Deb
New and revived blog coming your way in 2012
Our blog has been a bit on and off this year, much like my commitment and dedication to my PhD, flamenco, samba, learning Tagalog, poi and hulahooping. Guess we can’t do it all. We’ve got grand plans of making this a more crowd sourced project next year with the help of our official webmaster Sandra [...]
Asia Pacific Master Blogging Challenge Posts
Read the sweet and sour pressure-cooked blogs from the 2011 Asia Pacific Master Blog Challenge
Master blogging challenge @ Asia Pacific Week 2011
4 professional academics and journalists were invited to a live blogging challenge as part of ANU’s Asia Pacific Week 2011. As blogging isn’t traditionally a spectator sport, Deb joined in the challenge to blog about three unrelated objects.
World Ocean Day
@FCousteau, grandson of THE Cousteau has tweeted the following: Happy World Ocean Day! For our planet’s health and our future, perform an act of kindness toward the oceans. Great idea.
Journey to Big Land
Millie tells us about her field work in surburbia, where belonging is only a mall away.
Californication: now infecting an environmental activist near you
Is Californication a reality? Read a filmmaker’s account of the Hollywoodisation of environmental activists and scientists alike at the Benshi
Description
The Human Ecology Forum is made up of an undisciplined collection of people researching earth and its many inhabitants. We meet on Fridays between 10 and 12 at the Fenner School of Environment and Society Forestry Library, ANU, Canberra. We’re on break now until Feb 2012.
Resilience Thinking and Mangroves in Indonesia
After returning from researching mangrove ecosystems in Simeulue Island, Aceh (next to Nias Island), Ben Brown of Mangrove Action Project stumbled upon Salt and Walker’s book “Resilience Thinking”. It resonated with his experience of working in Southeast Asia in community-based mangrove management, conservation and restoration, and in response to Salt and Walker’s challenge to readers by to explore resilience concepts in the ecosystems that they work in, Ben wrote a fascinating report on the resilience of mangrove ecosystems in Indonesia. Published by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) in English and Indonesia, but not currently availble online, we’ve posted the report on the Human Ecology Forum blog for your edification.
For-Profit Scientific Publishers and the Culture of Entitlement
Join in Mike ‘s rant about for-profit scientific publishers and the culture of entitlement over at scienceblogs.com.
Food security
Reforming the economics of food production and supply would be beneficial for a number of environmental and social problems, argues Peter Baker at BBC online.
