Can Science Save Humanity begins at 3:30. It will be preceded by How Analytical Science Controls Our Lives, begining at 2:30, at the Shine Dome, ANU.
Major General the Honourable Michael Jeffery
General Jeffery graduated
into Infantry and served operationally in Malaya, Borneo,
Papua New Guinea and Vietnam, where
he was awarded the Military Cross and the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
After he retired in 1993, he assumed the appointment of Governor of Western
Australia.
He was Governor-General
from 2003 to 2008, and is currently Australia’s first ever Advocate for
Soil Health.
Professor Hilary
Bambrick (PhD, BA (Hons), BSc, Grad Cert Higher Ed)
She is Chair of Population
Health at the Centre for Health Research, School of Medicine.
She is an environmental epidemiologist and bioanthropologist whose research
focuses on the health impacts of climate variability and change, especially on
more vulnerable populations, and climate adaptation planning to improve health
outcomes.
Clive Hamilton, author Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate.
He is
an Australian author and public intellectual. Since 2008 he has been Professor
of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a
joint centre of Charles Sturt University
and the University
of Melbourne
He is author of
numerous books, including Earthmasters.
His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change, particular in the context of urban areas.
Adjunct Professor - Institute of Environmental Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Visiting Fellow - Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra; Associate - Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne
How Analytical Science Controls Our Lives
Can Science Save Humanity will be preceded at 2:30 by a presentation with Professor Mirek Macka.
