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Dodds, Brenda L.
407 North Elm St., Apt. B
Champaign, IL., , 61820 USA
Home Phone: 604-599-8935
Work Phone: 217-351-4891
Fax: 217-244-1758
SD Interest Areas Sustainable
development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Health
Biographical information
Education: Master degree in
Counselling
Employment/Experience: Six years of business
experience Volunteer experience with Amnesty International. Five years
international experience working/counselling/research with HIV + Women -
Psychosocial Adjustment. Languages: other skills.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: the respect for the voices of all women, regardless of
educational background or work experience, that has been celebrated at this
conference (Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference, U.B.C., May, 1994).
Concerns and encouragement
Concerns, legislation of
women centered environmental policy and human rights concerns.
Changes needed
Changes Needed: 1) more elected political
representatives who are female. 2) more funding (public and private) 3)
more connection between grassroots activists and policy makers (more dialogue)
4) more communications among elected disciplines, environmment human rights,
economy, etc.
Dodds, Marian
#29-3320 Findlay Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5N 4E7
Canada
Home Phone: 604-874-7893
Vocation Activist;
Educator
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
S.D. Interests: education, women
rights, advocacy and action.
Education: M.Ed. BSC H. Eco.
Employment: Educator-secondary teacher, SFU and UBC Faculty
Associate in Teacher Education Programs (Status of Women Program Coordinator;
B.C. Teacher Federation 1983-86) Consultant-CIDA, NGO's
Memberships: Canadian Home Eco. Association National International
Development Committee Member Past Board positions with West Coast LEAF, Media
Watch and Women in Focus. MATCH Canadian Home Economic Association B.C.
Teacher's Federation.
Languages; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Dodds, M. - "BCIF
Status of Women Journal."
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: Travel/ work in developing countries - Belize, Sierra Leone,
Thailand; grassroots work with Canadian women over the past 2 years.
Concerns and encouragement
Concerns, I am concerned
that women's issues are being put after other issues more often than not. Also,
there are struggles with the Canadian feminist community--fragmentation and a
sense of hopelessness that I see developing. Encouragement:
energy of young women; the awareness of a vision that is so widespread.
Changes needed
Changes Needed: We need more initiatives as
well as putting more theory into practice at all levels.
Dong-Xiao, Liu
Peking University
Room 2115, Building 45
Beijing 100871, , P.R. China
Fax: 861-532-6482
Vocation Youth
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Health
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy
Biographical information
Lanuages; other skills
Your publications related to SD
Donn-Xiau L. "A Brief
Introduction to the Experiment of Socializing Reproduction Insurance in China."
Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives
Conference.
Donnelly, Aldyen
Position Executive Director
Canadian Environmental Industries Association
Suite 504-999 Canada Place
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3E1
Canada
Work Phone: 604-737 2040
Fax: 604-666 8123
Vocation Business
Donovan, Barbara
P.O. Box 493,
Port Townsend, Washington, , 98368 U.S.A.
Home Phone: 206-385-3834
Work Phone: 206-385-7939
Vocation Business
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy
Biographical information
S.D. Interests: Women and
economics, population growth as related to ecosystem health; if/how
environmental laws, regulations are effective in actually improving the
environment.
Education: Juris Doctor (Law degree) MA of Public
Health Graduate couse work in Resource Management Experience/
Employment: law practice; commercial fisheries; child rearing.
Languages; other skills: English.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
S.D. Interests: Women and economics, population growth as related to ecosystem
health; if/how environmental laws, regulations are effective in actually
improving the environment.
Dos Santos, Josefa
Residents Association
Dona Aurora
Rua de Fazenda, Itapoa, , Salvador Bahia
Vocation Union
Doucet, Carla
Position Policy Advisor - Education
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
1 Nicholas, Suite 1500
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7 Canada
Work Phone: 613-947-0668
Fax: 613-992-7385
Email admin-nrtee@nrtee-trnee.ca or nrtee@web.apc.org
Vocation Policy Advisor
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy
Biographical information
S.D.interests: education, youth,
round table process, sustainable development.
Education: Law
Degree B.A., Political Science Experience: Policy
Advisor - Education, NRTEE NRTEE CMMS officer English teacher, Japan;
Assistant to M.P. - House of Commons
Memberships: Canadian
Federation of University Women (Ottawa). Jet Alumni Association Carlton
University Alumni Association.
