[ensu] Oct 23 & Nov 6 IES Environmental Studies seminars
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> Institute for Environmental Studies
> Environmental Studies Seminar Series: Wednesdays at
> 4:00 p.m.
> Room 2093, Earth Sciences Centre (Huron & Bancroft)
> (north of College St., east of Spadina Ave.)
> For a map and updates, please see
> http://www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars/env-fall.html
>
> No registration required - all are welcome.
>
> WED OCTOBER 23 2002, 4:00 p.m. Special seminar,
> joint with the
> Sustainable Toronto project
> Anne Mitchell, Executive Director, Canadian
> Institute for Environmental
> Law and Policy (CIELAP)
> Lisa King, Sustainability Expert, Toronto and Region
> Conservation
> Authority (TRCA)
> Pamela Robinson, Lecturer, Urban & Environmental
> Studies, Innis College,
> University of Toronto
> Meg Shields, Corporate Management & Policy
> Consultant, City of Toronto
> Shifting organizational culture toward
> sustainability
> This interactive panel session will begin an
> introduction to the
> challenges of shifting organizational culture toward
> sustainability.
> Anne Mitchell of CIELAP and Lisa King of TRCA will
> share their
> organizations' experiences with the design and
> implementation of
> strategic approaches to integrating the principles
> of sustainability
> into action. The panelists will reflect upon the
> challenges faced and
> successes achieved when interpreting sustainability
> as a process rather
> than an outcome, developing meaningful public
> engagement opportunities
> and creating new processes for decision-making.
> These experiences raise
> important questions about the challenges of shifting
> organizational
> culture toward sustainability. In February 2002,
> the participants in
> this panel initiated an ongoing collaboration to
> share their experiences
> with new approaches to sustainability. Today's
> session is the second
> time this panel has convened around this topic; the
> first was at the
> conference of the Environmental Studies Association
> of Canada held
> earlier this year.
> This seminar is the first of three seminars
> offered jointly in
> 2002/03 with the Sustainable Toronto project. This
> project is directed
> by Beth Savan of Innis College. 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 on this
> project, please see its Web site:
> www.sustainabletoronto.ca
> <http://www.sustainabletoronto.ca>
> WED NOVEMBER 6 2002, 4:00 p.m.
> Bernard Fleet, Senior Advisor - Technology,
> Electrovaya Inc., a TSE
> listed company that provides portable power systems.
>
> The role of information technology & GIS in
> environmental management
> Having spent most of his academic and industrial
> career in the field of
> industrial pollution abatement and at one time or
> another having covered
> the waterfront from chemical pollution monitoring to
> hazardous site
> remediation, Dr. Fleet will focus on a theme that
> might have broad
> relevance to the environmental arena: the area of
> information technology
> and geographic information systems (GIS) and their
> importance in
> managing projects in the brown sector of the
> environment. Geographical
> information systems are tools for visualization and
> analysis of the
> spatially distributed data. They are in fact
> relational databases with
> space/time localization. The main analytical
> possibilities are in
> overlaying and correlating layers of these spatial
> databases such as
> pollutant species, concentrations and distribution
> on a geographic site
> map. Hence GIS can be used for project planning,
> monitoring and
> management. Examples of the application of GIS to
> environmental
> management planning, in the areas of risk
> assessment, environmental due
> diligence studies and contaminated site
> investigation (surveys,
> remediation strategies and property valuation) will
> be presented.
> Some emerging areas will also be discussed such as
> estimation of
> environmental damage costs and the generation of
> environmental impact
> assessment maps that can be used to forecast future
> impacts on the
> environment due to the development of industrial
> processes. Dr. Fleet
> has also spent the last 15 years of his career
> working in Asia and will
> address the critical issue facing the industrialised
> vs. developing
> world question of the barriers to governments and
> private firms to
> adopting sustainable policies in the absence of
> strict legislation.
>
>
> REMAINING FALL SEMINARS (abstracts forthcoming):
>
> WED NOVEMBER 20 2002, 4:00 p.m.
> Stanley Griffin, President and CEO, Insurance Bureau
> of Canada
> Natural disasters: what are insurers doing?
>
> WED NOVEMBER 27 2002, 4:00 p.m.
> Kimberly Strong, Associate Professor, Physics
> University of Toronto
> Stratospheric ozone loss in the Arctic as measured
> by ground-based
> remote sounding
>
>
>
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