The Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail, Canada: Integrating natural and built environments

Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St.Michael's College, University of Toronto, Canada. She is also a full member of the graduate Institute for Environmental Studies and teaches interdisciplinary courses in Environmental Decision Making and Environmental Philosophy. Research interests address how taken for granted values and perceptions affect decision making and policy development. Previously, she worked in Leman Group Inc., together with her father, Alexander B. Leman. She has co-edited a book on the Great Lakes Megalopolis. Her most recent book is entitled Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY Press, 2000). She is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper that the author intended to present at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001, in which she was finally unable to participate.

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Envisioning the natural city: The guest-editor's foreword

Ekistics and the new habitat - India and Jugaad: The Impact of Innovation by the Resilient Indian Mind on Habitat ◽

10.53910/26531313-e200471424-426213 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 71 (424-426) ◽

pp. 8-9

Author(s):

Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

Keyword(s):

Environmental Ethics ◽

Policy Development ◽

World Society ◽

Recent Book ◽

Teaching And Research ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Environmental Decision Making ◽

The World ◽

The University ◽

Common Future

The author is Guest Editor for the present volume of Ekistics (vol. 71,nos. 424-426 and 427-429, 2004) on The Natural City. Dr Stefanovic agreed to serve as the Director for the new Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, commencing July I, 2005, for a five-year term. She is the former Director of the Division of the Environment, one of the three units now integrated into the new Centre, and former Associate Chair for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr Stefanovic is a Professor of Philosophy, whose teaching and research focus on values and perceptions of environmental decision making. She has a 30-year teaching and research career in interdisciplinary fields, ranging from environmental ethics to urban planning and environmental policy development. Her most recent book is entitled Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY, 2000). Dr Stefanovic, one of the earliest members of the World Society for Ekistics, having served on various occasions as member of the Executive Council and officer of the Society, was the organizer and acted as Chair of the international symposion on"The Natural City," 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society for Ekistics.

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Envisioning the natural city: The guest-editor's foreword

Ekistics and the new habitat - India and Jugaad: The Impact of Innovation by the Resilient Indian Mind on Habitat ◽

10.53910/26531313-e200471427-429180 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 71 (427-429) ◽

pp. 168-169

Author(s):

Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

Keyword(s):

Environmental Ethics ◽

Policy Development ◽

World Society ◽

Recent Book ◽

Teaching And Research ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Environmental Decision Making ◽

The World ◽

The University ◽

Common Future

The author is Guest Editor for the present volume of Ekistics (vol. 71, nos. 424-426 and 427-429, 2004) on The Natural City. Dr Stefanovic agreed to serve as the Director for the new Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, commencing July I, 2005, for a five-year term.She is the former Director of the Division of the Environment, one of the three units now integrated into the new Centre, and former Associate Chair for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr Stefanovic is a Professor of Philosophy, whose teaching and research focus on values and perceptions of environmental decision making. She has a 30-year teaching and research career in interdisciplinary fields, ranging from environmental ethics to urban planning and environmental policy development. Her most recent book is entitled Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY, 2000). Dr Stefanovic, one of the eartiest members of the World Society for Ekistics, having served on various occasions as member of the Executive Council and officer of the Society, was theorganizer and acted as Chair of the international symposion on The Natural City," 23-25 June, 2004, sponsored by the University of Toronto's Division of the Environment, Institute for Environmental Studies, and the World Society of Ekistics.

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Mitigating natural disasters: The role of eco-ethics

Ekistics and the new habitat - India and Jugaad: The Impact of Innovation by the Resilient Indian Mind on Habitat ◽

10.53910/26531313-e200471427-429182 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 71 (427-429) ◽

pp. 170-180

Author(s):

David Etkin ◽

Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

Keyword(s):

Natural Hazards ◽

Environmental Philosophy ◽

Recent Book ◽

Teaching And Research ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Environmental Decision Making ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Disaster Studies ◽

International Projects ◽

The University

David Etkin currently serves as Coordinator of the Program on Emergency Management at York University, Toronto, Canada. He worked for Environment Canada from 1977 to 2005, collaborating on teaching and research projects over the last ten years with members of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Toronto. His area of expertise is natural hazards and disasters. He has 55 publications to his credit, 23 of which are in peer-reviewed journals. He has participated in several international projects dealing with disaster studies, and was Principal Investigator on the Canadian Natural Hazards Project. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is Director, Centre for Environment, at the University of Toronto and a former member of the Executive Council of the World Society for Ekistics. Her area of teaching and research is environmental philosophy, with a special interest in how values and perceptions affect environmental decision making. Her most recent book is entitled Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development (SUNY, 2000). Contact Professor Stefanovic at Centre for Environment, University of Toronto, 33 Willcocks Street, Toronto, Ontario.M5S 3E8 or email [email protected]. The text that followsis a slightly edited version of a paper published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, vol. 10, pp. 467-490 (Springer, 2005).

