Appointed and/or Administrative Faculty

Listed below are faculty members who hold administrative positions and/or budgetary appointments at the Centre for Environment.

Name Appointment Office Location Contact Info Research Interests
Christian Abizaid Assistant Professor, Geography and Centre for Environment. Room 5025B, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St. Email: christian.abizaid@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416 978 3373
(Home page.)   Human-environment interactions, environmental conservation and development, cultural ecology, peasant livelihoods in tropical forests, environmental change, human responses to natural hazards and vulnerability, human-induced environmental change, land use and land cover change, Latin America, Amazon, Mexico.
Phil Byer Professor, Civil Engineering and Centre for Environment. (Retired from January 1, 2012.) Room 413, Galbraith Building,
35 St. George St. (Civil Eng.)
Email: byer@ecf.utoronto.ca
Phone: 416 978 5980

(Home page.)   Environmental planning and decision-making, multi-objective project evaluation, environmental assessment, risk management, solid waste management, climate change.

Karen Ing Undergraduate Coordinator; Senior Lecturer, Centre for Environment. Room 2098, Earth Sciences, 33 Willcocks St. Email: karen.ing@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.4863
Environmental education, interdisciplinary team teaching, valuing ecosystem services and well-being; incentive mechanisms for provisioning of ecosystem services.
Donald Jackson

Interim Director, Centre for Environment; Professor, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Room 1020, Earth Sciences, 33 Willcocks St. Email: director.environment@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416 978 6526

(Home page.)   The mechanisms by which environmental conditions determine the composition of ecological communities and species distribution; fish and aquatic invertebrate communities; statistical methodologies; environmental contaminants; ecological restoration/recovery.

Kundan Kumar Assistant Professor, Geography and Centre for Environment

5025A, 100 St. George St. (Geog)

Email: kundan.kumar@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.2958

(Home page.) Forest rights and tenure, forest tenure reforms, democratization and decentralization of forest governance, environment and climate justice, environmental governance and civil society, social and environmental movements.

Douglas Macdonald Senior Lecturer, Centre for Environment. Room 1049B, Earth Sciences, 5 Bancroft Ave. Email: douglas.macdonald@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.1558
(Home page.) Politics of Canadian environmental policy making; waste and pollution policy; the business firm and trade association as environmental policy actors, Canadian national, federal-provincial climate-change policy; environmental legitimacy as a source of political power.

 

Scott Prudham Professor, Geography and Centre for Environment. Room 5007, Sidney Smith Hall 100 St. George St. Email: scott.prudham@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.3886
(Home page.) The commodification of nature; market-based mechanisms for dealing with environmental problems; political ecology; political economy and environmental change/politics in North America; industrial and alternative forestry in western North America; social regulation of commercial biotechnology in agriculture and forestry. 
Beth Savan Senior Lecturer, Centre for Environment;
Director, U of T Sustainability Office.
Room 1048B, Earth Sciences, 5 Bancroft Ave. Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.8202
(Home page.)   Sustainability planning, energy conservation, changing behaviour to conserve resources, community based research, environmental education and community based social marketing, environmental assessment.
Stephen Scharper Associate Professor, Anthropology, U of T Mississauga and Centre for Environment Room 2103, Earth Sciences,
33 Willcocks St.
Email: stephen.scharper@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.7433
(Home page.) The connection between religious ethics and environmental ethics and how religions are engaging ecological concerns; the intersection of liberation theology, sustainability and development. 
Willem Vanderburg Professor, Civil Engineering and Centre for Environment Room 319, Galbraith Building,
35 St. George St.
Email: bill.vanderburg@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.2924
(Home page.) Ecology of technology: how technology fits into, depends on and interacts with human life, society and the biosphere; preventive engineering and management; areas of application (life cycle design of materials, processes and products, preventive energy end-use strategies, healthy workplaces and cities); relationship between culture of society and “cultures” of science and technology. 
Clare Wiseman Coordinator, Environment and Health collaborative program; Assistant Professor, Centre for Environment. Room 2097, Earth Sciences, 33 Willcocks St. Email: clare.wiseman@utoronto.ca
Phone: 416.978.2972
(Home page.) Organic carbon sequestration in soils, climate change, risk analysis and management of contaminants, and chemical fate.