Language; other skills: English,
French, Japenese; facilitating youth round tables.
Your publications related to SD
Doucet, C. " An
Assessment of Chapter 36, Agenda 21." IN: Assessment of Agenda 21:
Document and Information Committee of the Projet de Société,
Ottawa: NRTEE 1993, p. 399-419
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: Women like Anne Dale, Leone Pippard, Dorothy Englis (etc).
Working at the NRTEE has provided a wealth of information that has made me
curious to learn more.
Concerns and encouragement
Our lack of progress and backlash
against the environment concerns me. The need to change people's attitudes,
values and behavior is very important. Skills for youth concern me.
Changes needed
Changes are needed in people's attitudes
leading to behaviour change. An increased sense of personal relevancy in
sustainable development is needed.
Miscellaneous comments
I thought the conference was well
organized and well attended. I really enjoyed my policy circle and the
opportunity to meet like minded women (Women and Sustainable Development:
Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., May, 1994).
Douglas, Rita
#26-9 Buttertubs Drive
Nanaimo, British Columbia, V9R 3X8
Canada
Home Phone: 604-754-7242
Work Phone:
604-754-8414/604-753-0633
Fax: 604-754-8414/604-753-9506
Vocation Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
Biographical information
Education: bachelor of
Recreation Administration, major in outdoor recreation.
Employment:
Present: Employment Program for Adults (part time); Coordinator of Nanaimo
Women's Center (part time). 1986-1992: Experience working in World Youth
Overseas.
Memberships: Member of Canada World Youth.
Languages; other skills: English; Spanish.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: education in outdoor recreation-working in the mountains, etc;
working overseas in small communities where life is reasonable but reduced,
etc. in a physical sense. This is also fueled by a sense of injustice in
the inequalities of life.
Concerns and encouragement
Women encourage me
(feminist/gynocentric approach) Systems discourage me- (money and
patiarchial approach)
Changes needed
Patriarchy needs to change to a gynocentric
system so equality can flourish and education can be human centered vs. $
centered.
Miscellaneous comments
How can we maintain a vision of change
while surviving in a patriarchial system.
Dowdeswell, Elizabeth
Position Under-Secretary General and Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi, , Kenya
Work Phone: 624-001
Fax: 226-895
Vocation
Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy
Biographical information
Education: Bachelor of
Science in Home Economics (University of Saskatchewan); Teaching Certificate
(University of Saskatchewan); MSc in Behavioral Sciences (Utah State
University); Honorary Doctor of Laws (University of Saskatchewan).
Employment/Experience: I joined UNEP as its third Executive Director in
January 1993 and vowed to "cause constuctive damage to the status quo."
I have done this by setting in motion a massive restructuring process to
improve transparency, cost-effectiveness and accountability within UNEP. In
line with the Earth Summit's Agenda 21, UNEP was the first UN agency to totally
reorient its programms and administration to meet themandate entrusted to it.
Before joining the United Nations, I was Assistant Deputy Minister at
Environment Canada and head of the Atmospheric Environment Service, Canada's
primary weather and atmosphere agency. I was Canada's principal delegate to
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Co-chair of the working group
on mechanisms in the negotiations leading fo the Gramework Convention on
Climate Change, which was adopted in June 1992 at the United Nations Conference
on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. In my five years as Deputy
Minister of Culture and Youth of Saskatchewan, I directed a major public
review of cultural policy and developed heritage legislation that continues to
be a national standard. My early career included terms as a human rights
ombudsman and programme consultant for the Saskatchewan Provincial Department of
Education, lecturer at the University of Alberta and high school teacher. I
have also served as Management Consultant to the Treasury Board Canada, Chief
Executive Officer to the Royal Commission on Unemployment Insurance, and
Regional Director General of Environment Canada.
