Substantial. Publications.
Books & Reports
CONVERSATIONS ON ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: Lessons Learned from University Governance. 2023. University of Toronto Press. University of Toronto Press - Conversations on Ethical Leadership (utorontopress.com)
ETHICAL STEWARDSHIP OF WATER. 2020. Co-edited with Zafar Adeel. Springer Publishers. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030495398#otherversion=9783030495404
THE WONDER OF WATER: LIVED EXPERIENCE, POLICY AND PRACTICE. 2020. University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/us/the-wonder-of-water-2
THE NATURAL CITY: RE-ENVISIONING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. 2012. Co-edited with Stephen Scharper, University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/ca/the-natural-city-4
CANADIANS AT RISK: OUR EXPOSURE TO NATURAL HAZARDS. 2010. Contributing author. (Toronto: Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction,) ICLR Research Paper Series – Number 47. Also posted on Canadian Risk and Hazards (CHRNet) website. See www.crhnet.ca under “Resources/Papers” or http://www.crhnet.ca/fileadmin/documents/pdf_subdirectory/Canadians%20at%20Risk.pdf.
ASSESSMENT OF POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN RELATION TO HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT, WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT. 2008. A Report prepared for Health Canada and co-authored with Clare Wiseman, Centre for Environment.
SAFEGUARDING OUR COMMON FUTURE: RETHINKING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. 2000. State University of New York Press (SUNY.) https://www.sunypress.edu/p-3212-safeguarding-our-common-future.aspx
THE EVENT OF DEATH: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ENQUIRY. 1987. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
THE CHILD IN THE WORLD OF TOMORROW. 1979. Editorial Assistant to J. Tyrwhitt, London: Pergamon Press.
GREAT LAKES MEGALOPOLIS: FROM CIVILIZATION TO ECUMENIZATION. 1976. Co-editor, with Alexander B. Leman. Ottawa: Ministry of State for Urban Affairs.
Sample Articles
“Ethics, Sustainability and Water Management: A Canadian Case Study.” 2015. Handbook of Sustainable Water Use and Management: Examples of New Approaches and Perspectives, edited by Walter Leal and Vakur Sumer. New York, London: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3-16.
“An adaptable Health Impact Assessment (HIA) framework for assessing health within Environmental Assessment (EA): Canadian Context, International Application”. 2017. With Lindsay McCallum and Chris Ollson. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Available, November 6, 2017, at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14615517.2017.1364026.
“Ethics, Energy Demand Management and Environmental Design.” 2012. With Luke Gelinas, in Environments interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 33-55.
“Honoring the Landscape through Thoughtful Decision Making”. 2012. Minding Nature, May 2012, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 12-18.
“The Greening of Corporate Ethics.” 2010. Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table , Vol. 2010, No. 3, pp. 1-11.
Other Publications
Refereed Chapters in Books
2016: “Paradigms, Praxis and Environmental Phenomenology,” in Nature and Experience: Phenomenology and the Environment, Edited by Bryan E. Bannon, (London, New York: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 129-142. (Co-written with Research Assistants Zach Shefman and Kristina Welch)
2015: “Geo-Ethics: Re-Envisioning Applied Philosophy”, in GeoEthics, edited by Max Wyss and Silvia Peppoloni, Amsterdam: Elsevier Press, pp. 15-23.
2015: “Ethics, Sustainability and Water Management: A Canadian Case Study,” in Handbook of Sustainable Water Use and Management: Examples of New Approaches and Perspectives, edited by Walter Leal and Vakur Sumer. New York, London: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3-16.
2012: “Sustainability and the City,” in Environmental Ethics for Canadians, Edited by Byron Williston, Oxford University Press, pp. 373-379.
2008: “Holistic Paradigms of Health and Place: How Beneficial are they to environmental policy and practice?” in Sense of Place, Health and Quality of Life, “Geographies of Health” series, Ashgate Publishing. Pp. 45-57. Editors John Eyles and Allison Williams.
2005: “Mitigating Natural Disasters: The Role of Eco-Ethics” with David Etkin, Reprinted in Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters: International Perspectives. Edited by C. Emdad Haque. (The Netherlands: Springer.) pp. 135-158.
