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Full Program

2024 ANZSEE Conference Program

As at 3rd October 2024

MAIN LECTURE ROOM (unless indicated)

SECOND LECTURE ROOM

or MEETING ROOM

Day 1: Friday 4 October
3:15 PM Registration Desk Open (Front deck of MBRS Building – Gather here for the Official Induction at 3.40 PM)

Bedroom setups for those staying at the station.
3:40 MBRS Site Induction (Main lecture theatre)
4:00 to 4:45 PM Welcome to Country by Traditional Owner of Minjerribah (Across the road in grassy area)
4:45 to 5:00 PM Welcome from ANZSEE:
1. Conference Chair – Dr Peter Daniels

2. President – Dr Boyd Blackwell

Light refreshment provided.
5:00 to 6:00 PM

Plenary/Keynote

 Joshua Farley (Live online): Ecological limits and ecological ethics: insights from evolution and anthropology (Main lecture theatre)
6:00 PM Dinner at own expense (The Brewery – a short Walk from MBRS) END of DAY 1

Day 2: Saturday 5 October
8:30 AM Registration table opens & Induction briefing for new arrivals at front deck of MBRS Building
9:00 to 10:00AM Plenary/Keynote Paul Hardisty: How stories connect people, livelihoods and the environment
10:00 to 11:00AM General Presentations Theme: Conserving natural ecosystems 1


1. Chris Fleming: Twenty-five years of world heritage status: Show us the benefits!
2. Toni Carnard: Finding the triple bottom line in partially protected areas
3. Kamaljit K Sangha: Developing nature-based Solutions/Economies for Indigenous peoples in Australia: Opportunities and challenges.

Chair: Toni Cannard & Chris Fleming

 Themes: Ethics, Sustainable Transitions
1. Peter Daniels: Was Buddha the first ecological economist?
2. Scott Matter: Living societal transitions: learning from prototypes for socio-ecological well-being
3. Ben Robra: Contrasting capitalist values: Alternative organisational ethics through degrowth values

Chair: Peter Daniels & Ben Robra
11:00 -11:30 AM

Morning Tea Break
11:30 – 12:30PM Panel session Erik Gomez-Baggethun & Michelle Maloney, Has utilitarian environmentalism failed? Rethinking human-nature relationships
12:30 to 1:30PM Poster Presentations Lunch Break and Poster Presentation: 1. Jane O’Sullivan: Higher than anticipated population growth is a neglected threat to sustainable futures

2. Pramod Gautam: Achieving Net-Zero Emissions in Agriculture: Developing Decision Support Systems for Land and Enterprise Managers

1:30 – 2:30PM Plenary/Keynote Anya Phelan: At the crossroads of business, society, and planet – plastic waste and remote communities
2:30 – 3:30PM
Presentations		 Waste 2 – Islands Under Threat

1. Boyd Blackwell: Norfolk Island – Some economic and equity aspects of its reef systems
2. Susan Prior: Placing Norfolk Island’s in context
3. John Oxenford – Is it possible for Bribie island’s coastal environment to be sustainable and healthy?

Chair: Boyd Blackwell & Susan Prior

 Climate Response 1
1. Jim Crosthwaite: The rocky road to net zero: unpacking the conflicts and contestations in creating a gas-free economy.
2. Fabian Sack: Using environmentally extended input output analysis to reduce the health sector’s carbon footprint
3. Yoshihiko Wada & Lee Tan: The unequal exchange of the rare earth transitional mineral supply chains (Lee Tan to present)

Chair: Jim Crosthwaite & Lee Tan
3:30 – 4:00PM

Afternoon Tea Break
4:00 – 5:00PM Plenary/Keynote Eszter Kelemen (online presentation): The role of education in transformative change and the potential contribution of ecological economics
5:00 – 6:00 PM Presentations/

Workshop

 Theme: Educating Change Agents 1. Carla Liuzzo: Embedding Ecological Economics in Australian Business Education: Degrowth for Preparing Leaders for Sustainable Futures

