Background
BURTON, Ian was born on June 24, 1935 in Derby, England. Son of Frank Burton and Elsie Victoria Baines.
geographer consultant environmental scientist
BURTON, Ian was born on June 24, 1935 in Derby, England. Son of Frank Burton and Elsie Victoria Baines.
Derby School, University of Birmingham and Oberlin College, Ohio.
Lecturer University of Industry 1960-1961. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario 1961. Consultant Ford Foundation, India 1964-1966.
Professor University of Toronto since 1966, Director Institute for Environmental Studies 1979-1984. Professor, of Environmental Science University of E. Anglia 1972-1973. Senior Adviser Institute Development Research Centre, Ottawa 1972-1975.
Senior Connaught Fellow, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1984-1986. Director Institute Federation Instituts for Advanced Study since 1986, January Corporation. Numerous committee and consultant assignments with UNESCO, WHO, United Nations Environment Programme, Ford Foundation, projects in Sudan and Nigeria etc.
Co-wrote: The Human Ecology of Coastal Flood Hazard in Megalopolis 1968, The Hazardousness of a Place: A Regional Ecology of Damaging Events 1971, The Environment as Hazard 1978. Co-editor: Readings in Resource Management and Conservation 1986, Environmental Risk Assessment 1980, Living with Risk 1982, Geography, Resources and Environment 1986.
Swimming, sailing, hiking, cricket.
Married 1st Lydia Demodoff in 1962 (divorced in 1977). Married 2nd Anne V. T. Whyte in 1977.