[ensu] Fwd: Wed March 19 IES Environmental Studies seminar
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- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:12:43 -0500 (EST)
--- Mona El-Haddad <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
From: "Mona El-Haddad" <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Wed March 19 IES Environmental Studies
> seminar
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:00:57 -0500
>
> Institute for Environmental Studies
> ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
> *************************************
>
> WED MARCH 19 2003, 4:00 p.m.
> Room 2093 Earth Sciences Centre (Huron & Bancroft)
> (Dept. of Geology's section of the building)
>
> "GOVERNANCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY"
> (Joint with The Sustainable Toronto project;
> abstract below)
>
> DAVID BELL, Professor of Environmental Studies, York
> University and
> Director of the York Centre for Applied
> Sustainability
>
> For a map, updates, and abstracts, please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/env-spring.html
>
> No registration required; all are welcome.
> **************************************
>
> ABSTRACT:
> The challenge of sustainability is to learn to live
> differently on this
> planet to ensure the well-being of current and
> future generations. It
> requires responding to three imperatives: 1. the
> ecological imperative
> of living within the global biophysical carrying
> capacity and
> maintaining biodiversity; 2. the social imperative
> of developing healthy
> communities, peaceful societies, and democratic
> systems of governance
> that can support a commitment to social cohesion and
> social inclusion
> that will ensure that basic needs are met; and 3.
> the economic
> imperative of ensuring a vibrant economy that
> operates on sustainability
> principles (eco-efficiency, pollution prevention
> etc.) and provides for
> adequate local employment and sustainable
> livelihoods. To the extent
> that these are inter-related and interdependent
> imperatives, they will
> require integrated responses. This in turn
> necessitates new forms of
> governance and decision making. This presentation
> will explore the
> transformation in governance arrangements that will
> be necessary to
> respond to the challenge of sustainability in the
> twenty-first century.
> Whereas "government" refers to particular kinds
> of "public"
> institutions (the "state") vested with formal
> authority to take
> decisions on behalf of the entire community,
> "governance" refers more
> broadly to the myriad other organizations and
> institutions, in addition
> to government, which take decisions affecting
> others. Governance
> encompasses collective decisions made in the public
> sector, the private
> sector, and civil society. The term suggests the
> need for collaboration
> among these sectors to address the kinds of broad,
> horizontal challenges
> associated with sustainability. You are encouraged
> to browse the
> Website of the York Centre for Applied
> Sustainability prior to this
> session: www.yorku.ca/ycas
> This seminar is the last of three seminars
> offered in 2002/03
> jointly with and highlighting projects of
> Sustainable Toronto, directed
> by Beth Savan of Innis College, University of
> Toronto and David Bell of
> the Centre for Applied Sustainability, York
> University. Funded by
> SSHRC, it is a consortium between two academic
> units: the Environmental
> Studies Program of Innis College at the University
> of Toronto and the
> York Centre for Applied Sustainability at York
> University. It is also
> linked with the City of Toronto, CIELAP and the
> Toronto Environmental
> Alliance (TEA), as well as several other non-profit
> groups in a unique
> and innovative partnership to promote community
> sustainability. For
> more information, please see:
> http://www.sustainabletoronto.ca
>
> UPCOMING SEMINARS:
>
> WED MARCH 26 2003, 4:00 p.m.
> ANDY KENNEY, Assistant Professor, Faculty of
> Forestry, University of
> Toronto; Coordinator, Southern Ontario Woodlands
> Project, Federation of
> Ontario Naturalists.
> "The role of Toronto's urban forest in carbon
> sequestration and air
> pollution mitigation"
> Urban forests can provide many economic, social and
> environmental
> benefits to society. One often-quoted benefit is
> the urban forest's
> ability to sequester carbon and to mitigate poor air
> quality. The Urban
> Forest Effects (UFORE) model, developed by the USDA
> Forest Service,
> estimates the amount of carbon stored by the urban
> forest as well as the
> annual sequestration rates of carbon, SOx, NOx, O3,
> CO, and P M10. This
> presentation will outline the results of the
> application of the UFORE
> model to Toronto as well as an analysis of the
> structure of the urban
> forest that has implications for its ability to
> sustain these and other
> benefits.
>
> WED APRIL 2 2003, 4:00 p.m.
> JANE RIGBY, Associate VP, CO2e.com, Toronto (n.b.
> Jane Rigby replaces
> originally scheduled speaker Corinne Boone, Managing
> Director of
> CO2e.com)
> "The carbon market: what is it and how does it
> work?"
>
> For more information, please contact:
> Mona El-Haddad, 416-978-6526, m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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