Profiles

Aaron Aguirre

Aaron Aguirre

MSc with Kai Chan, 2025

Victor Cardenas

Victor Cardenas

PhD Student Research Interests climate risk, physical and transition risk Bio Victor is a PhD student at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability under the supervision of Dr. Milind Kandlikar and Dr. Simon Donner. His research interests are in understanding climate change’s impact on micro financial entities in developing economies. Using climate modeling in […]

Juliet Lu

Juliet Lu

Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management;
Assistant Professor, School for Public Policy and Global Affairs

Shannon Hagerman

Shannon Hagerman

Associate Professor and Associate Dean Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Forestry

Félix Landry Yuan

Félix Landry Yuan

Post Doc Bio Félix is a Postdoctoral Fellow at IRES and as a part of the CHANS Lab. His work is broadly centred at the interface of social and ecological dynamics within the context of conservation and sustainability. His current research explores how human relations with the natural environment reflect preferred death care/burial practices, with […]

Kaitlyn Gaynor

Kaitlyn Gaynor

Assistant Professor in the Departments of Zoology and Botany, UBC

hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies)

hagwil hayetsk (Charles Menzies)

Professor in the Department of Anthropology, UBC

Zana Mody

Zana Mody

PhD Candidate Contact Details zana.mody@ires.ubc.ca Twitter Research Gate Research Interests Blue carbon, mangroves, coastal ecosystems, social-ecological systems, community-led conservation, NbCS, relational values, marine policy, climate change adaptation Bio Zana Mody is PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia’s IRES department and a recipient of the Tri-Council SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, the Public Scholars Initiative grant […]

Josh Travers

Josh Travers

MA Student Contact Details https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-travers/ Bio Josh completed his undergrad at Queen’s University in Global Development with a minor in Environmental studies. His undergrad focused on the practice of shifting the environmental burden of extraction to “developing” nations in order to conserve natural space in “developed” nations. Josh’s master’s thesis explores different conceptualizations of a […]

Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje

Lekha Tlhotlhalemaje

MA with David Boyd, 2022