Air Pollution

Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Economics

Nicholas Rivers is the Canada Research Chair in Climate and Energy Policy. His research focuses on the economic evaluation of environmental policies, using econometric and computational methods. He has received awards for his research from the Trudeau Foundation, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, and the National Science and Engineering Research Council. He currently serves as a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He earned his Master's and doctorate degrees in Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and also holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Manitoba

American economist of the Austrian School, economic historian, political theorist, and activist. Central figure in the American libertarian movement and a founder of anarcho-capitalism. Author of over twenty books on political theory, history, and economics.

DIY air purifiers / coconut-based economic models

Jose G. Vallarino is an agronomist engineer. He holds a PhD in sciences and agronomical sciences from the University of Málaga, Spain and University of Talca, Chile. He started his research career in Chile studying the problematic of volatile compounds related to detrimental flavours in grapevines and red wines. During this time, he was also granted to perform two international research stays (NYSAES, Cornell University, USA and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology (MPI-MP, Germany) where he starts applying metabolomics on his research. Currently, on his second postdoctoral studies at MPI-MP (under supervision of Prof. Dr Alisdair Fernie), he is using a wide range of “System biology” approaches, including high throughput- GC/MS and LC/MS/MS-based metabolomics techniques, use of bioinformatics tools and mathematical models in order to develop, testing and applying novel-constraint models that predicts the capacity of the metabolic networks of different plant tissues. He has also been implemented a metabolic engineering strategy of unprecedented scale in plants in an attempt to remove flux bottleneck from across the metabolic network.