Tanhum Yoreh

Tanhum Yoreh

First Name: 
Tanhum
Last Name: 
Yoreh
Title: 
Associate Professor, School of the Environment
Phone : 
416-978-6484
Office Location : 
Earth Sciences Building, 33 Willcocks Street, Room 2104, Toronto ON M5S 3E8
Biography : 
 

 

 

Education: 
PhD Humanities, York University
MA Geography, Hebrew University
BA Environment, McGill

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Religion and environment
  • Faith-based environmentalism
  • Faith-based environmental ethics
  • Religio-legal approaches to environmental protection
  • Wastefulness, consumption, simplicity

I am interested in supervising MES students in the following topics: Faith-based environmentalism (e.g., environmental action in places of worship, Greening of Religion Hypothesis, environmental declarations, Jewish environmentalism, etc.), faith-based environmental ethics, and religio-legal approaches to environmental protection.

On Leave: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023 to Sunday, June 30, 2024
Administrative Service: 
A&S Experiential Learning Faculty Fellow
Other Website: 
Personal Webpage: 
https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/tanhum-yoreh-0

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