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Contact: christopher.ragan [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

Food systems encompass the various production, distribution, and consumption activities that connect people to their food. Each of these food system components is under increasing pressure to meet changing food demands while reducing environmental trade-offs. A better understanding of how global food commodities trade and urbanization influence food systems sustainability is needed.

Keywords: agriculture, globalization, food systems

Contact: graham.macdonald [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

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Contact: nii.addy [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

Sustainable water resources requires research, planning and management integrated across sectors and through levels of governance. This complex problem requires not only physical modelling and technical expertise but also social and cultural understanding to develop and implement appropriate institutions and regulation.

Keywords: sustainable water resources, physical modelling, technical expertise, governance, hydrosocial cycle

Contact: susan.gaskin [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

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Contact: vetta [at] math.mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

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Contact: parisa.ariya [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

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Contact: nate.quitoriano [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

Friscic is developing a general solvent-free system of chemical/materials synthesis that can access products cleanly, rapidly, without solvent and with minimal energy use. Targets include microporous solids, nanomaterials and pharmaceuticals, diverse chemistries (inorganic, organic, organometallic, supramolecular), and mechanistic studies. He co-founded spin-offs in sustainable synthesis and Green Chemistry instrumentation.

Keywords: functional materials, Green Chemistry, mechanochemistry, solvent-free synthesis, energy-efficient chemistry

Contact: tomislav.friscic [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

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Contact: sylvain.coulombe [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

Hydrogen has been considered as the most promising fuel vector. The only environmentally friendly and sustainable way of producing hydrogen is by water electrolysis, using surplus of renewable-energy-systems-produced energy. In order to make the technology more cost-competitive to current fossil-fuel based technologies, cheaper and more efficient electrolysers are needed.

Keywords: hydrogen economy, sustainable energy production, green technologies

Contact: sasha.omanovic [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

City planners have long struggled with how to create urban landscapes which maximize human well-being and minimize environmental impact. Based on recent research focusing on the environmental, health, and social impacts of urbanization, my contention is that a sustainable city is green, connected, and equal.

Keywords: Urbanization, Well-being, Transport, Inequality, Health

Contact: kevin.manaugh [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)

We often assume that law’s main function is regulatory – to guide behaviour and achieve outcomes. However, law does not operate in such a linear causal way. This leads us to question further common assumptions about effective law for the promotion of sustainability, namely, that legal rules should be clear, precise, and readily enforceable; and that legal regimes should be designed to conform to the complexities and dynamism of both ecosystems and scientific knowledge about them. Law is certainly useful in pursuing sustainability aims, but to conceive of law as nothing more than an instrument for these aims would be as unfortunate as to think of science as essentially an instrument for the realisation of goals such as economic development. Law, understood as a complex social institution, could benefit from inputs from science in order to reconceptualise rights such as property to emphasise their relational aspects, and to further develop understandings of the responsibilities that accompany such rights.

Keywords: Law, regulation, property, governance, biodiversity

Contact: jaye.ellis [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Contact%20Via%20SSTI%20Lightning%20Talks%20Page)