Recorded seminars
Seminar and workshop videos from Fenner School of Environment & Society.
The Affiliates' Seminar Series presents three talks by distinguished members on the theme of Contemporary perspectives in vegetation science. Tree thinning for biodiversity: rationale and reality / Plant invasions as a human problem with human solutions / Tree population dynamics and biome physiognomy.
Scholars and governance practitioners from around the globe discuss and conceptualise the evolution of polycentric and multi-level responses to crises including the COVID-19 pandemic and managing the mega-fire events of 2019-20.
Webinar detailing the annual report on the changing condition of our natural resources and ecosystems. This report is produced by the ANU Centre for Water and Landscape Dynamics (WALD) and the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN).
In February 2021, an online conference to discuss Pumped Storage Hydropower was a jointly hosted by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, The Australian Water Partnership, and the Australian National University.
This presentation outlines some key insights into the effects of, and recovery from wildfires. It is based on the past 37 years of detailed research completed by Professor David Lindenmayer and his group, and includes new information from the most recent 2019-2020 wildfires including impacts on particular species, forest types and the extent of old growth forest as well as the role of logging in elevating fire risks.
This seminar presents the process and findings of an intensive international collaborative process that engaged a diversity of cultures and disciplinary experts working in science, social science, policy, and conservation planning.
In 2017, the NSW Government implemented new measures for biodiversity conservation and land management through the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. The Act aims to conserve biodiversity across the state, including genetic and species diversity; maintain the quality of ecosystems and enhance their capacity to adapt to change; and slow the rate of biodiversity loss.
In this seminar, Dr Megan Evans will highlight some of these current trends that have led to biodiversity loss being regarded as the “next frontier’ for financial risk management. She will also describe how a growing role for the private sector could have quite profound implications for environmental governance, including how biodiversity is governed, by whom, and for what purpose.
What will science and technology be like in 30 years? How might policy-making be different? When you bring the two together, will the interface between science and policy itself be different?
In this forward-looking session, eminent water scientists and policy-makers will share their creative thinking about how science and technology may re-connect with policy