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Public symposium: Our Governments’ Response to Climate Change
Hamer Oration on Good Government
A public symposium - 'Fiddling While Australia Burns: Will this be History's Judgement of Our Governments' Response to Climate Change?'
TIME & DATE: 6.00pm (for 6.30pm), Tuesday 24th November 2009
VENUE: Copland Theatre, Economics and Commerce Building (Building 148), University of Melbourne [click here for map]
SPEAKERS:
Professor David Karoly - ARC Federation Fellow, Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne
Ms Amanda McKenzie - National Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition
Mr Tim Colebatch - Economics Editor of The Age newspaper
This event is free, but please book as this will assist with catering.
RSVP to Dr Lauren Rosewarne
lrose@unimelb.edu.au
03 8344 6820
For more information, please download the flyer below:
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Conference: Localised Solutions - Building capacity and resilience with distributed production systems
The Victorian Eco-Innovation Lab (VEIL) and the McCaughey Centre at the University of Melbourne are pleased to present the details of a one-day conference:
Localised Solutions: Building capacity and resilience with distributed production systems.
This event will be held on Monday 30th of of November, 2009 at the Flagstaff Bowls Club, West Melbourne.
The conference will explore the value, diversity and implications of 'distributed systems' for creating more sustainable and resilient critical services. This is the first of many events to build interest and linkages between those pursuing new solutions for energy, water, food, transport and local economic development.
Please see the attached program and registration form below for details.
Alternatively go to http://ecoinnovationlab.com/news
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| Localised Solutions Conference registration form.pdf | 91.71 KB |
Launch: Climate Justice and International Environmental Law
Climate Justice and International Environmental Law: Rethinking the North–South Divide
Melbourne Journal of International Law is pleased to announce the publication of volume 10(2) featuring a symposium on ‘Climate Justice and International Environmental Law: Rethinking the North–South Divide’.
Our collection of think pieces, articles, commentaries and reviews explores the intersection between law and emerging ideas of climate justice, and how this affects our understandings of the North–South divide. Please join us for drinks and finger food to launch this special edition.
Date & Time: Tuesday 1 December 2009, 5.30pm – 7.30pm
Venue: Room 920, Melbourne Law School, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria 3053
RSVP: This event is free but please register your attendance for catering purposes to Jeremy Leung, law-mjil@unimelb.edu.au
Or phone 8344 7913
For more information, please see attached flyer.
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Melbourne Climate Policy Forum Oct-Dec 09
A joint initiative of Victoria University, through the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) and Carbon Market Economics Pty Ltd (CME).
Thursday 29 October, 5-7pm Professors Roger Jones & Peter Sheehan (CSES)
2. Making Adjustment Payments to Electricity Generators Effective
Thursday 5 November, 5-7pm Mr Bruce Mountain (CME)
3. Australia’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme: Can Carbon Markets Deliver?
Thursday 12 November, 5-7pm Professor Peter Sheehan (CSES) & Mr Rob Jolly (CME)
4. Australia’s Approach to Renewable Electricity Generation
Thursday 19 November, 5-7pm Mr Rob Jolly & Mr Bruce Mountain (CME)
5. The Challenge of Adaptation: Victoria as a Case Study
Thursday 26 November, 5-7pm Professor Roger Jones (CSES)
6. The New Industrial Revolution: Implications for Australia and Victoria
Thursday 3 December, 5-7pm Professor Peter Sheehan & Dr Kim Sweeny (CSES)
VENUE: Victoria University City Campus - Level 11, Room 1101, 300 Flinders St, Melbourne
RSVP: Attendance is free but please register by sending the number of the briefing you wish to attend, plus your contact details to Nupur Sethia by phone on 03 9919 1340 or by email to nupur.sethia@vu.edu.au
Please click on the pdf link below for full details.
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Symposium - Collaborative Approaches to Natural Resource Management
This event will feature three leading experts including: Associate Professor Edella Schlager (Arizona University), Dr Graham Marshall (University of New England) and Andreas Ernst (Kassel University, Germany).
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.
For more information or to download a registration form, please visit: http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/colloborative_approaches.html
Call for papers - Sociology of Food and Eating
Journal of Sociology: A special issue on Sociology of Food and Eating, to be published December 2010
Guest Editors:
Paul Ward, John Coveney and Julie Henderson
Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University, SA.
Key contemporary sociological issues in the Special Issue may relate, but
are not restricted, to governmentality (and critiques of neoliberalism),
identity, consumerism, theories of trust and risk, gender, reflexive
modernisation, and social systems theory.
Papers are being sought in the following areas:
• Food choice and identity
• Food 'choice' for Indigenous Australians
• Trust in the food supply and dietary information
• Consumerism and morality within high modernity
• Healthism and food consumption
• Governance of food and eating
Email to: Trish.Clark@flinders.edu.au
Deadline for submission of full papers (7,000 words max): 15th February 2010
Enquiries: Paul.Ward@flinders.edu.au
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