SESYNC has launched a new open-access collection of sustainability-related resources available to the public. Ranging from videos, to articles, to lesson plans, to audio interviews, the resources aim to engage more people from all backgrounds in the conversation about sustainability and to consider the environmental impact of humans’ beliefs, interactions, and behaviors.
The inability of households to afford adequate energy services, such as heating, is a major energy justice concern. Temporary utility bill assistance or improving residential energy efficiency remains the primary strategic interventions. However, program implementation often occurs in piecemeal
Myanmar is an emerging democracy that bears by far the heaviest malaria burden in Southeast Asia, the region that has been the historical gateway for the global dissemination of drug-resistant malaria. Malaria infection and spread is a highly complex process driven by a host of ecological
Earth observation and geospatial datasets are providing a unique synoptic view of the Earth system with time series spanning the decadal time scale. As datasets are rapidly increasing in number and a host of new use cases have found their way in multiple fields. In this talk, I provide a brief
A tenancy in common or “heirs’ property” describes inherited, real property, passed to subsequent generations via state laws of intestate succession (Mitchell, 2001). Property is typically classed as heirs’ property because someone dies without a will or other legal document formally conveying
Personal protection measures, such as bed nets and repellents, are important tools for the suppression of vector-borne diseases like malaria and Zika. The ability of health agencies to distribute personal protection equipment, and encourage its use, plays an important role in the efficacy of disease
This is a closed conference for a funded group of scholars.
The symposium will explore the current state of socio-environmental systems research, recent advances in the field, and the unique challenges and opportunities engendered by the questions and approaches of socio
No-one doubts that climate, environment and societal development are linked in causally complex ways. But in relating these different evidential spheres in an explanatorily satisfactory way, we must consider a number of issues, not least the scale at which the climatic and environmental events are
Racial segregation is well understood as an entrenched feature of cities with wide-ranging social impacts, including economic inequality. Yet the environmental consequences of historical segregation for cities and their communities remains an open area for inquiry and action. While environmental
Small-scale fishing is low-technology, low-capital fishing by individual households, as distinct from fishing by large commercial companies. The island of Jamaica in the Caribbean has over 1000km of coastline, and small-scale fishing contributes to the livelihoods of upwards of 75% of households in
Resilience describes a system’s ability to respond and adapt in the face of potential disruptions. Within the context of food systems, resilience of food supplies and access to those supplies is key to ensuring food security. Studying the response of food systems to sudden environmental disturbance
Webinar presented by Kristal Jones, Research Scientist at SESYNC, and Steve Alexander, Mitacs Science Policy Fellow and Science Advisor at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Flood disasters are the most costly of natural hazards. Designing and implementing sustainable solutions is somewhat of a wicked problem, due to the dynamic and spatially varying connections among physical, social, and built environment systems that produce adverse impacts. Major focus areas in