2005: “Challenging Traditional Academic Borders through Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Environmental Philosophy,” in Limina: Thresholds and Borders, edited by Joseph Goering, Francesco Guardiani and Giulio Silano, (Ottawa: Legas Press.) PP. 195-206.
2004: “Children and the Ethics of Place,” in Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy, (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press,) edited by Robert Frodeman and Bruce Foltz. Pp. 55-76.
2002: “Remembering the Mystical in Dwelling,” in an anthology entitled Mystics, Visions and Miracles, Joe Goering and Francesco Guardiani, Giulio Silano, editors, (Ottawa: Legas, 2002) pp. 51-60.
2001: “Environmental Philosophy: Phenomenological Ecology,” in Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, (London: John Wiley & Sons Limited,) Volume 5 pp. 253-257.
1997: "Encouraging Environmental Care," in Canadian Issues in Applied Environmental Ethics, edited by Alex Wellington, Allan Greenbaum and Wesley Cragg (Peterborough: Broadview Press).
Editing Special Issues of Journals
2004: Guest Editor of Ekistics International Journal of Human Settlements. Triple issue, on “The natural city. The Problems and Science of Human Settlements”. Volume 71, Number 424/425/426.
1999: Co-Editor (until 2007) and Book Review Editor (until 2003), Environmental Philosophy, Journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Published bi-annually.
1988: Co-editor with M. Church, of Ekistics journal, double issue, on "Stress and Urban Stress." Vol. 55, Number 331/332, July/August-September/October, 1988.
Refereed Articles
2017: With Lindsay McCallum and Chris Ollson, “An adaptable Health Impact Assessment (HIA) framework for assessing health within Environmental Assessment (EA): Canadian Context, International Application”, in Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal. Available, November 6, 2017, at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14615517.2017.1364026.
2016: With Lindsay McCallum and Chris Ollson, “Development of a Health Impact Assessment Screening Tool: A Value vs. Investment Approach” in Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, Vol. 18, No. 3 (April 2016) 1650019 (22 pages). Available at: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1464333216500198
2016: With Lindsay McCallum and Chris Ollson, “Prioritizing health: a systematic approach to scoping determinants in health impact assessment”, in Frontiers in Public Health, 22 August 2016, Article 170, pp. 1-15, |http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00170
2015: With Lindsay McCallum and Chris Ollson, “Advancing the practice of health impact assessment in Canada: obstacles and opportunities” in Environmental Impact Assessment Review, (Elsevier), No. 55, 2015, pp. 98-109.
2014: “Phenomenology, Philosophy and Praxis,” in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall. Pp. 58-9.
2012: “Ethics, Energy Demand Management and Environmental Design,” with Luke Gelinas, in Environments interdisciplinary journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 33-55.
2012: “Honoring the Landscape through Thoughtful Decision Making”, Minding Nature, May 2012, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 12-18.
2012: “To Build or Not to Build a Road: How do we honour the landscape by way of thoughtful decision making?”, Center for Humans and Nature, at http://www.humansandnature.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/To_Build_or_Not_to_Build_a_Road2.pdf.
2010: “The Greening of Corporate Ethics,” in Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table , Vol. 2010, No. 3, pp. 1-11.
2010: “Selfhood and Environmental Responsibility”, in Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Philosophy Conference, Athens, Greece. (Refereed Proceedings.)
2009: “House of Dreams: Reading Architectural and Natural Environments,” in Indian Journal of Eco-Criticism, Vol. 2, August, pp. 90-99.
2009: “Children’s Health and Environmental Education and Training for Health Care Professionals in Canada: Assessing Gaps, Barriers and Needs,” co-authored with Clare Wiseman, in the International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, pp. 410-415, Vol. 15, No. 4. October/December.
2008: “Educational Alliance for a Sustainable Toronto: The University of Toronto and the City’s UNU Regional Centre of Expertise”. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, special issue on Regional Centres of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development. Volume 9, Issue 4, 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Pp. 416-427.
2005: “Mitigating Natural Disasters: The Role of Eco-Ethics” with David Etkin, in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. Vol. 10. pp. 467-490. Reprinted in Ekistics, Vol. 71, No. 427/428 and 429. 2004.
2005: “Decisions, Decisions,” (with Michael Stefanovic,) in Proceedings of the Project Management Institute Global Congress, Toronto, Canada. Pp. 1-8.
