IRES Newsletter: December 23, 2024

News, Events and Updates

The inaugural Wall Legacy Awards honoured three individual faculty, and five teams of faculty, and 19 graduate students - 5 of which are IRES students.

Congratulations to our scholars Rudri Bhatt, Valerie Zimmermann, Imranul Laskar, Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas and Mauricio Carvallo Aceves!

Thursday, January 16 | 1:00 – 2:30 pm | BC Hydro Theatre, Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (2260 West Mall)

What steps can we take to address unequal exposure to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions?

Join UBC Sustainability Hub on Thursday, January 16 for an in-person panel discussion and hear from UBC experts Dr. Amanda Giang (UBC IRES) and Dr. Chris Carlsten (UBC Department of Medicine) about how we can address unequal exposure to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A discussion, moderated by Julie Saxton, Program Manager for Air Quality Regulation, Environmental Regulation and Enforcement, Metro Vancouver.

Space is limited! Register by Jan 14

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Recent IRES Publications

Nicole Kaechele, Rachelle Beveridge, Megan Adams, Paul Boyce, Kyle Artelle. A primer for the practice of reflexivity in conservation science. Conservation Letters. Sept 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.13047

Simon B. Sheppard, Stella Argentopoulos, Juliet Ware, Alex Swearingen, Jessica Winfield, Jade Radke, Jiaying Zhao. Probabilistic rewards increase the use of reusable cups. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. Jan 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108001

Spoyalo, K., Viduka, N., Dixon, SJ., MacNeill, A.J., Zhao, J. Using salience and availability to promote sustainable and healthy food choices in hospital cafeterias. Sci Rep 14, 26265 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76579-4

Li X, Donner SD, Martell HA. The Loss of Beneficial Thermal Priming on Global Coral Reefs. Glob Chang Biol. 2024 Dec. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17592.

James, D., Blesh, J., Liebert, J., Magnanti, N., Mehrabi, Z., Motter, C., & Wittman, H. (2024). Exploring the role of a social carrier in advancing agroecology and territorial autonomy. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2024.2431863

Daniele Tubino de Souza, Lena Hommes, Arjen Wals, Jaime Hoogesteger, Rutgerd Boelens, Bibiana Duarte-Abadía, Juan Pablo Hidalgo-Bastidas, Edward Huijbens, Leila M. Harris, Diana Suhardiman, Lieke Melsen, Tom Buijse, Fabio de Castro, Leontien Cremers, Barbara Hogenboom, Mariela Garcia Vargas, Denisse Roca-Servat, Gert Jan Veldwisch & K. J. Joy (19 Nov 2024): River co-learning arenas: principles and practices for transdisciplinary knowledge co-creation and multi-scalar (inter)action, Local Environment, DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2024.2428215

Melissa Beresford^*, Ellis Adams, Jessica Budds, Leila M Harris, Wendy Jepson, Tennille Marley, Chloe Nguyen, Amber Pearson, Anaís Delilah Roque, Asher Y Rosinger, Sameer H Shah, Matthew Stellbauer and Amber Wutich. Can household water sharing advance water security? An integrative review of water entitlements and entitlement failures. (2024) Environmental Research Letters, Volume 20, Number 1. DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ad9851

Guzman A, Montes M, Lamie N, Bañuelos M, DeLaCerda G, Soria-Gilman I, Firestone M, Bowles T, Kremen C. Arbuscular mycorrhizal interactions and nutrient supply mediate floral trait variation and pollinator visitation. New Phytol. 2025 Jan;245(1):406-419. doi: 10.1111/nph.20219. PMID: 39628274; PMCID: PMC11617648.

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