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John Weckert is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and Professor of Computer Ethics, Charles Sturt University. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale.
Sue Feary is an archaeologist with more than 30 years experience in managing cultural and natural heritage and working with Indigenous Australians. From the mid-1980s she was employed by the then NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as a cultural heritage manager responsible for providing specialist advice on conservation of Aboriginal and historic heritage in southeastern Australia.
Sue was the first chair of a cultural heritage working group, one of several working groups established under the 1986 Memorandum of Understanding for cooperative management of national parks in the Australian Alps, stretching across NSW, Victoria and ACT. She assisted in organising a major conference on the cultural heritage of the Australian Alps held in 1991.
In 1994, Sue was seconded to the then Australian Heritage Commission to be part of a team investigating the social and cultural values of native forests to local communities in Victoria and Western Australia. On returning to NPWS Sue became a field based Area Manager on the NSW south coast responsible for managing the newly declared marine and national parks at Jervis Bay as well as oversighting many new protected areas in the local area, emerging from the Regional Forest Agreement process.
During her career Sue developed a particular interest in Indigenous people’s traditional and contemporary connections with the forested environment and in 2007 she completed a PhD on this topic in the Fenner School at the Australian National University. She was a member of an International Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge and co-edited a book on this subject.
Sue’s work experience has enabled an appreciation of both the differences and the synergies of western style nature conservation and Indigenous notions of caring for country and how it can contribute to the reconciliation process in Australia.
Currently Sue is a consultant archaeologist doing mainly heritage assessments but also large collaborative projects with an anthropologist and Aboriginal communities, such as assessing the Aboriginal values of the NSW marine environment and documenting the names and locations of the ancestors in a large historic Aboriginal cemetery.
Founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh, Ashish has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration and as guest faculty in several universities in India and abroad.
He has coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, served on boards or steering committees of several civil organisations (including Greenpeace International and India, Indian Society of Ecological Economics, World Commission on Protected Areas, IUCN Commission on Social, Economic and Environmental Policy, and Bombay Natural History Society), co-chaired IUCN WCPA-CEESP Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity and Livelihoods (TILCEPA), and helped found the ICCA Consortium.
Active in both peoples’ movements and on government committees, Ashish has initiated a process to bring together people and stories on alternatives in India, Vikalp Sangam, and networking on well-being alternatives around the world, through a Peoples’ Sustainability Treaty on Radical Ecological Democracy.
He has authored or edited (singly or with others) over 30 books, including Birds in Our Lives, Sharing Power and (with Aseem Shrivastava) Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India.
Graeme Worboys is Co Vice Chair, Connectivity Conservation and Mountains, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas; an Adjunct Fellow at The Australian National University Fenner School of Environment and Society; and a member of the Australian Capital Territory’s Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Strategic Management Board.
Graeme has 43 years’ national and international experience in protected area governance and management for executive (policy); practitioner (operations) and developmental theory (research) practice. He is an editor and author for five national and international books on protected area management and connectivity conservation, an author of 12 published book chapters and papers and multiple reports and articles. He was lead editor of Protected Area Principles and Practice (2001, 2005), Oxford University Press, Melbourne; co-editor of Managing Protected Areas: Challenges and Responses for the 21st Century (2004) Andromeda Editrice, Italy; co-editor of Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide (2006) Earthscan, London; and lead editor of Connectivity Conservation Management: A Global Guide (2010) Earthscan, London.
Graeme has led IUCN World Heritage evaluations in South Africa, Italy, China and Vietnam; he has provided UNESCO with World Heritage management guidance in South Africa; the Vietnamese Government with Karst management advice; and the South Australian Government with a National Heritage Listing expert report. He has served the Australian Government as a protected area advisor to the Auditor General of Australia; Chairperson of the National Wildlife Corridor Committee; and commissioned expert report contributor to World Heritage and geoheritage conservation policy.
Michael Lockwood is Associate Professor of Environmental Planning and Management, Geography & Spatial Science, School of Land and Food at the University of Tasmania.
Michael has been an author on 4 books and over 100 academic papers, book chapters and reports. His most recent articles in Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management and Ecology and Society show how social ecological systems and scenario analyses can improve biodiversity governance and planning. Other recent work has examined the forms and sources of place attachment for protected areas (published in Geoforum and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management), and analysed social survey data to underpin program design for connectivity conservation (published in Society and Natural Resources). His books include a co-authored 2010 volume, Connectivity conservation management: a global guide, published by Earthscan, London. He has also written articles on protected area governance, regional natural resource management, and natural area values assessment.
Michael is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, member of the Planning Institute of Australia, a Ministerial appointee to the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, and Committee Chair and Steering Group member for a protected areas research and learning collaboration servicing the Asia-Pacific and Australia.
Ian Pulsford is a specialist in protected areas and linking landscapes with 36 years experience in conservation policy, planning and practice with the New South Wales Government, including the selection, design and management of protected areas and large landscape connectivity corridors.
Ian has been an author of more than 18 published articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of two books and authored numerous government and consultancy reports, conservation plans, strategies and publicity materials. Ian’s most recent contributions as a chapter author and editor is Linking Australia’s Landscapes published by CSIRO in 2010 which draws out lessons from a variety of established and new connectivity conservation initiatives from around Australia, and is complemented by international examples. In this book he co-authored a chapter on Connectivity Conservation in the Great Eastern Ranges of Australia.
During the 1990s and later Ian was the Zone and Divisional Manager for Conservation Programs in south-east NSW with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Department of Environment Climate Change and Water (now the Office of Environment and Heritage) and from 2007 to 2010 was the founding manager of the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Australia’s first continental-scale conservation corridor. He is now an independent consultant and member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas – Mountains and Connectivity Conservation theme. Ian has served on various government committees, including as a member of an expert panel advising the Australian Government on the draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan, a Ministerial appointee on the Southern Catchment Management Board and has chaired several committees.
Mark Busse is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. His research concerns social organization, reciprocity and markets, intellectual and cultural property, and inequality with a geographical focus on Papua New Guinea. He has carried out long-term ethnographic research among Boazi-speaking peoples in the Lake Murray-Middle Fly area of Papua New Guinea since 1982. That research has focused on dual organization, sister exchange marriage, gender and inequality, history, and regional integration. Before moving to New Zealand in 1999, Mark worked for nine years at the Papua New Guinea National Museum first as Curator of Anthropology and then as Assistant Director for Science, Research and Consultancy. His current research, which is funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, concerns the fresh food market in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It addresses issues of urban food security through an examination of the market as a set of complex social relations and from the perspectives of the diverse participants in the market rather than through the application of Western economic models. He is co-editor of Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea with Kathy Whimp (published by ANU Press) and Ownership and Appropriation with Veronica Strang (published by Berg).
Professor John Uhr, author of Terms of Trust and of Deliberative Democracy in Australia, is inaugural Director of the Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, School of Politics and International Relations at The Australian National University.
David Eng is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at California State University Bakersfield for three years. When he moved to New Zealand in 2003, he worked for the Tertiary Educational Commission up until 2007. His areas of research include Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Evaluation.
Ahmad Kusworo received his first degree in agriculture from the University of Lampung and conducted research in the province with Friends of Nature and Environment (WATALA) and World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) before beginning his degree program at ANU. Since completing his PhD, Ahmad Kusworo has worked for World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Indonesia and UNDP Indonesia as well as having served as the Indonesian Research Coordinator for the ANU Crawford School’s Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership. He is currently a Technical Advisor for Fauna & Flora International’s Indonesia Programme.