Time Travel, Tipping Points and Transformation: Informing Safe and Just Operating Space for Canada’s Pacific Coastal Oceans
NRS Environmental Biology Seminar Series. You are invited to an online presentation by Dr Anne Salomon, Associate Professor, Resource & Environmental Management; Simon Fraser University, BC.
Thursday October 15th, seminar 11h30-12h30; discussion 2h00-3h00
To obtain the Zoom link, please email: allison.ford [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Sustaining social-ecological resilience and equity within and among our coastal ocean communities is a central challenge facing civil society in Canada and across the globe. While 20th century conservation science and management were premised on the notion of humans as external disrupters of anotherwise pristine nature, today there is an increasing appreciation of the need to understand the interactions between ecological and social phenomena across different scales of space and time.
By drawing on examples from Canada’s Pacific kelp forests, ancient clam gardens and herring fisheries, while braiding insights from ecological, archaeological and Indigenous knowledge, Dr Salomon will share her recent discoveries of kelp forest tipping points, stewardship innovations from the Holocene being revitalized in the Anthropocene, and methods to reveal leverage points to enable transformation in ocean governance. By pulling these threads together, Dr Salomon aims to inspire and catalyze solutions to Canada’s ocean challenges today.