Weekly presentations
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.
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 [...]
Socio-ecological change: Who and what changes, why and how and how will we know?
So far this year we have had Human Ecology Forums on the ‘broad dimensions of socio-ecological change’, as well as ‘tensions of change’ and also ‘drivers of change’. This Friday 30th May, we are returning to the 2008 theme of “Socio-ecological change: Who and what changes, why and how and how will we know?” Rod [...]
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 [...]
