Seminar Videos

In cities around the world, the uneven impacts of climate change-induced extreme events such as heatwaves and wildfires are acutely felt indoors. In this talk, I present preliminary findings from a study exploring indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in low-income housing. Read More

Our grad student Ming Cao will share her talk titled-- Soil matters: evaluating soil water dynamics and soil greenhouse gas emissions under climate-smart agriculture Read More

Rebecca Dirnfeld is a Career Educator with the UBC Career Centre - come learn her career planning strategies! Read More

As demand for distributed renewable energy generation has increased rapidly, so have conflicts over siting large-scale projects. Meaningful community engagement and direct, verifiable benefits co-creation are necessary to avert these trends—and to ensure an equitable, rather than exploitative, energy transition. Read More

Join this talk on the role of landscape configuration and ecological intensification in optimizing agricultural productivity and sustainability, drawing insights from recent studies across Argentina’s agricultural regions. Read More

Two BC-focused talks from two stellar grad students, covering climate action plans and air pollution emissions inventories! Read More

Talk titles at Student Symposium: 1. Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Factors Inhibiting Accelerated Progress 2. EXPLORING EMPOWERMENT THROUGH BILL S-5: building government accountability in chemicals management using a right to a healthy environment 3. IMAGINING POSSIBLE ROLES FOR GREEN HYDROGEN IN MEXICO. Between Hype and a Leapfrogging Opportunity Read More

What management policies are necessary for the global health impacts from environmental risks? Dr. Michael Brauer discusses this and more. Read More

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. Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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 Read More

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. Read More

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 Read More

Talk Title Transboundary climate risks of Canada’s fruit and vegetable supply Read More

Talk titles: 1. Women+ counter-mapping hydrosocial territories: activists’ practices of knowledge co-production in the Chiloé archipelago (southern Chile) and, 2. Developing a field-scale crop yield prediction model using satellite and environmental data Read More

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 Read More

This presentation will be a frank exploration of careers in environmental consulting. IRES Alumnus Dr. Jackie Lerner has been a consultant to industry and to municipal, Indigenous, provincial, territorial, and federal governments for over twenty-five years. Most of her work has related to the environmental assessment of large resource development projects in Canada: primarily mining and energy projects in British Columbia. Read More

How do land-use-based climate strategies reorder the local geography of risk for urban residents? In this talk, Connolly argues that the answer to this question is more complicated than the one commonly presented in public discourse. Read More

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 Read More