As part of UVic's Ideafest, the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the Centre for Global Studies hosted the successful roundtable Many Ways to See Water: Fresh Water and a Changing Climate on March 8, 2012. Bringing together expert speakers from research centres and departments across the campus, the event highlighted UVic research on freshwater resources in a changing climate, and associated issues of governance. With approximately 40 people in attendance—including students, researchers, community members, and government representatives—the discussion was robust. Questions focused on the science-policy interface and water availability in Canada as a result of a changing climate. The event showcased research from the Centre for Aboriginal Health Research, Centre for Global Studies, Department of Geography, Faculty of Law, Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, and Water and Climate Impacts Research Centre.
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Many Ways to See Water: Fresh Water and a Changing Climate
POLIS Roundtable on Ecological Governance
Why does "ecological governance" matter now more than ever? This question was the focus of the University's first Roundtable on Ecological Governance held as part of Ideafest on March 5th. Tsartlip elder and educator Dr. Marie Cooper opened the session and Eco-Research Chair Dr. Michael M'Gonigle gave the keynote address. A roundtable of responses followed from faculty, graduate students and community members offering a diversity of perspectives that spanned political science, geography, environmental studies, public policy, Indigenous rights and responsibilities, racialization and marginalized communities, gender and women’s issues, Indigenous child welfare, and ecosystem-based management of natural resources. Cross-cutting themes drew attention to the need for explicit involvement of gender, youth, Indigenous, and marginalized community perspectives as part of the pathway to reconnecting humans to place and re-imagining our governance systems as situated within ecological systems and relationships. The event was hosted by the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the Centre for Global Studies.
POLIS Dispatch – Winter 2011
The Winter 2011 POLIS Dispatch provides updates on POLIS research and activities, and profiles our core team of associates. Within the newsletter you will find a significant list of forthcoming POLIS publications, as well as featured publications, recent special assignments, and highlighted outreach activities. Read the Winter 2011 POLIS Dispatch.
Read the Spring 2011 POLIS Dispatch.
