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This past week, our International Development class was honoured to have Mohammad Moniruzzaman give a lecture. Mohammad Moniruzzaman is a PhD student in a joint Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. He is currently looking at the social impact of remittances in Bangladesh. The lecture gave us an inside look into the impacts of remittances and migration in a few villages in Bangladesh.

Ecuador is a vibrant, bio-diverse country on the West Coast of South America. The country has plenty of oil- in fact, oil is all they have in exporters’ eyes. Since the 1980s, Ecuador has been suffering from what is known as the “Dutch disease”, or the negative impacts a country’s economy may face due to their total economic reliance on one primary good that can be easily affected by a change in demand, a substitution, or its availability. In Ecuador, this primary good is oil.

Conflict and Development -  Coastal Claims, and Resistance in India’s Mumbai Metropolitan Region

Written by: Brianne Litt, Devina Lookman, Kate McDonald, Lauren Preiditsch, Indra Sarju

In photo (Left to right): Kate McDonald, Brianne Litt, Indra Sarju, Devina Lookman. Not pictured: Lauren Preiditsch

Written by: Danielle Hak, Calyssa Burke, Zhimin Cui and Stacey Ibanda

In photo (Left to right) Zhimin Cui, Calyssa Burke, Stacey Ibanda, Micheala Hynie, Danielle Hak

The Politics of Water and Resource Governance: Case Study of Salmon in British Columbia

Photo from left to right: Sara Ford, Amy Warren, Elisabeth Bruins, Alexandra Clarke, Misha Goforth

Written by Sara Ford, Amy Warren, Elisabeth Bruins, Alexandra Clarke, Misha Goforth

Urban Development in the developing Global South

Written by: Raena Balsdon, Valeria Cabrera, Laurelle Naa Addy, Becca Deschamps, Angele Farn and James Xin

Written by: Jeremy Mesich, Bethlehem Zebib, Shantyle Andres, Jenna Wood & Allison Hopper

INDEV speaker series: How can artistic means of expression relate to the environment and governance?