TORONTO, NOVEMBER 13, 2003 -- The following York University professors are able to comment on conservation and the Oakridges Moraine:

 

Professor James McKellar, Academic Director of the Program in Real Property (MBA) at the Schulich School of Business at York, is available to provide media commentary on all aspects of the Oakridges Moraine conservation plan and legislation. Prof. McKellar is also Executive Director of External Relations for Schulich. He served as a member of the Ontario government's advisory committee on the Oakridges Moraine that recommended the current legislation. Subsequently he was appointed to the Oakridges Moraine Land Transfer Committee and is a founding member and Vice-Chair of the Board of the Oakridges Moraine Foundation, a non-profit organization established through legislation to promote research and education on the moraine.

 

Professors Gerda Wekerle, Anders Sandberg and Liette Gilbert in the York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies are at work on a three-year research project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) -- Unlikely Allies: Citizen Planning and Environmentalism on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Their research focuses on the new regionalism, strategies to preserve nature and limit sprawl. The work will examine coalition building and social movement strategies and tactics in suburbia and rural communities on the northern edge of Toronto.

 

Other Environmental Studies faculty examining conservation and the Moraine include Professor Roger Keil and Phd candidate Douglas Young, Professors Rob Macdonald, Peter Mulvihill and Leesa Fawcett.

 

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For more information, please contact:

 

Ken Turriff
Media Relations
York University
416-736-2100, ext. 22086
kturriff@yorku.ca

 

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