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? [...]
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.
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 [...]