Memberships:
Board Member, Stockholm Environment Institute (Stockholm, Sweden); Advisory
Board Member, African Women in Crisis, UNIFEM (Nairobi, Kenya);
Member/Distinguished Advisor, International Commission on Education for the
Twenty-first Century - UNESCO (Paris, France); Advisory Team Member, United
Nations University (Tokyo, Japan); Member, Governing Council, International
Academy of the Environment (Geneva, Switzerland); Member fo the Council
(Advisory Board), Sustainable Challenge Foundation (The Hague, Netherlands);
Member, Canadian Institute of International Affairs (Toronto, Canada); Membere,
Advisory Board, Annual Sustainable Development Series (Iniversity of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada); Member, Advisory Board, World Resources Institute
(Washington, USA); Member, World Travel and Tourism Council - Environment
Research Centre - WTTERC (Brussels, Belgium). Languages: English; Skills:
"outstanding ability to build consensus in the face of divergent and often
comepting positions"; "tireless drive to raise public awareness of
environmental issues and to encourage interlinkages and the sharing of
information".
Your publications related to SD
There is virtually a
publication every day -- in the form of forewards to books, chapters in books,
and speeches -- mostly in he name of UNEP.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
I am a person who has a vision of how things ought to be and a pragmatic sense
of how to get there. I'm inspired by the concept of sustainable development
because, for the first time, it has people talking to each other rather than
past each other and it has whetted the interest of both the industrialiast and
the environmentalist. The vision of the kind of survivial we're going to be
faced with leads you to ways to seek solutions. I'm also inpsired by the
real understanding that we are interdependint and have to look for solutions
that bring the world together. Climate change is an important example --
activity in Canada is irrelevant if China is not at the table. I'm also
inspired by our insignifciance in the face of compliexity and the need to
develop policies in a time of uncertainty. It means we need to be care about
and act on sustainable development.
Concerns and encouragement
I'm concerned that we allow people
off the hook if they're talking the right language -- if they're talking "green"
and not changing behaviour. I am the most impatient person in the world and
know that we have not done enough post-UNCED. At the same time, if we
really understand that sustainable development is a paradigm shift, this
shift cannot happen in a few months. We need to be both impatient and
understanding. I worry that people want the superficial and are not
committed to fundamental change. What do I find encouraging? Environment
is not going to slip off the polls. And, I'm an eternal optimist -- I keep
looking for signs of hope.
Changes needed
We need to focus on changing attitudes and
behaviour -- long-term, fundamental education. We need some sense of urgency;
UNCED is an example of an event in time that had to deliver something. We need
a few highly visible targets and schedules that keep us on track. We need
highly accessible and understandable indicators -- five things that can go into
daily newspapers every week that tell ushow we're doing. I fundamentally
believe that we must see the convergence of sound science, social consensus and
good public policy.
Miscellaneous comments
I'm an activist and bureaucrat.
[Also noted re SD interest areas that she was not separated herself from the
organization]
Downs, Suzanne
Montreal Loan Circles
325 boul St. Joseph Est. #3
Montreal, Quebec, H2T 1J3
Canada
Home Phone: 514-525-6880
Work Phone: 514-843-3970
Fax: 514-844-6372
Vocation Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Business, industry,
and labour issues
Biographical information
Employment/Experience: 10
years experience community organizer Founding member and President of Montreal
Loan Circles Secretary treasurer: DGLQ-participated in the organization of
Image and Nation Gay and Lesbian. Montreal's Gay and Lesbian Film and Video
Festival (3 years) Board Member, TARC The Gloria Demers Fund. Concordia
Institute in Management and Community, Workshop leader
Languages;
other skills: English.
Your publications related to SD
Downs, S. (1994) "The
Montreal Loan Circles: A Grassroots Approach to CED." Women and
Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver,
May, 1994.
Downton, Kathryn
University of Alberta
11543 - 141 St.
Edmonton, Alberta, T5M 1T7 Canada
Home Phone: 403-455-1573
Work Phone: 403-433-8015
Fax: 403-439-9677
Vocation Academic
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
Biographical information
Education: M. Ed.
International Development Community literacy
Employment/Experience:
Women and development teacher/volunteer - Kenya; Program planning, facilitator
Your publications related to SD
Downton. K (1994) "
'Great Earnings do not an Activist Make': Talking About Power as We Work for
Change." Workshop in the Women in Sustainable Development: Canadian
Perspectives Conference. U.B.C Vancouver, May, 1994.
