Speaker: Dr. Meaghan Efford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Modelling past ecosystem baselines and ecosystem change over time can demonstrate the cumulative effects of anthropogenic impacts to ecosystems over seasons to...
Presented by the UBC Sustainability Hub , this faculty-focused event provides an open space to advance sustainability-informed teaching across all disciplines at UBC, with a focus on climate change. Through hands-on sessions , participants will...
Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
SDG Month Canada at UBC brings together students, faculty, staff, and community members to raise awareness of—and take action on—the United Nations ’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Join events and activities hosted by the UBC community to...
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Foster , Project Seahorse Project Seahorse has developed a novel scheme for analysing policy implementation across four Levels: technical outputs (tools and capacity building); policy outcomes (governance changes); field outcomes...
Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL)
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Volunteering and fieldwork based in community organizations with theoretical approaches to urban spaces. Students will engage in collaborative research while considering a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. Students may earn a maximum of 6 credits from ANTH 480 and SOCI 480.
The credit value for this course will be determined in consultation with the student prior to the registration
Underlying philosophy and principles of ecological economics, including the cascading effects of change, unintended consequences of change, and why it might be difficult to separate our ecological goals from our political realities.
Through seminars, course readings, and experiential learning, the power of narrative is explored as it intersects with ecological and Indigenous knowings and practices toward a more multi-storied, just, and ecologically sustainable world.
This is a one-month UBC Global Seminar program in China allows students to learn forestry and conservation in Asia through lectures and field trips to nature reserves, plantations, wood industry firms and national parks in China. Prerequisite: Third-year standing.
This Interprofessional Health and Human Service (IHHS) course considers how health and human service professionals can effectively practice with people with disabilities from a social justice perspective. Social and personal context and practice responses are examined. Offered as IHHS 407 prior to September 2015. Credit will be granted for only one of SOWK 453 or IHHS 407.
This course will be offered, as opportunities arise, by distinguished scientists visiting at the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre. This course will be of a specialized nature and at a level appropriate to graduate or senior undergraduate students.