Environmental Studies Association of Canada

Dalhousie University
Assistant Professor (Limited Term), College of Sustainability
July 1, 2013

Applications are invited for a full-time, limited term (12 months) faculty position at the Assistant
Professor level in the College of Sustainability. The College of Sustainability is internationally
recognized for its innovative approach to interdisciplinary undergraduate education. The College
offers a (double) Major in Environment, Sustainability and Society in seven Bachelors? degrees
across five Dalhousie Faculties, in conjunction with over forty other subject areas; in the four
years of operation, the ESS Major has engaged more than 1500 Dalhousie students, with 100
graduates to date and 500 students pursuing the major. The College recently launched its
Sustainability Leadership Certificate, and is developing a Graduate Certificate in ESS. Over 40
Dalhousie professors are presently cross-appointed to the College, which provides an
interdisciplinary forum for collaborative learning and teaching on the most pressing issues of our
time. For more information see http://sustainability.dal.ca

This position combines administrative, teaching and research responsibilities. Applicants should
be prepared to demonstrate accomplishment or potential in all three areas. The College of
Sustainability seeks candidates with a strong interest and capacity for interdisciplinary teaching
and who have a Ph.D. or equivalent professional experience. Educational experience may be in
any sustainability-related discipline; the candidate is expected to demonstrate an understanding
of how their personal background interacts with other disciplines and traditions in the pursuit of a
sustainable future.

Teaching will be at the undergraduate level and evidence of previous teaching effectiveness
should be provided. Primary teaching responsibilities will include: coordinating and co-teaching
the core class SUST 2001 “Environment, Sustainability and Governance: A Global Perspective”
(Winter term, 1.0 credit, 100-120 students); co-teaching in other SUST classes totaling 1.5
credits; and honours and/ or project supervision. Research duties will include leading and
participating in College-led scholarly projects related to learning and teaching, and some selfinitiated
research time. Administrative duties will include routine College duties and leadership of
special projects in the College. The position is conceived as a developmental position;
applications are encouraged from recent PhDs and Post-doctoral scholars.
Effective date of employment is planned for 1 July 2013, or as soon as possible thereafter. All
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will
be given priority. Dalhousie University is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer.
The University encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a
disability, racially visible persons and women.

Interested individuals should send a submit a CV, a statement of teaching and research interests, and three confidential letters of reference forwarded under separate cover from the referees to the attention of the Chair of the Search Committee: Dr. Susan Tirone, Associate Director, College of Sustainability, Dalhousie University,
P.O. Box 15000, Halifax NS B3H 4R2. Submissions should be made in PDF format by email to
sustain[at]dal.ca. The Search Committee will begin reviewing applications on 01 June 2013.

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Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne, published at the University of New Brunswick since 1975, invites submissions to a special issue focusing on nature, ecology, and ecocritical approaches to anglophone or francophone Canadian literature, to be edited by Pamela Banting, Cynthia Sugars, and Herb Wyile.
One of the most distinctive developments in late twentieth-century literary criticism has been the impact of ecocriticism, and in Canada, as elsewhere, the country’s writers have exhibited a growing preoccupation with ecological issues, with the relationship between humans and the natural world, and with human impact on the environment. This current trend, however, has a long genealogy; unsurprisingly, in a country with such a huge land mass and a relatively sparse population, a concern with nature runs through the history of the literature of the country. While the editors are particularly interested in ecocritical approaches to Canadian literature, more broadly we welcome original submissions on Canadian writing concerning nature, the environment, and ecology, with no limitations as to region, time period, or type of writing. Interdisciplinary approaches are also welcomed.
Possible topics include:
• Ecocriticism and its particular implications for Canadian literature
• The nature/culture divide
• Literary representations of animals and/or natural spaces
• Rural and urban environments
• Borderlands and liminality
• Globalization, neoliberalism, and ecology
• Biodiversity and cultural diversity
• Nature, colonialism, and decolonization
• The exploitation and/or despoliation of the natural world
• The local, the bioregion, and sense of place
• Intersections between textuality and ecology
• Indigenous knowledges and becoming ‘native’ to a place
• Hunting, gathering, gardening, agriculture, and food
• Children and nature
• Environmental ethics, activism, and experimental pedagogies
Submissions should be 6,000-8,000 words, including Notes and Works Cited. English submissions should conform to the MLA Handbook, 7th edition; French submissions should conform to Le guide du rédacteur(du Bureau de la traduction, 2 éd., Ottawa, 1996).
Please submit essays electronically via Word attachment to scl[at]unb.ca. Deadline for submissions is 15 August 2013, with publication scheduled for 2014. For more information, visit the journal’s website at http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/ or contact Herb Wyile at Herb.Wyile[at]acadiau.ca or Pamela Banting at pbanting[at]ucalgary.ca

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Date: 19–21 June 2014
Location: The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
Conveners: John Meyer (RCC/Humboldt State University) and Jens Kersten (RCC/LMU Munich)
While environmental challenges including climate change threaten the very fabric of our lives, such that the present course of our societies appears literally unsustainable, ambitious efforts to address these rarely seem to resonate with the everyday concerns and ideas most pressing to citizens in post-industrial societies.

