Spending time with my friends in their home village of Mabao, Shanxi Province, has meant that I’ve been able to directly experience the significant benefits of two important aspects of Chinese thought – ecological civilization and whole-process people’s democracy.
It is entirely possible to encourage and respect decentralised knowledge and problem solving while retaining an overriding purpose and command structure.
The diverse views in regard to hazard reduction burning all have their foundation in a popular narrative, but the unpopular scientific knowledge tells a different story.
Important published research and historical evidence in regard to climate history and the role of fire in the Australian landscape have been missing from the bushfire crisis debates.
When we accept that polarization can be the result of rational deliberation by rational actors, it changes how we frame debates, leading to better solutions.
Conservation activist views of the 2000-2004 Queensland land clearing campaign demonstrate outcome bias and hindsight bias.
Do natural systems reach equilibrium, and are they self-sustaining?
Abstract The precautionary principle is Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. It states that “Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason …
Newspaper front page article published while working as Coordinator of the Toowoomba and Region Environment Council (TREC).
Newspaper article published after the 2002 Southern Queensland Biodiversity Conference.