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Thank you for your interest. We are currently hiring Sessional Instructors, Distance Education Supervisors, and Tutor Markers for the 2012-13 year.

For details on the postings and how to apply, download the 2012-2013 SCD job postings here.

Application deadline: Noon on May 15, 2012.

Positions may also be available in the School of Resource and Environmental Managementand/or the Departments of Geography,  Archaeology, and Environmental Science. (Click on their names to be redirected to the appropriate sites.)

There has never been a more urgent time to develop our communities sustainably. But what does the term “sustainable development” really mean? And how do policy makers and local governments engage citizens to make decisions that are considered “sustainable”?  

Two of Vancouver’s most influential planning academics recently addressed these questions in a public lecture.   Dr. Mark Roseland, Director of the Center for Sustainable Community Development and Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at SFU, and Dr. Ronald Kellett, Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at UBC, lead us on a journey to explore the concept of sustainable community development, present new tools to compare alternatives for urban design, and discuss how to effectively engage citizens in the planning process through “measured visualizations.”

To listen to this free lecture, supported by the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, please click here.

The Bolivia CED project has produced a document outlining the innovative pedagogy used in the CED training programs in Bolivia. More details

Food Sovereignty in Canada explores how communities all over the country are actively engaged in implementing alternative agricul- tural and food models within the framework of food sovereignty — taking control over food- producing resources, markets and agricultural policy.
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Food Sovereignty, the internationally focused volume advocates a practical, radical change to the way much of our food system currently operates, this book argues that food sovereignty is the means to achieving a system that will provide for the food needs of all people while respecting the principles of environmental sustainability, local empowerment and agrarian citizenship.
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Students are excited to be making their SCD 410: Social Enterprise for Sustainable Community Development course project idea a reality. Shift Delivery Co-op is a cargo-trike delivery service for goods deliveries in downtown Vancouver. Organized as a worker cooperative, they’ll provide both a zero-emissions alternative to conventional delivery methods and an empowering work opportunity for themselves and other young people. For more information on the project see the news articles in the SFU News and the Vancouver Sun or visit the Shift Delivery Co-op website at: shiftdelivery.com.

The Centre is pleased to announce its participation in the second phase of “Cooperation, Knowledge and Development; A North-South Project for Cooperation and Development; Latin America-Caribbean-Canada”. This initiative, funded by IDRC-Canada, is aimed at further development of an Internet-based model that supports North-South and South-South knowledge partnerships based on management of communication, information and learning activities implemented through ICT-based pedagogical approaches, resources and practices. The Centre invites professors, researchers, practitioners and students to visit the project at http://ccd-ckd.cebem.org. Interested persons may contact the project’s coordinator in order to examine ways to collaborate or contribute to its various activities.

The City of Vancouver and its economic development agency, the Vancouver Economic Commission, announced today the Campus-City collaborative (C3): an initiative to bring together the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Economic Commission and six post-secondary institutions to work together towards the City’s green economy targets. This innovative program is the first of its kind in Canada.

CityStudio, a C3 success story, is a program which connects students, faculty,  experts and City staff working on real-world projects through dialogue and design. This program celebrates innovation, collaboration and creative sustainability education.

The SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD) has played a key role in bringing C3 about:

· Professor Mark Roseland, CSCD Director, is the SFU liaison for C3

· Professor Janet Moore, co-founder of CityStudio, is a member of the CSCD Steering Committee

· Lena Soots, the CityStudio coordinator, is an instructor in the Centre’s academic certificate program in Sustainable Community Development, and a doctoral student in the SFU Faculty of Education.

Professors Roseland and Moore have been working for several years to bring C3 to fruition.

(learn more)

The City of Vancouver and its economic development agency, the Vancouver Economic Commission, announced today the Campus-City collaborative (C3): an initiative to bring together the City of Vancouver, Vancouver Economic Commission and six post-secondary institutions to work together towards the City’s green economy targets. This innovative program is the first of its kind in Canada.

CityStudio, a C3 success story, is a program which connects students, faculty,  experts and City staff working on real-world projects through dialogue and design. This program celebrates innovation, collaboration and creative sustainability education.

The SFU Centre for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD) has played a key role in bringing C3 about:

· Professor Mark Roseland, CSCD Director, is the SFU liaison for C3

· Professor Janet Moore, co-founder of CityStudio, is a member of the CSCD Steering Committee

· Lena Soots, the CityStudio coordinator, is an instructor in the Centre’s academic certificate program in Sustainable Community Development, and a doctoral student in the SFU Faculty of Education.

Professors Roseland and Moore have been working for several years to bring C3 to fruition.

(learn more)