Research
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Latest papers
Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3-beta (GSK3β) blocks nucleocapsid phosphorylation and SARS-CoV-2 replication.
Molecular biomedicine · 2022
Latest funding
- $1,000,000
Climate justice paths to an equitable and sustainable BC economy
SSHRC · 2008 · Co-investigator
- $78,000
Sustainability in an interconnected world: toward a theory of interregional sustainability
SSHRC · 2008 · Principal investigator
- $86,134
Getting serious about urban sustainability
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
1 publications.
Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3-beta (GSK3β) blocks nucleocapsid phosphorylation and SARS-CoV-2 replication.
Shapira T, Vimalanathan S, Rens C, Pichler V, Peña-Díaz S, Jordana G, Rees W, Winkler DFH, Sarai I, Steiner T, Jean F, Pelech S, Av-Gay Y
Climate justice paths to an equitable and sustainable BC economy
Keywords: climate change; inequality; urban planning; carbon pricing; environmental justice; mitigation; adaptation; labour market
Sustainability in an interconnected world: toward a theory of interregional sustainability
Principal investigators: Rees, William E.
Keywords: globalization; global change; ecological degradation; interregional; trans-national; sustainability; human enterprise; human ecosystem
Getting serious about urban sustainability
Principal investigators: Rees, William E.
Keywords: cities; urban regions; ecological footprints; urban ecosystems; sustainability; vulnerability; consumption; trade; globalization; interdependence; energy/material flows; global change; steady-state; carrying capacity; complexity ; regional planning
Controlling eco-violence: linking consumption and the loss of ecological integrity to population health, eco-justice and international law
Principal investigators: Rees, William E.
Keywords: global change; ecological integrity; ecological footprint; human ecology; eco-violence; environmental justice; human rights; environmental law; international institutions; environmental ethics; population health; epidemiology; sustainability
Reconciling ecological carrying capacity and human well-being: exploring alternative futures for the Georgia Basin
Principal investigators: Robinson, John
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Yossef Av-Gay and Theodore Steiner: 1 shared paper
- Yossef Av-Gay and William Rees: 1 shared paper
- Theodore Steiner and William Rees: 1 shared paper
- Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Other
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