Sunday June 2
2:30 -4:30 – Keynote: Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, Green Party of Canada,
Moderator: Leslie King
David Lam Auditorium, A144 McLaurin Building
Monday, June 3
8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast Reception – Social Sciences/Mathematics – Lower Lobby
9:30 – 10:30 Opening Keynote: Calvin Sandborn, Legal Director, Environmental Law Centre, University of Victoria
Social Sciences/Mathematics – A120
Moderator: Chris Ling
Preserving Democracy and Protecting the Planet: The Role of Science
10:30 – 12:00
Cornett – A221 Sustainable Development (3A)
Moderator: Geo Takach
Geo Takach:
Edges and Flows of Identity: Economy, Environment and the Tar Sands
Chad Walker:
“Winds of Change”: Explaining Support for Wind Energy Developments in Ontario, Canada
Matthew Stoutjesdyk:
Sustainable Aquaculture: the Social and Environmental Controversy of British Columbia’s Fish Farming Industry
MacLaurin – B037 Food and Agriculture (3B)
PANEL: Katherine Burnett, Kim Jackson, and Michaela McMahon
(re)Imagined Communities: Constructions/contestations/intersections in an age of global flows
MacLaurin – D116 Education Papers (3C)
Moderator: Charles Krusekopf
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen and Giulietta Di Mambro:
Enhancing multicultural environmental education: implications for practice
Rebecca Houwer:
Education in an ecotone: Sustaining” relational possibilities through community-engaged participatory praxis
Michel Leger:
School-Centred Family Eco-Networks”: A proposed pedagogical strategy for developing environmental action competence in the context of family
MacLaurin – D110 (3D)
WORKSHOP: Chaired by Ann Dale – Audrey Dallimore, Leslie King, Matt Dodd, Chris Ling , Mickie Nobel, Rick Kool
Notes from the Field: From Sea, to Land to Sky, to the Classroom
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00 – 5:00
Cornett – A221 – Sustainable Development (3E)
Moderator: Chris Ling
Christian Bouchard:
Climate change, sea level rise and sustainable development in the South-West Indian Ocean small islands states and territories
Gary Bowden:
On the Origin and Evolution of Socio-Ecological Systems
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Mike Dunn:
Emergence and Transitions of Sustainable Forest Management Institutions in Canada
Surono Karti:
Build Environmental Sustainability with Bruhbuh methods in Javanese Society
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PANEL: Chris Ling, Charles Krusekopf, Ingrid Kajzer Mitchell and Susan Kerr
Understanding the public uptake of a municipal incentive program for energy efficiency
MacLaurin – B037 Food and Agriculture (3F)
Moderator: Rick Kool
Ataharui Chowdhury:
How do Social Media Function for Enabling Sustainable Agricultural Innovations?
Jean Doyon:
A Permaculture Framework for (Food) Economies beyond Sustainability
Lorelei Hanson and Deborah Schrader:
The City of Edmonton’s Food and Agricultural Strategy: A “fresh” start or more of the same?
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Photography Exhibit
Rick Kool: Lexicon of Sustainability – Food and farming photography exhibit
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Kelly Bronson:
The Politics of Environmental Knowledge in Canadian Crop Biotechnology Disputes
Rick Kool:
Old Testament Prophets and Contemporary Environmental Scientist: Some Commonalities
MacLaurin – D116 Education (3G)
PANEL: M.J Barrett, Christie Thomson, Matt Harmin, and Molly Patterson
Encounters with the living world: Teaching and learning in a graduate school of environment and sustainability
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Moderator: Rebecca McNeil:
Canadian University Presidents on Sustainability: Definitions, Roles and Ways Forward
Joanne Moyer:
Environmental Worldviews in Faith-Based Organizations: Exploring the Nexus between Transformative Learning and Action
Christina Thomson:
Lifting the Veil: Teaching and Learning for Spiritual Relations with Nature
Bruce Downie and Karen Clyde:
Making environmental education meaningful: a case study from Saadani National Park, Tanzania
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PANEL: Moderator: Bernard Schissel
Mitacs Presentation
RRU Doctoral Students:
Holly Clermont: Decision-Making for At-Risk Ecosystems
Carla Funk: Recipients’ Perspective of Development Aid in Tanzania
Mike Lickers: Aboriginal Youth Leadership
Kent Williams: Neuroscience and Leadership: Neuroleadership
MacLaurin – D110 Social Engagement (3H)
Moderator: Annie Booth
Amelia Clarke and Elaine Ho:
Mapping Youth Engagement: Understanding Roles and Impacts of Youth Engagement in Canada Over the Last 50 Years
Erin Luther:
The limits of compassion in environmental communication
Kazi Abdur Rouf:
Green Microfinance Promoting Green Enterprise Development: Bangladesh and Canada Experience
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Anne Watelet:
From “Junk-tion” Creek to Junction Creek Stewardship Committee: Sudbury’s Cultural Construction of its Urban River in Northern Ontario
Chris Ferguson-Martin:
Raging Rivers: Social Acceptance of IPP Renewable Energy Projects in British Columbia
Karena Shaw, Lindsay Monk, and Claire Beckstead:
Planning Power: Could improved planning frameworks increase social acceptance of renewable energy development in BC?
