Thursday 12th June 2014
Australia is currently facing serious environmental challenges ranging from protecting water quality and quantity, providing clean, reliable affordable energy sources, protecting biodiversity, managing resources sustainably, and ensuring adequate food production. Climate change is likely to exacerbate many of these issues and pose additional challenges. Complex problems such as these cannot be solved by any one discipline; a multidisciplinary approach is required that brings together different disciplines including those from the natural and social sciences. The forum will begin with a keynote presentation from Professor Carmen Lawrence, Winthrop Professor of Psychology at The University of Western Australia. Leading researchers from across UQ will discuss their research and reflect on the interdisciplinary questions and challenges in addressing key environmental issues. The aim of the forum is to create a dialogue between the disciplines to showcase how these multiple perspectives can inform each other and provide solutions to some of the critical environmental challenges facing Australia and the world.
Speakers: Professor Carmen Lawrence, Dr Paul Dargusch, Professor Matthew Hornsey, Professor Paul Meredith, Dr Tiffany Morrison, Professor Hugh Possingham, Dr Rebecca Wickes
