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Death, Desire, Sin, Redemption: Climate Change and the Rationality of Environmental Law
November 3, 2009 – 8:49 am
The Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law is pleased to invite you to Professor Lee Godden’s
Inaugural Professorial Lecture:
Death, Desire, Sin, Redemption: Climate Change and the Rationality of Environmental Law
Wed 04/11/2009
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM
Professor Lee Godden
Climate change suggests limits to civilisation and impending ‘Death’ of species and displacement of people. Western civilisations have sought to overcome limits through colonisation and industrialisation. Yet, such consumption and ‘Desire’ are integral to climate change. Divisions exist at International Law in efforts to curb ‘sinful’ consumption and mitigate global warming through targets, trading and offsets. Just how Law should respond to climate change in an era of corporatist states and reflexive law is examined. The lecture identifies the need to reshape the institutions of public law to facilitate an integrated governance framework for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
This Inaugural Professorial Lecture will draw on Professor Lee Godden’s wide range of interests and expertise. Professor Godden is Director of the Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law at Melbourne Law School and has expertise in environmental law, natural resources management, water law, climate law, property law and indigenous peoples’ land rights.
Please register your attendance here
Venue Melbourne Law School
Address 185 Pelham Street Carlton
Contact Person Dianne Costello
Contact Details 8344 1153
Melbourne Climate Policy Forum
October 28, 2009 – 3:20 pm
Six Briefings on the Implementation of Effective Climate Policies.
After many years of debate, climate policy has moved squarely into the implementation stage. The next six months will be critical, both in Australia and internationally, in determining what policies will be put in place and how effective they will be in containing global warming. As a contribution to rational, evidence-based debate the Melbourne Climate Policy Forum (MCPF) is hosting six briefing seminars on the key policy issues facing Australia, set in the context of the global decision-making process.
Each of the briefings will provide an assessment of current knowledge and its implications for the policy issue in question, based in part on the ongoing research activities of the MCPF partners. Following the briefing, two distinguished external discussants will review the briefing provided, comment on the policy issue and introduce general discussion.
View the flyer at http://www.sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/fi…
Further information at www.vu.edu.au/mcpforum
Do you have a Big Green Idea?
October 28, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Do you have a Big Green Idea? $10,000 funding from British Council Australia
Visit http://www.britishcouncil.org/au.htm for more details.
Climate Change Law: Challenges and Future Directions
October 27, 2009 – 11:13 am
The Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law is pleased to invite you to a panel discussion on
Climate Change Law: Challenges and Future Directions
A panel of climate change experts will be giving presentations on international law and climate change; refugee law and climate change and the Garnaut Review, followed by a panel discussion and question-and-answer session.
This seminar provides a rare opportunity to engage with experts working at the cutting edge of this important field.
Please note that this seminar is being held as part of the Melbourne Law School’s Environmental Law subject.
Bookings essential as places are limited!
DATE: Friday 30 October 2009
TIME: 11.10 pm – 1pm
VENUE: Room 102, 1th floor, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton
A location map can be found at http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/LawSchoolS…
RSVP: please RSVP Anne Kallies as soon as possible as places are limited (03) 8344 6938 or law-creel at unimelb.edu.au
Collaborative Approaches to Natural Resource Management
October 23, 2009 – 8:00 am
A symposium to be hosted by the Centre for Public Policy at the University of Melbourne
9am – 5pm, Wednesday 25th November 2009
Melbourne Business School, 200 Leicester Street, Carlton
Environmental issues, from climate change to water catchment management to the devastation wreaked by bushfires, tsunamis and hurricanes, are crucial issues for governments around the world. There is a growing need to find novel ways to deal more effectively with these issues using collaborative approaches. This symposium brings together local and international experts on this topic to describe contemporary research on collaborative approaches to natural resource management, and to discuss ways forward in meeting the governing challenges related to these issues.
This one day event will be of interest to anyone concerned with environmental issues, and specifically to those working in policy development and service delivery, and to public policy researchers.
Registration for this event is $150 (inc GST) which included morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.
For more information, or to register, please direct your browser to:
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/…
Pedal Back To 350
October 21, 2009 – 10:37 am
24th October 2009 – International Day of Climate Action
‘Pedal back” is a part of the 350.org day of global climate action. This Saturday, YOU and a lot of BIKES will fill the streets and become part of this global movement against climate catastrophe.
THE DETAILS
What: A mass fun-filled bike ride through Melbourne
Meet: This Sat, 10.30am, Melbourne Museum, Rathdowne St entrance
Bring: Your bike (or a borrowed one!)
Wear: Yellow (and a smile!)
