Ingrid Leman Stefanovic is an author and consultant in environmental and institutional change management. A former dean of the faculty of environment at Simon Fraser University, she is professor emerita, department of philosophy, and affiliated faculty member in the School of Cities at the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching focus on how values affect public policy, planning, and environmental decision-making. Recent books include The Wonder of Water and Ethical Water Stewardship.
"I wonder if there is not a risk that people are tiring of the standard COVID-19 messaging. How do we encourage positive behaviour, even as the situation becomes more dire?" author and consultant Ingrid Stefanovic asks.
In the case of public health, private rights simply do not trump the common good. And people's lives and well-being should never be reduced exclusively to the parameters of a cost-benefit analysis.
