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Report from COP15
From ANU Human Ecology student Jasmin Logg-Scarvell
I had the opportunity to attend COP15 in December as part of the ANU climate change science and policy field school. I came out of Copenhagen with many experiences and insights, but this blog focuses just on my ‘research’ area, which I presented a couple of weeks ago at [...]
movers and shakers in water policy
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 [...]
Fairness and justice in environmental decision-making
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, [...]
eco-shopping in the Philippines
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 [...]
hope helps (or: smiling whilst working in fisheries)
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 [...]
Faux Forum for socio/eco PhD students during the summer break
Welcome to the reawakening of the Human Ecology Forum blog!
Following advice from the recently published book ‘Doctorates down under’, a group of PhD students researching the nexus between people and environment are establishing a ‘peer support group’. The group will meet semi-regularly, both through Skype and face-to-face, to discuss their ideas and issues. Interested? contact [...]
