Environmental Studies Association of Canada

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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June 3, 2013
9:30-10:30am
Sciences/Mathematics Building, Room A120

This year ESAC Opening Keynote “Preserving Democracy and Protecting the Planet: The Role of Science” will be delivered by Calvin Sandborn of the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre. Calvin Sandborn has practiced environmental law in British Columbia for over thirty years, and is Legal Director of the University of Victoria Environmental Law Clinic. Sandborn has been counsel on numerous leading environmental cases, and has published widely on environmental law issues, having written Preventing Toxic Pollution: Towards a British Columbia Strategy;Green Space and Growth: Conserving Natural Areas in BC Communities; A Citizen’s Guide to the Environmental Appeal Board; A Citizen’s Guide to FOI; Re-inventing Rainwater Management; Law Reform for Sustainable Development in BC, and Maintaining SuperNatural BC for Our Children: A Law Reform Agenda. He has published numerous influential newspaper articles calling for environmental reform.

He drafted the first endangered species bill ever presented to federal Parliament, in 1990. Among other things, he has successfully advocated for law reform, including B.C.’s first farm worker health and safety regulations, workers compensation coverage for farm workers, BC Hydro’s Power Smart program, Vancouver’s Integrated Pest Management policy, British Columbia’s progressive climate change legislation, the provincial requirement that producers of paints, solvents and pesticides dispose of the used containers, the provincial government’s shift to a comprehensive pollution prevention policy, laws to facilitate the operations of land trusts, and the banning of falcon harvesting.

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ESAC Conference Highlights:

Come early for the ESAC Pre-Conference Event June 2: ELIZABETH MAY, Leader of the Green Party and MP for Sannich-Gulf Islands.

June 3: Breakfast Reception and Keynote speaker: To Be Announced

June 4: Public Event in collaboration with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions: The Benefits of the Carbon Tax

June 4: Wine Cheese and Poster Session

June 5: Public Event in collaboration with the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Alliance

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REMINDER: Call for Nominations: ESAC’s New ECO-Award

The Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the newly-created Environmental Community Organizer (ECO-Award).

Each year, the ECO-Award will honour an individual, team, or organization who or that has positively contributed to the field of environmental studies in Canada through community-building, research, knowledge-to-action, or innovations in practice or approaches.

Nominations for or applications from individuals, groups, or organizations who work in interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral teams to advance the field of environmental studies through the development, enhancement, or expansion of innovative collaborations and networks are particularly encouraged.

Nominations will be due electronically on Friday, March 29th, 2013 by midnight (EST) to Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, ESAC Board Member, at ashlee.cunsolo[at]mail.mcgill.ca.

Click here for the application form and here for the Draft Conference schedule.

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Attention ESAC Conference Presenters (2013/2012):

We invite you to consider contributing to a peer-reviewed e-book or physical book (possibly published by
Cambridge Scholarly Press) with the provisional title: Sustainability Soup: Community
development and planning for sustainability and well-being.

Themes:

The book will be structured using the following five themes:

Theme 1: Perspectives on Sustainability and sustainable livelihoods

This theme will include theorizing, education, problematizing, reports on empirical studies, etc. linked to ecohealth, well-being and sustainable well-being more generally.

Theme 2: Community development

This theme will include case studies, education, practices, theorizing, problematizing, reporting on empirical studies etc., regarding sustainable and community development.

Theme 3: International development

This theme will include case studies, practices, theorizing regarding sustainable international development.

Theme 4: Eco-health

This theme will include case studies, practices, theorizing and reporting on empirical studies related to Ecohealth.

Theme 5: Policy and Adaption to Climate Change

This theme will include analysis of policies, best policy practices, case studies, theorizing and reporting on empirical studies.

While the chapters in the book need not subscribe to a particular understanding of the notion of sustainable development, planning for sustainability, ecohealth or climate change adaptation policy, each chapter in the book will need to be linked to the general idea of human, ecological and societal well-being and/or the idea of sustaining such well-being for future generations.

General Expectations for Manuscripts

(More Details to Follow)

Expectations for Manuscripts:

• Need to engage with the relevant scholarly literature
• Theoretical / conceptual papers must apply an analytical frame
• Must have all the same components required when submitting to a peer-reviewed journal

Length: 5000-7000 words

Invitation to Submit a Summary:

We ask that you submit a 2-page summary before developing a full manuscript. Based on
an assessment of the summary, the editorial team will invite selected authors to develop
a full manuscript for submission. The inclusion of a fully developed manuscript in the e-
book will be determined through a blind peer-review process.

