e-Dialogues

e-Roundtables - Risk, Uncertainty, and the Management of Nuclear Waste

 

Part 2: e-Roundtables - Risk, Uncertainty, and the Management of Nuclear Waste
Moderator Part 2 e-Dialogue (1,2,3,4)

Dr. Ann Dale, Professor,
Science, Technology & Environment, Royal Roads University
Trudeau Fellow

Ann Dale with her dogs Dr. Dale is a rare hybrid, both an academic and an activist. Currently she is engaged in two major research initiatives at Royal Roads University. First, she is leading the e-Dialogues for Sustainable Development, a series of online dialogues exploring critical issues using the power of the internet to influence public policy. Second, she is working on exploring the relationship between social capital and sustainable community development. In 2001, she received the Policy Research Initiative's Outstanding Research Contribution Award for her most recent book, At the Edge: Sustainable Development in the 21st Century.

From 1993 to 2001, she was a Senior Associate with the Sustainable Research Institute at UBC, where she led a major women and sustainable development conference in 1994. In addition, Dr. Dale created and continues to edit a Sustainable Development biannual book series, and chairs the Canadian Consortium for Sustainable Development Research (CCSDR).

Prior to 1993, Dr. Dale was an Executive with the Federal Government of Canada where she had the privilege of working on many innovative and exciting assignments on behalf of the government such as: the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency in 1987, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy in 1988, two of the Neilson Program Task Forces (Regulatory Reform and Natural Resources), the D'Avignon Commission and the Anti-Inflation Board.

 

Co-Moderators

James Doyle, Senior Project Manager, Jacques Whitford Environment Limited, Toronto, Ontario

 


Nancy Averill, Director of Research, Public Policy Forum, Ottawa, Ontario

 


Dr. Lenore Newman, is a writer, teacher and researcher living in Ottawa, Ontario

 


Doug Seeley, Professor, Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC
 

Royal Roads University
Science, Technology & Environment Division

edialogues@royalroads.ca