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Yi-Yun, Chen

China Association of Social Workers Jinglun Family Center,

No 2 Dong-Chang Hutong Beixiang
Wangfu Street,
Beijing 100006, China

Home Phone: 86-01-524-1030
Work Phone: 86-01-524-1030
Fax: 86-01-513-5690
Vocation Other

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Experience/
Employment: A sociologist in family studies and women's issues. Present : senior researcher in Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. At the same time, directing a NGO institution of Jinglum Family Center of China Association of Social Workers. The Center has 3 programs related to women:girls and young women education, women's counselling and activity house, shelter for women victims of domestic violence.
Education: graduate from Beijing University in 1964

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: people, home.

Concerns and encouragement

Concerns, The image of women in mass media needs to be changed through public education.

Changes needed
List of factors to be addressed in order to integrate S.D. into society: less male domination in the political organizations; image of women in mass media, self awareness of women through education, participation in policy making, relationship with male partners and colleagues.

York, Valerie

3054 Marine Drive
West Vancouver, British Columbia, V7V 1M5 Canada

Home Phone: 604-926 8735
Work Phone: 604-926-8735
Fax: 604-926-4115
Vocation Bureaucrat

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy

Biographical information
Experience/
Employment: Formerly Senior Advisor (BC) to BC federal cabinet minister, Mary Collins; attended as advisor to the Minister the annual Federal/Provincial Status of Women Ministers Conferences and the Commonwealth Status of Women Ministers Conference, Ottawa, October, 1990; the Globe series of conferences, Van.-1990-94 -Have provided organizational and funding support, advice and mentoring to women interested in involvement in all aspects of political life in Canada from the first female Prime Minister of Canada to addressing the Young Women and Politics Conference, Feb. 1994, Van., sponsored by the Alma Mater Society of UBC.

Yoshida, Asako

International Institute for Sustainable Development

161 Portage Avenue East, 6th Floor
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 0Y4 Canada

Work Phone: 204-958-7732
Fax: 204-958-7710
Vocation Other

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information

Education: M.L.A., University of Toronto B.A., Sociology/ Cultural and Social/ Social Anthopology, University of Toronto.
Languages; other skills: English
Employment/Experience: Project Officer, Communications, International Institute for Sustainable Development.
Memberships: Various Information Professional Associations.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: I think public discussions on "sustainable development" ideas provide us opportunities to rethink and redirect and participate in the social changes for better, cutting across various sectors. I don't think the notion of sustainable development is an especially new one but since the Earth Summit, it has become a shared language among policy maker communites. I could think of various thinkers and writers who talked about " Sustainable Development" in the past but without using this term. As a more recent example, I would list Barbara Ward, a founder of IIED. Her book: A Small Planet.

Concerns and encouragement
Certainly, the 1992 Earth Summit and the wider interest in sustainable development helps people get involved in active debates and public policy leading to tangible changes. However, it is also true that SD has become the rhetoric for political correctness and in effect, maintaining to the status quo.

Changes needed
Changes Needed: more clear vision on and related actions towards alternative economics in contrast to the prevailing movement towards "global economy'; more wider discussions on linkages between consumer society in the North and environmental degration and losses of livelihood among people in the South; rethinking and actual follow-up policy change on international development aid.

Young, Raelene

Say No to American Garbage

22 Battery Road
St. John's, Newfoundland, A1A 1A4 Canada

Home Phone: 604-255 5662
Work Phone: 709-726 5381
Vocation Activist

Biographical information

Languages; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Young, R. "Women in Activism ll: A Moral Stand-Civil Disobediance and the Law" Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.

Zaman, Sadia

Vison T.V.

189 Church St.
Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1Y7

Home Phone: 416-766-3528
Work Phone: 416-868-1599
Fax: 416-369-1763
Vocation Media

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information
Educationt: Journalism degree (B.A.); French immersion Experience/
Employment: Journalist/TV producer specializing in issues of race, gender, and social justice. Have worked in overseas journalism in Thailand, Pakistan, and South Africa.

Your publications related to SD
Zaman, S. "Words, Pictures and Power." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.

Zamluk, Rita

, British Columbia,

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

Biographical information

Languages; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Zamluk, R. (1994) Building Networks Among Women in Universities. Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Zandbergen, Paul

#137 - 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC Campus
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z1

Home Phone: 224-0146
Work Phone: 822-6224
Fax: 822-5250

Zellerer, Evelyn

Simon Fraser University

#605 1155 Pacific St.
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6E 3X8 Canada

Work Phone: 604-682 2469
Fax: 604-291 4140
Vocation First Nations

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Interest Areas: aboriginal justice and violence against women with a focus on aboriginal women
Education: PhD. candidate, criminology Simon Fraser University.
Employment/Experience: researcher and consultant.
Memberships: member of Violence against Aboriginal Women and the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

Your publications related to SD
Zellerer, Evelyn (1994) 'Review of Aboriginal Family Violence Treatment Programs for Men', Correctional Services of Canada.
Zellerer, E. Co-author of 'Crime, law, and justice amoung the Inuit in the Baffin Region' IN: Indigenous People and The Application of the Criminal Law.

Zimmerman, Silvaine

ECOLOGIC

RR#1 D76 Bowen Island
Bowen Island, British Columbia, V0N 1G0 Canada

Home Phone: 604-947 0267
Fax: 604-947 0267
Vocation First Nations; Academic

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Research (science, social science)

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment, resources

Biographical information
S.D. Interests: forestry, marine and terrestrial Ecology, social Justice and peace, appropriate technology, ecosystem based planning, aboriginal self-government and international research exchange-ecology.
Experience/ Employment: 20 years in academic and environmental pursuit of ecology - scientific, technical and philosophical.
Education: MSc. McGill University., BSc. Concordia University.
Memberships: Member of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.
Languages; other skills: English, French, Spanish, German, and some Anishanabe

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