For: Pedal Back to 350, a mass ride through the city, culminating in HUMAN SIGN formation, music and speakers at Alexander Gardens
Followed by: FANTASTIC concert at Ceres -’ Sounds of 350′. $8 entry.
Spirituality and the earth
October 13, 2009 – 10:44 am
1.45 pm, Sunday 25 October 2009 St. Francis’ Monastery Hall, Elizabeth & Lonsdale Streets, Melbourne.
This is the third conversation in our series, Climate change: culture of transition. The series is a follow-up to the publication of Golden Years: Grounds for Hope.
In this seminar, Spirituality and the earth, we continue to explore our response to climate change. We look at the intimate relationship between our spirituality and the earth. As a starting point, we draw on the inspiration of Fr Thomas Berry who died on 1st June. He was an outstanding thinker in ecological theology and his writings opened new windows for us. Three speakers to start discussion: Jim Bowler, Geoff Lacey and Jan Watson.
Recommended reading in advance:
Thomas Berry 1990, The dream of the earth. Veronica Brady 2003, Journey into the land, in Changing places: re-imagining Australia, ed. John Cameron, pp. 264-271. Thomas Merton 1968, Conjectures of a guilty bystander, part 3.
PROGRAM
1.55 Registration – 4.40 Meeting closes.
Access: The Monastery Hall is next to St Francis’ Church, behind the Pastoral Centre: close to Melbourne Central Station and tram routes. Enter from Lonsdale St.
A contribution to cover costs will be appreciated.
ENQUIRIES: Geoff Lacey (9489 4784) [ glacey at unimelb.edu.au]; or Annette Atkinson (9381 4505) [ jeffann at bigpond.net.au].
PhD SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY
October 12, 2009 – 1:53 pm
RECONSTRUCTING SOUTH-EASTERN AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE VARIABILITY SINCE 1788 USING EARLY INSTRUMENTAL DATA
An opportunity exists at the University of Melbourne for a PhD candidate to consolidate and extend our understanding of Australia’s pre-20th century climate through recovering and rehabilitating early instrumental observations. We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate to analyse early instrumental data for south-eastern Australia as part of a broader Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage project. This landmark project brings together a team of Australia’s leading climate scientists, water managers and historians with the common goal of reconstructing south-eastern Australian temperature, rainfall and atmospheric pressure over the past 200–500 years using palaeoclimate, documentary and early instrumental data.
The PhD project will involve ‘rescuing’ meteorological observations from 1788 to 1860 from a variety of sources, quality controlling and homogenising these observations, and analysing the results using state-of-the-art statistical techniques. Data accessed during this project will help develop the longest running instrumental climate records in Australia, providing us with a foundation for assessing climate variations in south-eastern Australia over the past 200 years. These extended records of temperature, rainfall and atmospheric pressure variability will allow better planning for water storage and improved testing of climate model simulations.
This prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI) award includes an annual tax-free scholarship of $26,140 and additional research support funding of $6,000 per year. It will provide the candidate with an outstanding research project with direct industry linkages, including the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Murray Darling–Basin Authority, Melbourne Water and the UK Met Office. To be considered for this position you should have:
· First class honours science degree (e.g. meteorology, physical geography, atmospheric science)
· Demonstrated knowledge and experience using climate data
· Demonstrated ability (or clear potential) to liaise, collaborate and interact with a range of scientists and industry professionals
· Capacity to work independently while contributing to core project objectives
· Outstanding written and oral communication skills
· Skills using a range of computer software eg. Office, specialised scientific programs, statistical packages, online content management systems and databases
· Australian or New Zealand citizenship or be an Australian permanent resident and not be receiving similar funding from a commonwealth government program
· Availability to commence this full time opportunity no later than 1 March 2010
To apply for this position, please forward your curriculum vitae and complete academic transcript, together with a one page statement on why you want to undertake graduate study in this project, no later than Friday 16 October 2009 to Professor David Karoly ( dkaroly at unimelb.edu.au) and Dr Joelle Gergis ( jgergis at unimelb.edu.au).
Senator Bob Brown to Launch Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture
October 12, 2009 – 1:08 pm
The leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown, will be launching Samuel Alexander’s new book, Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture on Tuesday, 13 October, at 4.20pm, in room 920 of the Melbourne Law School building.
Tuesday, 13 October 4.20pm
Room 920 of the Melbourne Law School building. (The Melbourne Law School building is at University Square, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton. Room 920 is on the ninth floor, turning left down the hall.)
If you are interested in attending, please RSVP to query-environment at unimelb.edu.au, as places are limited.
Senator Brown will say a few words introducing the book, and then Samuel Alexander will speak briefly about the book, followed by refreshments. Copies of the book will be available for $20.
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