Each day of the conference will have its own particular theme.
Conference themes:
- Water, food and energy security in a warmer more crowded world
- Integrated methods for understanding and promoting regional resilience and transformation
- Governance for 21st century challenges – how can we enhance well-being within planetary boundaries?
Whilst all contributions to the conference will fall under a theme, to further target the conference all contributions will additionally align to relevant conference topics.
Topics:
[A] Measuring and Managing
A1 Concepts and measures for measuring and assessing growth and development
A2 Environmental pressure, energy use, and industrial metabolism
A3 Wellbeing and happiness
A4 Sustainable consumption and lifestyles
[B] Social and Political Dimensions
B1 Global pressures, connectivity and governance
B2 Politics, power and justice
B3 Indigenous culture and peoples (of Australia, New Zealand and our wider region)
B4 Institutions and adaptive governance
B5 Citizen engagement, attitudes, and social media
B6 Community based resource management
[C] Policy Issues and Applications in Ecological Economics
C1 Living within local and planetary boundaries
C2 Climate change, emissions trajectories, vulnerability and adaptation
C3 Securing ecosystem services, biodiversity and healthy landscapes
C4 Addressing poverty and disadvantage
C5 Water governance and values
C6 Food security and agriculture
C7 Pollution, waste and health
C8 Informing public policy and transforming social choices
[D] Challenges and Frontiers in Methods
D1 Integrated approaches to understanding social, economic and ecological systems
D2 Understanding and governing complex non-linear systems
D3 Values, evaluation and decision support
D4 Incentives, choices and behaviour – beyond homo economicus
D5 Insights from sociology, anthropology and psychology
D6 Ethics, philosophy and lessons from history
