Michael Buzzelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 352449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Buzzelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Buzzelli |
| SIGNATURE | BUZZELLI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 151 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Nowcasting International Student Migration
International student migration (ISM) is playing an increasingly important role in global population movements and international connectedness. Traditional core–periphery channels (e.g., United States and India, respectively) are changing due to new nodes (e.g., Brazil, South Korea) in an emergent multipolar global structure. This study examines these structures, specifically by documenting and analyzing big data drawn from social media to “nowca…
Women on the move for science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Despite the gendered rebalancing of enrolments in higher education (HE) in the West, the underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines persists. Gendered selectivity of field of study influences higher education student migration (HESM) and in turn sheds light on HE participation. Framed by gender intersectionality theories both in HE studies and migration scholarship, this paper uses innovati…
Experiential learning and the university’s host community
Air pollution and respiratory health
This chapter provides a conceptual and empirical overview of air pollution and respiratory health as seen through the lens of environmental justice (EJ). This critical lens could be applied to many contexts in developing and developed countries and many circumstances as well. The chapter focuses on the experience of environmental/ambient air pollution and human health in developed countries where there is ample EJ research built up over the last …
Understanding developer perspectives and experiences of wind energy development in Ontario
In the Province of Ontario, Canada, aggressive policy promoting wind energy development has led to both rapid development and intense stakeholder conflicts. Focusing on developers, key stakeholders largely hidden in the extant research literature and the perspectives of other stakeholders drawn from secondary sources, this paper presents original primary research to help fill this knowledge gap. Based on semi-structured interviews with establishe…
Ontario’s Experience of Wind Energy Development as Seen through the Lens of Human Health and Environmental Justice
The province of Ontario has shown great commitment towards the development of renewable energy and, specifically, wind power. Fuelled by the Green Energy Act (GEA) of 2009, the Province has emerged as Canada's leader in wind energy development (WED). Nonetheless, Ontario's WED trajectory is characterized by social conflicts, particularly around environmental health. Utilizing the Social Amplification of Risk Framework, this paper presents an eigh…
Service providers’ perspectives and residents’ experiences with the implementation of “Housing First” program in the city of London, Ontario, Canada
Housing First (HF) is now an internationally promoted community housing model for long-term homeless individuals who have mental health difficulties including substance abuse issues. This study aimed to understand the perspectives and experiences of service providers and residents associated with the London CAReS program, an HF program currently operating in the city of London, Ontario, Canada. London CAReS was designed to transition homeless ind…
Obligations and Expectations
Transnational housing investment is a pervasive practice among many migrant groups residing in various destination countries; including Ghanaian migrants living in Canada. For many, the need to engage in transnational housing investment is beyond the standard rationale and has two prime significance; symbolic and practical utility. Engagement in this endeavour requires substantial financial commitments over extensive periods of time with potentia…
Transnationalism-integration nexus
Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories
Environmental justice
Key Messages Disjunctures occur between what is covered by the Canadian news media and empirical studies of environmental threats to communities. Canadian newspapers overtly ignore and subtly downplay through discourse environmental threats to marginalized local communities faced with pollution. A wide array of avenues for future research are suggested to contrast different forms of news media and compare the scale of both coverage and discourse
Transboundary air pollution and environmental justice
A political ecology of scale in urban air pollution monitoring
Recent developments in air pollution epidemiology are generating new data on human air pollution exposure and health effects in the city. Based on regression mapping or land use regression (LUR), these data also provide a new window on the urban political ecology of scale. Air pollution itself is understudied in the emergent urban political ecology literature and in this case it is aided by – indeed must rely upon – GIS/spatial analysis. A case s…
Health hazards and socio‐economic status
This paper lays the foundation for a research program concerned with the geographical patterning of environmental and population health at the urban neighbourhood scale. Based on the Vancouver metropolitan region, the aim is to better understand the role of neighbourhoods as epidemiological spaces where environmental and social characteristics combine as health processes and outcomes at the community and individual levels. With respect to procedu…
Multi-level modelling in health research
Cities as the Industrial Districts of Housebuilding
In North America the housebuilding industry is ubiquitous and locally autonomous. In Ontario during the 1990s, 81% of urban single-family homes were erected by locally based builders, a proportion that varied with urban isolation. Urban areas may be regarded as the industrial districts of home builders: numerous small, specialized firms interact frequently within a rich, embedded market network; subcontracting is the norm; networks and firm bound…
