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
The Department will hold our Fall 2018 pre-registration pizza party on Monday, April 2nd at at 5pm in Carolina Hall 213. During this event you will be able to sign up for your desired Geography classes before they are open … Read more
Kirsi Pauliina Kallio & Jouni Hakli: "Political agency in vulnerable life situations: studying refugee political subjectivities"
