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Research and projects
SCARP PhD student Wes Regan co-authors paper, "‘Sensemaking’ climate change"
"‘Sensemaking’ climate change: navigating policy, polarization and the culture wars", by Gail Hochachka, Meghan Wise, & Wes Regan, in NPJ | Climate Action, talks sensemaking, resistance, and polarization to understand climate-action barriers in BC.
May 5, 2025
Research and projects
SCARP PhD student Keisha Maloney's new research, "Planning with the Animacy of the Land"
Maloney's new article in JAPA argues that planners in settler colonial contexts can learn from Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge to recognize the animacy of the land as they endeavour to advance more just and sustainable cities.
April 22, 2025
Research and projects
SCARP Speaker Series recording live: Andrew Zitcer on what unites arts, urbanism and democracy
Minds all around the world come to SCARP to share insights and ask the big questions about today's foremost challenges and how Planning can address them. This time: Dr. Andrew Zitcer of Drexel University on Artistic Methods and Democratic Practice.
April 17, 2025
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CAPACity Newsletter
CAPACity (Creative And Passionate About CITIES) at UBC is a student-led initiative that aims to bring together undergraduate students interested in urban planning and its various branches.
April 15, 2025
Academics, Development, and Resouces
Spring graduate awards and APSC student awards
All those eligible and interested, please review these active award opportunities and submit your applications to SCARP's Graduate Student Support by May 12, 2025!
April 14, 2025
Research and projects
SCARP's Holly Caggiano on Planning for equitable carbon removal governance
SCARP Assistant Professor Holly Caggiano has just published a Comment in Nature Clean Energy Reviews, where she discusses what equitable models of carbon removal development and deployment might look like in practice.
April 14, 2025
Announcements and updates
Public Scholars Initiative accepting applications
PSI supports impactful, cross-disciplinary and multisectoral doctoral research, with academic support, professional development networking opportunities, and up to $20,000 in funding over two years. Applications close Friday, May 16.
April 2, 2025
Research and projects
SCARP's James Connolly publishes paper on climate gentrification
Connolly's publication in the journal Nature Climate Change, "The implications of climate gentrification for urban climate action", describe how "climate gentrification" could threaten the continued efficacy of climate action in the long term.
March 12, 2025
In the world of planning
UBC researchers' new way to measure disaster impact
UBC Assistant professor Dr. Ethan Raker and UBC PhD candidate Xueqing Zhang have developed a new way to measure the burden that disasters place on communities: person-days under evacuation.
March 6, 2025
Announcements and updates
Tammara Soma's talk is now live!
Tamara Soma visited SCARP to present her talk, "Indigenizing Food System Planning for Food System Resiliency: A Citizen Science Photovoice with Kitselas First Nation." The next Speaker Series event is March 25 with Kamala Todd.
March 3, 2025