This summer, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Montréal (CIRM) is happy to welcome Ph.D student in Geography Alex Gaio as well as lecturer and researcher in Sociolinguistics Fabio Scetti as part of a one-month and three-month research stay, respectively!
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Published on: 20 Jul 2022
Improved access to data on land prices is vital for future advances in global change science and policy. Spatially explicit land price information should be a public good available to the international community. An open-access, global land price database would enable policymakers, scientists, and civic society to better grapple with the economic, social, and environmental challenges posed by global change. Co-authored by Oliver T Coomes, Graham K MacDonald and Yann le Polain de Waroux from McGill’s Department of Geography.
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Published on: 30 May 2018
The total shoreline of the world’s lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over the Earth’s landmass, it would form a layer some four feet (1.3 metres) deep.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2016
“Hurricane Matthew is poised to deliver a potentially catastrophic strike on Haiti beginning Monday, and poses a danger to eastern Cuba and Jamaica by Monday night.” (The Weather Network)
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Published on: 6 Oct 2016
DJI is proud to present, together with Canada's McGill University and Brazil's Federal University of Pará - Altamira Campus, the Fish + Forest Project. Tune in to watch a special livestream from the Amazonian Xingu River in northern Brazil, a home to up to 600 unique species of fish, many found nowhere else, narrated by experts in the river's flora and fauna.You will also have the opportunity to ask questions live on Twitter.
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Published on: 5 Aug 2016
"These games are built by humans and therefore they contain all the biases of humans." -- Geography professor Rene Sieber. CBC The Current
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Published on: 28 Jul 2016
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors
Published on: 6 Jan 2016
John Robinson is the Associate Provost, Sustainability at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and is a professor with UBC’s Institute for Resources, Environment & Sustainability and Department of Geography.
Published on January 21 | McGill Reporter
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Published on: 23 Jan 2014
