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Meet the 2024 Sustainability Education Fellows Grant recipients

Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s Sustainability Education Fellows Grants! These grants support faculty members who are looking to create new courses or enhance existing ones with sustainability content.
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Meet the 2024 Sustainability Education Fellows Grant recipients

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Addressing the Impacts of Canadian Mining on Communities in Africa

Human Well-being & Social Systems
Natural Resources
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Should the Fraser River Estuary have legal rights?

Ecological Systems
Natural Resources
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Telling Stories: The Humanities in an Age of Planetary Agenda-Setting

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Ecological Systems
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January 9, 2024

Examining Post-Colonial Wildlife Conservation in South Africa

The field program , led by Dr. David Bunn , Professor, and Dr. Melissa McHale , Associate Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, offers a unique opportunity for students to experience firsthand a variety of decolonized conservation management models.
December 13, 2023

COP28: Hopes and reactions to the latest climate deal

Contrast the hopes and aspirations of our UBC colleagues below with the outcome from the ‘ UAE Consensus’ agreed at COP28 and the reaction to the deal by civil society. Words: Niki Afsharpour. Images: David Tindall.
December 5, 2023

Zoology Professor Awarded Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' Crafoord Prize

The three-spine sticklebacks exhibit remarkable diversity due to their evolution from marine fish to freshwater species after the last ice age, making them among the youngest species on Earth.
November 30, 2023

#WiRELab Investigating White-Tailed Deer Population Affects on Caribou

White-tailed deer are expanding deeper into caribou range where they were previously less abundant, and now act as a food source that strengthens the population of caribou predators including wolves.
October 31, 2023

UBC Sociology Environment and Community Research Stream

Members of the Environment & Community cluster contribute to an understanding of the relationships between built and human communities within natural environments.
October 25, 2023

Overfishing Research Wins 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

Photo credit: Kim Bellavance Dr. Pauly and Dr. Sumaila are University Killam Professors and longtime colleagues at the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries . Winning this prize, they say, gives them an opportunity to spread an urgent and evidence-based message: all fishing on the high seas...
October 20, 2023

Climate Emergency Fund: Public Scholar Maya Daurio

The resilience of a wet meadow contrasted with a severely burned forest three years after the Cameron Peak Fire. Photo by Maya Daurio. In the late summer of 2020, Colorado witnessed the largest wildfire in its history – the Cameron Peak Fire. This wildfire, which persisted for 112 days, burned over...
October 18, 2023

Urban Climate Justice from Below

In particular, urban areas in the Global South are becoming hotspots where the climate crisis is exacerbating existing inequalities in urban social, political, and economic dimensions. The collaborative research group, ‘ Urban Climate Justice from Below ’, led by Dr. Paroma Wagle , (previously)...
October 16, 2023

CLEAR (CLimate Equity Activation and Resilience) Connections

Photos by James Gray UBC students turned discarded coffee cups into a representation of Vancouver’s skyline to draw attention to the recent Binners’ Project record-breaking recycling event in the Downtown Eastside.
October 16, 2023

Nun ke’ Daahwéhsats (Dancing with the Land)

Dancing with the Land is a research partnership between West Moberly First Nations (WMFN), Geography Professor Dr. Jessica Dempsey , and PhD student Audrey Irvine-Broque (pictured left), to advance meaningful and consequential relationship building, knowledge exchange and research planning around...

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