2003: “The Contribution of Philosophy to Hazards Assessment and Decision Making,” in Natural Hazards, Vol. 28, pp. 229-247.
2003: “What is an Ethics of Place?” in Call to Earth: Journal of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 30-32.
2002: “On the Waterfront,” Alternatives environmental journal, 28:3, Summer 2002, pp. 27-28.
2000: “Phenomenological Reflections on Ecosystem Health”, in Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 253-269.
2000: “Calculation and Sustainability,” in Call to Earth: Journal of International Association for Environmental Philosophy, September, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 2-5.
1998: "Phenomenological Encounters with Place: Cavtat to Square One" in Journal of Environmental Psychology, Vol. 18, pp. 31-44.
1996: "Interdisciplinarity and Wholeness: Lessons from Eco-Research," Environments journal, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 74-94.
1996: "An Integrative Framework for Sustainability: The Case of the Hamilton Harbour Ecosystem" (invited presentation) in the Refereed Proceedings volume for the conference on "Synthesis of Tradition and Modernity for a Sustainable Society," organized by the Commonwealth Association of Architects in India, 1995, pp. 19-26.
1995: "A Code of Ethics for Short Hills Park," Refereed Proceedings volume of the Leading Edge '94 Conference, organized by the Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy. (pp. 278-290.)
1995: "New Project Management Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research," (with Michael Stefanovic,) refereed proceedings of the annual meeting of the Project Management Institute, October 13-18, 1995, New Orleans. ( pgs. 625-632.)
1995: "Banking on Humane Design: The Contribution of Phenomenology" in Andrew D. Seidel, ed., Banking on Design?, (Oklahoma City: EDRA). (Also edited six presentations for publication.) Refereed Proceedings of the 1994 Environmental Design Research Association Annual Meeting. (pp.27-36.)
1994: "Temporality and Architecture: A Phenomenological Reading of Built Form," in Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, ll:3, Autumn, 1994. pp. 211-225.
1993: "Toward a Phenomenological Rethinking of Emotional Power of Place," in Power by Design, Refereed Proceedings of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Annual Meeting 1993. Pp. 261-262. Edited by Roberta M. Feldman, Graeme Hardie and David G. Saile (Okalahoma City: EDRA).
1992: "The Experience of Place: Housing Quality from a Phenomenological Perspective," in Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. l, Issue 2, December, l992. pp. 145-161.
1991: "Evolving Sustainability: A Re-Thinking of Ontological Foundations," in The Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy, Vol. 8, No. 4, Fall, l991. pp. 194-200.
Professional, Academic Non-Refereed Articles
2013: “The Phenomenology of Water: Reflections on the Oneiric Draw of Hidden Streams” in Holistic Science Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 2, March 2013, pp. 43-46.
2013: “The Death and Life of a Hidden Stream: Remembering Taddle Creek”, a 5-part series in Water Canada online journal. Accessible at:
http://watercanada.net/2013/part-one-the-death-and-life-of-a-hidden-stream/
http://watercanada.net/2013/part-two-the-death-and-life-of-a-hidden-stream/
http://watercanada.net/2013/part-three-the-death-and-life-of-a-hidden-stream/
http://watercanada.net/2013/part-four-the-death-and-life-of-a-hidden-stream/
http://watercanada.net/2013/part-five-the-death-and-life-of-a-hidden-stream/
2013: “Building a Sense of Place”, Urbanature, Vol. 1, No, 1, 2013. P. 8.
2013: “Henri Bortoft: Philosophy as Lived”, in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 24, No. 2, Spring, 2013, pp. 4-5. Reprinted in Holistic Science Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 2, March 2013, pp. 17-18.
2013: “A Pattern Language of Pedagogical Place” in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 24, No.1, Winter 2013, pp. 8-11.
2012: “Why Water Ethics Matter” in Water Canada, September/October 2012, p. 42.
2010: “Environmental Sustainability and the City of Toronto,” with Gabe Eidelman, published by the University of Toronto Cities Centre. Pp. 1-7.
2009: “The Place of Ethics in the Teaching of Science,” in Science Teachers of Ontario Crucible Online Journal, 40 (4), March. www.stao.org
2006: “Negotiating an ethic of place in a globalizing society” in Ekistics: International Journal of Human Settlements, Vol. 73, No. 436-441, January-December, pp. 57-61.
