Placemaking and Climate Change Migration
Climate change forced displacement and resettlement is becoming a pressing topic as the impacts of sea level rise, drought, and severe tropical storms increasingly impact communities’ livelihoods. As communities and entire nations are forced to resettle, how will basic social and cultural structures be maintained? The transportation of resilient socio- cultural patterns becomes essential for maintaining the health and well-being of a community.
College of the Environment Action Workshop
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This event will be a participatory Zoom Meeting with Breakout Rooms.
ZOOM MEETING ID: 973 2303 5459
(email stefan@wwu.edu for the meeting Passcode)
Climate justice, cutting-edge ecological research, and policy changes are all good things to engage in, but when do we have time to collectively do this work as a college/university/community?
How to Plant One Million Trees in 5 Years or Less
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Anticipating Future Environments: Climate Change, Adaptive Restoration, and the Columbia River Basin
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Nature’s Trust: Environmental Law for an Ecological Age
For spring, 2020 all WWU classes are being taught online. As such, the Huxley Speaker Series is revisiting favorite presentations from the Archives.
This talk was originally presented as part of the Huxley Speaker Series in Fall 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTAuw4UK3ig&list=PL_V1x509m24mrCNrm3tJBNOInyrovnHz1&index=5&t=0s
CANCELED
DUE TO CAMPUS SNOW CLOSURE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELED
Storying Climate Change in the Salish Sea
Stories are critical to understanding and responding to climate change. On the one hand, our collective imaginations are shaped by dominant, inherited narrative conventions; as public climate stories rely almost entirely on large-scale, apocalyptic tropes, many people are uncertain how to respond to them in their everyday lives. On the other hand, stories can help us make shared emotional and relational sense of the complexity of large-scale ecological and social transformations.
Climate Change in Tonga and the South Pacific
Climate change is threatening the survival of Tonga and other South Pacific nations. It is causing sea level to rise, putting coastal communities at risk, and warming ocean temperatures, increasing the strength of cyclones/hurricanes. Cyclone Gita (2018), the strongest cyclone in history to make landfall on Tonga, caused significant damage.
The Living Snow Project: Adventure-Based Community Enabled Science
The Living Snow Project is a community enabled science (aka "citizen science") program that engages the outdoor recreation community in science that is revealing impacts of climate change on biology in snowy alpine environments.
Indigenous Knowledge in a Changing Climate
Indigenous Peoples of North America have always had to accommodate and respond to environmental change. Oral histories, recollections of contemporary elders, and terms in their numerous languages have allowed understandings of responses to change, most recently since the colonial era. Traditional knowledge systems incorporate adaptive capacity. Now, however, many people have noted signs of greater environmental change and challenges to their resilience than in the past: species declines and new appearances; anomalies in weather patterns; and declining health of forests and grasslands.
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