Bourdieu does environmental justice? Probing the linkages between population health and air pollution epidemiology
New approaches to researching environmental justice
What explains firm transience in house‐building? A regional analysis of Ontario, Canada, 1991 and 1996
Buzzelli M. (2005) What explains firm transience in house‐building? A regional analysis of Ontario, Canada, 1991 and 1996, Regional Studies 39 , 699–712. This paper presents cross‐sectional analyses of firm exit (1991) and entry (1996) in house‐building using a geographic information system of firms in Ontario's 48 counties (regions). Ordinary least‐squares and logit regressions of entry and exit rates reveal several regional determinants, some s…
House Building in the Machine Age, 1920s–1970s
During the 1930s and 1940s, the editors of Fortune ran a series of articles on the subject of the building industry, publishing an early collection as a book and a later group as a special issue in
Particulate air pollution, social confounders, and mortality in small areas of an industrial city
Exploring Regional Firm-Size Structure in Canadian Housebuilding
This paper is concerned with the regional firm-size structure of housebuilding in Canada based on a case study of the province of Ontario. Using an innovative database of builders in Ontario and geographic information systems, measures of regional firm-size structure are developed and are modeled with data from the Canadian census. The results corroborate established models in the city systems and industrial organization literatures in that indus…
Racial Gradients of Ambient Air Pollution Exposure in Hamilton, Canada
Environmental justice research in the United States has coalesced around the notion that visible-minority status, along with socioeconomic position (SEP), conditions exposure to environmental health hazards. In the context of long-standing debates over Canada-USA urban differences, we address the question of whether racial gradients exist in air pollution across Hamilton, Canada. Monitored air quality data are spatially interpolated with a krigin…
Comparing proximity measures of exposure to geostatistical estimates in environmental justice research
This paper tests the validity of proximity as an estimate for environmental health hazard exposure, and suggests how it may be used as an indicator in future environmental health and justice research. Using geostatistics and geographic information systems, air pollution monitoring data in Hamilton, Canada are interpolated to obtain local estimates of total suspended particulates. These estimates are used address the following questions: How does …
Small is Transient
The North American housebuilding industry has been neglected in urban and housing studies. Its firm size structure and instability have long been cause for concern, but have rarely been given more than anecdotal treatment. This paper examines the transience of housebuilders in Ontario from 1978 to 1998. Using a census of builders provided by the Ontario New Home Warranty Program, the industry's firm membership is found to be extremely transient. …
A political ecology of scale in urban air pollution monitoring
Recent developments in air pollution epidemiology are generating new data on human air pollution exposure and health effects in the city. Based on regression mapping or land use regression (LUR), these data also provide a new window on the urban political ecology of scale. Air pollution itself is understudied in the emergent urban political ecology literature and in this case it is aided by – indeed must rely upon – GIS/spatial analysis. A case s…
Racial Gradients of Ambient Air Pollution Exposure in Hamilton, Canada
Environmental justice research in the United States has coalesced around the notion that visible-minority status, along with socioeconomic position (SEP), conditions exposure to environmental health hazards. In the context of long-standing debates over Canada-USA urban differences, we address the question of whether racial gradients exist in air pollution across Hamilton, Canada. Monitored air quality data are spatially interpolated with a krigin…
Spatiotemporal Perspectives on Air Pollution and Environmental Justice in Hamilton, Canada, 1985–1996
This article addresses two questions: (1) How do spatiotemporal changes in air pollution levels—specifically, total suspended particulates (TSP)—rise or fall with socioeconomic status? (2) A critical equity interpretation of environmental policy then motivates this question: does the pursuit of average regional reductions in pollution benefit those who need improvements least, benefit those who need improvements most, or maintain the status quo? …
Bourdieu does environmental justice? Probing the linkages between population health and air pollution epidemiology
Transnationalism-integration nexus
Particulate air pollution, social confounders, and mortality in small areas of an industrial city
Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories
Obligations and Expectations
Transnational housing investment is a pervasive practice among many migrant groups residing in various destination countries; including Ghanaian migrants living in Canada. For many, the need to engage in transnational housing investment is beyond the standard rationale and has two prime significance; symbolic and practical utility. Engagement in this endeavour requires substantial financial commitments over extensive periods of time with potentia…
Health hazards and socio‐economic status
This paper lays the foundation for a research program concerned with the geographical patterning of environmental and population health at the urban neighbourhood scale. Based on the Vancouver metropolitan region, the aim is to better understand the role of neighbourhoods as epidemiological spaces where environmental and social characteristics combine as health processes and outcomes at the community and individual levels. With respect to procedu…
Comparing proximity measures of exposure to geostatistical estimates in environmental justice research
