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Sara Edge PhD

Associate Professor; Associate Director, Centre for Studies in Food Security
OfficeJOR 626A
Phone416-979-5000 x556173

Areas of expertise:

Environmental justice; urban health inequities; immigrant and refugee health; collaborative governance; food security; equity-focused knowledge mobilization; sustainability

Courses taught:

ES8950: Grad Research Seminar in Environmental Applied Science & Management

GEO 716: Geographies of Health

EUS 550: Sustainable Cities, Politics & Equity

EUS 850: Sustainability in Organizations

EUS 601: Nature in Fragments

Recent Publications:

Paige Robillard, Fatih Sekercioglu, Sara Edge, Ian Young. (2023). Resilience in the face of crisis: investigating COVID-19 impacts on urban community gardens in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. British Food Journal. 125(11): 4048-4061. http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-02-2023-0179 (external link) 

Amber Grant, Andrew Millward, Sara Edge. (2023). Pursuit of environmental justice in urban forest planning and practice. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities: Urban Greening. 5: http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2023.1233878 (external link) 

Edge, S., Davis, C., Dean, J., Onilude, Y., Rishworth, A., Wilson, K. (2023). The role of urban and rural greenspaces in shaping immigrant wellbeing and settlement in place. Wellbeing, Space and Society. Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2023.100127 (external link) 

Davis, C. & Edge, S. (2022). Strengthening Equity and Inclusion in Urban Greenspace: Interrogating the Moral Management & Policing of 2SLGBTQ+ Communities in Toronto Parks. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. 19 (23), 15505; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315505 (external link) 

Regnier-Davies, J., Yu, M. H. M., and Edge, S. (2022). Preparing for food security after COVID-19: Strengthening equity and resilience in future emergency response in Toronto. Centre for Studies in Food Security. Toronto, ON, Canada. www. https://www.torontomu.ca/foodsecurity/projects/activity_covid/

Rishworth, A., Dean, J., Wilson, K. & Edge, S. (2022). Contested and (un) realized capabilities of wellbeing in rural places in Canada: Contemplating immigrants' realities. Wellbeing, Space and Society. Vol. 3, 100113.

Jenelle Regnier-Davies, Sara Edge & Nicole Austin (2022): The intersection of structure and agency within charitable community food programs in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic: cultivating systemic change, Critical Public Health, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2022.2130740.

Regnier-Davies, J., Edge, S., Yu, H.M.M., Austin, N., Nasr, J., Daley, A., & Koc, M. (2022). Towards equitable & resilient post-pandemic urban food systems: The role of community-based organizations. Urban Governance. doi: 10.1016/j.ugj.2022.10.003

Amber Grant; Andrew A. Millward;  Sara Edge; Lara  A. Roman; Cheryl Teelucksing. (2022). Where is environmental justice? A review of US urban forest management plans. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127737 (external link) .

Jennifer Dean, Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, Sara Edge. (2021). From Classrooms to Boardrooms: Applying a multi-scale coordinated approach to an anti-racist future for the Canadian planning system. Plan Canada. 61(4): 21-24.

Zhixi Cecilia Zhuang, Sara Edge, Jennifer Dean. (2021). What Is the Future of Public Space? Hidden Stories of Immigrant Suburbs during a Global Pandemic. Town Planning Review. 92(2): 229-237.

Edge, Sara; Brown, Emily Lauren; Ghosh, Sutama; Murnaghan, Ann Marie. (2020). Procedural environmental (in)justice at multiple scales: Examining immigrant advocacy for improved living conditions. Local Environment.   https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1812554 (external link) 

Sara Edge, Joshua Goodfield, Jennifer Dean. (2020). Shifting gears on sustainable transport transitions: Stakeholder perspectives on e-bikes in Toronto, Canada. Environmental Innovations and Societal Transitions. 36: 197-208.

Edge, S., Boluk K., Groulx M., & Quick M. (2020). Exploring diverse lived experiences in the Smart City through creative analytic practice. Cities. 96(00): 1-11.

Samantha Leger, Jennifer Dean, Sara Edge, Jeffrey Casello. (2019). “If I had a regular bicycle, I wouldn’t be out riding anymore”: Perspectives on the potential of e-bikes to support active living and independent mobility among older adults in Waterloo, Canada. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 123: 240-254.

Sara Edge, Samantha Meyer. (2019). Pursuing dignified food security through novel collaborative governance initiatives: perceived benefits, tensions and lessons learned. Social Science & Medicine. 232: 77-85.

Patel, A., Dean, J., Edge, S., Ghassemi, E., & Wilson, K. (2019). Double Burden of rural migration in Canada? Considering the health impacts of immigrant settlement outside the Cosmopolis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(5): 678

Sara Edge, Jennifer Dean, Michelle Cuomo, Srinivasan Keshav. (2018). Exploring e-bikes as a mode of sustainable transport: a temporal qualitative study of the perspectives of novice riders in a Canadian city. Canadian Geographer. 62(3): 384-397.