarian and political economic change in the wine sector, Languedoc (France)
  • Natural resource extraction and natural resource management/policy
  • Political economy and environment
  • Social dimensions of environmental change

Office: 416-978-4975
Website
Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca
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