ANU Learning Communities has been engaging in environmental discussions through the Great Green Debate. This year we ask: 'Should Australia Declare a Climate Emergency?'

This seminar will look at how accounts for forests, marine areas and urban areas have been developed and how they might inform various analytical and decision-making processes in United Kingdom. It will also examine what we might learn from the UK experience for the application of NCA in Australia.

Mid-term Review presentation

Circular Economy has become a major buzzword in sustainability science and policy. In the forest sector as well as in other commodity sectors, recycling, re-using and remanufacturing are seen as a way to reduce consumption and conserve ecosystems. Can this concept really help to change the pathway of our economies?

In this seminar we will discuss the international context for long-term emissions strategies and consider issues that inform a strategy for Australia.

All Affiliates and Fenner School staff and students welcome. A light lunch will be provided, followed by a series of short seminars.

In this seminar, Dr Sally Box (Threatened Species Commissioner) will share results from the recently completed Year 3 progress report for the Threatened Species Strategy, including how the report’s outcomes will help focus future efforts to best support threatened species.

Our next HDR Symposium will be held on Thursday 29 August. All staff, students (HDR, Postgraduate and Honours) and affiliates are invited to participate in this event.

Plummeting crop diversity threatens food system resilience globally. While across the industrial world, farmers and breeders are increasingly relying on off-farm procurement and conservation of seeds, on-farm seed saving is still critically important.

Green Institute Executive Director, Tim Hollo, presents a theory of ecological democracy which seeks to apply the fundamentals of ecology to politics, articulating a vision of interconnection, interdependence, and resilience in diversity. Active, constructive critique and participation are welcome.

The effects of climate change are already a reality for much of the world's population. As we continue into the future, how will we live our daily lives, and tackle the larger political, economic and social challenges which lie ahead? Join us for this panel discussion with climate and policy experts from the ANU.

Wait Wait…Save Our Species! is a live science comedy event where we will dissect and discuss prominent and obscure biodiversity and conservation news for National Science Week.

The seminar will explore the role of foresight and scenario analysis in transformation processes. The role of small-scale agriculture in food systems will be used as an example of how wider system trade-offs and synergies must be considered.

In this seminar, Dr Quentin Grafton examines the water management crisis in the in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), looking at the idea of a ‘Post-Truth Water World’.

In this talk, Dr Chris Cvitanovic will argue that a shift in the academic study of science-policy-practice interfaces is needed, towards the study of ‘bright spots’ – situations where science has successfully influenced and impacted on policy and practice.

Reliable water is essential to our lives and livelihoods, but more than half the world’s population suffer from water scarcity. new research suggests that forests and trees play a much greater role in maintaining global rainfall patterns than was previously realized. Could this mean a whole new value for forests?

Open to all students with an interest in weather, climate and oceanography areas with presentations and networking.

This presentation will provide an overview of the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), a synopsis of current challenges and presents some of our early thinking around the ALAs future directions informed by preliminary results from an active National Consultation process.

In this PhD seminar, Jin Teng explores how the development and application of a simple conceptual flood inundation model that can be used for rapid and accurate assessment of inundation in large floodplains.

Join us for the Higher Degree Research Skills Day to further your understanding of working with different types of research.

Fenner School will be holding HDR Symposium on 13 June. All staff, students (HDR, Postgraduate and Honours) and affiliates are invited to participate in this event.

In this seminar Dr Steven Lade discuss ‘Planetary boundaries’, the safe operating space for humanity as a precondition for sustainable development, and the challenges and conflicts it poses.

The role of history in ecological restoration is changing. In this seminar, Lilian Pearce explores how cultural frameworks integrates and conflicts with scientific ones when examining ecological restoration of settler sites.

The relationship between education and ‘pro-environment’ behaviour is complex, and has been little-investigated for the specific case of forests. In this seminar, Peter Kanowski and Dollie Yao explore this topic as part of Canberra Tree Week.

The ANU Fenner School Committee of the International Forestry Students’ Association (IFSA at ANU) is holding a career night for Fenner students to meet and network with government and industry representatives.

Dr Jonathan Donges from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany will explore how planetary-scale socio-ecological systems dynamics work, and what this means during the Anthropocene.

To sort out our environmental challenges is going to take researchers from all fields - so you are all invited to the pub!

In this seminar, Constanza Leon will examine how group-living animals are affected by both the physical and social environment they inhabit, influencing population dynamic processes such as reproductive success, survival and dispersal patterns; all of which ultimately shape the evolution of a species.

Dr. Vivian Welch, editor in chief of the Campbell Collaboration and co-convenor of the Campbell-Cochrane Equity Methods group, will describe how evidence synthesis organizations are addressing the challenges of timeliness and relevance.

The Annual Environment Briefing will review the condition of Australia’s natural resources and ecosystems over the past year, drawing on the most recent observations on land, at sea and from space.