Dowse, Susan
IDERA
3171 West 5th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6K 1V1
Canada
Home Phone: 877-0959
Work Phone: (604) 822-4776
Fax: (604) 822-5945
Vocation Activist; Academic
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups
(youth, women, First Nations)
Biographical information
S.D Interests: gender-sensitive
development and community participation.
Education: 1993: B.A.,
political science and anthropology, UBC.
Employment/Experience:
Policy Advisory Panel, Researching Member, International Development and
Education Research Association (IDERA). Member of China-Canada Young Women's
Project. Document Researcher for Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian
Perspectives Conference.
Languages; other skills: English.
Your publications related to SD
Dowse, S. (1994) "Young
Women with Power: Developing Economic Resources." Workshop in the Women and
Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference.U.B.C., Vancouver,
May, 1994.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: writings by Caroline Mose on gender, planning and development;
the diversity of perspectives and strategies represented at this conference
(Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference,
U.B.C., May, 1994); my father, Brian Dowse.
Concerns and encouragement
List of issues to be addressed to
promote sustainable development: lack of equal gender participation and
planning and decision making levels; the separation of economic, environmental,
and social realms of sustainability. We must work towards an integrated
framework.
Changes needed
List of changes needed to promote change
towards sustainable development: 1) development agendas designed by those
who will focus on local impacts and needs. 2) integration of social,
economic, and environmental goals. 3) equal participation by women and men in
decision making and planning for future change at all levels. 4) empowerment
of women so women are trained and willing to assume roles of leadership.
Miscellaneous comments
Truly sustainable development must
allow the interests of biodiversity, cultural identity, economic
productivity, community participation, and personal empowerment to, not only
co-exist, but thrive.
Drache, Sophie
1308 West 46 Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6M 2K5
Canada
Home Phone: 604-261-0832
Biographical information
Education: B.A, Sociology,
S.F.U.
Employment/Experience: Counselling, Peer Group Work.
Language; other skills: English
Drache, Natalie
Position Producer - Artist - Writer
Dragonfly Blue Productions
P.O. Box 5151 - 911 Park Royal South
West Vancouver, British
Columbia, V7T 2K9 Canada
Home Phone: 604-921-6663
Work Phone: 604-921-6663
Fax: 604-921-6467
Vocation Media
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
Interest areas: media and minority
issues, media and environment, agenda 21 documentation, and human rights.
Education: B.A. in Fine Arts and Theatre Arts from UCCA.
Employment/Other Experience: 1966-1991: Hollywood Feature Film Production.
(Art Exhibitions;Video Producer; Jounalist) Museum Installations; Amnesty
intenational IATSE Local 891 Film Technicians. C.I.S.R. Center for Image
and Sound Research.
Languages; other skills: English.
Your publications related to SD
Drache, N. " Dialogue
Between Nations " Canadian Museum for Civilization, for International Year
of Indigenous Peoples. Workshop at the Women and Sutainable Development:
Canadian Perpectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.
Drake, Monica Gruder
Position Executive Director
MG Drake & Associates
#404-999 Canada Place
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 3E2
Canada
Home Phone: 604-926-9282
Work Phone: 604-893-5156
Fax: 604-926-4299 or 604-893-5156
Vocation Business;
Academic; Activist; Media
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
Education: Master's in
International Economics and Relations, John Hopkin's University.
Experience/
Employment: Currently Executive Director of Pacific Economic
Cooperation Council. Cross-cultural and linguistic adaptation from years of
living in 6 countires over 3 continents. Bologna, Italy and Washington D.C.
Business reporter for US news publishing organizations, Wash. DC World Bank
Group in Washington DC Senior Advisor on China to the Asia Pacific Foundation
of Canada. Three years as a volunteer resource person to the
Cultural/Academic Affairs office of the Canadian Embassy in China. Many other
affiliations, and consultant work to government, business, and acadamia on
international and trade relations.
Languages; other skills: Fluent
in French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish. Some Mandarin Chinese.
Your publications related to SD
Drake, M.G. (1994) "Women
and International Financial Institutions" Workshop at the Women and
Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver,
B.C., May, 1994.
Drebett, JoAnne
Position Program Officer
Canada World Youth
2117 E. 7th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5N 1S8
Canada
Home Phone: 604-254-2969
Work Phone: 604-732-5113
Fax: 604-732-9141
Vocation Union
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
Interest Areas: Developmental
education; working with communities; communication.
