Deb
navel gazing or pen-pushing: can we make a difference?
A colleague recently commented that at the Human Ecology Forum we take 2 hours a week out of our alternatively relentlessly busy and somewhat self-indulgent schedules to talk about our stuff. And listen to others talk about their stuff. We’re famously called ‘navel gazers’ by other members of our Joseph’s coat faculty members. Comparatively, said [...]
2010 Gerald Young Book Award: tackling wicked problems.
At the recent Society for Human Ecology Conference, Tackling Wicked Problems was awarded the 2010 Gerald Young Book Award for ‘the highest standards of scholarly work in the field of human ecology’. As the only contributing author present, Dr Rob Dyball of ANU accepted the award on behalf of the editors Val Brown, John Harris and Jacqueline Russell and fellow contributors. The [...]
Ecohealth
HEF article published: Cleland and Wyborn “A reflective lens: applying critical systems thinking and visual methods to ecohealth research”, Ecohealth (OnlineFirst)
Food prices
Food prices are at a new high according to the UN. From Climate Shifts.
SHE2011
The Society for HumanEcology Conference 2011 (SHE) early-bird rego closes soon (15 Jan). Submissions for papers clos the end of Jan 2011. President Terry Chapin will deliver a key note. Also look forward to round table discussion on the development of HumanEcology within ESA and any mutually beneficial cross-over with SHE.
Writing an integrated thesis
A list of exemplary multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary ANU theses
Book: Tackling Wicked Problems through the Transdisciplinary Imagination
Jerome Ravetz said “Valerie Brown and her colleagues-really comrades-have achieved the new synthesis for a scientific practice that is so necessary for the current age
Idleness
One for the holidays: we’re happier when busy, but our instinct is for idleness, according to an article on the British Psychological Society’s page (link from Leigh Sales at the Drum)
Climate Change Action 2011
What will 2011 bring for climate change policy in Australia? John Olenich makes some predictions at the Drum
Food security in cities
How will growing cities eat? ANU’s Rob Dyball and David Dumaresq co-authored this Letter to Nature underscoring the importance of food security to the future of cities