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PANEL: Chaired by Lenore Newman – Ann Dale, Robert Newell, Dave Adams
Social Media: An exploration in Research Dissemination
Tuesday, June 4
8:30 – 10:00
MacLaurin – B037 PAPR (4A)
PANEL: Chairs: Leslie King, RRU and Grant Murray, VIU
PAPR 3. Protected Area Governance
Alex W. Kisingo, Phil Dearden, Rick Rollins and Grant Murray:
Community Evaluation of Protected Area Governance in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania
Andrew Kyei Agyare:
Polycentric Governance and Socio – Ecological Performance of Community Resource Management Areas in Ghana: Assessing structures, effectiveness and outcomes
Abiud L. Kaswamila, Agustino Mwakipesile & Elizabeth Mbwana:
Resident hunting ban in Serengeti district and its implications to people’s livelihood
Aleja Orozco-Quintero:
Environmental Governance in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve: Institutional Change and Adaptations and the Coupling of Ecological goals with Social Goals.
MacLaurin – D010 Community Involvement (4B)
Moderator: Ken Caine
Natasha Blanchet-Cohen:
Creating Green Active Healthy Neighbhourhoods: Community organizations capacity to be agents of change
Patricia Ballamingie, Stephanie Kittmer, Todd Barr, Blair Cullen:
Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement¬ – Inside the Community Environmental Sustainability hub
Haoze (Hugh) Chen:
Implementation of Collaborative Community Sustainability Plans: Relationship between Structural Features and Plan-Centric Outcomes
Shirley Thompson and Myrle Ballard:
Flooding Lake St. Martin First Nation Community: Impacts to and Future Community Plans for Sustainable Livelihoods
MacLaurin – D116 (4C)
PANEL: Harperian Ecologies: Bill C-38, the Defund, and the Demise of the NRTEE
Chair: Ryan Katz-Rosene, Carleton University
Dawn Hoogeveen:
Neoliberal Settler Colonialism: The political geography of Bill C-38 and Canada’s ‘Harperian’ environmental (de)regulation
Raili Lakanen:
Sustainable solutions or piecemeal programs Federal definitions of sustainable development and the dissolution of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
MacLaurin – D016 (4D)
PANEL: Justin Page and Robin Sydneysmith
Session 1. Edges and flows between science, politics and values in environmental impact assessment.
10:30 – 12:00
MacLaurin – B037 PAPR (4E)
PANEL: Chairs: Leslie King, RRU and Grant Murray, VIU
PAPR 3. Protected Area Governance
Lucie Edwards:
“We’re having what they’re having”: Can an Intergovernmental Science Panel alleviate the global crisis of biodiversity?
Leslie King and Grant Murray:
Protected Areas and Governance Innovation in Canada, Tanzania and Ghana
Windekind Buteau-Duitschaever:
Fit, Scale and Interplay: Addressing Institutional Challenges for Park Governance
MacLaurin – D010 Community Involvement (4F)
Moderator: Joanne M. Moyer
Brandon Laforest, Julie Hebert, Gregory W Thiemann, Alan Penn, and Martyn E Obbard:
Polar bear status in James Bay; Insights from Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Pat MacDonald:
Capturing Community Values in Marine Resource Management: New Tools for New Times
Shirley Thompson:
Community development and regional planning in First Nation communities in Island Lake
MacLaurin – D116 (4G)
PANEL: Harperian Ecologies Panel 2: Reinventing Canada’s Environmental Image
Chair: Dawn Hoogeveen, University of British Columbia
Simon Dalby:
Geopolitics, Ecology and Steven Harper’s Reinvention of Canada
Michael Byers:
Is there a Harper Doctrine?