2004: “Speaking of Place: In Dialogue with Malpas,” in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 15, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 6-9.
2004: “The Natural City: Challenging the Urban/Nature Divide” invited in the United Nations Newsletter of the NGO Committee on Human Settlements, Issue No. 1, August 2004, p. 4.
2004: “The Natural City – Toronto ” in World Bank’s Urban Age magazine. Invited. Online at http://www.urbanage.org/magazine/articles/0074.html
2002: “The Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail, Canada: Integrating Natural and Built Environments” in Ekistics: International Journal of Human Settlements, Vol. 69, no. 415/416/417, July-December, 2002, pp. 304-316.
2001: “The House as a Mirror,” Reprint. Invited for inclusion in the SIRS Mandarin Inc., Boca Raton, Florida, online electronic database. Articles are selected from more than 4,000 domestic and international magazines and professional journals for distribution to more than 50,000 libraries and educational institutions worldwide.
2000: “Rootedness in Place and Being-at-home” in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 11, No. 3, Fall, pp. 9-13.
2000: “The House as a Mirror,” Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 8, No. 9, November, pp. 9-11.
2000: “Charting a Creative Course,” in On Higher Education: thoughts and reflections on the University experience, (Toronto: University of Toronto SAC, 2000.)
1997: "An Integrative Framework for Interdisciplinarity: The Case of the Hamilton Harbour Ecosystem," Ekistics: International Journal of Human Settlements. No. 382/3/4, pp. 83-92.
1996: "Encouraging Environmental Care: A Code of Ethics for Short Hills Park" in The George Wright Forum, Volume 13, Number 2. (Reprint.)
1995: "Dwelling in Cavtat: A Phenomenological Reading of Place," Environmental Theory Arena, Summer 1995, Volume 3, Number Two, pp. 4-9.
1994: "What is Phenomenology?," in Brock Review. Vol. 3, No. 1, Spring, 1994. pp. 58-77.
1993: "Reflections on UNCED '92," in Brock Review, Volume 2, Number l, l993. pp. 74-78.
1992: "Sustainability, Dwelling and Wholeness" in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring l992. Pp. 14-15.
1984: "Phenomenological Insights to Guide the Design of Housing", in Ekistics: International Journal of Human Settlements, July/August.
Articles in Non-Academic Publications
2022: “Did we lose our kindness to COVID?” in National Observer, February 23, 2022, at https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/02/23/opinion/did-we-lose-our-kindness-covid.
2020: “How about less patronizing, more positive reinforcement in COVID-19 messaging in 2021?” National Observer, December 31, 2020, at: How about less patronizing, more positive reinforcement in COVID-19 messaging in 2021? | National Observer.
2020: “Keeping our Moral Compass through the COVID-19 pandemic”, National Observer, April 16, at: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2020/04/16/opinion/keeping-our-moral-compass-through-covid-19-pandemic
2020: “The Lived Experience of Water,” in the University of Toronto Press blog, March 5, at: https://utorontopress.com/ca/blog/2020/03/05/the-lived-experience-of-water/
2018: “Championing the Green Economy: Why Values Matter more than Logic,” The Hill Times, April 3, at https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/03/19/championing-green-economy-values-matter-logic/137789
2018: “Why Canada Should Care about the UN Water Decade,” April 3, National Observer, in https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/04/03/opinion/why-canada-should-care-about-un-water-decade
2017: “Bridging the Divide: Why Universities and Governments Need Stronger Partnerships,” in National Observer, March 19, at: http://www.nationalobserver.com/2017/03/19/opinion/bridging-divide-why-universities-and-governments-need-stronger-partnerships
2016: “Gardens, Guns and Values: Canadians and the American Psyche,” in Georgia Straight, November 21, at http://www.straight.com/news/832266/ingrid-leman-stefanovic-gardens-guns-and-values-canadians-and-american-psyche
2016: Robertson versus Nenshi – how should Trudeau decide? (And how can universities help?!), June 16, George Straight. See http://www.straight.com/news/719651/ingrid-leman-stefanovic-robertson-versus-nenshi-how-should-trudeau-decide-and-how-can
2016: “Meeting Margaret Trudeau,” Spring E-Newsletter for the SFU Faculty of Environment.
