Congratulations to Professor Deborah Curran who was recently named the Real Estate Foundation of BC’s (REFBC) 2016 Land Champion.
REFBC’s Land Champion is awarded to individuals who demonstrate leadership, innovation and collaboration in sustainable land development and who have made outstanding contributions to the field.
REFBC’s CEO Jack Wong praised Deborah’s work as:
“innovative, cutting-edge and highly practical … Her work on watershed governance and on smart growth has informed decision makers and changed the way we think about development and sustainability.”
You can read REFBC’s full press release here.
Check out some of Deborah’s work in the area of sustainable land use and watershed governance held in the UVic LIbraries collections:
- Deborah Curran & S. Mascher, “Adaptation in Water Law: Evaluating Australian (New South Wales) and Canadian (British Columbia) Law Reform Initiatives” (forthcoming 2016) 12:1 McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy.
- Deboarh Curran, “Water Law as a Watershed Endeavor: Federal Inactivity as an Opportunity for Local Initiative” (2015) 28:1 Journal of Environmental Law and Practice 53.
- Deborah Curran & Oliver M. Brandes, When the Water Dries up: Lessons from the Failure of Water Entitlements in Canada, the U.S. and Australia (Victoria: POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, Water Sustainability Project, 2012) Online.
- Deborah Curran & Oliver M. Brandes, Water Licences and Conservation: Future Directions for Land Trusts in British Columbia (Victoria: POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, 2009) Online.
- Deborah Curran, Protecting the Working Landscape of Agriculture: A Smart Growth Direction for Municipalities in British Columbia (Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation, 2005) Online.
- Deborah Curran, British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve: A Legal Review of the Question of “Community Need” (Vancouver: Smart Growth BC, 2007). Online.
- Deborah Curran, A Case for Smart Growth (Vancouver: West Coast Environmental Law, 2003) Call Number: HT243 B74 C87 2003