GIER Director Madhur Anand, a professor at the School of Environmental Sciences and published poet, has won the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction.
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GIER Affiliate Beth Parker, Director of the G360 Institute for Groundwater Research, is hosting a webinar to celebrate the UN World Water day.
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The School of Environmental Sciences will be offering a new program on Indigenous Environmental Science and Practice, which emphasizes Indigenous knowledge systems alongside cutting-edge training in western environmental science.
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Soft Turns, a collaborative effort of Sarah Jane Gorlitz and Wojciech Olejnik, were artists in residence at the School of Environmental Sciences (SES) from January 2017 until December 2019. Their art is inspired in research conducted at the school, including research by GIER Affiliates Jon Warland, Mike Dixon, and Youbin Zheng.
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Xuemei Bai and collaborators share their thoughts on how cities need to be rebuilt after the COVID-19 pandemic. Most major cities across the globe, the authors claim, need to strengthen their health-care systems, improve communications with citizens, ensure sourcing of food and services, fight for equality, and make nature a priority.
We are delighted to announce that the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has recognized the research contributions of five of our Affiliate Members. Congratulations to all!
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Science Literacy Week showcases Canadian science and the culture it's embedded in. Several institutions —such as libraries, museums, science centres, schools and not-for-profits— come together to show that science is not only exciting but also critical to our every day life!
A new study published in Science by Andrew Dobson and collaborators estimate that the cost of monitoring and preventing zoonotic diseases driven by deforestation and wildlife trade, for a period of 10 years, would amount to only 2% of the economic losses incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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We are happy to announce that the Andean Initiative kicks off this week! The Andean Initiative aims to support the well-being of vulnerable rural communities in the Andes of Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. You can follow them on Facebook to be part of their International Launch (July 22, 10:00 am EDT) and International Dialogue (July 23, 10:00 am EDT) events.
In 2015, the United Nations adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which represent global objectives to improve both nature and people’s lives by the year 2030. According to Robin Naidoo and Brendan Fisher, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, two-thirds of those goals are no longer achievable.
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