September 19, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Dr. Holly Caggiano
As demand for distributed renewable energy generation has increased rapidly, so have conflicts over siting large-scale projects. Meaningful community engagement and direct, verifiable benefits co-creation are necessary to avert these trends—and to ensure an equitable, rather than exploitative, energy transition.
September 12, 2024: IRES & IBioS Seminar with Dr. Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi
Join this talk on the role of landscape configuration and ecological intensification in optimizing agricultural productivity and sustainability, drawing insights from recent studies across Argentina’s agricultural regions.
September 26, 2024: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Rebecca Dirnfeld
Rebecca Dirnfeld is a Career Educator with the UBC Career Centre – come learn her career planning strategies!
September 5, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Rudri Bhatt and Glory Apantaku (First Seminar of Term 1)
Two BC-focused talks from two stellar grad students, covering climate action plans and air pollution emissions inventories!
April 11, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Michael Brauer
What management policies are necessary for the global health impacts from environmental risks? Dr. Michael Brauer discusses this and more.
April 18, 2024: IRES Student Symposium with Lindah Ddamba, Remzi Xhemalce-Fuentes, Dayna Rachkowski (Last Seminar in Term 2)
Talk titles at Student Symposium:
1. Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Factors Inhibiting Accelerated Progress
2. EXPLORING EMPOWERMENT THROUGH BILL S-5: building government accountability in chemicals management using a right to a healthy environment
3. IMAGINING POSSIBLE ROLES FOR GREEN HYDROGEN IN MEXICO. Between Hype and a Leapfrogging Opportunity
February 15, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Ta Phurisamban and Jade Radke
Talk titles: 1. When Indigenous and Western sciences collide: re-storying/restoring Mekong expertise through community-engaged research
2. The role of happiness in pro-environmental action
February 1, 2024: Professional Development Seminar with Elder Jim Leyden
Kwekwecnewtxw Watch House Elder Jim Leyden will tell his personal stories working at the frontline, and share his perspectives on community-engaged research, and how to do it well.
January 25, 2024: Faculty Seminar with Jessica Dempsey and Audrey Irvine-Broque
This talk will explore – through six case studies of extractivism in the Global South – how the organization of the international financial system influences state policy towards extractive land use change
March 21, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Joanne Fitzgibbons and Imranul Laskar
Talk titles: 1. Rewilding as a Plural Boundary Object: Implications for Research and Practice 2. Characterizing uncertainties in the decarbonization of maritime shipping: an expert elicitation study