Sustainability Seminars

Opportunities for Sustainability

A series of seminars assisting Western Australia to explore opportunities to make the State more sustainable – economically, socially and environmentally.

Opportunities for a ‘small’ State:  Reflections on the Welsh Sustainability Scheme
Matthew Quinn

Executive Director, Policy National Assembly of Wales Friday, 3 August 2001

Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Resource Processing: Capturing Kwinana Regional Synergies
Dr Joe Herbertson

University of Newcastle and Skye Point Innovation Former manager BHP Friday, 10 August 2001

Economic opportunities in Sustainability
Dr Clive Hamilton

Executive Director, Australia Institute Senior Lecturer, Public Policy, Australian National University Thursday, 16 August 2001

The Challenge on the Journey to a Sustainable Future: Surviving or Thriving?
Dr Peter Ellyard

Executive Director of Preferred Futures, Senior Adviser to the United Nations Wednesday 29 August 2001

Environmental modernisation of China:  Opportunities for Western Australia
Professor Mark Diesendorf

Sustainability and Local Place: Case Studies from East London, West Sydney and Rural WA
Mr Alistair Mant

Chair, Socio-Technical Strategy Group in UK
Tuesday, 25 September 2001

The ACF Green Building - New Benchmarks, Old Barriers
Dr Peter Brotherton

Director, Sustainable Solutions, ACF Councillor Friday 28 September 2001

The Role of the Earth Charter in Humanising Economic Globalisation - Implications for a Sustainable Australia
Dr Brendan Mackey

Reader in Ecology and Environmental Science, Australian National University
Friday 5 October 2001

Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability
Professor David Birch

Director, Corporate Citizenship Research Unit, Deakin University Friday 12 October 2001

Green Jobs in WA: A Report from the Regions
Dr David Annandale

Senior Lecturer in Environmental Assessment, Murdoch University Friday, 9 November 2001

Enquiries:  9222 9869 or 1800 198274

An initiative of the Government of Western Australia