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Adapting to climate change – just doing it
The Climate Adaptation in Action 2012 Conference, organised by NCCARF and CSIRO, wrapped up this evening after three days of engaged discussion. With 600 people and up to seven parallel sessions,...
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Illawarra Flame – UOW and the International Solar Decathlon
Some recent AUSCCER Blog posts have been exploring issues around practical responses to climate change, including how we keep warm or keep cool in the Illawarra. In this vein, for the last few months,...
View ArticleDrought and climate change: more of the same or a new normal?
This post is the fourth in our series on drought, flood and water. In this series we are making connections between AUSCCER researchers working on watery themes, and showcasing our research. This week,...
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Sustainable Mobility?
Sustainable mobility? This is the first in a series of posts by AUSCCER authors on mobility and questions of sustainability. In this post, Gordon Waitt and Theresa Harada discuss cars, concepts and...
View ArticlePhD Scholarship Opportunity – Enhancing Resilience of Aged Care Systems to...
PhD Scholarship Opportunity $AUS24 653 per year (3 years max) Enhancing Resilience of Aged Care Systems to Climate Change: Retrofitting Buildings and Sociocultural Systems With ageing and urbanising...
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The Connected Household: Understanding the role of Australian households in...
How well do we understand households in environmental policy? Households make sense both to the people who live in them, and to government policy makers, as foundational social units, and as sites...
View ArticleThe conversation we need to have about carbon
This article was originally written by AUSCCER’s Lesley Head for The Conversation. Recent conversations about carbon pricing are still framed within gentle themes of continuing growth and well-being,...
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Back to the future: climate change and regional inheritances
This is the second in a series of posts by AUSCCER’s Chris Gibson on climate change and regions, building on papers presented in recent weeks at the 4th International Conference on Sustainability...
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Transition, adaptation, metamorphosis: framing climate change and regional...
This is the third and final in a series of posts by AUSCCER’s Chris Gibson on climate change and regions, building on papers presented in recent weeks at the 4th International Conference on...
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High North
Post written by Michael Adams Linnaeus in Sámi dress, portrait by Martin Hoffman, 1737. Two hundred and eighty years ago, the founder of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, travelled from Luleå to...
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Meet Professor Lesley Head
Professor Lesley Head The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) is a teaching and research group focusing on cultural and social aspects of environmental issues. AUSCCER’s...
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Loving your monsters – the Climate Council and #Pinktober
Two particular monsters are in my consciousness at the moment, the newly formed Climate Council and #Pinktober. #Pinktober is a constellation of diverse consumerist activities to publicise and raise...
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Our most clicked posts in 2013
It’s been a busy year here and most AUSCCERites are now taking a well-deserved Christmas break. So for our final blog post of the year we’re revisiting some of our most clicked, read and shared pieces...
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Transition, adaptation, metamorphosis: framing climate change and regional...
This is the third and final in a series of posts by AUSCCER’s Chris Gibson on climate change and regions, building on papers presented in recent weeks at the 4th International Conference on...
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High North
Post written by Michael Adams Linnaeus in Sámi dress, portrait by Martin Hoffman, 1737. Two hundred and eighty years ago, the founder of modern taxonomy, Carl Linnaeus, travelled from Luleå to...
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Meet Professor Lesley Head
Professor Lesley Head The Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) is a teaching and research group focusing on cultural and social aspects of environmental issues. AUSCCER’s...
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Loving your monsters – the Climate Council and #Pinktober
Two particular monsters are in my consciousness at the moment, the newly formed Climate Council and #Pinktober. #Pinktober is a constellation of diverse consumerist activities to publicise and raise...
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Our most clicked posts in 2013
It’s been a busy year here and most AUSCCERites are now taking a well-deserved Christmas break. So for our final blog post of the year we’re revisiting some of our most clicked, read and shared pieces...
View ArticlePhD Scholarship – environmental knowledge and practice of migrant food growers
Project title: Exploring the environmental knowledges and practices of migrant food growers in urban and peri-urban NSW $AU25,392 per year (3 years max) A fully-funded PhD scholarship worth $AU25,392...
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Free download: Household Sustainability
Last year Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life was published. You can now download the Introduction of the book for free. The book is written by: Chris Gibson, Carol...
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