Acknowledgements

Human Activity and the Environment: Annual Statistics 2009 has been prepared by the Environment Accounts and Statistics Division under the direction of Robert Smith (Director), Rowena Orok (Acting Director) and Doug Trant (Chief). Heather Dewar served as editor and project manager, Monique Deschambault, Laurie Jong, Marissa Mair and Michelle Tait were the database managers and technical editors.

The feature article was written by:

Heather Dewar

Michelle Tait

Jennie Wang

Major contributions to the statistics and analysis were made by:

Craig Gaston

Ziad Ghanem

Joe St. Lawrence

Thanks to the following people for their technical support in the areas of marketing, graphic design, map creation, translation, reviewing, editing, proofreading, dissemination and technical development:

The support and co-operation of the following federal departments and agencies is also gratefully acknowledged: