IRES Newsletter: December 16, 2025

News, Events and Updates

💐 🌟 A huge congratulations to our November 2025 graduates: Momodou Barry, Ilke Geladi, Bassam Javed, Kate Reynolds, Verena Rossa-Roccor, Caleb Sinn, Dacotah-Victoria Splichalova, and Yoshinori Tanaka, who are pictured here, as well Victoria Lucas and Ka Lai Or! 🌟

Discover how urban growth drives disaster risk – in IRES professor Stephanie Chang’s new book!

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.

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Join us for the first seminar of 2026, given by two IRES PhD students: Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas and Jessica Mukiri.

Neha's seminar will empirically examine electronics repair and reuse behavioural forces, identifying key determinants of consumer repair decisions. Jessica's seminar will share the climate mitigation potential of replacing animal-sourced foods with alternative proteins.

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IRES Master’s student Vicky Lucas wants us to watch the attendee list as closely as the agenda. We asked Lucas to help us understand the growing private sector presence at annual climate conferences:

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IRES professor Terre Satterfield joined Small Planet Heroes for a powerful conversation about anthropology, justice, Indigenous worldviews, ecosystem services, and what it really means to represent voices that are often overlooked.

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This session offers a practical overview of interviewing tips and techniques, emphasizing how strategic career planning during graduate school can set the foundation for interview success.

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Recent IRES Publications

Martinez, J. D., & Ramankutty, N. (2025). Dietary GHG emissions from 2.7 billion people already exceed the personal carbon footprint needed to achieve the 2° C climate goal. Environmental Research: Food Systems, 2(4), 045006. doi.org/10.1088/2976-601X/ae10c0

Levers, C., Mehrabi, Z., Bajaj, K., Ramankutty, N., Siebert, S., & Seppelt, R. (2025). Different places, different challenges: Mapping global variations in agrifood-system burdens. Environmental Research Letters. doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae20ac

Knauer, A., Adhikari, S., Andersson, G.K.S.,...Kremen, C.,...Albrecht, M. et al. Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields. Nat Ecol Evol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02924-z

Noack, F., Engist, D., Gantois, J., Gaur, V., Hyjazie, B. F., Larsen, A., ... & Kremen, C. (2024). Environmental impacts of genetically modified crops. Science, 385(6712), eado9340. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ado9340 

Arriagada, N., Satterfield, T., & Boyd, D. R. (2025). Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in) capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile). Ecology and Society, 30(4).

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