2. Louise Fitzgerald & Jinki Trevillian: Equipping Business Graduates for Global Complexity and Uncertain Times Ahead

3. Fiona Ryan: Which climate policies are mutually beneficial for developing and developed economies?

Chair: Anya Phelan & Fiona Ryan

 Workshop: Weaving a Basket of Benefits: Exploring Ecosystem Service Connections and Interactions across Landscapes, Scales, and Institutions, with Andrew Buckwell and Ed Morgan
6:00 – 6:30PM

Break
6:30 – 9:00 PM Conference Dinner: Entertainment by local musician/soloist Paula Boo (Main dining area, Additional $35/head for dinner)

BYO musical instruments for a possible jam afterwards

Day 3: Sunday 6 October
8:30 – 9:00AM Registration table opens & tea and coffee on arrival
9:00 – 10:00AM Keynote Erik Gomez-Baggethun: The future of work: Insights from ecological economics
10:00 -11:00AM

Presentation/Panel Session

 1. Jane O’Sullivan: Population growth, the labour market and inequality: why population peak and decline is a social as well as environmental imperative
2. Cade Diehm: Beyond human centered design: digital systems and non-human expertise
3. Cade Diehm: Anticipating a Green Panopticon

Chair: Peter Daniels & Jane O’Sullivan

 Kamaljit Sangha & Boyd Blackwell – First Nations ecosystem services values, fire management related carbon economy in Northern Australia.
11:00 – 11:30AM

Morning Tea Break
11:30 – 12:30PM Keynote Tom Rayner: Fish out of water: Integrating ecology, economics & engagement to drive adoption of modern fish-protection screens
12:30 – 1:30PM

Lunch Break
12:45 – 1:30PM ANZSEE AGM – All members welcome
1:30 – 2:30 PM Presentations Fisheries ecological economics, Session 1
1. Boyd Blackwell: Fish and river restoration economic considerations within the context of fish screening
2. Lachlan Jaensch: Liquid assets balancing public and private benefits of fish protection screens
3. Andrew Buckwell: The social license of salmon agriculture in Tasmania fulfilling the social bargain

Chair: Boyd Blackwell

 Food System Sustainability 1 1. Sabrina Chakori: Post-growth food enterprises in Australia: the role of exnovation 2. Priyambada Joshi: The future of beef production: from risk assessment to sustainable management

3. KC Adaina: Determinants of Household Decision Choice on Cooking Energy Fuel amongst the indigenous Zeliangrong Community in the Himalayan region of Rural Manipur, India: Do Cultural Practices Matter?

Chair: Lee Tan
2:30 – 3:30 PM Keynote Michelle Maloney: Building Earth-centred economies, ethics and governance in a time of crisis: the critical role of civil society
3:30 – 4:00PM Afternoon Tea Break
4:00 – 5:00PM Workshop/Presentations Governance

1. Paul Brown: Building Resilience in City Waste Management Systems: Supporting Public Reporting Towards Degrowth (tentatively video presentation)
2. Jordan Roods: Why Circular Economy’s vision to ‘regenerate nature’ needs earth-centred governance
3. Rodrigo Zilleruelo Estanol: Discovering values and drivers for Nature-based Solutions (NbS): The association between relational values and NbS, evidence from a choice experiment in Australia

Chair: Anya Phelan

 Food System Sustainability 2 & Restoration Ecology Economics 1
1. Van Thuy Dao: Value Addition in Agriculture: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Government Incentives and Programs
2. Khaqan Khasif: Australian farmer’s perception of carbon farming and implication for broad acre agriculture.
3. Boyd Blackwell: Oyster reef restoration social cost-benefit analysis of the Port Stephens project

Chair: Boyd Blackwell
5:00 to 5:30PM Conference recap and close
6:30 PM Dinner at own expense (Book here if you need dinner at MBRS)

End of DAY 3
Day 4: Monday 7 October – Optional Field trips
9:00 AM to

2:30 PM

 Field trip options (please pick ONE HERE):
1. Gorge walk, Point Lookup (public transport) – free
2. Blue/brown Lake hike (6km return) – free/tour company
3. Moreton Bay boat trip – charge
Followed by pub Lunch at the local hotel
12:30 – 2:30PM Lunch at Point Lookout Hotel (at own cost, catch public bus or own transport – please RSVP)

Note that the last water taxi leaves Dunwich at 7:55PM and the ferry leaves at 7:00PM