IRES Newsletter: June 30, 2025

News, Events and Updates

Another cohort of amazing IRES scholars are out in the world! Congratulations to all and we hope you come back to visit.

Two global Frontiers Planet Prize winners call for a future of diversified farming

Dr. Dana James and Dr. Susanna Klassen, two UBC IRES alumni, are among an international group of researchers named global champions of the Frontiers Planet Prize. Their winning contribution is to a landmark paper published in Science that reveals how agricultural diversification can deliver significant social and environmental benefits.

The prize also honors the contributions of current and past UBC researchers Dr. Hannah Wittman, Dr. Zia Mehrabi, Dr. Claire Kremen, and co-first author Dr. Laura vang Rasmussen.

For James and Klassen, who were PhD students at IRES while contributing to the study, what matters most is what comes next. Will the world be willing to do the hard work of making these findings real for farmers?

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Recent IRES Publications

Bassett, C. G., Day, S. D., Konijnendijk, C. C., Chan, K. M., & Roman, L. A. (2025). From tyranny to hope: Harnessing the power of small decisions to achieve urban sustainability goals. Environmental Science & Policy, 170, 104125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104125

Eyster, H. N., Gould, R. K., Chan, K. M., & Satterfield, T. (2025). Use of theories of human action in recent conservation research. Conservation Biology, 39(2), e14461.https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14461

Palumbo Gaiarsa, M., Bramon Mora, B., Kremen, C., & Ponisio, L. C. (2025). Changes in species composition and community structure during plant–pollinator community assembly. Ecology, 106(6), e70119. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70119

Hogan, D., Eyal, G. F., Gantois, J., and Missirian, A., 2025. The Effectiveness of Local Conservation Ballots. AEA Papers and Proceedings 115: 403–08. https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20251073

Phurisamban, R., Luna, E., Eyster, H. N., Chignell, S., & Koppes, M. (2025). Shedding the cloak of neutrality: A guide for reflexive practices to make the sciences more inclusive and just. Ecosphere, 16(4), e70168. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70168

Jade Radke, Stella Argentopoulos, Elizabeth Dunn, Jiaying Zhao. (2025) Probabilistic refunds increase beverage container recycling behaviour in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Waste Management,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2025.114954.

[BOOK REVIEW] Reynolds, K. L., Harris, L. M., & Chireh, V. (2024). Sweet deal, bitter landscape: gender politics and liminality in Tanzania’s new enclosures: by Youjin B. Chung, Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2023. Environmental Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2024.2441028

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