First Nations voices and leadership in climate change: A case study advocacy for inclusion in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
NESS SEMINAR Dr Nina Lansbury Date: Wednesday 20th September 2023 Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Online via zoom “There is limited recognition regarding First Nation peoples other than relegating us to…
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Net Zero Australia
NESS SEMINAR Simon Smart Date: Tuesday 9th May Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Zoom The Net Zero Australia study aims to provide rigorous and independent analysis of what Net Zero by…
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Organizing disorganization: The isolation, separation and polarization of climate change demands
n this presentation, we use the concept of hegemony to explain the dominance of fossil fuel energy in driving economic activity.
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The Visual Life of Climate Change
NESS SEMINAR Dr Saffron O’Neill Date: Tuesday 14th February Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Online via zoom Images are everywhere, playing a central role in how we engage with climate change.…
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Measuring corporate Paris Compliance using a strict science-based approach
NESS SEMINAR Dr Saphira Rekker Date: Friday 2nd December Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Zoom The achievement of the Paris Agreement climate goals of well-below 2 degrees of warming requires companies…
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Do hope and optimism support or undermine conservation engagement?
NESS SEMINAR Dr Angela Dean Date: Wednesday 23rd November Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Zoom The loss and degradation of nature can lead to hopelessness and despair, which may undermine engagement…
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Tackling plastic pollution: a social science journey
NESS SEMINAR Dr Anya Phelan and Professor Emeritus Helen Ross Date: Wednesday 14th September Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Online via zoom In studies and rhetoric about the environmental crises arising…
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Climate action in Australia’s regional energy producing communities
NESS SEMINAR Dr Rebecca Colvin Date: Friday 26th August Time: 1 - 2pm Location: Zoom Australia’s trajectory on climate action has changed heading. We are no longer debating the reality…
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Coping with eco-anxiety in a pandemic
NESS SEMINAR Dr Ans Vercammen, The University of Queensland Quinta Seon, McGill University & The University of the West Indies Date: Friday 22nd July Time: 12 – 1pm Via Zoom There…
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The climate science culture wars: Depressing past, interesting present, hopeful future?
The climate science culture wars: Depressing past, interesting present, hopeful future?
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Locating and learning from ‘Bright Spots’ among the World’s coral reefs
NESS SEMINAR Professor Joshua Cinner Date: Friday 29th April Time: 12 – 1pm Venue: Online via Zoom The continuing and rapid global decline of coral reefs calls for new approaches to…
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The 4D Project: A holistic, interdisciplinary response to climate misinformation
NESS SEMINAR Dr John Cook Date: Friday 18th March Time: 12 – 1pm Online via zoom Misinformation is a complex problem, influencing society at political, social, technological, and psychological levels. Solutions…
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Climate change collective action: What it looks like and what it achieves
NESS SEMINAR Dr Robyn Gulliver Date: Thursday 25th November Time: 1 – 2pm Location: Online via zoom Civil resistance against climate change burst into the Australian public arena in 2019…
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Climate change, ecoanxiety and wellbeing
NESS SEMINAR Carla Magi-Prowse, Dr Ans Vercammen & A/Professor Fiona Charlson Date: Wednesday 27th October Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Online via zoom There is increasing recognition of the mental…
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How do we get consumers to behave sustainably in pleasure-focused contexts?
NESS SEMINAR Professor Sara Dolnicar Date: Friday 17th September Time: 3 – 4pm Location: Online via zoom When consumers are in hedonic (pleasure-focused) contexts (such as on holidays or when…
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What is Post-Growth? A Vision for Prosperity within Ecological Limits
NESS SEMINAR Dr Cle-Anne Gabriel Date: Wednesday 25th April Time: 12 – 1pm Location: Online via zoom Post-growth is a global futures solution to the limits-to-growth dilemma, recognising that on a…
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There is no Planet B: Environmental activism in Australia
NESS SEMINAR Robyn Gulliver Date: Wednesday 11th September 2019 Time: 12 – 1pm Room: Room 275 Location: Global Change Institute (Building 20) How are Australian environmental organisations mobilising supporters to trigger urgent action…
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Virtual workshop on COVID-19 and the environment
NESS SEMINAR Videoconference Wednesday 13th May Time: 12 – 2pm (Qld time) Videoconference Rsvp for link The Network of Environmental Social Scientists (NESS) would like to invite you to a…
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How group identities help or hinder environmental action
NESS SEMINAR Kelly Fielding Date: Wednesday 6th June Time: 12 – 1pm Room: Room 275 Location: Global Change Institute (Building 20) Group identities play a pivotal role in how people respond to environmental issues.…
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Beyond fact sheets and media releases: applying science communication theory to analyse the science policy interface
NESS SEMINAR Ruth O'Connor Date: Wednesday 18th April Time: 12 – 1pm Room: Room 275 Location: Global Change Institute (Building 20) Decision-makers access and make sense of science through a variety of communication processes.…
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