The Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute fosters sustainability research on large public issues, by integrating research expertise from a range of disciplinary perspectives, taking a particular focus on Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. It is a hub for sustainability at the University.
A joint initiative of Victoria University, through the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies (CSES) and Carbon Market Economics Pty Ltd (CME).
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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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The Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lectures
Presented by The University of Melbourne, VEIL, Sustainability Victoria, Design Victoria, City Of Melbourne, and the British Council.
‘Shaping the Low Carbon Economy - New Agencies, New Business’

SPEAKER: Peter Madden - CEO Forum For The Future (UK)
VENUE: BMW Edge at Federation Square, Melbourne
TIME & DATE: 12.00-1.00pm Monday 9 November 2009
COST: Free, but please register.
To register, click here.
To read more, click here or download the pdf document below.
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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
This survey by the Australian National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) is being conducted to assess the nature and utility of adaptive capacity research in relation to climate change. Please go here to complete the NCCARF survey.
The survey takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Your identity will be kept anonymous. The results will be reported to NCCARF as well as published in the near future.
The survey is being conducted by the University of the Sunshine Coast and is funded by NCCARF as a Synthesis Project.
Your participation in the survey is greatly appreciated.
If you have any queries please contact Dr. Phillip Daffara at pdaffara@usc.edu.au
Wednesday, 16 September, 2009
To read about the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research, click on the pdf link below.
Media contact: Lyall Johnson on 9651 5799 or 0400 422 142 www.premier.vic.gov.au
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MUSSE (Melbourne University Staff/Student E-news), the monthly newsletter for staff and students, is featuring MSSI's Climate Change Research website in its latest online edition.
Associate Professor Jon Barnett, climate change researcher.Please click here to read the article: http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/musse/?p=2249
And click here to visit MSSI's Climate Change website: http://www.climatechange.unimelb.edu.auRenowned American environmental author and activist, Bill McKibben, recently visited the University of Melbourne to deliver a public lecture before a packed audience at the Prince Philip Theatre.
Recently, the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI) and the Office for Environmental Programs (OEP), in association with the Victorian Government’s Department of Sustainability and Environment, hosted a public lecture on 'The Costs of Climate Change'.
Here are pdf files of the slides used by our guest speakers, by kind permission. Please click on their names for the files.
Dr Hans-Martin Fuessel Dr Samuel Fankhauser
Senior Research Fellow Senior Research Associate
Potsdam Institute Grantham Research Institute
for Climate Impact Research on Climate Change, LSE
Our discussant for this event was Ms Rebecca McNaught, Senior Programme Officer for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre.
Please visit the Climate Centre website for information about its activities.
Professor Ross Garnaut, Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at the University of Melbourne, discusses the 'diabolical policy problem' of mitigating climate change and the problem of 'free riding'. This opinion piece was published in The Age on June 25, 2009.

Please click on this link for the full article: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/everyone-must-do-their-bit-20090624-cwp...
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