 Boyd Blackwell
University of New England Armidale, NSW Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I fundamentally believe in the nexus of ecology and economics and the associated multi and transdisciplinary approach to solving the world’s problems. I have enjoyed my terms as a general executive member and Treasurer including continuing to build the society’s healthy financial position while helping deliver successful conferences to the members in Canberra (2013) and at the Gold Coast (2012). If elected, I would help in leading ANZSEE through another successful year, including leading the delivery of a successful 2015 biennial conference through my home institution. |
 Steve Hatfield-Dodds
CSIRO/ANU Canberra, Australia Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I am active in ANZSEE and ISEE, and am willing to help arrange ANZSEE events such as the 2015 conference. I am currently a member of the ISEE Board, where I chair the publications committee. |
 Laura Jean Levetan
University of Melbourne Nominated for
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I have a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and Politics, a B.Sc. in Botany and Astronomy, and a Masters in Climate Change Adaptation (MCCA) focused on climate change mitigation economics. I am now a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, topic in the area of conservation finance, field of ecological economics. I had many years senior executive experience in the banking, electronics and management consulting sectors before returning to University to do Masters and now PhD. My passion is conservation and as an economist with natural science education, I have found the field of ecological economics to be the ideal combination of my educational and work history. I would like to work alongside others in Australia and New Zealand to further the development of this fast growing field as a true interdisciplinary study and practice area and am particularly interested in innovative financial mechanisms. Ecological economics needs practical transfer of thinking from the field of economics to enable monetary realization of the value of natural capital natural alongside very close collaboration with ecologists. I think I can assist in this collaboration and would be happy to learn the working of the society from a general committee position. |
 Jim McFarlane
UNE Business School Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? “Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where the Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.” Dalai Lama |
 Kim McClymont
NSW NPWS,OEH Sydney, Australia Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? To use my diverse experience to continue playing a part in furthering the aims of ANZSEE |
 Anitra Nelson
RMIT University, Melbourne Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? Central to addressing the global environmental and economic crises, the key challenges for the 21st century, are interdisciplinary approaches like ecological economics. Centred in Melbourne, I would like to contribute to ANZSEE becoming more visible across Australia in policy, scholarly and activist forums. My research and publications focus on the social, political and cultural barriers to environmental sustainability, specifically economic ones — such as articles and book reviews in: Ecological Economics; Capitalism, Nature, Socialism; Australian Geographer; Review of Radical Political Economy and Journal of Australian Political Economy. I contributed to and edited Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (London, Pluto Press, 2011), out in a Korean translation (Booksea Publishing) mid-2014 (http://www.lifewithoutmoney.info/), and Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World (Ashgate, 2007). I am editing or writing three other sustainability books, including Small is Necessary: The Efficiencies of Shared Living (Pluto Press, forthcoming). I post to Progress in Political Economy (University of Sydney) and Overland, and facilitate the Melbourne Eco-socialism Discussion Group (http://ecosocialismdiscussiongroup.blogspot.com.au/). |
 Leonie Pearson
University of Canberra Canberra, Australia Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I think ANZSEE is a great idea that needs effort, passion and commitment to deliver a value add to its members. I would like to see this happen by building capacity in the executive, as such I will step down from President but take a functional role at this time.
University of South Australia Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I am becoming increasingly aware that members of the Society for Ecological Economics are my most natural intellectual tribe. I am leaving a Geography Department in the U.S. and taking a new position in the School of Natural and Built Environments at the University of South Australia. I hope to serve on the executive committee in order to build new connections between ANSZEE and UniSA and to work with the rest of the team to organize inspiring annual conferences and raise the visibility and effectiveness of our world view towards improving the human condition.
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 Simone Valle de Souza
University of New England Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I have just completed my PhD in resource economics and aim to pursue research in ecological economics with a focus on public policy. I want to join the ANZSEE for networking and for getting to know the extend of the discipline’s research in our regions for the final purpose of research development. |
 Md Younus
University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia Nominated for:
Why do you wish to be part of the 2015 ANZSEE Executive team? I am an Ecological Environmentalist and Geographer; and obtained my PhD in Environmental Studies from the University of Adelaide, and an MPhil from the University of Waikato, NZ. Currently I am a Fellow of the University of Adelaide. I have been working with ANZSEE as an Executive Board Member since 2007. I co-ordinated various courses; some of them are: Environmental Studies: climate change and human adaptations, environmental decision making tools, research project design and management, cities as human environments in Flinders University, Australia. I was a Scientific Reviewer of IPCC Fourth (2007) and Fifth (2014) assessment reports on adaptation. I have published two books regarding climate change vulnerability and adaptation from the Springer and LAP; and have also published many articles and papers in refereed journals and proceedings. I was assigned as a team member with various international research activities on Environment and Ecological Economics, such as: International Water Management Institute, ADB, WMO, Global Water Partnership, and the University of Waikato. I worked with at least five IPCC former lead authors. I have presented papers in various international seminars in the USA, the UK Norway, Finland, Australia and Bangladesh. I have delivered special lectures in Dhaka University and Adelaide University. |
