Environmental Applied Science and Management is an interdisciplinary master’s (MASc) and doctoral (PhD) graduate degree program centred on environmental sustainability. The program offers students advanced study in a professionally-based environmental program that provides research in a broad variety of environmental fields. Students are supported by faculty members and external associates from the full range of environmental disciplines including science, the social sciences, engineering, business, architecture, planning and public health.
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We combine the environmental applied sciences with environmental management fields to offer a full range of educational and research opportunities in these fundamental fields.
Highlight on Student Research
Amber Grant is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental Applied Science and Management program at Ryerson University. Grant's research explores whether, and how, environmental justice goals are being defined, pursued, and implemented in urban forest management plans and community tree-planting practice in both Canada in the United States.
Keywords: urban forest management, environmental justice, sustainability, equity, city trees, community tree-planting
Julie Robertson is a PhD Candidate in the Environmental Applied Science and Management program at Ryerson University. Her research focuses on the impact of Covid-19 in Nunavut. It is a case study in Arviat as the community accounts for 88% of all Covid cases in the territory to date.
Keywords: Covid-19 , food insecurity, Inuit, Canadian Arctic