Papers
Evolution and Health
by Stephen Boyden ©
1. The human situation in the biosphere: an overview
by Stephen Boyden
2. A cultural change
by John Schooneveldt
3. Can lemmings change their course?
by Gösta Lyngå
4. Maladaptation or creativity? A challenge for ecologists and designers
by John A. Harris
6. History of conflict resolution
by John Burton
7. Inequality, sustainability and revolution
by Colin Butler
8. Salt and vinegar: Education for sustainability in the Murray-Darling Basin 1983-1998
by David Eastburn
9. Salinity
by John Schooneveldt
10. A Biorenaissance - the hope for the future
by Stephen Boyden
11. From Anthropocene to Sustainocene (Powerpoint version) by Bryan Furnass
Abstract: Geologists refer to the present post-glacial era as the Holocene, a period of relative climate stability which dates back for about 10,000 years to the human agricultural transition. At a climate change conference in 2000, Paul Crutzen, Nobel laureate in chemistry, was so alarmed by the evidence of human impacts on the biosphere since the industrial transition that he proposed that the present era be re-named the Anthropocene, marked by de-forestation and prodigious combustion of fossil fuels. This paper is an amateur discussion of the origins and manifestations of the Anthropocene from bio-historical and health perspectives. The changes in environmental conservation and human behaviour which will be required to attain a sustainable future for humans and countless other species are so radical and urgent, that transition to a new era, provisionally termed the Sustainocene, is proposed.
From Anthropocene to Sustainocene (text only version) by Bryan Furnass
Abstract: Geologists refer to the present post-glacial era as the Holocene, a period of relative climate stability which dates back for about 10,000 years to the human agricultural transition. At a climate change conference in 2000, Paul Crutzen, Nobel laureate in chemistry, was so alarmed by the evidence of human impacts on the biosphere since the industrial transition that he proposed that the present era be re-named the Anthropocene, marked by de-forestation and prodigious combustion of fossil fuels. This paper is an amateur discussion of the origins and manifestations of the Anthropocene from bio-historical and health perspectives. The changes in environmental conservation and human behaviour which will be required to attain a sustainable future for humans and countless other species are so radical and urgent, that transition to a new era, provisionally termed the Sustainocene, is proposed.
12. Global Food Security: defusing the ticking time-bombs Julian Cribb (Powerpoint slides)
Feeding ten billion people through the second half of the 21st century presents the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced. While food demand will double by 2060 critical scarcities are emerging of almost all the key resources required to satisfy it. This challenges us to rethink food itself, how we process it, and how to create diets and foods for the future that are safe, healthy, nutritious, use fewer resources and tread less heavily on the planet.
Offline: Planetary health—a new vision for the post-2015 era
is global health—its defi nition and scope—truly meeting the demands that our societies currently face? Global health does not fully take account of the substrate on which we live—the planet itself.
Transforming Governance for the Anthropocene
Based on the presentation to the Earth System Governance Conference, ANU,December 2015 by Peter Tait
