Conference dinner on evening Thur 1 October, and Field trips planned for Sat 3 October through the Humantix website.
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| Pre conference: Wednesday 30 September
8.15am : Masterclass : Grounded Economics You will spend a day learning ecological economics the way it should be taught — outdoors, in place, and in conversation with the people who shaped the field. |
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| 6pm | Cost of Growth film screening
Massey University |
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| Program for Main 2 Days of Conference, 1 – 2 October
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| 9am | Mihi whakatau | Local First Nations People’s Leader welcome |
| 9.15am | ANZSEE welcome | |
| 9.30am | Keynote #1: Maria Bargh | ‘Horoi ou ringa’ – Wash your hands |
| 10.00am | Keynote #2: Anitra Nelson | Regenerative Futures and Across Oceans |
| 10.30am | Morning tea | |
| 11.00am Breakout session #1 | ||
| Cultural, environmental, and financial values and valuation | Fish, People and Country: Integrating Barkandji Knowledge and Cultural Values into River Regeneration Economics
Author/s: Boyd Blackwell, David Doyle, Sekola Havili, Evan Knoll; Barbara Quayle; John Rolfe; Megan Star; Anthony Townsend, Michael Young |
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| Planetary solvency: finding our balance with nature
Author/s: Charles Hett |
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| New Zealand BIOFIN Assessment
Author/s: Ian Herbert |
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| Beyond Growth and Wellbeing | The fix – the legislative sledgehammer required
Author/s: Ganesh Ahirao (Ganesh Nana) |
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| The Mechanics of Government Finance in New Zealand: An Institutional and Procedural Analysis of Government Expenditure, Revenue Collection and Securities Operations in New Zealand
Author/s: Morgan Edwards |
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| Why Can China Orchestrate a Civilizational Transition?
Author/s: Xi Ji |
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| 1pm | Lunch | |
| 2.00 pm Breakout sessions #2 | ||
| Transformative knowledge | The Elephant in the Room – Why degrowth alternatives matter in organization
Author/s: Ben Robra, Alex Pazaitis |
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| People, Fish, and Rivers: Microeconomic Consequences of Exogenously Determined Macroeconomic Degrowth Policies in the Murray Darling Basin
Author/s: Boyd Blackwell |
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| Networking that matters: Scaling degrowth counter-hegemony through alternative organisational values
Author/s: Michael Walker, Ben Robra, Scott Matter |
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| Reimagining Common Good HRM through Indigenous Relational Ontologies
Author/s: Fiona Edgar, Jekope Maiono, Ross Heath, Natasha Podgorodnichenko |
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| Intergenerational Justice and Stewardship | Failure Demand and Disability: Imagining Systems With Whanau Hau?
Author/s: EJ Barrett |
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| Valuing Water Security: A Social Return on Investment Analysis of the Tupu Plumbing and Water Tank Programme
Author/s: Hillmaré Schulze |
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| Promoting Intergenerational Wellbeing: Youth-Led Community- and School-Based Food Security Initiatives
Author/s: Derrylea Hardy |
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| Hum: Scalable civic infrastructure for community-governed economies
Author/s: Mark Pascall |
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| 3.30pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 4pm | Keynote #3: Erik Gomez-Baggethun | The Plurality of Values and the Valuation of Nature |
| 5pm | Day one wrap up | |
XV Anzsee Biennial Conference Dinner 2026Southern Cross, 6.30pm |
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Day 2: Friday 2 October |
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| 9am | Day two welcome | |
| Keynote #4: Gareth Hughes | The possibilities of a wellbeing economy for Aotearoa | |
| Keynote #5: Bob Costanza | Ecological Economics, Societal Addiction and Recovery: Creating a New Science of Collective Behavioural Traps and Transformative Recovery | |
| 10.10am | Morning tea | |
| 10.50am | Keynote #6: Joshua Farley | Taking Complexity Theory Seriously and Non-market Food Systems |
| 11.30 am Breakout sessions #3 | ||
| Ecological Limits | Environmental Legal Personhood through an Economics Lens
Author/s: Viktoria Kahui |
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| From efficiency to Sufficiency: Economic arguments for regulating absolute environmental limits
Author/s: Rhett Martin |
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| We are Circular by Nature
Author/s: Louise Nash |
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| Workshops | Whakaora, Flourishing and Regenerative Futures: A Participatory Exploration of Learning, Value(s) and Place
Author/s: Faith Kane, Huhana Smith, Linda Murray, Nicola Brown, Allanah Ryan, Kelly Dombroski, Derrylea Hardy |
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| Using nature as a metaphor to inspire behaviour change Author/s: Kath Dewar | ||
| 1pm | Lunch and ANZSEE AGM & Elections | |
| 2pm | Keynote #7: Mike Joy | Aotearoa climate mitigation strategies |
| 2.30pm Breakout sessions #4 | ||
| Climate, Cities, and the Built
Environment |
Sharing the success story of regenerative economies and the enhanced well-being of Indigenous peoples in northern Australia
Author/s: Kamaljit K Sangha |
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| Climate disasters, subsistence agriculture, and rural migration in Guatemala: a mixed-methods analysis
Author/s: Constanza Gajardo, Felipe Livert |
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| Are EV Incentives Environmentally Prepared? Assessing Adoption and Battery Waste Governance in ASEAN
Author/s: Nadya Setiawati, Sultan Rifat Alfatih, Emanual Bria, |
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| Assessing conservation–agricultural development trade-offs: a case study of the Big Rivers Region, Northern Australia
Author/s: Getahun Mengesha, Kamaljit Sangha, Brett Murphy, Muhammad Mazhar |
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| Climate change, Agriculture and Economic Impacts in Nepal
Author/s: Yuba Raj DC |
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| Transformative knowledge | Post-growth innovation: Sustainability beyond the sociotechnical imaginary
Author/s: Scott Matter, Ben Robra |
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| How do we reform economics education to reflect the needs and challenges of today?
Author/s: Sally Hett |
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| Building the knowledge base for ethical economies: Community Economies Livelihood Framework.
Author/s: Katharine McKinnon |
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| Ecological and wellbeing economics has no reason to compromise with mainstream economics
Author/s: David Sinclair |
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| 4pm | Afternoon tea | |
| 4.15pm | Keynote #8: Marjan Van Den Belt | Aoteanomics: a place-based economy where people and nature matter |
| 5pm | Conference close | |