This paper tests the validity of proximity as an estimate for environmental health hazard exposure, and suggests how it may be used as an indicator in future environmental health and justice research. Using geostatistics and geographic information systems, air pollution monitoring data in Hamilton, Canada are interpolated to obtain local estimates of total suspended particulates. These estimates are used address the following questions: How does …
From Little Britain to Little Italy
Firm Size Structure in North American Housebuilding
In this paper I document and analyse the evolving firm size structure of the housebuilding industry in North America since World War 2, and place it in a wider context of industrial organisation. This is done first by synthesising the literature on housebuilding, particularly secondary data, to outline the industry's firm size and market share distributions. Second, the literature is extended with new and original data on the housebuilding indust…
Transboundary air pollution and environmental justice
Multi-level modelling in health research
Cities as the Industrial Districts of Housebuilding
In North America the housebuilding industry is ubiquitous and locally autonomous. In Ontario during the 1990s, 81% of urban single-family homes were erected by locally based builders, a proportion that varied with urban isolation. Urban areas may be regarded as the industrial districts of home builders: numerous small, specialized firms interact frequently within a rich, embedded market network; subcontracting is the norm; networks and firm bound…
Small is Transient
The North American housebuilding industry has been neglected in urban and housing studies. Its firm size structure and instability have long been cause for concern, but have rarely been given more than anecdotal treatment. This paper examines the transience of housebuilders in Ontario from 1978 to 1998. Using a census of builders provided by the Ontario New Home Warranty Program, the industry's firm membership is found to be extremely transient. …
Service providers’ perspectives and residents’ experiences with the implementation of “Housing First” program in the city of London, Ontario, Canada
Housing First (HF) is now an internationally promoted community housing model for long-term homeless individuals who have mental health difficulties including substance abuse issues. This study aimed to understand the perspectives and experiences of service providers and residents associated with the London CAReS program, an HF program currently operating in the city of London, Ontario, Canada. London CAReS was designed to transition homeless ind…
What explains firm transience in house‐building? A regional analysis of Ontario, Canada, 1991 and 1996
Buzzelli M. (2005) What explains firm transience in house‐building? A regional analysis of Ontario, Canada, 1991 and 1996, Regional Studies 39 , 699–712. This paper presents cross‐sectional analyses of firm exit (1991) and entry (1996) in house‐building using a geographic information system of firms in Ontario's 48 counties (regions). Ordinary least‐squares and logit regressions of entry and exit rates reveal several regional determinants, some s…
House Building in the Machine Age, 1920s–1970s
During the 1930s and 1940s, the editors of Fortune ran a series of articles on the subject of the building industry, publishing an early collection as a book and a later group as a special issue in
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples
New approaches to researching environmental justice
Canadian Urban Landscape Examples
From Little Britain to Little Italy
Firm Size Structure in North American Housebuilding
In this paper I document and analyse the evolving firm size structure of the housebuilding industry in North America since World War 2, and place it in a wider context of industrial organisation. This is done first by synthesising the literature on housebuilding, particularly secondary data, to outline the industry's firm size and market share distributions. Second, the literature is extended with new and original data on the housebuilding indust…
Comparing proximity measures of exposure to geostatistical estimates in environmental justice research
This paper tests the validity of proximity as an estimate for environmental health hazard exposure, and suggests how it may be used as an indicator in future environmental health and justice research. Using geostatistics and geographic information systems, air pollution monitoring data in Hamilton, Canada are interpolated to obtain local estimates of total suspended particulates. These estimates are used address the following questions: How does …
Small is Transient
The North American housebuilding industry has been neglected in urban and housing studies. Its firm size structure and instability have long been cause for concern, but have rarely been given more than anecdotal treatment. This paper examines the transience of housebuilders in Ontario from 1978 to 1998. Using a census of builders provided by the Ontario New Home Warranty Program, the industry's firm membership is found to be extremely transient. …
Spatiotemporal Perspectives on Air Pollution and Environmental Justice in Hamilton, Canada, 1985–1996
This article addresses two questions: (1) How do spatiotemporal changes in air pollution levels—specifically, total suspended particulates (TSP)—rise or fall with socioeconomic status? (2) A critical equity interpretation of environmental policy then motivates this question: does the pursuit of average regional reductions in pollution benefit those who need improvements least, benefit those who need improvements most, or maintain the status quo? …
Exploring Regional Firm-Size Structure in Canadian Housebuilding
This paper is concerned with the regional firm-size structure of housebuilding in Canada based on a case study of the province of Ontario. Using an innovative database of builders in Ontario and geographic information systems, measures of regional firm-size structure are developed and are modeled with data from the Canadian census. The results corroborate established models in the city systems and industrial organization literatures in that indus…
