Paige Olmsted awarded the Les Lavkulich Outstanding Leadership and Service Award
Great recognition of Paige Olmsted’s superb leadership and service to IRES and much broader communities (including global processes like Rio+20)!
Liz Williams awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to MA student Liz Williams for her success winning a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship–even before starting!
Kai to be promoted to full professor
Kai will be promoted to full professor at UBC as of July 1 2016. Apparently the requests ramp up even more then….
Alejandra Echeverri received the Hesse Award for Ornithology
Alejandra Echeverri won the Werner and Hildegard Hesse Research Award in Ornithology. Congratulations, Ale!
CHANS Lab welcomes Matthew Mitchell
Matthew Mitchell is starting an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship with Kai and Navin Ramankutty. Congratulations and welcome, Matt!
John Driscoll awarded an NSERC CGS-D
Congratulations to John Driscoll for his success with the highly competitive NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship for his doctoral studies!
John Driscoll part of team winning 2016 Murray A. Newman Award!
The Vancouver Aquarium’s Murray A. Newman Award is for significant achievement in aquatic conservation. This award is shared by the team of environmentalists and fishing industry representatives that negotiated the British Columbia bottom trawl habitat management agreement.
Kai’s new webinar, “Are Cultural Ecosystem Services Key to Sustainability?”
On Friday February 26th, Kai presented a webinar to 80+ international audience members via UNEP’s Sub-Global Assessment Network. The recording, including probing questions, is online here.
Beyond intrinsic vs. instrumental: Relational values appeal broadly
The CHANS lab paper (led by Kai)–on relational values as an alternative values-framing for environmental protection and sustainability–was just published in PNAS. Chan, K. M. A., P. Balvanera, K. Benessaiah, et al. (2016). “Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.” PNAS 113(6): 1462–1465. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/6/1462.full
Chan et al., Relational Values for the Environment (PNAS)
Chan, K. M. A., P. Balvanera, K. Benessaiah, et al. (2016). “Why protect nature? Rethinking values and the environment.” PNAS 113(6): 1462–1465. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/6/1462.full 