Seminar Cancelled — November 9, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Lindah Ddamba and Tatiana Chamorro-Vargas
Talk titles: 1. Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Factors Inhibiting Accelerated Progress, and;
2. Revealing the pathways to scale up agricultural transformation: Factors influencing adoption of Silvo pastoral systems in Colombia
November 2, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Jonathan Foley
Dr. Jonathan Foley is the Executive Director of Project Drawdown, and next Thursday he’ll show us how the Drawdown Roadmap charts a path to accelerate climate solutions before it’s too late.
October 26, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Tom Green
We’re joined by the Senior Climate Policy Adviser for the David Suzuki Foundation, Tom Green! His talk will cover how the ecological economics perspective can inform education, advocacy and policy.
Seminar Cancelled — October 19, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Tabitha Robin (speaker is sick)
Cree Elders understand food to be a sacred healer, despite colonial policies and prejudices against their food and cultural systems.
Please join us for Dr. Tabitha Robin’s talk about a qualitative study, grounded in Indigenous research methodologies, on the role of food in Cree culture.
October 12, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Giulia Belotti and Brian Wang
Talk titles:
1. Understanding debates over urban development projects: navigating sustainability, affordability, and livability issues in Vancouver’s Broadway Plan
2. Lost in Transition – Dissolved Carbon Evolution along a Pacific Maritime Headwater Stream Network
October 5, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Rachel Scholes
Researchers like Dr. Rachel Scholes are increasingly worried about the negative impacts of contaminants found in road runoff, like the tire rubber byproduct 6PPD-quinone. But research is showing that urban rain gardens can help!
September 28, 2023: IRES Professional Development Seminar with Danielle Barkley
IRES students ONLY are invited to professional development workshop with Dr. Danielle Barkley, a Career Educator at the UBC Career Centre.
September 21, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Lori Daniels
We invite you to a talk by Dr. Lori Daniels, an expert on forest dynamics, disturbance, and wildfire regimes.
September 14, 2023: IRES Student Seminar with Trisa Ngo and Grace Schaan
Current IRES grad students Grace Schaan and Trisa Ngo are taking the stage this Thursday!
Topics:
– effects of logging and urban development on water
– Saskatchewan politics and Twitter
September 7, 2023: IRES Faculty Seminar with Matias Margulis (First Seminar in Term 1)
Dr. Matias Margulis of UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs/UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems will discuss how existing global food trade rules may constrain the policy space of states to enhance food system resilience to climate-induced shocks.