IRES News: October 5th, 2020 | October 6, 2020: COVID-19 Building Operations and Future Codes with Lawrence Schoen Join Lawrence Schoen as he presents on how modes of disease transmission might be affected by engineering interventions, typically related to dilution ventilation, mechanical filtration and de-activation by ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). Read More | October 8, 2020: IRES Faculty Seminar with César Rodríguez-Garavito This talk presents the first systematic study of the universe of rights-based climate litigation around the world. The talk discusses the origins and the emergent legal doctrines as well as the impact and limitations of rights-based litigation in advancing climate action. Read More | October 15, 2020: IRES Student Seminar with Balsher Sidhu and Luis Felipe Melgarejo Perez Read More | Graduate Student Opportunities | UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter Check out the latest UBC Library Research Commons Newsletter for events, workshops, and more! Read More | | UBC 2030 Competition UBC Sustainibility is calling on UBC students and student groups/clubs to submit ideas on the future of teaching, learning, researching, operations and community engagement at UBC! Whether it’s a 30-second video clip, photo series, mock newspaper or magazine cover, multimedia art or song, get creative in response to the question: What will sustainability at UBC look like in 2030? Upload or post your #UBC2030 submissions by October 25. Read More | | Corporate Mapping Project Summer Institute, May 2021 Join the Corporate Mapping Project’s third summer institute, offered by the University of Victoria Department of Sociology. The course is open to graduate students in social science disciplines at any Canadian university (for students at universities participating in the Western Deans Agreement, the course may be eligible for transfer credit). The Institute will be delivered either entirely online or in a hybrid mode with some students participating in person and others online. Students not physically present in Victoria, BC, will be able to take the course. Space is limited — RSVP by October 30 to secure your spot. Read More | | Nehru Humanitarian Award The Centre for India and South Asia Research (CISAR) at The University of British Columbia, invites submissions for the 2020 Nehru Humanitarian Graduate Scholarship in Indian Studies. The annual $1,000 scholarship is offered by Dr. and Mrs. D. P. Goel to a graduate student pursuing the political, historical, economic, religious, social, or cultural study of India. The award is made on the recommendation of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, in accordance with findings of the Adjudication Committee of the Centre for India and South Asia Research. Deadline: 4pm on Friday, October 16, 2020 Read More | | Call for Papers: Foundations of Biodesign The Biodesign Working Group, a partnership of Cumulus Association and Biodesign Challenge, welcomes paper submissions that explore the emerging field of biodesign. The Call is titled Foundations of Biodesign: Integrating Art, Design, and Biology. Selected papers will be published in both the Cumulus Conference Proceedings and in Biodesigned, the bimonthly online magazine published by Biodesign Challenge. Deadline: November 16, 2020 Read More | | Call for Proposals: BC Parks Living Lab for Climate Change & Conservation Program BC Parks is accepting project proposals for our Living Lab for Climate Change and Conservation Program for 2021-2022. The mission of the Living Lab Program is to encourage climate change research in protected areas that documents changes in BC’s natural world, and that guides protected area management for an uncertain future. Funding is being offered to support public academic researchers to conduct climate change research in B.C.’s protected areas. Deadline: October 25, 2020 Read More | | Recent publications by IRES' core faculty members. Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests
A Echeverri, DS Karp, LO Frishkof, J Krishnan, R Naidoo, J Zhao, J Zook, KMA Chan
Conservation Letters, e12763 Bringing the city to the country? Responsibility, privilege and urban agrarianism in Metro Vancouver
E Bowness, H Wittman
The Journal of Peasant Studies: 1-26 Octopus’s garden under the blade: Boosting biodiversity increases willingness to pay for offshore wind in the United States
S Klain, T Satterfield, KMA Chan, K Lindberg
Energy Research & Social Science, 69, 101744 Water sharing and the right to water: Refusal, rebellion and everyday resistance
LM Harris, C Staddon, A Wutich, J Budds, W Jepson, AL Pearson, EA Adams
Political Geography, 82, 102245 Explaining communities' adaptation strategies for coastal flood risk: Vulnerability and institutional factors
SE Chang, JZK Yip, T Conger, G Oulahen, E Gray, M Marteleira
Journal of Flood Risk Management, e12646 | Have News to Share? Send it to us at communications@ires.ubc.ca | Contact
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