Racial Gradients of Ambient Air Pollution Exposure in Hamilton, Canada
Environmental justice research in the United States has coalesced around the notion that visible-minority status, along with socioeconomic position (SEP), conditions exposure to environmental health hazards. In the context of long-standing debates over Canada-USA urban differences, we address the question of whether racial gradients exist in air pollution across Hamilton, Canada. Monitored air quality data are spatially interpolated with a krigin…
Bourdieu does environmental justice? Probing the linkages between population health and air pollution epidemiology
New approaches to researching environmental justice
What explains firm transience in house‐building? A regional analysis of Ontario, Canada, 1991 and 1996
Buzzelli M. (2005) What explains firm transience in house‐building? A regional analysis of Ontario, Canada, 1991 and 1996, Regional Studies 39 , 699–712. This paper presents cross‐sectional analyses of firm exit (1991) and entry (1996) in house‐building using a geographic information system of firms in Ontario's 48 counties (regions). Ordinary least‐squares and logit regressions of entry and exit rates reveal several regional determinants, some s…
House Building in the Machine Age, 1920s–1970s
During the 1930s and 1940s, the editors of Fortune ran a series of articles on the subject of the building industry, publishing an early collection as a book and a later group as a special issue in
Particulate air pollution, social confounders, and mortality in small areas of an industrial city
Health hazards and socio‐economic status
This paper lays the foundation for a research program concerned with the geographical patterning of environmental and population health at the urban neighbourhood scale. Based on the Vancouver metropolitan region, the aim is to better understand the role of neighbourhoods as epidemiological spaces where environmental and social characteristics combine as health processes and outcomes at the community and individual levels. With respect to procedu…
Multi-level modelling in health research
Cities as the Industrial Districts of Housebuilding
In North America the housebuilding industry is ubiquitous and locally autonomous. In Ontario during the 1990s, 81% of urban single-family homes were erected by locally based builders, a proportion that varied with urban isolation. Urban areas may be regarded as the industrial districts of home builders: numerous small, specialized firms interact frequently within a rich, embedded market network; subcontracting is the norm; networks and firm bound…
A political ecology of scale in urban air pollution monitoring
Recent developments in air pollution epidemiology are generating new data on human air pollution exposure and health effects in the city. Based on regression mapping or land use regression (LUR), these data also provide a new window on the urban political ecology of scale. Air pollution itself is understudied in the emergent urban political ecology literature and in this case it is aided by – indeed must rely upon – GIS/spatial analysis. A case s…
Transboundary air pollution and environmental justice
Environmental justice
Key Messages Disjunctures occur between what is covered by the Canadian news media and empirical studies of environmental threats to communities. Canadian newspapers overtly ignore and subtly downplay through discourse environmental threats to marginalized local communities faced with pollution. A wide array of avenues for future research are suggested to contrast different forms of news media and compare the scale of both coverage and discourse
Ontario’s Experience of Wind Energy Development as Seen through the Lens of Human Health and Environmental Justice
The province of Ontario has shown great commitment towards the development of renewable energy and, specifically, wind power. Fuelled by the Green Energy Act (GEA) of 2009, the Province has emerged as Canada's leader in wind energy development (WED). Nonetheless, Ontario's WED trajectory is characterized by social conflicts, particularly around environmental health. Utilizing the Social Amplification of Risk Framework, this paper presents an eigh…
Service providers’ perspectives and residents’ experiences with the implementation of “Housing First” program in the city of London, Ontario, Canada
Housing First (HF) is now an internationally promoted community housing model for long-term homeless individuals who have mental health difficulties including substance abuse issues. This study aimed to understand the perspectives and experiences of service providers and residents associated with the London CAReS program, an HF program currently operating in the city of London, Ontario, Canada. London CAReS was designed to transition homeless ind…
Obligations and Expectations
Transnational housing investment is a pervasive practice among many migrant groups residing in various destination countries; including Ghanaian migrants living in Canada. For many, the need to engage in transnational housing investment is beyond the standard rationale and has two prime significance; symbolic and practical utility. Engagement in this endeavour requires substantial financial commitments over extensive periods of time with potentia…
Transnationalism-integration nexus
Impact of Remittance Behaviour on Immigrant Homeownership Trajectories
Air pollution and respiratory health
This chapter provides a conceptual and empirical overview of air pollution and respiratory health as seen through the lens of environmental justice (EJ). This critical lens could be applied to many contexts in developing and developed countries and many circumstances as well. The chapter focuses on the experience of environmental/ambient air pollution and human health in developed countries where there is ample EJ research built up over the last …
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Geography (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Air Quality and Health Impacts (9 works) · Population (9 works) · Demography (8 works) · Economic geography (8 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (8 works)