A Centre for Urban Health Initiatives Research Interest Group...


With funding from the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at the University of Toronto, our network is focused on advancing the theory and practice of how social inequities in environmental health in the city are (re)produced, assessed, understood/experienced, & addressed.


We are particularly interested in advancing the understanding and application of innovative community-based, participatory, and arts-informed approaches.


Specific substantive foci include

  1. (a)perception, governance, distribution of environmental health inequities in an urban context,

  2. (b)urban form and the built environment as key components of environmental justice, and

  3. (c)climate justice in an urban context.


The diverse and growing RIG membership includes faculty and students from several disciplines at 5 universities, numerous local and national NGOs, policy-makers and government.

 We have funding for 3 seed grant pilot projects (see their pages on this web site):

(a)   a photovoice project with partners in Parkdale to document (& develop indicators from)

        the lived experience of environmental health injustice among marginalized groups;

(b)   an arts-enabled 'resonant installation' approach to popular education on climate justice

(c)   a project on building community resilience for the transition to a post-carbon society


We are looking to expand our network and to catalyze the development of new initiatives - please join us!


See also our info on the CUHI website at http://www.utoronto.ca/cuhi/research/environmentalhealth.htm

 

Environmental Health Justice in the City