Education: B.ed.
(Research focus: Urban/Rural Education in Guatemala)
Employment:
15 years. International Development Education; Developing a Vision Canada
World Youth- Coordinated Indonesisa Program (2 years) Project leader- Jamaica
(1 year); Sri Lanka (1 year) Faciliator Social Worker Consultant- Team
Building; Vision Setting.
Memberships: BCCIC WCWC (Western Canada
Wilderness Committee) World Food Day BC Federation of Mountain Clubs
Language; other skills: English
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: Extensive wilderness trips- hiking, kayaking , canoeing; Canada
World Youth; David Suzuki; Women's Movement.
Concerns and encouragement
Concerns, We are still
operating within an economic system that believes in growth as the goal. This
is not sustainable. Encouragements: The increase of grassroots
movement and individuals who are changing their lives in response to the
challenge of sustainability.
Changes needed
Issues that need to be addressed to induce
change towards a sustainable society. -A fundamental shift in planning which
is long term rather than short term. -Stop the drain of resources from North
to South. -Reduce the consumptive lifestyle of the North. -Equitable sharing
of resources.
Driver, Elaine
U.C. of Canada
Box 64
Fillmore, Saskatchewan, S0G 1N0 Canada
Work Phone: 306-722-3774
Fax: 306-722-3774 (phone
first to turn fax on)
Vocation Academic
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment,
resources
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
Biographical information
Employment/ Experience:
Teacher; Mother of 3 sons; Farming partner; President, Sask N.D.P. Past
women's president N.F.U., 1985: participant in International. forum, Nairobi
1983-1986: A.C.W.W., Vancouver, B.C. 1987: Womens Peach Congress , Kularney
Ireland, Moscow/First Peasants Congress, 1986: Managua, NICA.
Language; other skills: English
Your publications related to SD
Driver, E. (1994) " Women
and Local Knowledge: Are We Loosing the Skills of Farming? " Workshop at
the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference.
U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.
Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: being at Nairobi Forum, 1985, Food Study Tour to Ethiopia 1994.
Concerns and encouragement
Concerns, International
debt crisis, International capital moving in the global economy.
Changes needed
List of changes needed to promote a
sustainable society: alternative economic system (ie barter), more feminist
women in elected positions with real power, a return to understanding the land
and agriculture, overcome the 'backlash', helping men to become feminist.
Dufau-Kramarz, Maria Elina
6 Mildred Ave.
Toronto, Ontario, M6N 4H9 Canada
Work Phone: 416-762-1766
Fax: 416-762-1766
Email email:NAAPAE@web.apc.org
Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication
SD Interest Areas Biographical information
Interest
Areas: popular/adult education coalition building. Experience/
Employment: 1994: NAAPAE General Assembly Coordinator
Languages;
other skills: English
Memberships: North American Alliance for
Popular and Adult Education (NAAPAE) assembly.
Your publications related to SD
Dufau-Kramarz, M. (1994) "Resistance
and Transformation: Popular Education Challenging the New Global Economy "8/27-31,
1994, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.
Duffy, Wendy
YWCA Calgary
320, 5th Avenue, S.E.
Calgary, Alberta, T2G 0E5 Canada
Home Phone: 403-284-3286
Work Phone: 403-263-1550
Fax: 403-263-4681
Email ftmaclar@acs.ucalgary.ca
Vocation Activist
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community
development, planning
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
Education: 1988: B.A.
International Relations, UBC.
Employment/Experience: NGO overseas
programs and management; Gender and Development, practical approach and
implementation in southern countries; overseas experience in South Asia and
Southeast Asia Aga Khan Foundation, Calgary MSSO. Six years experience with
Canadian NGO's in an administrative and overseas . Field work, including
development education.
Languages; other skills: English
Dupuis, Elaine
University of British Columbia Women's Studies Programme
2206 East Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3 Canada
Home Phone: 604-822-3016
Work Phone: 604-739-7103
Fax: 604-822 9169
Vocation Academic
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public
awareness, communication
Biographical information
Languages; other skills:
French
Your publications related to SD
Dupuis, E.(1994) "Amargi:
A Myth." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development Conference: A
Canadian Perspective. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.
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