Climate, Sustainability and Society
A series of three public lectures drawing on science, social science and economics to highlight issues surrounding climate change and sustainability, hosted by the Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga campuses, concludes on 23 September. The final speaker will be author and social commentator Professor Clive Hamilton from the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
Other speakers have been former CSIRO atmospheric researcher Dr Barrie Pittock, and La Trobe economist and Albury-Wodonga campus Director, Professor Lin Crase, who examined water policy. The lectures are part of an innovative cross-disciplinary subject offered for the first time at both Bendigo and Albury-Wodonga.
Professor Hamilton, with ANU earth and paleoclimate scientist Dr Andrew Glikson, also featured on the main Melbourne campus at Bundoora, in the public ‘Ideas and Society Program’ hosted by Professor Robert Manne. The second in this year’s series, it was titled ‘The politics and the science of climate change denialism’.