Events
Check out our calendar of events and participate in our seminars, public lectures and more.
This talk explores how engaging with diverse knowledge systems, across sciences, humanities, and Indigenous perspectives, can support truly transformative change in conservation, with insights from emerging UK-based frameworks and practices.
This talk presents findings from a global meta-analysis of 186 studies assessing biodiversity outcomes over time. It shows that in two-thirds of cases, conservation actions improved biodiversity or slowed its decline. Results highlight the effectiveness of targeted interventions such as invasive species control, habitat restoration, and protected areas—while calling for a transformational scale-up to meet global nature targets.
In Australia, where climate debate is polarized, Farmers for Climate Action (FCA) emerged in 2015 as a non-partisan charity uniting farmers with climate science and policy. This study delves into the experiences of New South Wales farmers who joined FCA.
Past events
You're invited to the Fenner School of Environment & Society End of Year picnic.
If you’ve been involved with The Fenner School in 2024 as a student, academic, professional staff member or affiliate, and you’ve captured a moment you’d like to share with us that speaks to this year’s theme, send it in!
Exploring Urban Sustainable Waste Management Experiments in China
This work-in-progress presentation explores how communities in the Eurobodalla Shire (NSW) are reconstructing their environmental imaginaries and political engagement in the wake of the 2019-20 Black Summer fires.
Named after a very caring manga character in his community, the MIZURA project proposes to accelerate changes in society regarding disabled citizens, now better called functionally diverse, who are stereotypically perceived as burdens, by demonstrating that their functional diversity provides them with adaptive advantages to think, face, and solve scientific questions from which the whole society benefits by their inclusion.
Europe is now a heatwave hotspot with broken temperature records leading to significant heat-related deaths in recent years. Projections indicate such summers may become common, highlighting the urgent need for improved heat-health warning systems. This study evaluates the effectiveness of temperature-related mortality forecasts for 2022 and 2023, finding them crucial for adapting to increasing temperatures and mitigating health impacts.
ANU Fenner School of Environment & Society research students from across our cohorts are presenting their work in three days of talks
This seminar delves into colonialism's profound impact on Indigenous communities' strategies for mitigating and adapting to climate change. Additionally, it explores the influence of Indigenous self-determination and resurgence on climate change, drawing insights from two distinct doctoral research studies.
Ruth's research highlights the need for new ways to conceptualise interpersonal mistreatment that acknowledge the theoretical commonality and the experience of diverse behaviour co-occurrence.