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Reflecting the diversity of challenges that now confront us, speakers at RMIT's People and the Planet 2013 conference from 2-4 July addressed nine interconnecting research themes:
- Urban Sustainability
- Cultural Sustainability
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Community Sustainability
- Globalization and Culture
- Human Security and Disasters
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures
- Global Ecologies and Culture
Keynote speakers - abstracts, audio and some video available for these speakers here >
- Joyati Das – Global Head, Centre of Expertise for Urban Programming, World Vision
- Robyn Eckersley – Author of the Green State, leading environmentalist and Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne
- Jerry Harris – National Secretary of the Global Studies Association of North America, and founding member of the Network for the Critical Study of Global Capitalism
- Eric Herring – Deputy Director of the Global Insecurities Centre at the University of Bristol
- Paul James - Director of RMIT University’s Global Cities Research Institute and the UN Global Compact Cities Programme
- Peter Mandaville – Director, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies and advisor to former US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton
- Robert Manne – Leading Australian public intellectual, and Convenor of the Society & Ideas Program
- Kate Roffey – Chief Executive Officer of the Committee for Melbourne
- Matthew Tukaki - Chief Executive Officer of the Sustain Group and Australia’s Representative to the United Nations Global Compact
- Deborah Bird Rose – Author of prize-winning books, including the Dingo Makes Us Human and Professor for Social Inclusion, Macquarie University
Publication Details
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14 Aug 2013