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Cities Nature Justice: dialogues for social sustainability in public spaces
Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th December 2008
Hosted by Transforming Cultures Research Centre
Venue: UTS Blackfriars Campus, Blackfriars Street, Chippendale.
Cities Nature Justice is a 3-day international symposium addressing the social science and science of sustainability. A key question for conference attendees will be: Can social sustainability be achieved at the same time as environmental sustainability? Building on the success of the Landscapes of Meaning symposium hosted by TfC in October 2006, Cities Nature Justice will similarly bring together environmental activists, advocates and communicators from India, China, South East Asia, Australia and the United States to discuss new approaches to understanding city environmental issues by bringing both social science and science to bear on key questions of public space, water and social justice.
Cities Nature Justice is a free event.
Please RSVP at the symposium website.
Key speakers
Setha Low (Professor, Environmental Psychology and Geography at the Graduate Centre CUNY, President American Anthropological Association), Kartik Shanker (Associate Professor, Centre for Ecological Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) Dai Qing (Investigative science journalist and social activist), John Maynard (Professor of Aboriginal Studies, Newcastle University), Penny Figgis (Chair IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Australia and New Zealand region), Amita Baviskar (Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University), Greg Noble (UWS, Centre for Cultural Research & Cultural Research Network), David Burgess (Total Environment Centre, Coal Mining Campaign).
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- Directions to Blackfriars Campus
Contact: Cornelia Betzler - transforming.cultures@uts.edu.au