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Liveable Peel Reading Room

Background information on each of the conference sessions is provided below.

In addition, you can check out our Peel Data Centre for demographic, socio-economic and forecasting information.

SOCIAL

• Good Health for Everyone - Realistic or Utopian Dream?
• Put a Roof on It: Meeting The Housing Needs of Peel's Current and Future Residents
• The Booming Dynamics of Aging in Peel: Crystallizing the Years Ahead

ECONOMIC/ TRANSPORTATION

• Aligning Regional Services with a Changing Economy
• Sustainable Municipal Finance: How Do We Get There?
• A Look through the Crystal Ball at the Future of the Pearson Airport
• Changing the Future Course of Transportation in Peel: From Gridlock to Sustainability

ENVIRONMENT

• Coming to Terms with the Energy Dilemma!
• Getting to Green: Future Trends and Fresh Ideas
• Getting to Green: What does it take?
• Air Quality: Taking a Leadership Role in Climate Change

CULTURE

• Driving Prosperity: The Role of Immigration
• Reaping the Rewards: Culture the Fourth Pillar of Sustainability

SOCIAL

Good Health for Everyone - Realistic or Utopian Dream?

• State of the Region's Health - Focus on Asthma, 2002

• State of the Region's Health - A Peel Health Status Report, 2001

• State of the Region's Health - Focus on Food Borne Disease, 2003

• State of the Region's Health - Focus on Suicide, 2004

• State of the Region's Health - Focus on Overweight and Obesity and Health Related Consequences in Adults

Put a Roof on It: Meeting The Housing Needs of Peel's Current and Future Residents

• 1999 FCM QOL Report (PDF 569 KB, 93 pages)
  
  
• 2001 FCM QOL Report (PDF 681 KB, 115 pages)
  
  
• 2003 FCM Income Gap Report (PDF 1.3 MB, 76 pages)
  
  
• 2003 FCM Overview: Falling Behind - Our Growing Income Gap (PDF 2.1 MB, 12 pages)
  
  
• 2005 FCM QOL Report: Growth, the Economy and the Urban Environment (PDF 1.5 MB, 40 pages)
  
  
• 2004 FCM QOL Theme Report I: Incomes,Shelter and Necessities (PDF 1.4 MB, 36 pages)
  
  
• 2004 FCM Highlights Report (PDF 1002 KB, 36 pages)
  
  
• 2005 FCM QOL Theme Report #2 Quality of Life in Canadian Communities (PDF 3.77 MB, 44 pages)
  
  
• 2005 FCM QOL Theme Report #3 Growth the Economy and Urban Environment (PDF 1.49 MB, 40 pages)
  
  
• Peel Data Centre contains data and bulletins on a variety of themes
  
  
• Seniors' Housing Demand in British Columbia Over the Next 30 Years (PDF 1.02 MB, 39 pages)
  
  
• Housing as a Socio-Economic Determinant of Health: A Framework for Research (PDF 70 KB, 16 pages)
  
  
• Housing and Health

The Booming Dynamics of Aging in Peel: Crystallizing the Years Ahead

• Ontario Seniors' Secretariat
  
  
• Urban Futures (Various Reports and Analysis Related to Population Aging)
  
  
• L. Gavrilov and P. Heuveline. (2003). Aging of Population in The Encyclopedia of Population . New York , Macmillan Reference 2003
  
  
• Public Health Agency of Canada (Various Reports on Aging and Seniors)

ECONOMIC

Aligning Regional Services with a Changing Economy

• Tamarack Community
  
  
• Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity
  
  
• City of Brampton Economic Development Department
  
  
• City of Mississauga Economic Development Department

Sustainable Municipal Finance: How Do We Get There?

• Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

A Look through the Crystal Ball at the Future of the Pearson Airport

• Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA)
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• International Civil Aviation Organization
  • Homepage
  • ICAO-ACI/LAC Seminar on Bird Hazards, Environmental Protection and Land Use at Airports for the NAM/CAR/SAM (Americas) Regions Miami, 24 - 27 April 2001”Land Use and Environmental Control” Michiel Vreedenburgh (PDF 1.97 MB, 45 pages)
    
    
• Airport Council International
  
  
• Transportation Research Board (TRB)

Changing the Future Course of Transportation in Peel: From Gridlock to Sustainability

• Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
  • Homepage
  • Urban Transportation Indicators Survey - Advancing the State of Information on Canada 's Urban Areas (2005) (PDF 61 KB, 8 pages)
  • Urban Transportation and Air Quality (2004) (PDF 80 KB, 10 pages
  • Measuring Progress…Toward the New Vision for Urban Transportation (2000) (PDF 301 KB, 6 pages)
  • Achieving Liveable Cities (1998) (PDF 46 KB, 8 pages)
  • New Vision for Urban Transportation (1998) (PDF 44 KB, 6 pages)
  • A Primer on Urban Transportation and Global Climate Change (1998) (PDF 34 KB, 8 pages)
  • Sustainable Urban Transportation Initiatives in Canada (1996) (PDF 42 KB, 12 pages)
    
    
• The Centre for Sustainable Transportation
  • Homepage
  • Defining Sustainable Transportation (2005) (PDF 166 KB, 22 pages)
  • Kids on the Move - Phase 1 (2005) (PDF 848 KB, 38 pages)
    
    
• Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Homepage
  • Promoting Sustainable Transportation Through Site Design

   

ENVIRONMENT

Coming to Terms with the Energy Dilemma! (Image Files - jpg or gif)

• Gas Lines During Energy Crisis
  
  
• 'Peak Oil' Global Energy Crisis Looming
  
  
• Wind energy: A Clean Energy Solution
  
  
• Opportunities in Wind Power
  
  
• Clean coal technologies - Soot gets another look
  
  
• Geothermal: Don't pay a gas or propane bill ever again!
  
  
• Solar Energy - An Untapped Market
  
  
• Hydroelectric power - ‘White Gold'
  
  
• Tidal Energy Generation - Catch the Wave

Getting to Green: Future Trends and Fresh Ideas

• Environment Canada Facts on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Basin
  
  
• International Joint Commission: Twelfth Biennial Report on Great Lakes Water Quality
  
  
• Environment Canada's Reference Material on Sustainable Development
  
  
• Ontario Environment Commissioner 2004/2005 Annual Report
  
  
• Toronto and Region Conservation Authority's Living City Program
  
  
• Credit Valley Conservation: A Status Report on the Ecosystem Health of the Credit River Watershed

Getting to Green: What does it take?

• Canada Green Building Council
  
  
• United States Green Building Council
  
  
• U.S. EPA Low Impact Development: A Literature Review (PDF 566 KB, 41 pages)
  
  
• Prince Georges County, Low Impact Development Design Guidelines: An Integrated Approach (PDF 8.4 MB, 150 pages)
  
  
• California NEMO Partnership, Low Impact Development: A Sensible Approach to Land Development and Stormwater Management (PDF 448 KB, 5 pages)
  
  

Air Quality: Taking a Leadership Role in Climate Change

• Environment Canada, Clean Air Online
  
  
• Environment Canada, Climate Change
  
  
• Natural Resources Canada: Air
  
  
• Natural Resources Canada: Climate Change
  
  
• Transport Canada: Environmental Program
  
  
• Ontario Ministry of Environment: Air
  
  
• ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
  
  
• Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
  
  
• Clean Air Online, Greater Toronto Area
  
  
• The Clean Air Partnership
  
  
• Clean Air Foundation
  
  
• Pollution Probe

Driving Prosperity: The Role of Immigration

• United Way: Portraits of Peel. (2005)
  
  
• The Maytree Foundation. Alboim Naomi. (2003). Integrating Immigrant Skills into the Ontario Economy: A Ten Point Plan
  
  
• Statistics Canada (2003) Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada : Progress and Challenges of New Immigrants in the Workforce (PDF 223 KB, 17 pages)
  
  
• Region of Peel Immigration Presentation (PDF 641 KB, 46 pages)

Reaping the Rewards: Culture the Fourth Pillar of Sustainability

• Baeker, Greg. (2003). Just Showing Up: Social and Cultural Capital in Everyday Life (PDF 126 KB, 26 pages)
  
  
• Council of Agencies Serving South Asians, (CASSA). Subramaniam, Sangeeta and Desai, Sabra. (1990). Color, Culture and Dual Consciousness: Issues identified by South Asians Immigrant Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
  
  
• Peel Heritage Complex. The Region of Peel Archives
  
  
• Peel Heritage Complex. The Region of Peel Museum

Revised: Friday February 17 2023