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Source: Deborah Che, 785-532-3408, dche@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Beth Bohn, 785-532-6415, bbohn@k-state.edu

Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008

CANADIAN ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT EXPERT MAUREEN REED TO BE K-STATE ADVANCE DISTINGUISHED LECTURER

MANHATTAN -- A Canadian environmental management expert will present an ADVANCE Distinguished Lecture at Kansas State University.

Maureen Reed, acting director of the School of Environment and Sustainability and a professor in the department of geography at the University of Saskatchewan, will present "The Geography of Environmental Care: Management Regimes in Canadian Biosphere Reserves" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in the K-State Student Union's Big 12 Room.

The lecture is sponsored by the K-State ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Program; the K-State chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the international honor society in geography; and the K-State department of geography. Her presentation is free and open to the public.

Reed examines how current efforts by Canadian biosphere reserves to practice community-based ecosystem management have emerged from changing values and practices associated with conservation and development, systems of knowledge, governance, and culture. She assesses the implications of these changes for the ability of biosphere reserves to meet conservation, sustainable development and scientific research objectives.

The author of dozens of journal articles and book chapters, Reed also is the author of two books, "Our Environment: A Canadian Perspective, Third Edition," and "Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities, which was awarded the K.D. Srvastava Prize for academic excellence.

Because she has a particular interest in explaining social and equity dimension of environmental and land use policies as they affect rural places, Reed's research is focused on how participatory decision-making approaches, working conditions, gender relations and sociocultural changes affect the capacity of rural communities to work toward sustainability. She currently is working on several research projects related to ecosystem management in forestry and agricultural communities, biosphere reserves and national parks. Reed's work has been supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Parks Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Status of Women Policy Research Unit, the Canadian Forest Service and the Sustainable Forest Management Network.

Reed earned a bachelor's degree, with honors, from the University of Victoria; a master's from the University of Toronto; and a doctorate from the University of Waterloo, all in Canada. She is the recipient of the inaugural Alumni Award from the University of Waterloo in 2007 for her contributions to the academic profession.