This is the blog of the Human Ecology Forum. We meet regularly on Friday, between 10 and 12 in the Old Forestry Library of the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra. You are welcome to participate through the forum or the blog.
This Friday 5 March Dr. Sander Meijerink from Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands will share his insights into how individuals and collectives shape water policy reform. Giving examples from 15 different case studies, he will describe how policy ‘entrepreneurs’ work strategically to build coalitions and manipulate decision making forums in order to guide water [...]
Catherine Gross will present the results of her PhD at the Fenner School, ANU on Thursday 4 March,1-2pm in the Forestry Lecture Theatre Forestry Building 48 for those of you in Canberra. If you’re not a local, you can watch a video of her research. Catherine presented her video at the Ecological Society of America (ESA) Millennium Conference: Water-Ecosystem Services, [...]
I have just moved to Manila, and went shopping for household basics in the truly enormous Trinoma mall yesterday. I searched in vain for recycled toilet paper, settling at last with one half written in Chinese and Korean script, with a picture of an earth and an explanation of how recycled paper saves trees. Sharing [...]
It was many years ago now that my Filipino supervisor said to me ‘it’s important they see hope in all of this’. He was referring to the Filipino artesanal fishers that we were to invite to a workshop on how addressing the fact that it often costs the fishers more to go fishing than to stay [...]
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