Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists

Australia’s Climate is Changing Australia

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Accounting for Nature: A Model for Building the National Environmental Accounts of Australia

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Accounting_For_Nature: A Model for Building the National Environmental Accounts of Australia [PDF 174Kb]

Today’s news

Fiona McKenzie — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:15:39 +0000

Wentworth Group Articles and Papers

Fiona McKenzie — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:08:49 +0000

David Karoly spells out some of the realities of climate change in his article Climate Change Science Misinformation.

The Terrestrial Carbon Group, an initiative of the Wentworth Group and the Purves Environmental Fund, has just released the paper How to Include Terrestrial Carbon in Developing Nations in the Overall Climate Change Solution.

Bruce Thom spoke at the 13th Annual Conference of Public Works and Environment Parliamentary Committees about Climate change and our coastal and urban resources.

Bruce Thom appeared before the House of Representatives Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts Committee inquiry into climate change and environmental impacts on coastal communities. His submission calls for recognition that coastal problems are national in scale, not just state or local.

John Williams and Fiona McKenzie write about the huge challenge for agriculture of increasing food production without damaging the natural resource base in the August 2008 issue of Australasian Science monthly. Their paper, Food versus environment - and the winner is? highlights the opportunities for Australian farmers and agricultural scientists.

Peter Cosier gave the keynote address Water in a Changing Climate to the Conservation Council of SA Water Policy Summit on 12 June 2008, where he raised concerns about the silence in South Australia, the denial, the inactivity, the lack of protest - in effect the acceptance of the destruction of Australia’s greatest river system.

The Wentworth Group submitted their Statement to Senate Water Bill Inquiry on 10 August 2007.

The Wentworth Group’s November 2006 paper on water reform and the state of Australia’s Water - Australia’s Climate is Changing Australia is available here.

Prof Bruce Thom FIAG FTSE

Fiona McKenzie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:03:33 +0000

BA (Hons) (Sydney), PhD (Louisiana State)

Expertise

Coastal management
Coastal land use planning
Geomorphology
Coastal geology

Background

Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Built Environment, University of NSW
Former Chair, Australian State of the Environment Committee
Former Chair, NSW Coastal Council
Former Vice Chancellor, University of New England
Former Pro-Vice Chancellor, University of Sydney

Publications & Speeches

Climate change and our coastal and urban resources

Submission - Inquiry into climate change & the environmental impacts on coastal communities

Coastal Sustainability - Wollongong April 08

Coastal Geomorphology and Decision Making

Saving the coast - the impact of women

Lessons from the NSW Coast

Climate change and the coast: the institutional challenges

The NSW Experience

Clarence Valley Water - A Catchment Perspective

We must adapt for climate change now

Keynote Address: NSW Coastal Conference 2006

The Australian Coast: Images, problems and solutions

The coast as seen from the East.

Coastal environments in a changing world

Environmental History and Decision Making

Graduation Address 2003

Mr Robert Purves

Fiona McKenzie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:03:04 +0000

BComm (UNSW)

Expertise

Leadership of conservation organisations
Public Company Director
Rural property management
Funds management

Background

Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Immediate past President, WWF Australia
Board Member, WWF International
Chair, Purves Environmental Fund
Chair, Environment Business Australia Limited (EBA)
Grazing property holdings at Yass (NSW), Bungendore (NSW), Borroloola (NT)
Patron, Lizard Island Research Station, Great Barrier Reef
Former Chairman, DCA Group Limited

Publications & Speeches

Opening Address to the EBA Business and Sustainability Summit

Prof Hugh Possingham FAA

Fiona McKenzie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:02:55 +0000

BSc (Hons) (Adelaide), DPhil (Oxford)

Expertise

Ecology and population dynamics
Conservation reserve design
Endangered species management
Decision theory in conservation biology

Background

Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
Australian Research Council Federation Fellow (2006-2011)
Director, The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland
Director, Centre for Australian Environmental Decision Analysis
Former Chair, Australian Biodiversity Advisory Council
Chair, Ministerial Advisory Committee on Biodiversity Hotspots
Member, Birds Australia Research and Conservation Committee
Rhodes Scholar

Publications & Speeches

Cost-effective global conservation spending is robust to taxonomic group

Making Monitoring Meaningful

Prioritising global conservation efforts

The Business of Biodiversity

Is environmental research a waste of time?

