New book from Stephanie Chang: Legacy in the Landscape
Discover how urban growth drives disaster risk. This accessible book links tech, economy, and landscape with hazards, using a new Urban Risk Dynamics framework and six global cities to guide better planning.
Q&A with Vicky Lucas on the private sector at COP30
With COP30 in full swing, IRES Master’s student Vicky Lucas wants us to watch the attendee list as closely as the agenda.
TA Opportunity for UBC Course: ASIC 220
This is an introductory course to provide a comprehensive introduction to sustainability from a science, economics, and societal perspective.
Bridging Global Water Policy and Practice | Nov 25 12pm
Dr. Leila Harris will moderate a discussion with experts in hydropolitics and governance on how global environmental agreements shape real-world water policy.
IRES’s Kate Reynolds situates Palestinian identity within relationships to plants, place and food
Reynolds’s work on Palestinian displacement and ecological identity takes memory from the abstract into the sensory, exploring how taste and smell bring land and people closer together.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Transforming Chemical Risk Management with Indigenous Expertise
The candidate will work under the supervision of Dr. Amanda Giang, with supervisory support from Dr. Susan Chiblow, and Dr. Élyse Caron-Beaudoin, on a subproject linking Indigenous experiences on chemicals policy development across scales.
Equation-Based Modeling and Reactive Computational Notebooks for Education | Nov 3
Many Geoscience concepts are difficult to transmit to students in lecture format. At the same time, geoscience models are often difficult to understand and improve. This talk will explore the convergence of several technologies to increase interactivity in scientific education and connect it to professional science.
Symposium: Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Agricultural Landscapes | Oct 16
This one-day symposium will feature an array of speakers, including IRES’s Claire Kremen, who study aspects of either the diversification of agricultural landscapes or human-wildlife conflict and coexistence.
Ripples Walking Tour | Free | Oct 25 2PM
The UBC Global Reporting Centre is launching a billboard art project that explores the environmental impacts of global trade, along the Arbutus Greenway from October to December.