Guidelines for the Summary

• Provide a working title for the manuscript
• Identify the theme that your manuscript would address and explain how the manuscript will address the particular theme
• Outline the structure of your manuscript and what each part of the manuscript will be about [authors of successful proposals to adhere to the outlined structure, unless there are acceptable reasons to deviate]
• The summary should be not more than 2 pages (double-spaced)

Timeline:

March 15th, 2013: Summary due.

April 15th, 2013:  Selected summary authors will be invited to develop a chapter manuscript.

June 6th, 2013: Meet at ESAC conference to discuss next steps.

July 1st, 2013: Submission of chapter manuscripts by authors for blind peer-review.

Editorial Team:

Shirley Thompson, Chris Ling and Ryan Katz-Rosene

Submission of the 2-page Summary:

Please submit your 2-page summary by March 15th to Shirley Thompson.

Questions?

For questions about the summary submission, please e-mail Shirley Thompson:
s_thompson[at]umanitoba.ca

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Registration is open for the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

University of Victoria

June 1-8, 2013

Register today and benefit from our Early Bird rate. The online registration system is simple and easy to use. Go to www.congress2013.ca/register.

Congress 2013 promises to be an inspiring and exciting experience, featuring:

• A stellar line-up of Big Thinking speakers including Louise Arbour, Dany Laferrière, Joy Kogawa and more!
• 68 association meetings – Click here for the full list.
• A variety of cultural activities at UVic, including Indigenous celebrations.
• North America’s largest interdisciplinary book and trade show: Congress Expo.
• New professional development workshops at Career Corner.
• The picturesque setting of Victoria, B.C. with its lush gardens, heritage architecture and stunning ocean views.

Start planning your trip to Victoria. Book your flight and your accommodations.

New programs and events are being added daily to the online calendar of events! Check it out at www.congress2013.ca/calendar.

The Early Bird rate is available until March 31, 2013. We look forward to seeing you at Congress 2013!

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The Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) is pleased to invite you to participate in its annual conference as part of the Congress of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences 2013, at the University of Victoria in Victoria, BC, from June 3 to 5, 2013.

As Canada’s leading association of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners involved in a diversity of environmental fields, ESAC facilitates networking and dialogue across environment-related fields and practices.

The 2013 ESAC conference provides a unique opportunity for delegates to take part in a lively exchange of ideas relating to sustainability among a broad range of students, academic researchers, members of NGOs, community groups, and the public and private sector academics, practitioners, policy makers, and activists.

This year’s conference theme, “Edges and Flows: Diversity, Environment, and Society”, is reflected in the location of the conference at Canada’s edge and the coastal geography of the University.

June 3: Breakfast Reception and Keynote speaker: To Be Announced

June 4: Public Event in collaboration with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions: The Benefits of the Carbon Tax

June 4: Wine Cheese and Poster Session

June 5: Public Event in collaboration with the Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction Alliance

I am going – now what?

• Get information on the 2013 ESAC Conference, travel grants, or accommodations.
• Nominate an individual for the ESAC ECO-Award
• Check the Draft Conference Schedule

You must be an ESAC member in good standing to present a paper, poster or panel at the conference. Presenters not possessing membership will be removed from the program. Learn about membership benefits and join ESAC today.

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The Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) is pleased to announce a call for nominations for the Environmental  Community’s Organizer (ECO-Award).

Each year, the ECO-Award will honour an individual, team, or organization who or that has positively contributed to the field of environmental studies in Canada through community-building, research, knowledge-to-action, or innovations in practice or approaches.

This award was created during ESAC’s 2012 annual meeting in Waterloo, Ontario to recognize the outstanding contributions of Ms. Kira Jade Cooper in organizing and facilitating the 2012 ESAC conference, and to celebrate her ability to bring together several different environmentally-oriented groups and organizations through this conference.

The ECO-Award selection committee will evaluate nominees upon the following general criteria:

• Works within the field of environmental studies in Canada;
• Contributes to community-building within the field of environmental studies through the creation of partnerships, networks, relationships, and projects;
• Demonstrates collaborative and reciprocal relationships and partnerships to address issues of importance to the field of environmental studies;
• Increases environmental awareness through knowledge-sharing and outreach activities;
• Encourages environmental action and empowers and supports others to become involved in activities related to the field of environmental studies;
• Promotes the mobilization of knowledge and research to action and practice.

Nominations for or applications from individuals, groups, or organizations who work in interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral teams to advance the field of environmental studies through the development, enhancement, or expansion of innovative collaborations and networks are particularly encouraged.

This award is made possible by a healthy level of participation and membership in the environmental studies community. All nominators and nominees are encouraged to participate in ESAC by maintaining their ESAC memberships or becoming members.

