About the Author
Mary J. Thornbush was a researcher of the Ecological Footprint Initiative based in
the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Canada until September
2020. She has over 80 publications in the areas of applied geomorphology and
sustainability. Her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford addressed urban
sustainability through a study of air emissions from transport in central Oxford
and their impacts on the weathering of its historical limestone buildings. Her relevant
publications include a special journal issue on Geography, Urban Geomorphology
and Sustainability in Area (2015) as well as books such as Vehicular Air Pollution
and Urban Sustainability: An Assessment from Central Oxford, UK (2015, Springer)
and a volume on Urban Geomorphology: Landforms and Processes in Cities (2018,
Elsevier). She continues to collaborate on publications in the area of urban sustainability as well as most recently expanding her research interests to agricultural soils
and rural sustainbility in southern Ontario.
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