Wednesday 12th December 2012
Room G51, School of Mining Engineering Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Old Main Building, UNSW Kensington Campus
Safeguarding Invaluable Environmental Assets in Mining by Prof. Dodo Thampapillai; an ACSMP/CEEM Seminar
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The seminar examines the reasons for failure of markets and governments in the context of specific mining decisions that threaten the survival of sensitive environmental assets. Mining on the Liverpool Plains is chosen as a case study. Here coal mining exerts serious pressure on invaluable subterranean ecosystems. As illustrated in the seminar, the causes for both market and government failures emerge from mistaken premises in economics. Such faulty premises are due to the non-recognition of nature as vital element of any economy within contemporary economic theory. The recognition of nature in economic theory by recourse to the laws of thermodynamics and ecology lead to axiomatic changes that could facilitate the protection of environmental assets.
This seminar will be presented by Dodo Thampapillai an economist at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He is also and Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University where he holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics. He held an Adjunct Professorship in the same field at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala until 2009. He has over 100 publications including seven books and nine refereed monographs. Dodo's current research focus is on Macroeconomics and the Environment. The revised edition of his text Environmental Economics: Concepts Methods and Policies (Oxford University Press) is due for release in February 2013.
Where: Room G51, School of Mining Engineering Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Old Main Building, UNSW Kensington Campus
When: 2pm-3pm, Wednesday 12 December
NO RSVP REQUIRED, but attendance will be capped at 45.
This talk is hosted by the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) and the Australian Centre for Sustainable Mining Practices (ACSMP). For more information on this session, please contact Maree Magafas, ACSMP Centre Manager, m.magafas@unsw.edu.au