Dr. Kate Parizeau
University of Guelph
Dr. Parizeau is an associate professor in the department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics. Her research uses waste management practices as a lens through which to interrogate complex systems of social organization and human exchanges with the natural world. This focus has allowed her to make contributions to the fields of waste studies, international development studies, and urban studies. Her research interests centre on the following interrelated themes: informality, urban inequality, and social difference, value and waste and waste management systems and planning, environmental health and urban waste management