Webpages

The Ecology Centre

Decision Point

Dr Ronnie Harding

Fiona McKenzie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:02:43 +0000

BA (Sydney), BSc (Hons)(UNSW), PhD (Zoology)(UNSW)

Expertise

Environmental education
Environmental reporting
Sustainability policy
Environmental decision-making

Background

Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Chair, NSW Council on Environmental Education
Assistant Commissioner, NSW Natural Resources Commission
Director, WWF Australia
Member, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council
Former Director, Institute of Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales
Trustee, Australian Museum, and Chair, Australian Museum Research and Collections Advisory Committee
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Environmental Studies, the University of New South Wales
Honorary Associate Professor, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Faculty of Arts, Monash University

Prof Tim Flannery

Fiona McKenzie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:02:29 +0000

BA (La Trobe), MSc (Monash), PhD (UNSW)

Expertise

Evolutionary biology
Climate change
Paleontology
Zoology

Background

Co-Chair, Copenhagen Climate Council
Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Australian of the Year 2007
Former Director, South Australian Museum
Author of The Weather Makers, The Future Eaters, The Eternal Frontier, Throwim Way Leg and the controversial Quarterly Essay Beautiful Lies
Former Chair, South Australian Premier’s Science Council
Former Chair, South Australian Sustainability Roundtable
Director, Australian Wildlife Conservancy

Books

2006 We Are The Weather Makers, Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

2005 The Weather Makers, Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

2004 Country Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter)

2004 Astonishing Animals Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2003 Sailing Alone Around the World Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

2003 Beautiful Lies. Population and Environment in Australia. Quarterly Essay 9, Black Inc., Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2002 The Birth of Melbourne Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2002 The Life and Adventures of William Buckley Text, Melbourne (Long, J., Archer, M., Flannery, T. & Hand, S)

2002 Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution University of New South Wales Press, Sydney (Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter)

2001 A Gap in Nature Text, Melbourne. (Flannery, Tim)

2001 The Eternal Frontier: An ecological history of North America Text, Melbourne. (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2000 Terra Australis. The Journals of Matthew Flinders Text, Melbourne. (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2000 The Birth of Sydney Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

2000 The Explorers Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim)

1997 Throwim Way Leg Text, Melbourne (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

1997 Life and Adventures: John Nicol, Mariner Text, Melbourne (Flannery, T.F., Martin, R., Szalay, A.. & Schouten, P.)

1996 Tree-kangaroos: a curious natural history Reed, Sydney (Flannery, Tim, edited and introduced)

1996 1788 Text, Melbourne (Flannery, T.F)

1995 Mammals of New Guinea (Revised Edition) Reed, Sydney (Flannery, T.F.)

1995 Mammals of the South West Pacific and Moluccan Islands Reed, Sydney (Flannery, Tim)

1994 The Future Eaters: an ecological history of the Australasian lands and people Reed, Sydney (Flannery, Tim & Schouten, Peter)

1994 Possums of the World: a monograph of the Phalangeroidea Geo Productions Sydney (Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P.)

1992 The Age of Dinosaurs in Australia Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney (Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P.)

1992 Australia’s Inland Sea Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Sydney (Flannery, T.F. & Kendall, P.)

1990 Australia’s Vanishing Mammals Reader’s Digest, Sydney (Flannery, T.F.)

1988 Australia’s Wilderness Heritage Weldon Press, Sydney - two volumes (Archer, M. & Flannery, T.F.)

1985 The Kangaroo Weldon Press, Sydney

Publications & Speeches

Ice rage: The big melt

Prof Mike Young FASSA

Fiona McKenzie — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:01:30 +0000

BEc (Adelaide), MAgSc (Adelaide), GAICD (Canberra)

Expertise

Water entitlements and trading systems
Market-based incentives to improve natural resource use
Resource economics
Environmental flows

Background

Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences
Research Chair, Water Economics and Management, University of Adelaide
Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research, University of New England
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Charles Sturt University
Member, South Australian Sustainability Roundtable
Associate Editor, International Ecological Economics Journal
Member, NSW Riverbank Subcommittee of NSW Environmental Trust

Publications & Speeches

Defining Tradable Water Entitlements and Allocations: A Robust System

Sharing Water: Options for the use of shares as a means to define groundwater entitlements in the South East of South Australia

Evergreen Leasing of Aquaculture Sites

Robust Reform: The Case for a New Water Entitlement System for Australia

Publication Links

“Who Dares Wins”: Opportunities to improve water trading in the south-east of South Australia

Robust Separation: A search for a generic framework to simplify registration and trading of interests in natural resources

Design principles for individual transferable quotas

Website