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January 24, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Margery Fee
When: 24th Jan 2019 12:30:pm
Where: AERL Theatre
Polar bears became poster children for carbon reduction initiatives around 2006, when an animated polar bear failing to climb on a melting ice floe featured in Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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January 24, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Margery Fee
When: 24th Jan 2019 12:30:pm
Where: AERL TheatrePolar bears became poster children for carbon reduction initiatives around 2006, when an animated polar bear failing to climb on a melting ice floe featured in Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
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January 31, 2019: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Michelle Daigle
When: 31st Jan 2019 12:30:pm
Where:Environmental Violence as Colonial Violence: Embodied Geographies of Indigenous Consciousness & Resistance Abstract: In this presentation, I draw on Mushkegowuk (Cree) conceptualizations of environmental violence as state-sanctioned violence against Indigenous peoples in Canada. I situate my discussion in mining developments on Mushkegowuk lands-waters-bodies in Treaty 9 in northern Ontario, Canada....
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Want citizens to care about climate change? Write them a cheque
Posted on December 21, 2018 by sickert
In an op-ed published by The Conversation, RES PhD student Abhishek Kar and IRES Faculty Associate Hisham Zerriffi argue that the best way to get people to act on climate change is through their wallets.
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Adaptation action and research in glaciated mountain systems: Are they enough to meet the challenge of climate change?
Posted on November 21, 2018 by sickert
Graham McDowell, Rae Cramer, Vinni Ricciardi and colleagues highlight the shortcomings in adaptation action and research in mountain regions and identify measures needed to more fully meet the challenge of climate change.