Past Events

Network of Environmental Social Scientists Seminar

Presented by Dr Danielle Shanahan, School of Biological Sciences UQ

Mr Doug Yuille from WWF's Sustainable Agriculture program, and former manager of Queensland Dept of Environment's reef protection project will lead a discussion on 'Reducing the impacts of Agriculture'.

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In this seminar, former CSIRO Chief Research Scientist TJ Higgins discusses the challenges and opportunities of gene technology for the developing world with focus on global trends of GM crops and recent developments for food legumes in Africa and India.

Dr Laurence McCook will outline the synthesis of biophysical effects of dredging, as a resource for ongoing management, followed by an opportunity for discussion of the implications for developing policy on dredging. 

Global fishing effort is unsustainable and “… leading inexorably to an impending crisis for global marine fisheries.” This seminar argues that the primary cause of this impending crisis is the failure of States to transparently and equitably distribute the ‘conservation burden’, and thereby enable the adoption of sufficiently strong measures to reduce overfishing to sustainable levels and remove overcapacity. Given current levels of overfishing, conservation measures are required that reduce fishing mortality.