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Regional Symposium and Workshop on Sustainable Natural Resource Management 4th - 5th December Bali, Indonesia. The Symposium will focus on integrated protected area and water resource management, particularly in the areas of payments for environmental services, joint management of protected areas and associated governance issues. The organisers invite participants to attend this international symposium and present short papers focussing on integrated conservation and management in northern Australia and South East Asia, particularly Malaysia. More information will available shortly. |
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Reviewing the Northern Territory intervention one year on Some observations about economic and environmental issues Free public lecture Mal Nairn Auditorium Professor Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU and SER Adjunct The NTER intervention is being reviewed one year on, as promised by the ALP in the lead up to the 2007 election. According to the original terms of the emergency intervention, the one year anniversary also marks the end of the proposed ‘stabilisation' phase (although all intervention measures have not yet reached all prescribed communities) and the point of transition to the 'normalisation' phase. The emergency response has a range of measures that have three broad objectives: to protect children, to make communities safe, and to create a better future for Aboriginal people in the NT. This seminar focuses on the last of these objectives (recognising their interdependence) and especially the issue of remote community economic viability. |
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Water in the Top End Symposium30th May 2008 The use of water in the Top End is a hot topic with competing interests and pressure from drought-ravaged southern Australia. Water is now a potential lightning rod for conflict between economic uses, environmental concerns, and cultural values. Dr Adam Drucker: An economist’s take on agriculture in the Top End Professor Stephen Garnett: Scenarios for the future Dr Merrilyn Wasson: Outcomes of the North Australian Water Use Summit (or why the north cannot water the south!) |
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Free public lecture: the Hobbits of Flores26th May 2008 Free public lecture Little lady with big implications: life, times and death of the Hobbits of Flores Professor Mike Morwood Mal Nairn Auditorium 12noon - 1pm This lecture will describe the discovery of a new human species, Homo floresiensis, on the island of Flores in East Indonesia. These tiny people, dubbed Hobbits in the general media, had some extremely primitive traits previously only found in ancestral human species in Africa, but managed to survive on their island refuge until a mere 12,000 years ago - along with pygmy elephants, giant rats and Komodo dragons. Their discovery has major implications for the earliest dispersal of ancestral humans out of Africa - especially in the context of what is known about the history of animal dispersal across Southeast Asia, the peculiarities of evolution on islands, and in-progress research on other islands in the region. More information >> Media release >> |
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Future options for north Australia - Book launchBy Stephen Garnett, John Woinarski, Rolf Gerritsen and Gordon Duff 28 February 2008 Anticipating the future is uniquely human. We strive constantly to anticipate trends and great events, to seek opportunity and avoid disaster. So what will drive the future of tropical Australia? The four authors of this book, all of whom have a close association with the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savanna Management, identify ten major drivers that will shape the north: population, social function, property rights, Commonwealth policy, the global economy, resource use, oil futures, climate change, invasive organisms and technological innovation. For each they identify the risks, uncertainties and the extent to which they can be controlled by the people of the north. Then they describe seven possible futures: chronic underdevelopment, degeneration, a northern ricebowl, an industrial powerhouse, environment first, an Indigenous community Utopia and dynamic urbanization. These are not predictions. They are scenarios to make readers think and realize that the decisions being made today will have a profound influence in the future. Whereas for the rest of the world, the future has largely been set by unplanned development and the irrevocable contingencies of history, northern Australia can be moulded by deliberate and considered choices. Our generation has the opportunity and frightening responsibility to make those choices. Stephen Garnett has had experience in many different sectors – Indigenous, pastoral, government and academic – in his 30 years in tropical Australia. John Woinarski is the doyen of environmental scientists in the north with a deep understanding of the evolutionary processes that have shaped, and will shape, our region. Rolf Gerritsen is an economist with an independent view of trends in tropical economies and Gordon Duff, who once headed the Tropical Savannas CRC, has had decades of experience bringing diverse groups together in a common purpose to take the north forward towards a more harmonious future. Thursday 28 February 2008, 12:50pm-1:50pm Student Square, Building 31, Casuarina Campus Lunch and refreshments provided Dress: Casual RSVP: registration form by 25 February |
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Savanna Futures Forum28 February 2008 Mal Nairn Auditorium, Charles Darwin University. The Tropical Savannas CRC is now in its thirteenth year. During that time it has made a significant contribution to our understanding and practical management of northern Australia, and while we have learned much we have also generated many new questions. This forum will review the lessons learned, but equally importantly, will assess how this knowledge can be applied in the years ahead. What is the future for Australia’s tropical savannas? Follow link for Forum Agenda (.pdf) Register here by the morning of 25 February 2008. |
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ARC - NZ Research Network for Vegetation functionWorking Group 49 - Savanna structure and variation. More information coming soon... |
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Coast to Coast Conference 2008 - Crossing Boundaries18-22 August 2008 Coast to Coast 2008 is Australia's biennial national coastal conference. It will focus debate, discussion and learning across the full range of coastal and marine issues - at the international, national, state, regional and local levels. Our sub-themes are being developed around this and are likely to include:
Several specialist symposia and workshops are also proposed including:
The conference will also see the launch of
When: 18-22 August 2008 Where: Darwin Convention Centre |
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