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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Meet Professor Jay Drydyk for a thought-provoking discussion on Dams, Displacement & Development Ethics. When: October 7, 2019 at 12pm to 1pm Where: MacKenzie Building, Rm 3444 Discussion Overview: Large dams almost inevitably displace communities and force them to resettle elsewhere. Forced resettlement can be enormously harmful; one... More
Sunday, September 1, 2019
Our September speaker is Dr. Helen Roe from the Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, who is a Reader in Physical Geography in the School of Natural and Built Environment and Director of the Queen’s University Environmental Change Research Cluster. Her talk will review recent advances in palaeolimnology and will provide examples from... More
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Water has increasingly become a central theme in global development discourse. Scholars have tied access to safe drinking water to a growing list of development criteria, including health, education, income generation and gender equality. There has also been a shift in the way the issue of water access and water security is discussed. Whereas... More
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Half of the world population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to increase rapidly over the coming years. Urban living is associated with higher disease rates, and, conversely, living near green spaces has been shown to yield positive health benefits. For the seventh installment of the Global Water Institute’s “Water... More
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
For the sixth installment of the Global Water Institute’s informal talk series, Water Conversations, we heard from Public Policy and Administration PhD candidate Anteneh Belayneh, who began his research into water allocation and water markets in Southern Alberta in 2014. ... More
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
For the fifth installment of the Global Water Institute’s talk series, Water Conversations, we had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Tim Patterson, paleolimnologist and professor of Earth Sciences at Carleton University. Dr. Patterson has been working in the Northwest Territories for more than a decade. Today, he shared with us his recent work... More
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
For the fourth installment of the Global Water Institute’s informal talk series, Water Conversations, we had the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Steven Cooke of the Carleton Department of Biology and Institute of Environmental Science on his research into the state, use, and regulation of inland fisheries. Dr. Cooke is the Canada Research Chair... More
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
For the third installment of the GWI’s Water Conversations series, we heard from Karen Lawford, Aboriginal midwife and instructor of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University, on the topic of water, indigenous women’s health, and environmental violence in Canada. Dr. Lawford hosted an open-ended discussion, inviting attendees to... More
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Dr. Karen Kidd is a prominent ecotoxicologist specializing in the effects of human activities on aquatic ecosystems. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Chemical Contamination of Food Webs (Tier I) and was recently named Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health. She is a professor in the Department of Biology and School of Geography... More
Monday, November 20, 2017
Water bodies have little concern for national borders - there are 263 transboundary lake and river basins around the world, covering nearly half of the Earth’s surface. A total of 148 nations include territory within one or more international basins. With the human population and its demand for freshwater growing, and the global supply... More
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Today we had the pleasure of hearing Dr. Richard Amos describe his research on managing groundwater contaminants in the resource development industry for our first ever Global Water Institute “Water Conversations” event. Dr. Richard Amos presents his research on October 26th, 2017. Photo credit: Muhammad Salam. Dr. Amos is a professor of Earth... More
Thursday, July 6, 2017
An outpouring of technical and engineering solutions are being developed for the water challenges faced by people around the world, but until communities start to seriously integrate sustainability into their plans and attitudes, the willpower required to reboot our relationship to this vital resource will remain... More
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