Calendar
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, [...]
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 [...]
A sense of urgency and peril?
This Friday the 1st of August, Desley Speck (PhD candidate, Fenner School, The ANU), will be leading a discussion on “A sense of urgency and peril? Australian perceptions of climate change and their political influences”.
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.
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.
Re-imagining suburbia
The face of suburbia is constantly changing, with current trends towards larger houses driving development of the suburban landscape. This Friday, landscape architecture lecturer Andrew MacKenzie looks at housing redevelopment in older garden suburbs and investigates the social influences that have caused this shift.
Can environmental managers provide effective leadership in the face of uncertainty and complexity?
Next Friday the 13th of June, Keith Johnston (ANU School of Management, Marketing and International Business) will be leading a discussion on “Can environmental managers provide clear and effective leadership in the face of high levels of uncertainty and complexity?”
Co-Designing a Sustainable Culture of Life
Viveka Turnbull Hocking (PhD candidate, Fenner School, The ANU)
The presentation will reflect on Viveka’s PhD work into design-led research and research-led design as a tool for change towards a sustainable future. The presentation will outline the concepts being played with in this metadesign project in order to open up the ideas for discussion. The aim [...]
Patagonia, and debate on social equity
This Friday the 23rd of May, we have a double bill. First up will be David Dumaresq leading a discussion on: “Effects of Climate Change, Sheep Deaths and the Southern Andean Condor’s Dietary Preferences on Tour Bus Operators Scheduling Proceedures in the Patagonian Steppe”. I believe this will be David giving us a Human Ecological [...]
