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Redreaming
Australia: the next two hundred years
began with an
unexpected commission to guest edit a special Australian double issue of the
British journal
Futures to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of
Imagine The Future Inc, the small not-for-profit organisation which
publishes
Redreaming the plains.
Guest editor
and founder of ITF,
Merrill Findlay, assembled a distinguished group of twenty scholars and
activists for the project, most of whom participated in ITF's
ecoversity forums in the 1990s.
The
contributors to the special Australian double issue of Futures are as follows.
Ian Anderson: The end of
Aboriginal Self-Determination?
Ian is Director of The
VicHealth Koori Health Research and Community Development Unit and The Centre
for the Study of Health and Society at the Univesity of Melbourne, and a
Professor at the same university.
Joseph Camilleri: Australia's Unique Future: Reconciling Place, History
and Culture
Joseph is Professor of
International Relations, School of Social Science, La Trobe University,
Melbourne.
Paul James: Rethinking the Nation-State and the 'Australian Dream':
Negotiating the Movement of People and Things
Paul is Research Director of
the Globalism Institute for Studies in Transnationalism, Nationalism and
Cultural Diversity at RMIT University, and Professor of Globalism and Cultural
Diversity.
Sue Kenny: Non-government organisations and the dialectics of state and
civil society
Sue is director of the Centre
for Citizenship and Human Rights at Deakin University, and has a personal chair
in the School of Social and International Studies at that university.
Tony Stevenson: The power of ideas
Tony is a futurist and
past-President of the World Futures Studies Federation.
Tricia Caswell: So what on Earth is this 'sustainability' thing all about?
Tricia is Chief Executive
Officer of the Victorian Association of Forest Industries (VAFI) and to June
2004 was Founding Executive Director of the Global Sustainability Institute at
RMIT University.
Jim Falk and Chris Ryan: Innovating Australia's futures
Jim and Chris are now
Professorial Fellows at the University of Melbourne.
John French and Berhan Ahmed: Towards a sustainable value system of
ecodesign
John is a former senior
entomologist with CSIRO and now Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Science,
University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore. Berhan is Senior Research Fellow
in CRC Wood Innovations, University of Melbourne.
Peter Kinrade: Australia's energy futures -- 1
Peter is chairperson of
Imagine The Future Inc and an environmental consultant with Marsden Jacob
Associates, Melbourne.
Alan Pears: Australia's energy futures -- 2
Alan is Co-Director of
Sustainable Solutions Pty Ltd, and Adjunct Professor within the Environment &
Planning Program, School of Social Science and Planning RMIT University.
Jason Alexandra and Curtis Riddington: Redreaming the rural landscape
Jason is an agricultural
consultant and farmer in central Victoria. Curtis is a research assistant with
Alexandra and Associates.
Sam Lake and Nick Bond: A nation challenged by
water - aquatic ecosystems and human water usage
Sam is Professor in Ecology
in the School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Monash University.
Nick Bond is a postdoctoral research fellow in the same School.
David Mercer, Linda Christesen and Michael Buxton:
Squandering the future - climate change, policy failure and the water crisis
in Australia
Dave and Michael are both
Associate Professors in the Environment and Planning Program, School of Social
Science and Planning, RMIT University; Linda is a doctoral candidate in the E&P
Program, RMIT.
Merrill Findlay: The Lachlan River - a yet-to-be
genealogy of an Australian icon
See
www.merrillfindlay.com
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