To nominate yourself or others, please follow the directions below.  Nominations will be due electronically on Friday, March 29^th, 2013 by midnight (EST) to Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, ESAC Board Member, at ashlee.cunsolo@mail.mcgill.ca. 

Selection for the award will be made by a committee appointed by the ESAC Board. Winners will be notified by the end of April, 2013, and officially announced and honoured at the ESAC conference at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia as part of Congress 2013.

More information: ECO-AWARD Call for Nominations (PDF)

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Harperian Ecologies: Conservative Transformations in Canadian Environmental Policy

…  Panel to be held at the Annual Conference of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada

“Economic Action Plan 2012 builds on our Conservative Government’s impressive record of supporting a cleaner and more sustainable environment”
- Conservative Party of Canada (2012)

“The Harper government has clearly laid out its priorities with the latest slashing of environmental budgets. Gone is funding for climate change, air pollution, wildlife and toxic waste clean-up.”
- Green Party of Canada (2012)

While the Conservative Party boasts of its environmental record and political critics point to evidence of the contrary, there is one point upon which both sides are likely to agree: In just a few short years, the Harper conservatives have fundamentally altered the way the Government of Canada deals with the environment.

A news scan provides us with numerous examples of the new ‘Harperian ecologies’ (if we can call them thus):

• While previous governments pointed to climate change as a serious threat requiring swift regulatory action, the current government has expressed caution about enacting what it sees as overly drastic and economically-damaging measures (CBC News 2011);
• Whereas Canada once played a leading role in bringing together international cooperation on climate change, its new method at such talks is to approach the table as a ‘tough’ negotiator aiming to protect its national interests (The Canadian Press 2011);
• For decades, a three-tiered regulatory system of environmental assessment was interpreted by the feds as an important way to rigorously test the potential impacts of development, whereas now such a system is seen as an impediment to ‘shovel ready’ projects (and thus a hindrance to economic growth) (Macdonald et al. 2012);
• The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, set up and consulted by previous governments to provide high-level expert guidance on society-nature relations, has recently been axed and their recommendations rejected by the Harper cabinet (Scoffield 2012);
• Civil society groups focusing on the environment, at one time voicing their criticisms openly, have re-strategized as they now face a government which is explicitly wary of their ‘radical’ and ‘foreign-backed’ agenda (McCarthy & Moore 2012).

These are just some of the many examples of how Canadian environmental policy has been transformed as a result of political and economic change in Ottawa. What is sorely missing, however, is in-depth scholarly analysis on such recent transformations.

As such, this special panel seeks contributions which help to unpack the new ‘Harperian ecologies’ at a theoretical level, as informed by empirical (or case study) examples.

Scholars, environmental researchers, and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for presentations to be held during this panel (or possibly multiple panels, depending on the level of interest) being organized at the 2013 Annual Conference of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC.ca). Please send your proposal, including an abstract of no more than 300 words, a presentation title, your name, and a brief biography (of no more than 100 words) to the panel organizer, Ryan Katz-Rosene, at ryan_katzrosene@carleton.ca, by January 31^st, 2013. Decisions on proposals will be communicated by the end of February. Those accepted will be asked to register and attend ESAC’s Annual Conference, being held at the Congress of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, in Victoria, B.C., from June 3^rd to June 5^th, 2013 (for which membership to ESAC is required).

The panel aims to cast the net wide in terms of the scope and topical focus of contributions. Possible topics could include, but are not limited to:

• The neoliberalization of Canadian environmental policy;
• (Dis)connections between provincial and federal environmental plans;
• Bill C-38 and changes to environmental conservation and protection practices;
• Re-writing the Fisheries Act;
• Federal (de)funding of climate science (Eg. Defunding the Polar Environmental Atmospheric Research Laboratory);
• The framing of environmental organizations (ENGOs) as ‘radical’, ‘foreign-backed’ threats;
• From Kyoto to Copenhagen: Canada’s new stance on climate change;
• Winning the ‘Fossil Award’: Canada’s changing international environmental reputation
• Expediting pipelines, protecting the bituminous sands, and reframing Canada as an ‘energy superpower’;
• Restrategizing carbon reduction: Sequestering carbon, commoditizing carbon.
• From ‘sustainability’ to ‘responsibility’: New discourses of Canadian environmentalism;

For more information please email Ryan Katz-Rosene, panel organizer, at ryan_katzrosene@carleton.ca.

For more information about the Environmental Studies Association of Canada, or its annual conference, visit www.esac.ca

Note on the political nature of this panel: This panel seeks to showcase high quality, compelling analytical works backed up by robust research. Uninformed political gripes will not be considered, and neither will blind praise.