This workshop will focus upon the normative implications of everyday material practices for environmental action. In particular, the workshop will focus upon land, transportation, and household practices. In each of these areas, human experience is inextricably interwoven with technology, the built environment, and the non-human world. The aim is to approach the political challenges of environmental sustainability by examining these everyday practices and the concerns they foster directly, rather than a more abstract environmental discourse that suggests the need to overcome these concerns.

Attention to this materialist basis of environmental concern has long been central in poorer and less industrialized societies, as well as some movements for environmental and climate justice. Yet it has been far less prominent in analyses of environmental concern in Europe, North America, and Oceania. Moreover, attention to practices has often been overshadowed by both individual and structural approaches. This workshop aims to generate new insights into the possibilities for environmental action and change by exploring these everyday material practices, reflecting the social, economic, and ecological ambivalences of greening everyday life.
Analysing everyday practices invites vital questions about:

• concepts of property and ownership;
• the relevance and meaning of citizenship;
• the character and scope of public and private spheres;
• the role of new movements;
• diverse notions of governance;
• popular understandings of freedom; and
• understandings of what counts as “the environment” and “environmentalism” in postindustrial societies.

We anticipate that such questions will be the focal point of papers and workshop discussion.
Proposals are invited from scholars in the environmental humanities and interpretive social sciences. Papers should centrally address one or more of the three areas (land, transport, or household practices), in order to reimagine or illuminate some aspect of the conceptual framework necessary to

Invited participants will be required to submit their completed paper (approximately 6000 words),
in English, by 23 May 2014. These will be circulated to all participants in advance of the workshop.
The Rachel Carson Center will cover the travel cost and accommodation expenses for invited participants.
It is expected that papers will then be revised with the goal of publishing an edited book.
To answer this call for proposals, send a CV and a proposal of 300–400 words, including
a title, to the conference conveners by 15 July 2013. For further questions, please contact either of the event conveners:
Jens Kersten (jens.kersten[at]jura.uni-muenchen.de), and John Meyer ( john.meyer[at]humboldt.edu)

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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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Announcement for the 2014 Eric Wolf Prize
The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the 2014 Eric Wolf Prize for the best article-length paper. We seek papers based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to Political Ecology. To be eligible for the competition, scholars must be ABD or have received their Ph.D. within the three years prior to publication of this announcement. A cash prize of $500 accompanies the award, which will be presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. The paper will be published in the Journal of Political Ecology; the prize reviewers may suggest revisions before the item is published.
The preferred format for papers is electronic. (But, please contact us, if you need to send in some other format.) Please use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of Political Ecology webpage: http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/. Electronic copies should be sent to Dr. Betsy Taylor (betsyt[at]vt.edu). The deadline for submission is September 1 2013.

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Call for Participants
“Northern Nations, Northern Natures”
November 8-11, 2013
KTH Royal Institute for Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

We invite applications from graduate students attending Canadian universities to participate in the workshop “Northern Nations, Northern Natures,” which will be held at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden between November 8-11, 2013. The primary goal of the workshop is to explore transnational and comparative approaches to northern environmental history, including the history of boreal, subarctic, arctic, and polar regions. By bringing together graduate and early-career scholars from Canada and Scandinavia, we aim to encourage the building of trans-Atlantic relationships which may lead to future exchanges or collaborations.

Graduate participants will present short individual papers, which will be complemented by presentations from senior scholars from Canada and Scandinavia and opportunities for formal and informal discussion and networking. They will also have the opportunity to write a short blog post prior to the workshop on a subject relevant to their research which links historical and contemporary events in the North. Outcomes of the workshop will include a special edition of a peer-reviewed journal. We encourage applications from students currently working on topics that pertain to the environmental history (broadly construed) or historical geography of the Canadian North in any time period.

Thanks to funding from the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE), four stipends of C$500 each are available to successful applicants to defray the cost of travel. Accommodation and other expenses in Stockholm will be covered by the organizers. To apply, please send a write-up of no more than 500 words outlining how your current research relates to the workshop theme and how you would benefit from participation to Peder Roberts (pwrobert[at]kth.se), Tina Adcock (tina.adcock[at]rutgers.edu), and Sverker Sörlin (sorlin[at]kth.se). Please include the name and contact information of one academic reference, along with a one-page CV. Applications must be received by June 7, and successful applicants will be notified by June 21.

For more information, please see the event website (http://niche-canada.org/node/10654) or contact tina.adcock[at]rutgers.edu.

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Register for the educator workshop, Building Nature and Food Connections at FoodShare. Participants will be enjoying the following activities with Carolynne, FoodShare’s educator extraordinaire!

• Soil Exploration with composting and worms 
• Garden Investigation with illustration, mapping and nature sounds
• “Eat Your Weeds” with traditional knowledge and identification of edible & medicinal weeds 
• Harvest Creations with tea and alcohol-free tinctures!

