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Linking land displacement and environmental dispossession to Mi'kmaw health and well-being: Culturally relevant place-based interpretive frameworks matter

Using a “Piktukowaq” (Mi'kmaw) environmental health research framework to guide the interpretation of oral histories coming from the Knowledge Holders in Pictou Landing First Nation, the study convey the deep, health ‐ enhancing relationship with A'se'k that the Piktukowaq enjoyed before it was destroyed by a pulp and paper mill pouring 85 million liters of effluent per day into a lagoon, and the health suppression that has occurred since then.

Professor in Demography

The Demography Department of the University of Montreal is seeking applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Economic Demography and Population and Development.

Deadline for applications: 16 November 2018.

The appointed candidate will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise graduate students, engage in ongoing research and publication, and contribute to the academic life and reputation of the University.

Requirements

Environmental influences on skilled worker migration from Bangladesh to Canada

In this stidy, focus groups in Toronto with 44 recent skilled worker immigrants from Bangladesh, was conducted to explore whether their decisions to migrate to Canada may have been influenced by environmental problems.

Canada Research Excellence Chair in Migration & Integration

Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, has been selected to nominate a prestigious Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Migration and Integration with a one-time investment of $10 million in funding over seven years. The university is currently in the active search for a global research leader to nominate for this Chair position. Applications should be emailed to cerc @ryerson.ca and will be accepted until 25 February 2018 at 11:59 p.m.

Call for abstracts: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability, 2018 IGU Regional Conference

Call for Proposals - Cities and Climate Change Science IPCC Conference

Analyzing the impact of urban planning on population distribution in the Montreal metropolitan area using a small-area microsimulation projection model

In this paper, the population of the Montreal Metropolitan Community’s municipalities was projected over the 2006–2031 period to assess the effects of changes to urban planning on the expected spatial distribution of the population.

Interactions between urbanization, heat stress, and climate change

To examine the effects of three urban density classes on Heat Stress (HS), the authors use an urban canyon model coupled to a land surface model to quantify present-day and projected mid-21st century rural and urban HS for boreal summer over the U.S. and southern Canada.

Coastal climate change and aging communities in Atlantic Canada: A methodological overview of community asset and social vulnerability mapping

Combining population model projections and coastal sea rise scenarios to the year 2025–2026 with community asset, infrastructure, and residential property mapping and a review of municipal policies, this study examines rural and remote coastal communities and the oldest population in Lunenburg and Annapolis counties of Nova Scotia.

Spatial quantification and pattern analysis of urban sustainability based on a subjectively weighted indicator model: A case study in the city of Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

Based on integrating multiple data sources (GIS data, remote sensing data, census data, and surveyed data) into one geodatabase, this study explored whether urban sustainability can be measured and its patterns can be extracted from a spatial perspective.

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