February 7th: Climate Change and Environmental Human Rights on the Tibetan Plateau
This online event, featuring IRES’s Dr. Boyd, focuses on the arrest and torture of Tibetans who speak publicly about Chinese government policies in Tibet. China’s development model in Tibet ignores the Tibetan people’s actual social, environmental, and economic needs.
February 10, 2022: IRES Student Seminar with Helina Jolly and Allison Cutting
Helina’s talk: Reimagining Conservation Landscapes: Adivasi Characterizations of The Human-Dimensions of Southern Indian Forests
Allison’s talk: A Closer Look into Bycatch for Improved Marine Conservation and Management Design
January 27, 2022: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Alex Walls and Nivi Thatra
Researchers, how you communicate about your work impacts the reach and therefore the real-world applicability of your scholarship. For this workshop Alex Walls from UBC Media Relations and Nivi Thatra from IRES invite you to come with a research topic or paper in hand.
February 3, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Mara Jill Goldman
In this talk I present my new book, Narrating Nature: Wildlife Conservation and Maasai Ways of Knowing (University of Arizona Press, 2020), which draws on over two decades of fieldwork among Maasai pastoralists in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya.
December 9, 2021: Social Aspects of Plastic Pollution
Organized by UBC Microplastics Research Cluster, this event highlights the significance of engaging public in addressing plastic pollution. Dr. Jiaying Zhao will be speaking about the behavioral barriers and solutions to plastic pollution.
November 17, 2021: The 2021-22 Robertson Lecture with Dr. Kai Chan
With an accelerating climate and ecological crisis, floods, fires, extinctions, and heat domes are the new normal. In this talk, Dr. Chan will address what we know about the causes of the climate and ecological crises, why 132 of the world’s nations concluded that transformative system change was the only desirable way forward, and what law and policy reform might achieve that.
January 20, 2022: IRES Faculty Seminar with Ilyas Siddique (First Seminar for Term 2)
Successional agroforestry offers great potential to accelerate and scale out ecosystem restoration and produce healthy food at the same time on the same land. Yet, simultaneous ecological and socioeconomic success requires detailed knowledge of management traits of diverse plants and experience with efficient allocation of labor and inputs in space and time.
December 9, 2021: IRES Faculty Seminar with John Reganold (Last Seminar for Term 1)
Agriculture is at a critical juncture. While trying to provide calories for 7.9 billion people, agriculture is a major contributor to global greenhouse gases, biodiversity loss, nutrient pollution, land clearing, soil degradation, and public health problems.
November 2, 2021: A Discussion on Open Access in Canada
Moderated by Stephen Chignell, IRES Ph.D. Student | Open access publishing is a rapidly expanding and evolving strategy for making scholarly work globally accessible. Unlike the traditional scholarly publishing model under which publishers require institutions or individuals to pay for access to these materials, open access provides a model for freely available research outputs to […]
October 28, 2021: 2021 Zero Waste Conference
October 28, 2021: IRES’s Dr. Kai Chan is one of the panelists in this year’s Zero Waste Conference, which has been at the forefront of Canada’s circular economy journey.