Environmental Policy, Environmental Justice, International Environmental Issues, Urban Planning

Dr. Fletcher has a Ph.D. from McGill University, an M.A. from University of Maryland and a B.A. from Louisiana State University. He teaches a variety of environmental courses as well as human geography and urban planning. Dr. Fletcher is a member of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) and the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG). He presents papers at their annual meetings regularly.  His expertise is the study of environmental justice, especially as it relates to hazardous waste and toxic substances.  Since he began teaching the Bishop’s course on environmental justice, he has developed a growing interest in cases of environmental injustice that are not typically framed as such, but to which distributive and procedural social justice concepts, frameworks and theories are nonetheless applicable and illustrative. This is especially important in the Canadian context, where environmental problems, and the inevitable competing claims regarding fairness that drive conflict over pollution and natural resources, tend to NOT be framed as environmental injustice.

Recently, Tom has also conducted research on the history of watershed groups in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, principally by reviewing the archival fonds of Memphremagog Conservation, Inc. and Massawippi Water Protection, Inc. Both collections are held at Bishop’s University as part of the the Eastern Townships Resource Centre (ETRC) archive.  Founded in the late-1960s at the beginning of the reform environmental period and still active today, the histories of these groups are interesting local examples of how North American environmentalism has developed and changed, decade by decade.

Tom’s research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, SSHRC, Hydro-Quebec, the Max Bell Foundation and a variety of internal research awards from Bishop’s and McGill universities.

Glacial Environments, Geomorphology, Global Environmental Change, Soils and Vegetation, Natural Hazards

Dr. Jones earned his Bachelor's degree at McMaster University and his Masters degree at University of Alberta, as well as receiving his PhD from University of Waterloo. He teaches a variety of courses, including Geomorphology, Soils and Vegetation, Environmental Change, Glacial Environments, and Natural Hazards.

Dr. Levac has a Ph.D. in earth sciences from Dalhousie University, a B.Sc. in physical geography and a M. Sc. in earth sciences from the Université du Québec à Montréal. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow for the Halifax Pollen and Spores Monitoring Experiment at St. Mary's University and is now applying this knowledge to monitor pollen and spores in downtown Sherbrooke. Dr. Levac conducts research in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology, more specifically on abrupt climate events such as the Younger Dryas and the 8.2 ka event, and on pollen monitoring and allergies. She is adjunct professor at McGill and at the Université de Sherbrooke. She is member of the Global Environmental and Climate Change Centre at McGill.

Prof. Taylor earned her Masters’ and B.Sc. in geography at the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR). Her masters’ research was focused on identifying hydro-climatical conditions leading to ice jamming, using dendrochronology and statistical methods. Since graduating, she has worked for two watershed organizations in Eastern Quebec, and has taught classes in fluvial geomorphology and quantitative methods for the geography department at UQAR. She is currently working on identifying spatial characteristics of emergency patients in the Eastern Townships by using GIS. She will be teaching Introduction to GIS, Human Impact on the Environment, Fluvial Geomorphology (Special topics), Quantitative Methods, Introduction to Human Geography, and Advanced GIS.

Dr. Peros received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Toronto, his M.Sc. from York University (also in geography), and his B.Sc. in archaeological sciences and geography from the University of Toronto. His graduate work focused on environmental change and prehistoric human adaptations in Cuba. Following the completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Peros moved to the Laboratory for Paleoclimatology and Climatology at the University of Ottawa, where he researched arctic climate change under the direction of Dr. Konrad Gajewski. Dr. Peros’ current research involves studying the history of hurricane impacts in the Caribbean, and prehistoric environmental-human interactions in North America. He also serves as the President of the Canadian Association of Palynologists.

(Ph.D., University of Western Ontario)
Canadian Arctic, Circumpolar North

(M.A., McGill University)
Historical Geography of the Eastern Townships, Landscape and Cultural Geography