Current members
Yann le Polain de Waroux (Associate Professor)
I am an Associate Professor at McGill University, jointly appointed by the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Department of Geography. I am a development and environmental geographer specializing in issues of land use and livelihood changes in rural areas. I have a PhD in Geography from the Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM) at Uclouvain, Belgium, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences at Stanford University before joining McGill (see my Curriculum Vitae). |
Olivia del Giorgio (PhD)
I am a human geographer and land use scientist, with a background in ecology. My work examines the social and ecological implications of globalization and land-use change in the Gran Chaco region of South America. Motivated by my interests in environmental and social justice, humanitarian mapping, and agrarian reform, the focus of my PhD research is to investigate the drivers and social-ecological repercussions of land control changes in regions experiencing the expansion of large-scale, industrial agriculture. To do so, I am combining remote sensing and GIS with political ecology and ethnographic methods (see my website). Contact Olivia. |
Marie-Claude Carignan (MSc)
I am interested in the intersections between sustainability, climate change mitigation, and equity. My thesis investigates how community and household decisions lead to successful participation in a McGill-sponsored carbon offset project in Ipetí, Panamá. More specifically, I will analyze indirect land-use change dynamics and livelihood adaptations linked to the project to calculate the net carbon leakage from the program. I will also examine the socio-economic determinants and conditions that lead to the adoption and participation in the project and its impact on community capital distribution. Contact Marie-Claude. |
Michelle Hahn-Baker (MA)
I am interested in agricultural systems and the social, cultural and political factors that influence them, as well as their sustainability implications. My current research is focused on the beef industry in Alberta, looking at perspectives on the industry from key stakeholders and examining the centrality of the industry to life and politics in Alberta. I am co-supervised by Professor Graham MacDonald at the Land and Food Lab. Contact Michelle. |
Lab Alumni and past members
Graduate students
Undergraduate honours
Visiting scholars
Independent studies projects
Research assistants
- Patrice Matthews (M.Sc. Geography, 2020-2023)
- Lily Shebell (M.A. Geography, 2019-2022)
- Beatriz Gobbi (M.Sc. Geography, 2013-2015)
- François Dambly (M.Sc. Geography, 2010-2012)
Undergraduate honours
- Aris Kalofoutis (B.A. Hons. Geography, 2022-2023)
- Lucy MacKinnon (B.A. Hons. International Development Studies, 2021)
- Anna O’Driscoll (B.Sc. Hons. Geography, 2020-2021)
- Marine Loison (B.A. Hons. International Development Studies, 2019)
- Sydney Kreimes (B.A. Hons. International Development Studies, 2018)
Visiting scholars
- Christian Levers (Postdoctoral scholar, visiting from University of British Columbia, summer 2019)
- Diego Cabrol (Postdoctoral scholar, visiting from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, summer 2019 and winter 2021)
- Victoria Junquera (PhD, visiting from ETH Zürich, spring 2019)
- Vivian Valencia (Postdoctoral scholar, visiting from University of Michigan, spring & summer 2018)
Independent studies projects
- Wanrong Huang (B.Sc., 2021)
- Chantal Ménard (B.Sc., 2019)
- Ottilia Scott (B.A., 2019)
- Kana Yokoji (B.A., 2018)
- Sandrine Royer (B.A., 2018)
- Teneille Arnott (B.A., 2018)
Research assistants
- Sara Escallon (B.A., 2023)
- Matthew O’Boyle (B.A., 2023)
- Juliette Mennicken (B.A., 2022)
- Isabel Klassen (B.A., 2022)
- Lucia Stroetzel (B.A., 2021-2022)
- Janice Neumann (Ph.D., 2021-2022)
- Kerstin Schreiber (Ph.D., 2020-2021)
- Wanrong Huang (B.Sc. 2020-2021)
- Tristan Grupp (BSc, 2018-2019)
- Dara Salih (B.A., 2019)
- Ammar Addenwala (B.A., 2019)
- Peter Garber (B.A., 2018)
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