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Bob
Sandford has been exploring the nature, history and culture
of the Canadian West for more than 30 years. The author of some 20
books on the nature of life in the West, Bob was also central to the
development of sense of place-related regional planning strategies for
the mountain national parks. Bob has also organized a number of very
large heritage and natural history initiatives including the Year of
the Great Bear and the United Nations International Year of
Mountains.
Increasingly
Bob's work has focused on the issue of water - and its impact on our
way of life on a global scale. Bob
was chair of the United Nations International Year of Fresh Water and
Wonder of Water Initiative in Canada in 2003–2004. At its biennial
meeting in Ankara, Turkey, in 2004, the prestigious Rosenberg
International Water Policy Forum appointed Bob to the permanent
advisory committee, the first Canadian to be so honoured. In
association with the University of Lethbridge and Alberta Irrigation
Projects Association, Bob helped created the Western Watersheds
Partnership which will aim to unify Canadian water interests in
support of the United Nations “Water for Life” decade which was
proclaimed globally on World Water Day on March 22, 2005. Bob is
presently the Chair of the United Nations International Decade
“Water for Life” in Canada, an initiative that aims to advance
long-term water quality and availability issues in response to climate
change in this country and abroad.
In his recent
book Water and Our Way of Life, Bob
reminds us of just how much water, in all of it's forms, contributes
to our prosperity and to our unique way of life in Canada. Other publications written by
Bob include: The Book of Banff, The
Columbia Icefields, Canadian Summits, and Bruno Engler: A Mountain Life,
as well as some 20 other titles.
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