Details:

Friday, May 31 from 10-3pm at FoodShare’s 90 Croatia St, Toronto location (Dufferin and Bloor W)

 

Cost:

$125, price includes a delicious FoodShare lunch

 

To Register:

Simply email me back at brooke[at]foodshare.net – but hurry, spaces are
limited!

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The Anthropology & Environment Society is currently seeking 1-2 editors to curate our Engagement blog. The blog was launched on the revamped AES website in July 2012 as part of the society’s effort to reach broader publics. Edited by Rebecca Garvoille (rgarv001[at]fiu.edu) and Noah Theriault (theriault[at]wisc.edu), Engagement features first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists whose work engages social/environmental problems — Tom Sheridan’s work on ranchers & conservation in Arizona, Edwin Schmitt’s work on eco-toilets in China, Peggy Barlett’s work on campus sustainability projects, Brandon Nida’s activism on Blair Mountain, and many others. Engagement posts are also featured on the AES Facebook, and the blog has received tens of thousands of hits.

The new editor(s) will ideally be available to work with the outgoing editors over the summer. Experience with editing for broad audiences and/or blogging in WordPress is a plus. Those interested should send a brief CV and letter of interest to Glenn Stone (stone[at]wustl.edu) by 1 June 2013. In the letter, please indicate availability and highlight any relevant skills or experiences. Questions about editorial responsibilities can be directed to current Engagement editors. Rebecca and Noah describe their work as follows:

Basic editorial responsibilities include recruiting blog contributions, editing them in concert with the author, and then preparing them for publication in WordPress. Interviews for the book series were conducted mostly over email, but occasionally required transcription of interviews conducted via Skype. Broader editorial duties include ensuring a consistent thematic and stylistic orientation for the blog as a whole, as well as developing new features like the book interview series. Because there are two of us, the time commitment has been very manageable. For both of us, editing the blog has been a wonderful professional development opportunity. Not only have we gotten to meet and work with a wide variety of scholars who do very compelling work, we have also honed our own editorial skills. It has been especially rewarding to work on a forum that strives to engage a broad audience. We look forward to working closely with our successors to ensure a smooth transition.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Rising Voices of Indigenous People in Weather and Climate Science Workshop
The challenges of understanding and responding to a changing climate and extreme weather necessitate broad engagement with diverse communities. As climate science has matured, it has moved toward a more inclusive dialogue where scientists and policy makers work together with seasoned indigenous communities to define and carry out research programs that advance science and address community priorities. The National Center for Atmospheric Research is hosting a workshop on the growing engagement of Native American, Alaska Native, and Pacific Island communities in climate and weather science, research, policy, and community response conversations. The workshop will address the question: What are the elements of successful co-production of science and policy in the fields of extreme weather and climate change? The workshop will be conducted in collaboration with the Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Working Group (formerly the American Indian/Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group). Participants will be actively involved in cross-cultural scientific engagement with Native American, Alaska Native, and Pacific Island communities and will be from academic institutions, including tribal colleges and universities, as well as government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Travel support is available for a limited number of participants.
WORKSHOP VENUE: National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Foothills Laboratory, 3450 Mitchel Lane, Boulder, CO 80307

WORKSHOP DATES: July 1-2, 2013

APPLICATION PROCESS: Applications are due May 10, 2013. If you are interested in participating in the Rising Voices workshop, please send the following information to Kris Marwitz (Email: kmarwitz[at]ucar.edu or Phone: 303-497-8198):

• Name, affiliation, email address, mailing address, phone number
• A paragraph explaining how you have been and are involved in work related to weather or climate issues that engages indigenous communities within the United States.
• If you require financial support to attend the workshop, please include whether you need full or partial support (i.e., if you would be able to pay airfare but not hotel accommodations).

WORKSHOP GOALS:
Identify lessons learned for, or barriers to, achieving successful co-production of science and policy by appraising the first-hand experiences of those involved in cross-cultural efforts to integrate indigenous knowledge and diverse understandings in climate and weather modeling and assessments;
Foster and support collaborations between experts on cross-cultural engagement and NCAR scientists; and
Promote student opportunities to work with NCAR scientists.

For further information, please contact Heather Lazrus (hlazrus[at]ucar.edu) or Bob Gough (gough.bob[at]gmail.com)

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LEED GREEN ASSOCIATE (GA) Training – June 8, 2013 – $200

When: June 8, 2013 – 11:00 AM to 5:00PM

Where: University of Toronto (Galbraith Building – Room 405)

Interested in getting involved in the Green Building Industry? Opportunities are plentiful in the field of sustainable design and LEED® is at its forefront. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is simply a green-rating point system, or a scorecard to certify sustainably designed and constructed buildings.

LeadingGREEN offers the most affordable live LEED Green Associate Training in the world, while still maintaining a 100% pass rate and helping hundreds of students pass their exams. The LEED Green Associate (GA) credential is a great way to enter any green industry and show employers that you are environmentally conscious and knowledgeable.

Cost: $250 ($200 for full time students, request student coupon code)

If you would like to register for the class please sign up at:  www.leadinggreen.ca/products-page   – or -
E-mail us your statement of intent (including contact info) to enroll at info[at]leadingGREEN.ca, including full name, phone number, address and student status.

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