We need to talk about Australia’s ‘UnNatural’ disasters
Viewing human-induced climate disasters such as the recent Australian floods as ‘UnNatural’ is necessary to demand greater government accountability, writes…
The Role of Environmental Human Rights in the Warragamba Dam Wall Raising Proposal
How does access to information around environmental decision-making impact communities? We hear from 2022 Honours Fellow Olivia Mulligan about her…
Q&A
20 October 2020
Marc Hudson, social media editor for the journal Environmental Politics (Twitter: @Env_Pol), speaks with Danielle Celermajer and David Schlosberg following…
Opinion
SEI researcher Professor Susan Park’s new book explores the issues with international development financing and the alternative options that better…
15 October 2020
Master of Sustainability candidate Xavier Calluaud’s capstone project, the One Bite Podcast, explores Australia’s food systems, and in this time…
As we celebrate World Food Day this Friday 16 October, Jamie Loveday from FoodLab Sydney asks us to pause and…
14 October 2020
Davina Nair considers the market response to a global water crisis, and whether regulated and innovative international cooperation would be…
News
09 October 2020
Join us to celebrate the SEI career of Dr Killian Quigley, one that has delved into the depths of the…
08 October 2020
Composer Damien Ricketson reflects on the medium and metaphor of voice for communicating through sound and through silence. Charlotte Wood’s…
07 October 2020
Ahead of her Critical Companions talk next week, Christine Hansen dives into the archival collections of colonial museums, questioning the past…
06 October 2020
We catch up with our Project and Communications Officer Eloise Fetterplace and SEI researcher Dr Kate Johnston as they both return to…
29 September 2020
Following on from July’s IPC hearing, Gemma Viney outlines some of the heartbreaking social costs of the controversial Narrabri Gas…
28 September 2020
The Sydney Environment Institute is thrilled to announce Dr Dalia Nassar as our keynote speaker for the 2021 Iain McCalman…
Reflection
22 September 2020
Jamie Wang reflects on the launch of Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention, by Tess Lea. Wild.…
21 September 2020
Between the Sixth Extinction and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there has never been a more urgent time for humans to…
14 September 2020
Cara Jeffrey reflects on the themes of trust, ethics and understanding that emerged from the second Interdisciplinarity in a More-Than-Human World…
09 September 2020
Following the Money Talks event which brought together industry, activists and researchers, Tanya Fiedler, Alastair Fraser, Lisa Heinze and David…
08 September 2020
Sydney University’s new Sustainability Strategy confronts sustainability through an intersectional lens of Caring for Country, championing a dialogue between research,…
07 September 2020
September 7 marks National Threatened Species Day, commemorating the countless species that are driven to extinction each year. However, Anik…
As we slowly return to campus, SEI will be entertaining and informing you from the comfort of your home with…
01 September 2020
An extension on the Whitehaven coal mine has been approved on the basis of social benefits, however, social impact experts…
24 August 2020
A social philosophy emerging from the Quechua peoples of the Andes, the Buen Vivir movement imagines and practices an alternative, community-oriented…
Zsuzsanna Ihar and Hayley Singer reflect on the recent Multispecies Justice workshop series, Interdisciplinarity in a More-Than-Human World. It was…
20 August 2020
Natural waterways are continually being redirected, drained, passed over and forgotten to make way for city developments — so how…
18 August 2020
We farewell SEI Researcher Megan Mackenzie as she sets sail for Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, where she has been appointed Professor and…
17 August 2020
Darwin’s expansive new digital sensors will aggregate climate data in a boon for environmental science and sustainable planning, but will…
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