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Recovering ‘landscape’ in the planning of Australia’s capital city

Andrew MacKenzie examines how the community of Duffy, the built environment professions and the ACT government collectively worked to recover the fire affected suburb.

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2012 Fenner School Forum series

In major areas of Australian resource and environmental management, what skills and knowledge will we need in coming decades to meet new challenges, do we have those skills and knowledge now, and are we training people for the future?

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Scientist & artist

Mandy Martin, Adjunct Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU, standing alongside her work Ground Plane (2004) ( jointly created with Guy Fitzhardinge) in the Boardroom of the new Frank Fenner Building 2011.

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Fenner School is like coming home

Luke Kemp says the school is very casual and close knit, so it’s like coming home to family every morning, yet the academics are world renowned! All that combined, along with a seemingly endless supply of free chocolate makes it perfect.

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Why choose Fenner?

Hannah Selmes is looking at three study sites, one which is producing truffles and two that aren’t, and I’m trying to determine why those two aren’t producing, through genetics and soil science.

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Map of research & education activities

See where research is taking our students at Fenner School.

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The Fenner School of Environment & Society is unique in Australia. There are very few places in the world where economists and hydrologists, historians and ecologists, foresters, geographers and climatologists work together on the big environmental problems facing contemporary society.

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