Welcome to join the Opening Talk for UBC China Study Forum, China& and CESS!
Time: 3 pm – 4.30pm, September 12th, 2018 (Wednesday)
Location: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall, Vancouver)
Speaker: Dr. Jack Hayes
(Associate Professor of Chinese History and Environmental History in Asian Studies and History Faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, CCR Associate.)
Abstract:
This presentation analyzes aspects of fire fighting and fire management in Chinese and Canadian forest ecosystems. In examining both natural systems (shrubs and trees that burn and how they are changing) and human systems (causes of fires, technologies and policies to mitigate them in changing environments), we examine how the understanding and “science” of fire is changing as summer warming trends and fire incidences go up in severity and costs, as well as how changing plant ecosystems are adding fuel to the fire(s). This will include examples both historical (fire fighting brigades, plant ecosystems) and contemporary (policy & technologies) in China and Canada’s boreal and temperate forest ecoregions.
About the Speaker:
Jack Hayes joined the Asian Studies and History faculty at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in 2013 and is a research associate with the Center for Chinese Research at UBC’s Institute of Asian Research. Dr. Hayes’ research focus is on late imperial and modern Chinese and Tibetan environmental history, resource development and ethnic relations in western China, and environmental policy development in East Asia. Dr. Hayes also serves on the editorial board and as the Assistant Editor (Reviews, Asia) for the journal Environmental History and Associate Editor (China) for Pacific Affairs. He has published a number of articles on Chinese environmental history, most recently on fire ecosystems and legal history, and wetlands and warfare in Chinese history. His book A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (Lanham, MA: Lexington, 2013) is a social and environmental history of Sino-Tibetan north Sichuan. His current research project is seeks to analyze the historical policies, science, and boots-on-the-ground development of China’s wildfire and rural/peri-urban fire fighting. In addition to his academic activities, Dr. Hayes has served as a consultant on number of environment and history projects in China and the United States.
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*This event is brought to you by UBC Centre for Chinese Research and UBC Institute of Asian Research.
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