Sustainable Landscape Futures Conference

22/07/2014

The draft Canberra Statement from this conference will soon be available on www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/sustainability. Conference photos are available below.

20/07/2014

For more on this conference, including the program, see http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/sustainability. For information about the conference proceedings, please contact Dr Tahmina Rashid, University of Canberra.

20/07/2014

Conference Participants: ipad photos by Merrill Findlay

20/07/2014

Participants in the joint UC-UNESCO Sustainable Landscape Futures, Anne Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra, 10-11 July 2014.

20/07/2014

03/07/2014

Thursday 3 July: Just one week to go until our joint UNESCO-UC Sustainable Landscape Futures conference, Anne Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra.
See the latest version of the program on the conference web site, http://www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design /sustainability

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12/06/2014

VENUE CHANGE
This conference, on 10-11 July 2014, will now be held at in the Ann Harding Conference Centre, University of Canberra. Program available soon.

12/06/2014

FEE CHANGES
Good News: our funding for this event means that we have now been able to drop the $300 conference fee. So, even though there is no cost to participate in this important international conference, we ask you to please register via the conference web site, www.canberra.edu.au/faculties/arts-design/sustainability

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08/05/2014

"[C]ulture, in its manifold expressions ranging from cultural heritage to creative industries, from sustainable tourism to cultural infrastructure, drives and enables the social, environmental and economic pillars of sustainable development," the UN was reminded this week.

“All countries are looking for effective strategies to foster transformative change, building on the lessons of the Millennium Development Goals," UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova told her audience. "Sustainable development calls for ownership. This is where culture can help, to foster participation, to craft a more balanced and meaningful development model for the people, by the people.”

Our Sustainable Landscape Futures conference in Canberra in July will re-affirm such views as we talk about "Solving complex sustainability problems through the Natural and Social Sciences, the Arts, and the Humanities."

© UN Photo/Devra BerkowitzA View of the Trusteeship Council Chamber as Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson (right, on screen) addresses the opening of the General Assembly’s thematic debate on “Culture and Sustainable Development in the Post-2015 Development Agenda”. (05 May 2014)

23/04/2014

One of three University of Canberra scholars who contributed to the recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCCP) report, Professor Barbara Norman, will be a keynote speaker at the Sustainable Landscape Futures Conference.
Barbara foresees drastic consequences from anthropogenic climate disruption in our region and warns that, without an adaptation strategy, Australia is "playing with fire".
See Claudia Doman's article, Stark warning in global climate change report, in UC's Monitor Online: http://www.canberra.edu.au/monitor/2014/march/31-_ipcc-report

Claudia Doman31 March 2014: Three University of Canberra academics are among a handful of Australian researchers contributing to the latest International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today.

23/04/2014

The 2014 Sustainable Landscapes Conference is a response to the UN Millennium Development Goals [See http://www.unesco.org/bsp/eng/mdg and http://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/about/mdg] and the UN's Post-2015 Agenda [See http://en.unesco.org/post2015/].

Many devilishly complex problems remain to be solved to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals are met. These include poverty, food security, disease, energy production, management of our water and environmental resources, controlling disease, mitigating natural and human-induced disasters and conflicts and the challenge of fostering sustainable development.

Please join us at this important joint UNESCO - University of Canberra event, hosted by UC's Faculty of Arts and Design, to explore some of these problems and offer solutions to them. University of Canberra, 10-11 July, 2014.

The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education – have been a milestone in global and national development efforts. The framework has helped to galvanize development efforts and guide…