Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Fourteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability.
Countries represented.
Three key global megatrends appear to be shaping the twenty-first century. The first is the changing face of international terrorism and the reactions that are made in response to it. The second is growing economic inequality, both within and between countries. The third is global environmental degradation, and in particular climate change. The challenge of those who care for the future of the planet and who see environmental challenges climate change as the most pressing problems we face is that the first two megatrands are dominating political conversations. The faultline between radical Islamic terrorism and some western governments has, to a large extent, dominated the first two decades of the century. And popular resentment at growing inequality was a factor in both the 2016 Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the election the same year of Trump as president. This suggests that inequities between generations cannot be properly addressed until inequities within the present generation are tackled. A further complicating factor is that all three of these global megatrends are contributing, in different ways and to different degrees, to increased migration from the global North to the global South. How, therefore, amidst fragmenting social, economic, political and demographic trends can we generate the global forms of solidarity necessary to tackle the increasingly urgent intergenerational challenges we face? This is the question that will be considered by the 14th International Conference on Environmental Cultural Economic and Social Sustainability.
Professor of Environmental Policy, The Open University, United Kingdom
Distinguished Professor and Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia
The Fourteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor of International Relations & ANU Public Policy Fellow, The Australian National University, Australia
Distinguished Professor and Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Australia
Ethnobotanist, James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an academic interest in the conference area. The Award, with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for early career academics. The 2018 Emerging Scholar Awardees are listed below.
Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
James Cook University, Cairns, Australia
Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, USA
University of New England, New South Wales, Australia
Blekinge Tekniska Högskolan, Karlskrona, Sweden
James Cook University
Cairns, Australia
Virtual Posters present preliminary results of work or projects that lend themselves to visual representations. Download the posters below.
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