Our next WICI Talk is Tuesday, February 24th with Dr. Derek Robinson,  an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. He will be presenting a talk entitled, “Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling.”

Please join us starting at 2:00pm in M3-2134 for coffee […]

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Speaker: Dr. Sander van der Leeuw
Title: Invention and innovation: the long term
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 – 2-4pm
Location: DC 1302

A video of Dr. van der Leeuw’s talk is available below or on our Vimeo page.

Abstract

In the last twenty years, researchers have come to […]

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Speaker: Dr. Derek Robinson
Title: Discovering the Themes of Complexity Science in Land Use Modelling
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 – 2-4pm
Location: M3-2134

A video recording of the talk can be found below.

Abstract

How humans use land and change what resides on land (e.g., vegetation) can have profound environmental impacts […]

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Speaker: Scott Heckbert, Ph.D.
Title: Agent-based modelling and GIS: applications to land use change and environmental modelling
Date: Monday, May 26, 2014 at 12:00 noon
Location: EV3-4412

A video of the talk can be found at the bottom of the page.

 

Abstract

This presentation will demonstrate current applications using agent-based […]

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Leah Stokes

On November 3, 2011 By

Leah Stokes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She completed her PhD in Public Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning Environmental Policy & Planning group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She also received a masters from […]

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Speaker: Dr. Madhur Anand, Professor in Environmental Biology at the University of Guelph
Title: Human-Environment Sustainability and Alternative Stable States in Mosaic Ecosystems
Date: Tuesday, November 6th, 2012
Category: Seminar

Abstract:

We all know that humans are part of the so-called ‘environment’, but the collapse of human-dominated ecosystems in not so distant […]

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