Dr. Eric Delmelle
220 Carolina Hall Department of Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesEric Delmelle (UNC-Charlotte)
Eric Delmelle (UNC-Charlotte)
Jaskiran Dhillon (The New School) Title: Reflections on Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention Abstract: Jaskiran Dhillon’s new book Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention (University of Toronto Press, 2017) offers … Read more
The GIS Day activities are sponsored by the following organizations at UNC-CH – UNC Library, UNC Department of Geography, and UNC Division of Finance and Administration (Facilities Services, Energy Services and Sustainability). Event Location: Research Hub at 2nd Floor at Davis Library. Refreshments … Read more
Ian Baird (UW-Madison) Title: The Political Ecology of Cross-Sectoral Cumulative Impacts: Modern Landscapes, Large Hydropower Dams and Industrial Tree Plantations in Laos and Cambodia Abstract: Environmental and social impact assessment is now a widely accepted tool in the Mekong Region … Read more
Tell About the South: Javier Arce Nazario on Water Quality & Environmental Justice
Dr. Eric Tate, U. of Iowa Title: "Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience to Floods" Abstract: Flood disasters are the most frequent and deadliest among natural hazards. Designing and implementing sustainable solutions is somewhat of a wicked problem, due to the dynamic … Read more
Dr. Ryan Emanuel, NC State University
Dr. Tendai Chitewere, San Francisco State University (Click link for CV.) Green Lifestyles and Consumption-based Environmentalism: critical lessons from an ecovillage A growing number of ecological cohousing communities, ecovillages, are attempting to model sustainable ways to live. These efforts concentrate environmentally … Read more
Graduate Student Colloquium: Mental Health First Aid Training