The Centre for Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (CREEL) and the Office for Environmental Programs (OEP) are pleased to invite you to a lunch time seminar by
Chris Turton, TRAFFIC South-East Asia
on
Breeding Asian Tigers: The Shifting Regulation of Wildlife Trade in Southeast Asia
Chris works for TRAFFIC, an international wildlife trade monitoring organisation established as a [...]
Singer, Peter. 2009. We must nurture the humanities. The Age, 27 July 2009.
In the fine article above there is not much mention of environmental issues (other than climate change, briefly) but the plight of the humanities in ‘restructuring’ universities like Melbourne, where we have lost staff and endowed income, reflects changing priorities and diminished budgets.
These education [...]
A night of food, music, short film and presentation on the courageous struggle of the Carterets Atoll Community
Date : Tuesday 28th July 2009
Time : 7.00pm till late
Venue: ABC Gallery 127 Campbell Street (cnr of Vere Street) Collingwood. Melways Ref: 2C G9)
Price: $20 or $10 low waged. Donations welcome Scrumptious finger food
RSVP if possible by COB [...]
OEP Public lecture, Wed. 29 July, 6.15pm, University of Melbourne, Old Arts public lecture theatre
“Social-environmental engagements: From Kerang salinization and agro-forestry participation to the place of trans-local perspectives.”
Prof Peter Taylor, Critical and Creative Thinking (CCT) Graduate Program, University of Massachussetts, Boston, USA
In my 2005 book, Unruly Complexity, I problematize boundaries used by researchers to partition [...]
These public forums provide an opportunity for Victorians to have their say on how the government proposes to deal with the threat of climate change, hear about the climate change issues facing Victoria and discuss the Green Paper’s proposed climate change goals and priorities.
Dates for the Green Paper public forums are:
Bendigo 17 July 2009 10.00am [...]
The OEP’s Director Simon Batterbury attended the Society for Human Ecology’s conference at the University of Manchester, UK in June ‘09. He gave a paper in a session on ‘Directions in Human Ecology Education’ using the example of the University of Melbourne ’s OEP, which was set up in the 1990s by Prof. Mark Burgman and others. [...]
A new initiative, Safe Climate Australia has been launched. The University of Melbourne’s John Wiseman is one of the founding members and the launch in Melbourne in July ‘09 included talks by Al Gore. The initiative links research to policies and technical innovation on dangerous climate change affecting the continent. http://www.safeclimateaustralia.org/
11 & 12 August 2009.
“Adapting to Change and Building Professional Skills to Promote Positive Natural Resource Management Outcomes”. Go to
http://www.liquidlearning.com.au/llg08/A…
Rural Water Resource consulting positions
An exciting opportunity exists to join an enthusiastic team of engineers and scientists in the water resource management industry and work on environmental and rural water resource projects including on the largest irrigation infrastructure renewal and water savings project in Australia.
Hydro Environmental is a small, growing and vibrant consulting firm providing [...]
Mainstream science and standard economic analysis tell us that the Australian agricultural and resource industries are likely to be affected profoundly both by climate change and the global response to it. They are likely to be affected profoundly whether or not there is an effective global mitigation effort, and whatever the nature of Australia’s contribution [...]
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