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
January 11, 2024: Policy Panel with Jimmy Zammar, Jessica Woolliams, and Jason Hsieh
This seminar features a panel of three speakers from local policy sectors. They will discuss current policy priorities in Vancouver and BC, research needs, and perspectives on how research can inform policy.
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.
February 8, 2024: IRES Faculty Seminar with Tabitha Robin
This presentation is an exploration of Cree guidance for revitalizing and rebuilding Cree food systems as part of a larger Indigenous food sovereignty framework.
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
The IRES Seminar Series resumes September 7, 2023
Have a great summer!