Bennett, Kadfak & Dearden, 2015. Environment, Development & Sustainability. Community-based scenario planning: A process for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning to social-ecological change in coastal communities.

Bennett, N., Kadfak, A. & Dearden, P. (2015). Community-based scenario planning: A process for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning to social-ecological change in coastal communities. Environment, Development and Sustainability.

Bennett, Blythe, Tyler & Ban. Regional Environmental Change, 2015. Communities and Change in the Anthropocene: Understanding Social-Ecological Vulnerability and Planning Adaptations to Multiple Interacting Exposures

Bennett, N. Blythe, J., Tyler, S., Ban, N. (2015). Communities and Change in the Anthropocene: Understanding Social-Ecological Vulnerability and Planning Adaptations to Multiple Interacting Exposures. Regional Environmental Change.

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‘Life Off Grid’ now available on Video On Demand

Jonathan Taggart’s ethnographic film about how and why some Canadians choose to live ‘off the grid’ is now available to the public through Video On Demand. You can watch it here.

Nathan Bennett named as a 2015-2016 Fullbright Scholar

Congratulations to Nathan Bennett for being named a 2015-2016 Fulbright Canada Canadian Scholar. Nathan’s Fullbright project is entitled ‘From Baja to Bering and All States in Between: The Effectiveness of Regional and Transboundary Marine Conservation Initiatives in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico’. View the full list of 2015-2016 Fullbright recipients here.

Marc Tadaki and others publish on the politics of bounding and measuring ecosystem services.

Marc, Will Allen, and Jim Sinner published a new article in Ecological Economics in which they discuss how ecosystem services concepts do political ‘work’ by constraining the kinds of processes considered and encouraging certain kinds of measurements over others. Read the article here.

Sarah, Paige and Jonathan receive awards from the UBC Public Scholar Initiative

Congratulations to Sarah Klain, Paige Olmstead and Jonathan Taggart on receiving awards from UBC’s new Public Scholars Initiative (PSI). PSI supports mutually beneficial partnerships of university knowledge and resources with those of the public and private sectors to contribute to the public good through – read more about PSI here.

Kai Chan selected as delegate to World Science Forum

Kai has been selected as one of four young Canadian delegates to the InterAcademy Partnership’s 2015 World Science Forum. The Forum will focus on “Scoping the future: views and ideas of young scientists to tackle global challenges” and will take place in Budapest, Hungary in November 2015.

Bennett 2015 Conservation Biology: Governing Marine Protected Areas in an Interconnected and Changing World

Bennett, N. J. (2015). Governing Marine Protected Areas in an Interconnected and Changing World. Conservation Biology [OPEN ACCESS]

Bennett, Govan & Satterfield 2015 Marine Policy: Ocean Grabbing

Bennett, N. J., Govan, H., & Satterfield, T. (2015). Ocean grabbing. Marine Policy, 57, 61–68. [OPEN ACCESS]

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Kai’s webinar for Yale University Centre for Business and the Environment is online

Kai Chan presented his research on building frameworks to conceptualize ecosystem services in a webinar for the Yale University Centre for Business and the Environment, emphasizing cultural ecosystem services to highlight importance of supporting ecosystem services to catalyze sustainability. The YouTube video is here.