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. IMAGINING POSSIBLE ROLES FOR GREEN HYDROGEN IN MEXICO. Between Hype and a Leapfrogging Opportunity
3. Coming soon
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
January 18, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Kushank Bajaj on Zoom only
Talk Title
Transboundary climate risks of Canada’s fruit and vegetable supply
February 29, 2024: IRES Student Seminar with Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas and Jumi Gogoi
Talk titles:
1) Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia
2) Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data
March 28, 2024: IRES & IBioS Co-Seminar with Katie Fiorella
This talk will use the case of Cambodia’s social-ecological food systems to examine how rapid changes in social-ecological systems are affecting the people who live and work within these systems.
November 30, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with David Tindall
Tindall describes recent work: This study examines the perceived influence of different actors in Canada’s climate change policy network just prior to the signing of the Paris Agreement. In this research, we consider the problem of addressing climate change from a policy network perspective