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Department of Geography, Planning & Environment

Department of Geography, Planning & Environment

Research interests

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  • Bengi Akbulut
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Political Economy, Ecological Economics, Development Economics, Economic Alternatives Political Ecology, Feminist Economics, Social Movements
  • Pascale Biron
    Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Hydro-geomorphology and river dynamics, River management in agricultural watersheds, Geographical Information Systems, Morphodynamic numerical modelling, Stream restoration for fish habitat.
  • Sébastien Caquard
    Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Lead Co-Director, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling
    Cartography, GIS, Mapping narratives, Geovisualization, Geoweb, Geomedia, Oral History
  • Silvano De la Llata
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    public space, urban design, social movements, collaborative community planning, open-source cities, planning theory, urban environmental psychology, subaltern urbanisms and insurgent planning/design.
  • Pierre Gauthier
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Urban morphogenesis, History of development and planning practices in Quebec, Impact of normative planning theories on urban form, Transportation infrastructure and the quality of urban form.
  • Kevin A. Gould
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Political ecology, historical and economic geographies of the Americas and particularly Guatemala, social theory, entanglements of development and militarization, politics of expertise, post-disaster reconstruction
  • Jochen A. G. Jaeger
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Landscape ecology, including road ecology, Quantification and assessment of landscape structure and landscape change, Urban sprawl, Ecological modelling, Impact assessment.
  • Angela Kross
    Assistant Professor, GIS Summer Certificate Director, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, Ecosystem structure and function, vegetation dynamics, land use change and climate change.
  • Alexandra Lesnikowski
    Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Climate change adaptation, vulnerability, adaptation policy and governance, knowledge synthesis, comparative methods
  • Damon Matthews
    Professor and Concordia Research Chair in Climate Science and Sustainability, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Climate change, global climate modelling, climate impacts, allowable emissions for climate mitigation targets, national contributions to climate change
  • Nalini Mohabir
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Postcolonial/Return Migrations, Indentureship, Indentureship, Decolonization, Diaspora, South-South connections (Caribbean and South Asia)
  • Monica E. Mulrennan
    Professor and Associate Vice-President, Research (Development and Outreach), Geography, Planning and Environment
    Indigenous stewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Indigenous conservation and protected areas; traditional fisheries; seaweed harvesting; ethno-geomorphology
  • Alan Nash
    Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Cultural geography, Restaurants in Montreal, Gravestones in Iceland and the Caribbean.
  • Zachary Patterson
    Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director (MASc. and PhD.), Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering
    Emerging technologies in transport-related data collection, computational geospatial data processing, data analysis and inference with statistical and artificial intelligence techniques, and discrete choice experiments.
  • Norma M. Rantisi
    Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    political economy, labour market intermediaries, workforce development, artisanal cooperatives, social/solidarity economy, economic restructuring
  • Ted Rutland
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Municipal politics, urban planning, and urban security/policing in Canada.
  • Leonard Sklar
    Emeritus Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Earth surface processes and landscape evolution; Sediment production and transport; Water resources management; Interactions among ecological and geomorphic processes; Global change and sustainability science
  • Jeannine-Marie St-Jacques
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    North American freshwater availability, decadal-to-centennial water variability, regional hydrology and climate, impacts of global warming, water management for sustained droughts and floods, paleoclimatology, tree-rings, pollen, instrumental data, climate models.
  • Craig Townsend
    Associate Professor and Chair, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Transportation policy, projects and politics; built environment characteristics of Canada's metropolitan areas; urban sprawl and the effect of legally protecting non-urban land; urban planning in the developing world.
  • Sarah E. Turner
    Associate Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment
    Primatology, Behavioural ecology, Japanese macaques and disability, Animal behaviour and behavioural plasticity, Human-animal interactions, Animal responses to human-induced environmental change, Conservation and biodiversity
 
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