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The cat, the dog and the python: The proposed importation of savannah cats into Australia
This seminar will explore several aspects of the current construction of the savannah cat controversy. Firstly, it will reveal the competing discourses evident in the savannah cat case as complex; if not irreconcilable. Secondly, it will reveal the nomenclature relied on within these discourses as equally complex. Thirdly, it will highlight suggested changes to the existing administrative powers of the national Vertebrate Pest Committee as being neither transparent nor accountable and therefore of concern.
Making a difference: book published
One of the Human Ecology Forum regulars, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, has just had a book published, “Making a difference: Science, action and integrated environmental research”. Check it out on Amazon or a preview at sensepublishers.com.
The Price of pre-ecological policy inertia (review)
The title of David Eastburn’s Human Ecology forum discussion was The Price of pre-ecological policy inertia: 10,000 hectares of dead Red Gums? And what we got from David was an emphatic removal of the question mark in his title and, sadly, its replacement by an exclamation mark…The kernel of David’s story is this: on the [...]
Roundtable discussion
It has been a while since we did one of our periodic collective ‘brain dumps’, so as we have reached the middle of the 2008 and you’ve all no doubt got many ideas and plans buzzing around in your heads, the aim of this Human Ecology Forum is to draw out those ideas for collective mulling over and discussion. The plan is to have a round table discussion within the broad category of social science, natural science, humanities research / practice / dilemmas / debates / dialogues or just on the conundrums of doing ‘right’ practice out there in the world… 12-2pm Friday 11 July 2008.
Communicating visual information
Communicating information visually: A Periodic Table of Visualistion Methods.
Environmental managers, complexity and effective leadership (review)
On 13 June, Keith Johnston took us into the challenging world of environmental managers in New Zealand. Keith prised open the black box that encapsulates the overwhelming complexity of ‘managing’ the environment as done by people whose cognitive abilities and organisational (social structural) context is of widely varying ability.
Re-imagining suburbia (review)
Review of the discussion on ‘Re-imagining suburbia’ led by Andrew MacKenzie on 20 June 2008. Andrew took us through his ongoing PhD research on discovering what a wide variety of people thought about changes to suburbia resulting from re-development.
The Price of Pre-ecological Policy Inertia: 10,000 hectares of dead Red gums?
This Friday, David Eastburn (Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU) will be leading a discussion on ‘The Price of Pre-ecological Policy Inertia: 10 000 hectares of dead Red gums?’ David will be taking us deep into the conundrums around how the socio-ecological/ economic systems of the Lowbidgee have operated historically and of today, and as drawing from what he has learnt in both employment and study in and around the Lowbidgee.
ecologicalhumanities.org
The Ecological Humanities website based around these people, mostly at the ANU. Would be great if they had a comments page or at least a contact email!
Change The World
Oaktree Foundation’s Hugh Evans (also co-chair of the 2020 Youth Summit) is working on a new TV series called “Change The World“: ‘The Amazing Race’ meets ‘The Apprentice’ meets ‘Make Poverty History’ meets ‘The Inconvenient Truth’.
