Ingrid L Stefanovic

Research Interests

Environmental philosophy; Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology; Values and Assumptions affecting Environmental Decision Making and Public Policy.     


Office
Address: Alumni Hall 309, St. Michael's College, 81 St. Mary Street, Toronto, ON  M5S 1J4
Tel: 416-926-1300 x 3260
Fax: 416-962-4872
ingrid.stefanovic@utoronto.ca

Featured Research Projects

Frontiers of Ethics: Care and Place: Invited member of a 20-person, international research team at the Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago and New York, investigating the convergence of care ethics and the ethics of place from the perspectives of bioethics, phenomenology, epistemology, geography, planning and environmental ethics. See http://www.humansandnature.org/.

The Environment as a Moral Matter: Foundations for Decision-Making. A book in progress surveys decision making models and examines how attitudes, biases, value systems and alternate paradigms impact on behaviour. 

Water Ethics and Public Policy: An investigation of how philosophy can best contribute to the development of public policy, specifically with regard to issues around the “new oil,” water.

Energy Conservation and Demand Management: A SSHRC-funded, collaborative research project investigating the intersection between ethics, environment-behaviour studies and human factors engineering.

Selected Recent Publications

The Natural City: Re-Envisioning the Built Environment, co-edited with Stephen Scharper, (Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2012.) http://www.utppublishing.com/The-Natural-City-Re-envisioning-the-Built-Environment.html

“Sustainability and the City,” in Environmental Ethics for Canadians, Edited by Byron Williston, (NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 373-379.

 “The Greening of Corporate Ethics,” in Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table , Vol. 2010, No. 3, pp. 1-11.

“House of Dreams: Reading Architectural and Natural Environments,” in Indian Journal of Eco-Criticism, Vol. 2, August, 2009, pp. 90-99.

“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, 2009, pp. 410-415, Vol. 15, No. 4. October/December.

“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, 2008).  Pp. 45-57.  Editors John Eyles and Allison Williams.

Featured Upcoming Publications

“Ethics, Energy Demand Management and Environmental Design”, co-authored with Luke Gelinas, forthcoming in Environments journal.