Author.
Consultant.
Philosopher.
Values.
Perceptions.
Environmental Decisions.
Dr. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic
Professor Emerita, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto
Professor Emeritus, Former Dean, Faculty of Environment, Simon Fraser University.
Former Founding Director of UofT’s Centre for Environment (now renamed a School)
Dr. Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is an author and private consultant, whose long-standing career focuses on how values and perceptions affect public policy, planning and environmental decision making. Ingrid currently resides in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Consulting projects have included directing social planning studies, providing corporate training, academic program reviews, and evaluating municipal decision making processes.
Ingrid has published 9 books and reports, over 100 professional articles and given over 150 public lectures and conference presentations.
Recent Publications
Water Ethics.
The Wonder of Water explores how human experience – including our cultural paradigms, value systems, and personal biases – impacts decisions around water. In many ways, the volume expands on the growing field of water ethics to include questions around environmental aesthetics, psychology, and ontology. And yet this book is not simply for philosophers. On the contrary, a specific aim is to explore how more informed philosophical dialogue will lead to more insightful public policies and practices.
Sustainable Development.
Safeguarding our Common Future illustrates the relevance of the phenomenological tradition of philosophy to contemporary cultural concerns, with particular reference to questions surrounding environmental ethics and sustainable development. Books such as this, which strive to bridge disciplinary boundaries, are critical to successfully addressing sustainable development goals.
Ethics + Leadership.
Highlighting ethical leadership strategies, Conversations on Ethical Leadership explores what makes for strong, well-informed, morally sound decision-making at all levels of an organization. In addressing a range of challenges faced by universities and applying those lessons to the broader community of the public and private sectors, Ingrid and her contributors tackle a host of issues related to advancing ethics, diversity, inclusiveness, and the art of moral leadership.