2015: “Why Justin Trudeau’s leadership at COP 21 invites an appeal to “the better angels of our natures”, published in Georgia Straight, November 7, 2015. See http://www.straight.com/news/569986/why-justin-trudeaus-leadership-cop-21-invites-appeal-better-angels-our-natures
2015: “Who Pays for Climate Change is a Tricky Question,” The Province, November 15. See http://blogs.theprovince.com/2015/11/15/ingrid-leman-stefanovic-who-pays-for-climate-change-is-a-tricky-question/
2015: “Why the Pope’s Calls for an Ecological Conversion Matters to Non-Catholics”, published in Georgia Straight, July 9.
2015: “The Pacific Water Research Centre and Canadian Water Summit,” published in Talking Sustainability, June 9.
2015: “At Home with Jim Murray,” in Canadian Architect, April. P. 34.
2007: “The Environment as a Moral Issue” in The Toronto Star, March 11.
2007: “Ethics and Responsibility: Looking at the Environment as a Moral Issue,” in University of Toronto Bulletin¸ February 20. P. 16
2006: “The Natural City Success Stories” (pp. 4-6) and “Director’s Foreword” (p. 1), Centre for Environment Annual Report, University of Toronto.
2005: “Earth Insights” in Arts and Science Ideas, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-27.
2004: “Natural City provides dialogue on ecological integrity of cities” in Enviro-News, University of Toronto, Summer. Pp. 1 and 5.
2004: “Nourishing the Natural City,” in University of Toronto Bulletin, July 26. P. 16.
2002: “Whither the Environment? Rethinking Earth Day” University of Toronto Bulletin, May 6, 2002, Number 18, p. 9.
2002: “Environmental Philosophy Class Discovers Recycling at St. Michael’s College,” Environews, Institute for Environmental Studies. Spring 2002.
2001: “From End to End on the Waterfront Trail,” in Pathways, Summer, 13 (3), pp. 22-25.
1995: "An Ethic of Environmental Care," Bruce Trail News, Summer, pp.23-25.
1995: "A Code of Ethics for Environmental Care of Short Hills Provincial Park," Canadian Federation for the Humanities, in their "Humanities Research Fiches." (one-page circular.)
1992: "The Need of Holistic Planning for Welland Avenue," in The Downtowner, September/October 1992. Pp. 2-3.
Invited Book Reviews
2020: Forthcoming: Jim Ellis, Editor, Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West, in Great Plains Research.
2006: Allen Carlson and Arnold Berleant, The Aesthetics of Natural Environments, in University of Toronto Quarterly. "Letters in Canada 2005" 76.1 (Winter 2006/07): 317-19.
2001: Robert Frodeman (ed.) Earth Matters: The Earth Sciences, Philosophy and the Claims of Community, in Philosophy and Geography, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 244-248.
2000: David Seamon’s Dwelling, Seeing and Designing, in Phenomenological Inquiry, Vol. 23, October, pp. 151-155.
1999: Baird Callicott's Earth's Insights, in Ecosystem Health, June 1999, 5(2) pp. 125-7.
1998: Henry Bortoft's The Wholeness of Nature, in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 9, No. 1, Winter 1998, pp. 6-7.
1997: S. Van der Ryn and S. Cowan's Ecological Design and David Wann's Deep Design, in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 1997, pp. 7-8.
1997: Dolores Hayden's The Power of Place, for the Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 6:2, December, pp. 198-201.
1997: Hans-Georg Gadamer's The Enigma of Health, in Humane Health Care International Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, Summer 1997.
1997: Beatriz Colomina's Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media for Canadian Journal of Urban Research, June 1997, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 59-61.
1995: J. Bockemuhl's Toward a Phenomenology of the Etheric World: Investigations into the Life and Nature of Man, in Newsletter of the Society for the Evolution of Science, Vol. ll, Number 1, Winter, 1995, pp. 10-15.
1995: Edward Casey's Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World, in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 7-9.
1994: J. Bockemuhl's "Toward a Phenomenology of the Etheric World," in Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, Spring 1994, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 5-6.
1994: Hok-Lin Leung's City Images, in Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 3:1, June, 1994. pp. 88-90.