Cross-Canada Climate Change Briefings: Partners

 

The York Centre for Applied Sustainability

The Centre is an Organized Research Unit of York University that is based in the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES). The Centre serves as a University-wide focus for activities that foster the application of sustainability practices and procedures, drawing on the substantive strengths of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, the Erivan K. Haub Business and the Environment Programme, the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, the Faculty of Education and other faculties at York. The mandate of the Centre is to work in partnerships with organizations, businesses, governments, communities, First Nations, and educational institutions to help develop their own policy and programs for sustainability.

When the Ontario Round Table on Environment and Economy (ORTEE) was disbanded in 1995, the Centre assumed some aspects of its mandate. The Centre carries out work at the national, international and local levels.

The York Centre for Applied Sustainability
York University
4700 Keele Street, McGloughlin
North York, ON
M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-5252
Fax: (416) 736-5436

The Macleod Institute for Environmental Analysis

The Macleod Institute for Environmental Analysis provides impartial advice on regulatory and environmental issues. Drawing on independent experts from a broad range of disciplines, we help clients to develop balanced and responsible policy. The Institute provides informed, candid assessments and strategic counsel on environmental and regulatory management.

Affiliated with the University of Calgary, the Institute has associates in the academic and private sectors in western Canada. These associates represent the highest levels of expertise in public policy development, government, regulatory affairs and the environmental sciences. The Institute assembles strong project teams from this broad reserve of knowledge and experience to meet individual client requirements with impartial and balanced analysis.

The Macleod Institute for Environmental Analysis
University of Calgary
ES-1040, 2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB
T2N 1N4
Tel: (403) 220-3193
Fax: (403) 282-1287

Faculty of Environmental Design

The Faculty's educational mandate is a dual one; to offer a learning environment that prepares individuals for interdisciplinary collaboration and action; and to ensure that its graduate are competent practitioners in the professional specialties they individually elect to develop through studies in one of the five programs. Students and members of the faculty frequently collaborate in research including outreach projects. Students can obtain credits to their programs of study through participation in research.

In the twenty-five years since the founding of the Faculty, the nature and scope of its activities have developed widely and deeply, in concert with the growing concerns about the environment and its qualities, and with the extended complexity of environmental issues. Attention is being increasingly given to the appropriate ends, the just and equitable modes of intervention, and the qualitative character of environment to be achieved when management, planning and design projects are undertaken. In these respects, the Faculty's research, educational programs, and outreach services variously touch on natural, social, cultural and built environments. Its ultimate concerns are for the quality of human life and sustainability.

Faculty of Environmental Design
University of Calgary
PFA-3170, 2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4
Tel: (403) 220-6605
Fax: (403) 284-4399

The School for Resource and Environmental Studies

The School for Resource and Environmental Studies is the centre for environmental scholarship and research at Dalhousie University. It is a leading institution in environmental management and capacity- building in Canada and abroad. At the core of the School is a graduate, interdisciplinary teaching and research program. The program emphasizes rigorous inquiry and ethical practice as the foundation of responsible environmental and resource management which leads toward sustainable development. Efforts are devoted to addressing causes, rather than symptoms, of environmental problems.

The School draws its strength from an extended network of faculty, students, research associates, alumni and project partners. It is a dynamic community with diverse skills, interests and experience in natural sciences, policy, management and development. The bond which links this network is a shared interest in seeking innovative and appropriate solutions to critical environmental and resource problems.

The School demonstrates its commitment to society through many community service and international development initiatives. Enhancing environmental management capacity through institutional strengthening and human resource development are primary goals of activities which extend beyond the University community.

The School for Resource and Environmental Studies
Dalhousie University
1312 Robie Street
Halifax, NS B3H 3E2
Tel: (902) 494-3632
Fax: (902) 494-3728
Email: SRES@ac.dal.ca

Institut des sciences de l'environnement

The prime directive of the Environmental Sciences Institute of the Université du Québec à Montréal as an organization is to foster the development of environmental education and research. It offers a common ground where all the units and individuals working in this field have the opportunity to meet and better coordinate their efforts, and provides a meeting place for the various disciplines pertinent to the development of environmental sciences. As such, the Institute especially encourages the involvement of new research units and new human resource to this field.

With the creation of the Institute in May 1990, UQAM wished to address the need to identify its various resources at work in the environmental sciences, and to offer its external partners a unique and clearly visible access to these resources. The university also wanted to improve the quality of its services, and increase its involvement potential in environmental issues so as to respond more efficiently to the community's needs.

Institut des sciences de l'environnement
UQAM
201, rue Président Kennedy
Local PK-3180
Montréal, QC
Tel: (514) 987-4717
Fax: (514) 987-4718

Sustainable Development Research Institute

The Sustainable Development Research Institute (SDRI) was established in April 1991 as a vehicle to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among the faculty, departments and centres at UBC, as well as other provincial institutes undertaking environmental research. SDRI represents a concerted attempt to break away from the restrictions imposed by the traditional compartmentalization of research, aiming to transcend disciplinary boundaries in its search for solutions.

The Institute fosters research on sustainable development issues that is policy-relevant, interdisciplinary and involves non-academic partners. In its research, the Institute recognizes the linkages between environment and development issues, the increasing importance of environmental issues in the decisions of governments and industry, and that the concept of sustainable development implies the need to connect environmental imperatives directly to economic and social priorities. SDRI focuses on these linkages, seeking ways to integrate the environment, the economy and social institutions.

Sustainable Development Research Institute
B5-2202 Main Mall, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Tel: (604) 822-8198
Fax: (604) 822-9191
Email: sdri@sdri.ubc.ca

Quebec Climatology Association

Quebec climatology association (ACLIQ) is a non-profit organization established in october 1982, with the mandate to promote climatology and its uses in Quebec. The current membership is about 100 persons (individuals, corporate members, institutions) coming from universities, government agencies (federal and provincial) and the private sector. Many of the members also come from outside Quebec, mainly Ontario, Alberta and France.

Since the beginning, ACLIQ encourages research and links and exchanges between different people and groups working in the climatological or related fields. To this end, the association organizes every year at least one scientific meeting for its members and different groups of users. Those meetings are generally held within the climatology/meteorology session or an independant conference at the annual congress of the French canadian association for the advancement of sciences (ACFAS). When there is an opportunity, like in 1992 in Quebec City, the meeting is held within the Canadian meteorological and oceanographic society(CMOS)'s congress. On every of those occasions, series of papers on actual topics regarding climatology and related fields are presented.

Association de climatologie du Québec (ACLIQ)
Revue Le Climate
Département des sciences géomatiques
Pav. Louis-Jacuqes-Casault
Local 1351
Université Laval
Québec, QC, G1K 7P4
Tel: (418) 656-2072
Fax: (418) 656-7411