Ryan Katz-Rosene:
The End of Ecology: Harper Conservatism and the Neoliberalization of Environmental Policy
MacLaurin – D016 (4H)
PANEL: Organized by: Annie Booth, Justin Page and Robin Sydneysmith
Panel: Annie Booth, Chief Roland Wilson, Bruce Muir
Session 2. First Nations Perspectives on Environmental Impact Assessment in British Columbia
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break
2:00 – 4:00
Bob Wright Centre A104
Benefits of Carbon Taxation
Moderator: Thomas F. Pedersen, Professor, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, University of Victoria
James Mack, Director, Climate Action Secretariat, Government of BC
Stewart Elgie, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Jonn Axsen, Professor, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
1:00 – 2:30
MacLaurin – D010 Community (4I)
Moderator:
Veronica Wahl
UNIBUG: Supporting Biodiversity in the Urban Garden
Maureen G. Reed, Hélène Godmaire, Paivi Abernethy, Marc-André Guertin:
Strengthening a community of practice for learning (and evaluation of best practices) in Canadian biosphere reserves
Steph Kittmer:
A poststructural political ecology of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
MacLaurin – B037 PAPR (4J )
PANEL: Chairs: Rosaline Canessa, UVic and Rick Rollins VIU
PAPR 1: Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas
Bruce K. Downie, Philip Dearden and Leslie King:
Environmental Sustainability in Household Livelihood Decision-making: A Preliminary Analysis
Baker Masuruli, Phil Dearden, Rick Rollins:
Costs and benefits of the nature-based tourism supply system to communities in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Tanzania
Nathan Bennett & Phil Dearden:
The Impacts of Marine Protected Areas on Communities: What Qualitative and Quantitative Perceptions-Based Studies (Do and Do Not) Tell Us About Marine National Park Initiatives in Thailand
Kwame Ampadu Sasu, K. Thomas Djang-Fordjour and Samuel Ankama Obour:
The Costs and Benefits ratios in the Bui National Park communities before and after the construction of the Bui Hydro Project in Ghana
Social Sciences/Mathematics – A120 (lower level) Global Issues (4K)
Moderator:
Garrett Richards:
Oblique Approaches to Climate Action through the Popular Norm of Evidence-Based Policy
Brennan Vogel:
Climate change adaptation and Canadian municipalities
MacLaurin – D016 (4L)
PANEL: Ann Dale, Kevin Hanna, Lucie Edwards, Penny Park
Science, Society and Policy
3:00 – 4:30
Cornett – A125 (4M)
PANEL: Ann Dale, Leslie King, Alison Shaw, Kevin Hanna, Chris Ling
The Potential of Local and National Climate Adaptation and Mitigation for Transforming Development Paths
MacLaurin – B037 PAPR (4N)
PANEL: Chairs: Rosaline Canessa, UVic and Rick Rollins VIU
PAPR 1: Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas
Pete Parker, Brijesh Thapa, & Aerin Jacob:
Decentralized conservation and poverty reduction in Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Nepal: An assessment of livelihood diversification
Lucy Aku Gyiele:
An assessment of ecotourism potential of Bui National Park
Rick Rollins, Rosaline Canessa, Adam Chafey, Terry Doward, Erin Heeney, Shannon West, Pete Parker:
Perceived impacts of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Nearby Communities
Ladislaus W. Kahana, Obeid Mahenya and Msowelo Lazaro:
Exploring effective methods of disseminating tourism information to local communities adjacent Saadani National Park, Tanzania.
Social Sciences/Mathematics – A120 (lower level) Global Issues (4O)
Moderator:
Manoj Misra:
The political ecology of globalization, peasant dispossession and ecological rift in Bangladesh
Emily McGriffin:
A participatory approach to ecosystem valuation in the Carood Watershed, Philippines
Archimedes Muzenda:
Perceptions on Legitimacy and Effectiveness of Global Environmental Initiatives in Zaka
Lewis Williams:
Deepening ecological relationality through critical onto-epistemological inquiry: Te Ao Maori (the Maori World) meets sustainable science and education
MacLaurin – D016 (4P)
WORKSHOP: Maureen Jack-La Croix
SLS: Student Leadership in Sustainability
Case study on break-through cross-curricular program bringing environmental sustainability education into mainstream high school courses.