 

 

 

 

 

References

 

CBC News, 2011. Canada pulls out of Kyoto Protocol – Politics – CBC News. Cbc.ca. Available at:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/12/12/pol-kent-kyoto-pullout.html

Conservative Party of Canada, 2012. Environment. Conservative Party of Canada. Available at:http://www.conservative.ca/?page_id=1394

Green Party of Canada, 2012. Harper government guts environmental funding. ElizabethMay.ca. Available at: http://elizabethmay.ca/in-the-news/harper-government-guts-environmental-funding/

Macdonald, D., McRobert, D. & Diamond, M., 2012. How Ottawa fumbled the fisheries file. The Globe and Mail. Available at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/how-ottawa-fumbled-the-fisheries-file/article4393003/

McCarthy, S. & Moore, O., 2012. David Suzuki laments Tory-imposed “chill” on green groups. The Globe and Mail. Available at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/david-suzuki-laments-tory-imposed-chill-on-green-groups/article4102572/

Scoffield, H., 2012. Environment minister rejects final report from axed advisers to embrace low-carbon economy. The Globe and Mail. Available at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/environment-minister-rejects-final-report-from-axed-advisers-to-embrace-low-carbon-economy/article4621730/

The Canadian Press, 2011. Kent takes tough tone on Durban talks. Available at:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/27/durban-kent-cp.html

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The Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) is pleased to invite you to participate in its annual conference at the University of Victoria as part of the Congress of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences 2013.

As Canada’s leading association of interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners involved in a diversity of environmental fields, ESAC facilitates networking and dialogue across environment-related fields and practices.

This year’s conference theme, “Edges and Flows: Diversity, Environment, and Society”, is reflected in the location of the conference at Canada’s edge and the coastal geography of the University.

June 3: ESAC Opening Plenary and Program, Keynote Speaker TBA
June 4: ESAC Program, Poster Competition & Wine and Cheese event
June 5: ESAC Program

Get more information about the conference.

The 2013 conference provides a excellent opportunity for delegates to take part in a lively exchange of ideas relating to the environment among students, researchers, members of NGOs, community groups, the public and private sector, academics, practitioners, policy makers, and activists.

All are encouraged to submit papers, panels or posters on a broad range of issues and case studies, including:

Knowledge and Environment; Environmental Education; Sustainable Livelihoods; Climate Change; Community Resilience and Sustainability; Politics of Environmental Knowledge; Indigenous Peoples and Environment; Sustainable Development; Environmental Policy; Sustainable Food Systems; Gender and Environment; Environmental Education; Marketing Sustainability; Resource Management; Sustainable Consumption / Production; Environmental and Ecological Economics.

Applications for panel discussions consisting of three or four panelists would be particularly well received.

The deadline for submissions is January 20, 2013. Submissions should be made by email to esac.2013@gmail.com

 

Submission instructions

Submissions could be for any of the following:

• Panel or workshop sessions: Coordinators should be willing to organise a self contained session of 1 to 1.5 hours –proposal does not necessarily require the individual speakers, but an abstract of the session as a whole is required. Coordinators are requested to ensure their contributors are registered to the conference and are members of ESAC, as well as informing them of scheduling etc.
• Individual papers of 15-20 mins long
• Poster for entry into the ESAC Poster Competition open to all undergraduate and graduate students for further details when available see www.esac.ca. The Poster competition is held at the same time as the ESAC wine and cheese, prizes will be available.

Submissions should include:

• An abstract of 300 words or less including:
  • Title of the paper
  • Object of study or theme of session
  • Theoretical framework, concept or research question/objective
  • Methodology or practice
  • Main conclusions
  • Relevance to the theme of Edges and Flows: Diversity, Environment, and Society
• At least three keywords to assist the conference committee in assigning your paper to an appropriate session if not a self-contained panel or workshop proposal
• Institutional affiliation
• Contact email

Please e-mail submissions to esac.2013@gmail.com

All submissions will be evaluated by the ESAC conference committee and acceptance emails will be sent out in February prior to the deadline for early bird registration at Congress.

 

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2012 ESAC/EECOM Conference Field-trips!
Greetings Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC) and Canadian Network for Environmental Communication and Education (EECOM) members.  We’re so glad you’ve registered for the 2012 Conference Environmental Knowledge: People and Change, May 30 – June 2, 2012, University of Waterloo.   We’ve attached the draft schedule for your information as well as a separate registration form for post-conference field-trips. Hope you will join us on one of these fun-filled field-trips (say that three times)! Come get to know the area with us!

Theresa Southam
Executive Director/Directrice executive 
Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication 
Reseau canadien d’education et de communication relatives a l’environnement 
Tel:  250-354-1088
E-mail:  director@eecom.org
http://www.eecom.org 

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