Kai and Paige launch initiative at AAAS meeting in Boston

By Paige Olmsted on February 17, 2013

This weekend (Feb 14-18, 2013) a wide range of academics and media are gathering in Boston for the American Academy for the Advancement of Science annual general meeting. Kai and Paige organized a symposium called Getting to Global Ecological Sustainability that included leading scholars Jane Lubchenco, Jonathan Foley, David Wilcove, Steven Katona, and Simon Levin. Kai’s presentation introduced a new initiative, to learn more about it see their post on the CHANS lab blog.

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Kai selected as a 2013 Leopold Leadership Fellow

By kaichan on January 30, 2013

Kai was one of 20 mid-career academics from Canada, Mexico, and USA selected as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. http://leopoldleadership.stanford.edu/

The program “provides outstanding academic environmental researchers with skills and approaches for communicating and working with partners in NGOs, business, government and communities to integrate science into decision‐making”. Funded by the Packard and Hewlett Foundations, housed at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

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Lab members present to Joint Review Panel

By Edward Gregr on January 25, 2013

The CHANS lab was well represented at the Enbridge Gateway Joint Review Panel hearings. Read about our experience in our latest blog post.

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Risk, Credibility, and Justification: What are we trusting who with, and why?

By Edward Gregr on January 24, 2013

New blog post! Edward Gregr’s statement to the Enbridge Gateway Joint Review Panel

 

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KC’s blog re: comments to the Enbridge Joint Review Panel

By kaichan on January 19, 2013

Northern Gateway Pipeline: Can we Justify This?? http://chanslabviews.blogspot.ca/2013/01/to-enbridge-joint-review-panel-can-we.html

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Tam and McDaniels in: Environmental Science & Policy on percetions of climate change adaptation in biological conservation

By Jordan Tam on January 6, 2013

Jordan Tam and Tim McDaniels publish a new article in Environmental Science & Policy entitled “Understanding individual risk perceptions and preferences for climate change adaptations in biological conservation”. (doi)

 

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Understanding individual risk perceptions and preferences for climate change adaptations in biological conservation

By Jordan Tam on January 6, 2013

Tam, J. and T. L. McDaniels. 2013. Understanding individual risk perceptions and preferences for climate change adaptations in biological conservation. Environmental Science & Policy 27:114-123.

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NEW in BioScience: Ethical considerations of ecosystem-service applications

By kaichan on December 7, 2012

Gary Luck, Kai Chan, and colleagues publish a new article in BioScience on “Ethical considerations in on-ground applications of the ecosystem services concept.” (pdf)

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Luck et al. in BioScience: Ethical considerations of ES applications

By kaichan on December 7, 2012

Luck, G., K. M. A. Chan, U. Eser, E. Gómez-Baggethun, B. Matzdorf, B. Norton and M. Potschin (2012). “Ethical considerations in on-ground applications of the ecosystem services concept.” BioScience 62(12): 1020-1029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.12.4 (pdf)

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New blog post: When being a luddite is a point of misplaced pride

By Emily Anderson on December 7, 2012

A new blog post on CHANS Lab Views about the challenges of making decisions for sustainability.

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