4:30 – 5:00 AGM Biblio Café – McPherson Library
5:00 – 7:00 Wine, Cheese and Posters Biblio Café – McPherson Library
Posters:
Kelly R. Bancroft:
Lake Associations in Central and Northeastern Ontario: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability
Jaylene Bodner; Luis Alves; Katie Schneider; and Ryan Thibault:
Perceived Benefits and Sacrifices of the Wechiau Community Hippo Sanctuary 2012
Matt Bowes:
Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Long Beach Unit of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve: Understanding Visitor Behaviour
Dani Burrows, Grant Murray and Carleigh Randall:
Exploring the Potential for Tourism Related Payment for Ecosystem Services in Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks
Adam Chafey, Rick Rollins, Rosaline Canessa and Grant Murray:
Impacts of protected areas on adjacent communities: An examination of attitudes and perceptions towards Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Bruce K. Downie and Karen Clyde:
Working for Conservation and Community Development
Carla Funk:
Recipients’ Perceptions of Private Development Aid in Tanzania
Matthew D. Harmin:
Experiencing the Threshold Concepts of Epistemological Pluralism
Erin Heeney and Rick Rollins:
Port Renfrew Resident Perceptions: Living Next to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and Juan de Fuca Provincial Park
Brianne Labute, Ashley Coulter, Llanavis Davis, Cody Harman and Shannon West:
Perceived Benefits and Sacrifices of a Community Resource Management Area in Ghana
Chris Lemieux:
Healthy Outside-Healthy Inside: The Human Health and Well-being Benefits of Alberta’s Parks
Christopher Lemieux:
Natural resource manager perceptions of agency performance on climate change
Grant Murray & Leslie King:
First Nations Values in Protected Area Governance:
Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks and Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
Aleja Orozco-Quintero:
Environmental Change in Coastal Protected Areas: The Role of Knowledge, Institutions and Multi-level Governance in Adaptive Capacity
Carleigh Randall:
Governance for Landscape-Level Ecosystem-Based Management
Nicole Vaugeois:
Community Resilience and Protected Areas: The role of accessibility, proximity and destination status
Shannon West & Terry Dorward:
Living In & Around PRNPR: Esowista First Nations Benefits and Concerns
Wednesday, June 5
8:00- 9:30 Breakfast – MacLaurin – A100
9:30 – 10:30
MacLaurin – A169 Politics (5A)
Moderator: Chris Ling
Jannik Eikenaar:
Laughing Back: Disrupting the Natural Order in Salman Rushdie’s Fiction
Nick Garside:
Green Political Wanderers
MacLaurin – B037 PAPR (5B)
*Starts 9:00 AM
PANEL: Chair: Phil Dearden, UVic
PAPR 2: Wildlife and Human Interaction
Todd Windle, Dennis E. Jelinski, Christopher T. Darimont:
Improving Management of Human-Carnivore Conflict with Spatial Data: Preliminary Results of A Case Study Looking at 15 Years of Human-Carnivore Conflict Data on the West-Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada.
Matthew Bowes, Rick Rollins, Peter Keller, Robert Gifford:
Human-Wildlife Conflict, Visitor Beliefs and Personal and Descriptive Norms: An Elicitation Study Based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour
E. Makupa, Rosaline Canessa, and Leslie King:
Assessing Local Livelihood Benefits from Community Wildlife Management Area in Western Serengeti, Tanzania
Emmanuel Acquah, Phil Dearden and Rick Rollins:
The Impacts of Human-wildlife Interactions on Park Adjacent Communities in Northern Ghana
10:30 – 12:00
MacLaurin – A169 Politics (5C)
Moderator: Chris Ling
Sharon Moran:
Comparative Environmental Policy: Transcending the Traps
Ryan Bowie:
Expanding the Praxis of Rights: The Regional Land Use Planning Initiative of the Mushkegowuk Cree
MacLaurin – B037 PAPR (5D)
PANEL: Chair: Ken Hammer, VIU
PAPR 4. Knowledge Mobilization
Carleigh Randall:
Knowledge Mobilization In and Beyond a Protected Area and Poverty Reduction Research Network
Ken Hammer:
Intentionalizing knowledge mobilization in the research process
Rick Rollins, Grant Murray, Carleigh Randall:
University-Protected Area Agency Research Knowledge Mobilization: Insights from an exploratory case study of BC Parks
Rob Ferguson:
I am Here: Mapping the Self Within Knowledge Mobilization
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Cadboro Commons –Main Dining Room
(Congress BIG Thinker 12:15-1:00 McLaurin B125, Philip Young Audit)
2:00 – 4:00
MacLaurin – B125 – Phillip T. Young Theatre
Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction (PAPR) KEYNOTE PANEL:
Moderator: David O’Brien, Senior Program Specialist, Science and Innovation, IDRC, Ottawa
Prof. Abiud Kaswamila, Head of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Dodoma (UDOM) in central Tanzania
Dr. Tory Stevens, Protected Areas Ecologist, Parks and Protected Areas Program, Ministry of Environment, Victoria, B.C.
Andrew K. Agyare, Head of Collaborative Resource Management Unit, Wildlife Division, Forestry Commission, Ghana
Dr. Nancy Turner, Distinguished Professor and Hakai Professor in Ethnoecology, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria,
Nadine Crookes, Director, Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat, Parks Canada, Gatineau
3:00 – 5:00
MacLaurin – A169 (5E)
NON SCHEDULED SPACE
5:00 – 7:00 Reception Dinner Cadboro Commons – Village Greens
Contact Carla Funk regarding corrections and conflicts: esac.2013[at]gmail.com
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