Climate+Water Research Symposium - Day Two

Natasha Affolder is a Professor and a former Associate Dean Research and International at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She is a leading scholar in transnational environmental law whose research explores some of the most challenging and complex issues of our time. Her recent scholarship has sought to reveal and to challenge the marginalization of environmental law in legal practice and scholarship and to creatively expand the methods for studying environmental law and its global movements. She is the recipient of numerous awards including, most recently, the 2019 Richard Macrory Prize for the Best Article published in the Journal of Environmental Law.  A sought-after and frequent panelist, keynote speaker, and commentator, Professor Affolder has put her scholarly expertise to work as an advisor to indigenous communities, environment and development NGO’s, and governments on multiple continents. 

She is a member of both the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies and the Centre for Law and the Environment at UBC.

Werner Antweiler is an Associate Professor in the Sauder School of Business.  His research interests include: International Trade and Business, Environmental Economics and Management, Energy and Electricity Economics, Applied Econometrics and Panel Data, Applied Empirical Finance, and Prediction Markets. He is a frequent commentator on broadcast media about a wide range of public policy. His work includes environmental and energy topics and in particular renewable energy in electricity systems and the electrification of mobility. 

He is Chair of Sauder's Strategy and Business Economics Division as well as Chair in International Trade Policy.  He is a Steering committee member of the Climate Solutions Research Collective. 

John Richardson is a Professor Emeritus within the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences and is the Principal Investigator of the Stream and Riparian Research Laboratory. The research program addresses questions related to the mechanisms that structure stream and riparian area communities, and how various land-use practices affect those systems. In natural communities there are many processes that affect the rates of population growth (or decrease). John's laboratory has taken a largely experimental approach to determining what those feedback processes are, how the rates are regulated, and how the multiple sets of interactions combine to affect population sizes and community structure. These kinds of questions are important for being able to predict the effects of human impacts on natural systems.

He was the lead for the Future Waters Cluster, an interdisciplinary research cluster focused on examining the future states of water system design, management, policy, and governance. The interdisciplinary research undertaken by the cluster and its members intersected law, policy and governance, and the applied and biophysical sciences.