[Peakoil-announce] Peakoil-announce Digest, Vol 65, Issue 2

[karin at doctordemocracy.net]

sounds like a great talk, I'm not in town and can't get there but would
much appreciate someone who attends putting up a summary for members of
this list.

Karin Geiselhart


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>    1.  lecture this Friday March 18,	10am Forestry Building ANU
>       (Jenny Goldie)
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> Subject: [Peakoil-announce] lecture this Friday March 18,	10am
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> Human Ecology Forum
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> This Friday at the forum we have a presentation (& discussion) by Dr John
> Barry, Queen's University, Belfast.
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> Topic - Thinking about resilience, sustainability and collapse: Insights
> from Permaculture, the Transition Movement and Peak Oil
>
>
> Abstract:
> 'Resilience' for some is the 'new sustainability' within the 'anthropocene
> age' of the 21st century. It certainly seems to be in the thinking of
> those within the grassroots and growing Transition movement with its focus
> on developing localised strategies in the face of climate change and peak
> oil.
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>
> For example, Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition movement, in his
> comparison of 'Conventional Environmentalism' and 'The Transition
> Approach' contrasts 'sustainable development' with
> 'resilience/relocalisation' (Hopkins, 2008a: 135). It is interesting that
> he, and others, are consciously seeking to distinguish the politics and
> approach of 'sustainable development' from that of the Transition
> Movement. At the same time, David Holmgren, one of the founders of
> permaculture thinker and originator of the concept of 'energy descent',
> contends, like Hopkins, that, 'Mainstream approaches to sustainability
> tend to assume stability if not expansion in the energy flows available to
> humanity even if there are major transitions in the nature of the energy
> sources. Consequently, continuity of many of the structures underpinning
> current social and economic systems is assumed' (Holmgren, 2008: emphasis
> added). Finally, we have the Peak Oil perspective represented by figures
> such as Ri
>  chard Heinberg (Heinberg, 2008), David Korowicz (2010), James
> Howard-Kunstler (2003) who articulate what can be termed a 'collapse'
> perspective in terms of what they see as the inevitable collapse of
> industrial societies under the interlocking and re-inforcing logics of
> the climate, energy, financial and economic crises. Apects of this
> collapse perspective can also be seen in the work of Thomas Homer-Dixon
> (2006) who has a (more or less) 'positive' take - in terms of 'breakdown
> leading to breakthrough', while more pessimistic versions of collapse can
> be found in the most recent work of James Lovelock (2009) for whom
> 'sustainable development' is a waste of time and wold have had to have
> been implemented decades ago for it to have any positive effect now.
>
>
> I would like in this discussion to talk about these issues of
> sustainability, resilience, collapse - how they relate to one another,
> whether people think sustainability and/or resilience should still be the
> goal of ecologically informed policy etc.? I discuss these issues in a
> book I'm currently finishing for Oxford University Press provisionally
> entitled, Vulernability and Green Politics in the Age of Nature:
> Resistance, Resilience and Republicanism, and know I would benefit greatly
> from having a discussion shaped around the themes outlined above.
>
>
> References for this presentation are available on the Human Ecology Forum
> web site: http://hec-forum.anu.edu.au.
>
> PLEASE NOTE:  The Human Ecology forum will be returning to Room 101 (Old
> Library), upstairs in the Forestry Building (No. 48), from 10am-12 noon
> each Friday.
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>
> All welcome.
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