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
Engaging Communities in Offshore Wind: Case Studies and Lessons Learned from New England Islands
Sarah Klain collaborated with the non-profit organization Island Institute to report on lessons learned about community engagement, community benefits and offshore wind farms proposed near three New England islands. Residents of these island are likely to be the first impacted by offshore wind farms in North America. Island community members may influence the future of this industry […]
Kai publishes an op-ed on trophy hunting (a moral test, not cost/benefit calculus)
Kai published an op-ed in the National Observer on trophy hunting for grizzly bears in B.C. In it he warns Premier Christy Clark that her stance on this issue risks tarring her with a moral stain, as many voters see this as an issue of appropriate vs. abhorrent relationships with nature, not a purely economic matter.
Chan’s lab raises $745 for CPAWS-BC
Ale, Sarah, Ally, and Kai raised $745 for Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society as part of The Big Wild Challenge trail race.
‘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.