2009

Launch of Samuel Alexander’s Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture by Senator Bob Brown

Tue 13/10/2009
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

CREEL was very pleased to have the leader of the Australian Greens, Senator Bob Brown, launching Samuel Alexander’s book Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture.

Samuel Alexander, one of CREEL’s postgraduate research students, has been a sessional lecturer at Melbourne Law School and is currently completing his PhD there.

For more information on Sam's book please click here.

Breeding Asian Tigers: The Shifting Regulation of Wildlife Trade in South-East Asia

Tue 25/08/2009
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CREEL and the Office for Environmental Programs presented this lunchtime seminar by Chris Turton of TRAFFIC, an international wildlife trade monitoring organisation established as a joint project of WWF and the IUCN.

Chris talked about the recently passed Biodiversity Law in Vietnam as a starting point for understanding the Convention on Biological Diversity historical failure to protect the region’s unique biodiversity.

You can download a written version of Chris' talk here.

To download a flyer please click here.