Dr Meg Sherval1 1The University Of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia   The global energy landscape is transforming. Debates about energy security and energy scarcity have become increasingly important as nations seek to ensure continuity of supply into the future. Recent technological...

Mrs Bridie Meyer-Mclean1 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia   Mining unconventional resources is increasingly fraught with conflict. People are at odds with the exploitation of natural resources when the intensive and controversial processes of extraction cross over into other land...

Mr Amartya Pani1, Mr. Pulak Mishra2 1Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur , Kharagpur, India, 2Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur , Kharagpur, India   In late rapidly changing climatic conditions has become increasingly difficult to meet the growing demand for food...

Dr Vigya Sharma1 1University Of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia   She is also part of the RapidSwitch Initiative at UQ, a multi-country research agenda examining the pace of global decarbonisation. Her presentation is based on recent work in this project....

Mr Md Masud All Kamal1 1The University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia   The community-based participatory approach has long been applied in diverse areas of development. Though the effectiveness of such bottom-up approach is contested, this approach has been adopted in...

A/Prof. Wendy Steele1, Prof  Jason Byrne2, Prof Jean Hillier1, Dr Diana MacCallum3, A/Prof Donna Houston4 1Centre for Urban Research, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 2University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 3Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 4Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia   At the heart of...

A/Prof. Matthew Kearnes1, Dr. Declan Kuch1 1Environment & Society Group, School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW, Kensington, Australia   Citizen science projects form an increasingly significant component of the dynamic relationship between science and society. Whilst citizen science initiatives are...

Dr Ronlyn Duncan1 1Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand   Recognising publics are made and emergent, understanding how they are made and factors that shape their creation are important areas for research. This paper presents research that examines how...

Mrs Annette Bardsley1 1The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia   Residents living on the fringe of Australian cities face increasing levels of environmental risk, especially due to wildfires. That situation is challenging planners to engage with resident populations to meet...

Dr Tira Foran1, Dr Hemant Ojha2 1CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra 2Institute for Studies and Development Worldwide (IFSD), Sydney,   We explore the interplay between participatory deliberative processes, and forces that constrain river basin planning in Nepal. Nepal’s 2015 constitution,...