UBC experts are available to comment on the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Brazil (June 20-22), including three researchers who will attend in person.
Rashid Sumaila (attending and presenting at Rio+20)
UBC Fisheries Centre
Cell: 604.351.7406
Email: r.sumaila@fisheries.ubc.ca
- Will participate in Sustainable Development Dialogues (Oceans) panel with Dr. Sylvia Earle and Jean-Michel Cousteau
- Presenting at a Subsidy Session at Rio+20 Trade and Sustainable Development Symposium
- Expert on fisheries, economics and the ocean
Neil Thomson (attending Rio+20)
UBC Sauder School of Business, ISIS
Email: neil.thomson@sauder.ubc.ca
Cell: 778.994.9659
- Blogging and tweeting from the conference at: http://isis.sauder.ubc.ca/media/blog/ and @ISIS_Climate
- Researches low-carbon economies and use of carbon markets to promote sustainable action
William Rees (attending Rio+20)
UBC School of Community and Regional Planning
Phone: 604-266-5200, 778-386-3893 (cell)
Email: wrees@exchange.ubc.ca
- Co-creator of the “ecological footprint” measure
- Policy and planning related to global environmental trends
Simon Donner
UBC Dept. of Geography
Tel: 604.561.7284
Email: simon.donner@geog.ubc.ca
Web: www.simondonner.com/
- Conference issues and ideas (including national and global implications)
- Climate change, sustainability and the environment
- Recently quoted in the New York Times on pipeline issues
Diane Srivastava
UBC Dept. of Zoology, Biodiversity Research Centre
Cell: 778.855.4054
E-mail: srivast@zoology.ubc.ca
- Recent Nature study: Loss of biodiversity, a growing threat to human life – Part of an international research team that reviewed 20 years of ecological studies on biodiversity
- Biodiversity, conservation, habitat loss and food webs
Hosny El-Lakany
Dept. of Forest Resource Management
Tel: 604.822.6921
Email: hosny.ellakany@ubc.ca
- Negotiations and decision-making at Rio+20: International politics and development goals
- ‘Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and its Principles’ document and related discussions within three “Splinter” groups regarding humanitarian issues of poverty and hunger, the green economy, oceans, forests, biodviersity and disaster risk reduction
Peter Klein
UBC Graduate School of Journalism
Tel: 604.822.6682
Email: peter.klein@ubc.ca
Watch two reports by Klein’s students on violence and water conflicts in Brazil for The New York Times
James Tansey
UBC Sauder School of Business
Tel: 604.827.4443
Email: james.tansey@sauder.ubc.ca
- National and global implications of conference ideas
- Carbon markets, clean technology and green business
- Food security, including genetically modified crops and animals
Patrick Condon
UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments
Phone: 604-822-9291
Email: p.m.condon@gmail.com
- The relationship between climate change, the environment and the design of cities
- Author of The Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities: http://www.islandpress.org/sevenrules/
Stephen Sheppard
UBC Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning
at Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (North America’s ‘greenest’ building)
Phone: 604-822-6582
Email: Stephen.Sheppard@ubc.ca
- Author of: Visualizing Climate Change www.routledge.com/books/details/9781844078202/
- Using visualizations and immersive environments to show future climate scenarios and change behavior
Michael Brauer
UBC School of Population and Public Health
Tel: 604.822.9585
Email: michael.brauer@ubc.ca
- Health issues related to cities and energy (air quality, pollution, physical activity and transportation)
- Linkage between climate change and human health
Michael Byers
Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law
UBC Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 604.822.3049
Email: michael.byers@ubc.ca
Web: http://byers.typepad.com/
- International law implications of the conference
- The Arctic and climate change
Kathryn Harrison
UBC Dept. of Political Science
Tel: 778-968-4923
Email: harrison@politics.ubc.ca
- Canadian environmental law and policy
Benjamin Richardson
Canada Research Chair in Environmental Law & Sustainability
UBC Faculty of Law
Tel: 604.827.4823
Email: richardson@law.ubc.ca
Web: http://www.law.ubc.ca/enlaw
- Legal, business and policy issues
John Innes
UBC Faculty of Forestry
Tel: 604.822.6761
Email: john.innes@ubc.ca
Website: http://sustain.forestry.ubc.ca/
- Climate change and the future of forests globally
- Forest education
Peter Arcese
UBC Faculty of Forestry
Tel: 604.822.1886
Email: peter.arcese@ubc.ca
- Interactions between sustainable resource use and wildlife conservation
- Illegal harvest and local and world market forces on it
- Climate impacts on the ecology and evolution of wild species
David Cohen
UBC Faculty of Forestry
Email: david.cohen@ubc.ca
- International trade, especially in forest products
- Business, sustainability and globalization
Marcello Veiga
UBC Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering
Phone: 604-822-4332
Email: veiga@mining.ubc.ca
- Faculty member from Rio, Brazil
- Sustainability, pollution and social issues (poverty) related to mining in developing countries
- Speaks English, Portuguese, Spanish (some French)
Andreas Christen
UBC Dept. of Geography, Atmospheric Science program
E-mail: andreas.christen@ubc.ca
Office: 604-822-6620
- Climate change and environmental science
- Cities and sustainable development
- Greenhouse gas emission monitoring
Visit the UBC newsroom for updates to this list: www.ubc.ca/news.
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