ethics
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, [...]
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 [...]
For-Profit Scientific Publishers and the Culture of Entitlement
Join in Mike ’s rant about for-profit scientific publishers and the culture of entitlement over at scienceblogs.com.
Savannah Cats (review)
For this Forum, Penelope Marshall led us through a work in progress on the current troubled importation of the Savannah Cat into Australia. This involved stepping back from the controversy to look at how this case depicts tangled webs of failing governance and deliberation, alongside the problematic consequences of humanities project of modernity and ethical dilemmas at the heart of how we think the world should be.
