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Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Águas Urbanas:
First National Conference on Environmental Regeneration
in Cities

December 2005
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro


keynote presentation:
  
  Changing Nature:
  Towards a Civic Culture of Urban  
  Ecosystems Regeneration



funding:  The Ford Foundation


hosts:   Brazilian Association of Landscape Architects and   Brazilian Institute of Architects


photos, top-to-bottom:

1. Rio from atop Sugar Loaf, with  
   Corcovado in background


2. courtyard detail, University of Rio.

3. waterscape by Roberto Burle-Marx

4. a typical streetscape, with amazing
    Portuguese-style paving detail

5. entryway to our conference venue

6. Cariocan (Rio) woman in orange





















bird-of-paradise flower

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Perth, Scotland

Open Science Conference on Global Change in Mountain Regions

October 2005
Center for Mountain Studies,
Perth College


paper presented:  
  Building a Learning Community
  for Himalayan Sustainability
               (with Sameer Honwad)


funding:  College of Arts & Architecture and my department



photos, top-to-bottom:

1. Perth, Scotland, looking across the
    River Tay


2. The River Tay claims the largest flow
    of any British river






new Perth Concert Hall,
conference venue








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Victoria, British Columbia

Society for Ecological Restoration
International 16th Annual Conference

August 2004
University of Victoria


paper presented:  

  Ecological Restoration Education
  and Emerging Trends in
  Public Scholarship
 
   





photos, top-to-bottom:

1.  and  2.  Breath-taking ferry  across the
     Strait of Georgia


3. Victoria's inner harbor on a late
    August eve


4. the northwest coast is ripe for invasive
    species of many sorts...


5.  fancifully painted driftwood on a
     neighborhood beach














Monkey puzzle tree
 (Araucaria araucana),
an interesting non-native on a
pleasant campus




photos © Ken Tamminga

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