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The Summarized Study of Heavy Metal Pollution in the City Soil

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.587-589.842 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 587-589 ◽

pp. 842-848

Author(s):

Ting Lu ◽

Chang Chun Xu ◽

Guang Wei Pan ◽

Yan Qin ◽

Hong Tang

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Decision Making ◽

Heavy Metal ◽

Metal Pollution ◽

Heavy Metal Pollution ◽

Biological Effects ◽

Chemical Forms ◽

Related Research ◽

Environmental Decision Making ◽

The City

Summarized the advance of research on biological effects of heavy metal pollution sources, city content in the soil, chemical forms of distribution, accumulation and pollution restoration in recent years, in order to provide reference for the related research, environmental decision-making and environmental management.

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The Asia-Pacific region and the new world order

Ekistics and the new habitat - India and Jugaad: The Impact of Innovation by the Resilient Indian Mind on Habitat ◽

10.53910/26531313-e200370422/423259 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 70 (422/423) ◽

pp. 321-326

Author(s):

Dennis Rumley

Keyword(s):

Western Australia ◽

English Language ◽

Water Security ◽

World Order ◽

Japanese Journal ◽

Associate Professor ◽

Asia Pacific ◽

Recent Book ◽

Full Member ◽

The University

The author is Associate Professor, School of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia. He gained a Geography Honours degree and MA in Applied Geography at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and a Ph. D at the University of British Columbia. He has taught at the University of Western Australia since then, apart from 1991-1993 when he was Professor of Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo attached to the Department of International Relations at Komaba. He has published widely in various areas of political geography, including electoral geography, local government, federalism and more recently geopolitics. His most recent book, is The Geopolitics of Australia's Regional Relations (Dordrecht, Kluwer, 1999, reprinted 2001). His current research projects are in the areas of water security, Australia's "arc of instability," regionalism and Australia-Asia relations. He is a full member of the IGU Commission on the World Political Map and English-language editor of Chiri, the Japanese journal of human geography. He will be Visiting Professor at the University of Kyoto during 2003.

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Increased Indigenous Participation in Environmental Decision-Making: A Policy Analysis for the Improvement of Indigenous Health

International Indigenous Policy Journal ◽

10.18584/iipj.2016.7.4.5 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kerry Black ◽

Edward McBean

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Physical Environment ◽

Policy Development ◽

Indigenous Health ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Social Determinant ◽

Community Based ◽

Environmental Decision Making ◽

Indigenous Participation ◽

Environmental Decision

Improving the physical environment and Indigenous participation in environmental decision-making is inherently related to the improvement of health among Indigenous Peoples. Improving the state of the physical environment necessitates increased involvement by Indigenous communities in decision-making and policy development. This involvement must integrate local traditional knowledge (TK) as an important tool in the decolonization of environmental decision-making, and a necessary step towards the improvement of Indigenous health. With a focus on the physical environment as a social determinant of Indigenous health, this article highlights the need for increased Indigenous participation in the decision-making process on environmental issues and proposes a framework to accomplish this outcome. Indigenous-centred policy frameworks should include the following five key principles: (a) the recognition of Indigenous knowledge, (b) the recognition of the inherent right to self-determination, (c) the use of an inclusive and integrative knowledge system, (d) the use of community-based participatory approaches, and (e) the use of circular and holistic viewpoints.

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Notes on Contributors

Philosophy ◽

10.1017/s0031819100000425 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 75 (3) ◽

pp. 329-329

Keyword(s):

Associate Professor ◽

Recent Book ◽

Columbia University ◽

Cambridge University ◽

Philip Kitcher ◽

University Of New Mexico ◽

University Of Toronto ◽

Oxford University ◽

Christ Church ◽

The University

Notes on ContributorsGilbert Ryle (1900–76)Taught at Christ Church, Oxford from 1924–45 and was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics at Oxford University from 1945–68. His Concept of Mind (1949) is one of the classics of twentieth century philosophy.Jennifer NagelTeaches philosophy at the University of New Mexico and the University of Toronto.Philip KitcherProfessor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He has written books and articles on a variety of topics in the philosophy of science.Achille VarziAssociate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. His most recent works are An Essay in Universal Semantics and Parts and Places (with Roberto Casati).Neil CooperEmeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Dundee. He is author of The Diversity of Moral Thinking. His contributions to Philosophy include ‘Two Concepts of Morality’ (January 1996) and ‘The Art of Philosophy’ (April 1991).Stephen R. L. ClarkProfessor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool. His most recent book is Biology and Christian Ethics (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press).D. GoldstickProfessor of Philosophy, University of Toronto. His earlier contributions to Philosophy include ‘The Welfare of the Dead’ (January 1988).Colin RadfordFormerly Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Kent. Now Emeritus (since 1996).Phil DoweLecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tasmania. He works on causation, time and chance. He has published a book on causation, Physical Causation (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and is currently working on a book on time travel called ‘Backwards Causation’.

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