Patrons
- Frank Fenner, Stephen Boyden
Nature
and Society Forum Board 2008/2009
Ian Anderson
Stephen Boyden
Valerie Brown
Tony Capon (Chair)
Rory Eames
Sue Nancarrow
Wendy Rainbird
Gilles Rohan
Jenny Wanless (secretary)
Nature and Society Forum is a group of people who believe that:
- The present patterns of human activity globally, and in our own society, are not ecologically sustainable, and the survival of civilisation and the well-being of humanity will require significant changes in these patterns.
- Gross inequities exist in the conditions of life and health status of different sections of the human population, across the world and within nations. This situation also calls for major changes in society.
- The social changes necessary for the achievement of societal sustainability and improved health and equity will not come about until there is greatly improved understanding, throughout the community, of the processes of life and of the human place in nature and of the environmental and health issues facing our society today.
- Such understanding is unlikely to be brought about through our exisiting social institutions.
- There is therefore a need for a new kind of public institution/organisation in our society that can promote such understanding and facilitate informed discussion and debate about ecological and health issues.
- NSF is striving to become that institution.
Australian National Biocentre Board 2008/2009
Janis Birkeland (joint chair)
David Hood (joint chair)
Valerie Brown
Barbara Chevalier
Konrad Knerr
Brendan Mackey
Geoff Pryor
Wendy Rainbird (secretary)
Joanne Warren-Wilson
Updated 24 October 2008 |