Recorded seminars
Seminar and workshop videos from Fenner School of Environment & Society.
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
Small-scale irrigation schemes have been identified as a major vehicle to improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers and their communities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including improving food security, education, health and adapting to climate change. Such improvements are critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. However, small-scale irrigation has, for a complex set of reasons widely discussed in the literature, failed to live up to these expectations.
It is increasingly acknowledged that multiple interventions are needed to transform rural communities into sustainable communities, creating jobs, food security and prosperous livelihoods for their residents. This event will discuss what kind of approaches are required to create rural transformation and development.
In this talk, Dr Matthew Brookhouse will outline the current state of knowledge on snow-gum dieback.
This seminar will be presented with photos that serve as a window into the threatened world of these amazing amphibians, a living treasure trove of biodiversity in Colombia.
'Upstreamers & downstreamers’: Promoting investment in First Peoples through the creation of exclusive rights
Drawing on the speaker’s two decades of policy-engaged research on Nepal’s community forestry development, this seminar first demonstrates the dynamics of delocalisation of forest user communities in Nepal, and then shows how this transformative change has rendered conventional community forestry institutions obsolete.