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The Centre would like to welcome PhD student Marisia Silva, who is visiting from the Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP, São Paulo State University) in Brazil. Marisia is an engineer of agronomy and is currently working on her PhD on non-renewable energy use...Read More

The Centre's Christopher Rosin will be giving a seminar on climate change titled “Questioning climate change: denial and identity among New Zealand pastoral farmers”. The seminar is being run by the Otago Climate Change Network and will be held on Thursday, May 9, at the Centre for Inno...Read More

Centre director Janet Stephenson is to be part of a panel discussing the question:  "Climate Change - Where are we now and what do we do next?" Also on the panel will be Professor Jonathan Boston (Professor of Public Policy, Victoria University School of Government), Professor Colin Campbell-H...Read More

This month sees the launch of the Marine Cultural Health Index (MCHI). This is a practical monitoring toolkit that helps local managers and kaitiaki to score and monitor the health of important marine harvest areas. It was developed to assist Ngāi Tahu in establishing fisheries restoration targ...Read More

Making energy conservation fun could be the key to reaching energy inefficient consumers, says US researcher Beth Karlin. Beth, who is currently visiting the Centre for Sustainability, is the director of the Transformational Media Lab at the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) as well...Read More

The Tourism and Geography departments, along with The Centre for Sustainability, are co-hosting  a seminar by Dr James Igoe tilted Redemption, Repair and Push-button Care,  in which he will describe his research on biodiversity conservation and how it led him to investigate “push but...Read More

Energy Cultures: Implications for Policymakers was released at Te Papa this week as part of The Energy Conference 2013. Centre for Sustainability Director Janet Stephenson launched the report, which she co-authored with Barry Barton, Sally Blackwell, Gerry Carrington, Rebecca Ford, Rob Lawson,...Read More

A PhD position is available within the Green Grid project, based at the Centre for Sustainability, Otago University (www.csafe.org.nz). The particular topic of interest for this PhD scholarship is: To study household energy behaviour using a time-use methodology (time-geographical approach). It ma...Read More

The Centre welcomes Martin Thorsøe who is a PhD student visiting from the department of Agroecology at Aarhus University. He has a masters in Integrative Geography and has been working several years with resource management in the public administration. His PhD has a particular focus on ...Read More

The Centre for Sustainability has a number of Summer Scholarships available. Current topics are: Household energy habits – analysing rationalisations for energy behaviour Community initiated shifts in household energy behaviours Te Waihora project    Household energy habits...Read More