Heather Randell (SYSYNC) Link to CV TITLE: The impact of climate change on educational attainment: Evidence from the global tropics ABSTRACT: Investments in education serve as an important pathway out of poverty, yet reduced agricultural productivity due to droughts … Read more
Aaron Hipp (NCSU) Link to CV. Title: Spatial Energetics To address current obesity and inactivity epidemics, researchers have attempted to identify spatial factors that influence health behaviors. Technological and methodological developments have led to a revolutionary ability to examine dynamic, … Read more
Geography will host a pre-registration pizza party on Wed, Nov 1st at 5pm in Carolina Hall 204. Majors and minors can claim spots in classes before their assigned registration time. Best of all, free pizza and soda!
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
