People
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 [...]
Participatory modelling for coral reef management
Deb Cleland is one of the rocking crew of students who completed Honours in Human Ecology at the Australian National University in 2007. Her innovative honours’ research took advantage of incredible research opportunities with the Modelling and Decision Support Working Group in the Coral Reef Targeted Research Project to carry out practical research on approaches to sustainable reef management. Deb worked with the MDS-WG to design interactive models and role play games to engage stakeholders in coral reef management and conservation issues. Deb has kindly allowed us to post her honours thesis on the Human Ecology Forum website.
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.
