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Program - Fenner Conference 2006

Wednesday 24th May 2006
15.00	Site visit to Brindabella Business Park
18.00	Informal welcome drinks, University House

 

Thursday 25th May 2006
08.00	Registration
08.45	Opening Remarks and Welcome
HISTORICAL INSIGHTS, AND THE SYSTEMS (ECOLOGICAL) PERSPECTIVE ON ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH. Chair: Ian Low, Australian Conservation Foundation & Griffith University
09.00	Cycles of public-policy interest in urban environment and health; relation to sustainability Tony McMichael, NCEPH ANU
09.20	Within the environment framework, what significance is accorded to health? Allen Kearns, CSIRO
09.40	Within the urbanism framwork, what significance is accorded to health? Lawrence Frank, University of British Columbia
10.25	Morning tea
POLICY, PLANNING AND PRACTICE - PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE/SIGNIFICANCE OF HEALTH Chair: Stephen Boyages, Sydney West Area Health Service
10.45	Public policy perspectives Brendan Gleeson, Griffith University Peter Newman, Murdoch University
11.25	Ecological sustainable development and urban planning Wendy Morris, Ecologically Sustainable Design
11.45	Urban development and health impact assessment Sue Robinson, NSW Urban Taskforce Colin Berryman, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils
12.10	Community perspecitves Jeff Angel, Total Environment Centre
12.30	Lunch
METABOLISM, METAPHOR AND SYSTEMS APPROACHES
13.30	Rob Dyball, ANU, to coordinate a multi-perspectival and interactive session: part panel, part break-out Panellists: Barry Newell, ANU; Phil McManus, author of 'Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities: Australia's Urban Challenge'; Katrina Proust, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (CRES), ANU.
15.00	Afternoon tea
LINKING URBAN AND INDIVIDUAL METABOLISMS Chair: Renate Howe, Deakin University
15.30	Ecological footprints of cities Barney Foran, CRES ANU
16.00	Case study: Rising obesity, as embodiment of urban environment: the 'obesogenic' urban environment Boyd Swinburn, Deakin University, Billi Giles-Corti, University of WA, Jane Dixon, NCEPH ANU
16.45	Discussion

 

EVENING FUNCTIONS
18.00	Cocktail Reception, King's Hall, Old Parliament House
19.15	Conference Dinner, Member's Dinig Room, Old Parliament House

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Friday 26th May 2006
PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY AND HEALTH, VIEWED FROM THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE Chair: Ian Lowe, Australian Conservation Foundation & Griffith University
09.00	Re-cap of main themes and principles from Day 1
09.15	Panel: Government/Private Sector/Community Response Simon Corbell, ACT Minister for Health and for Planning; Beverly Raphael, NSW Health; Paul O'Brien, Lend Lease; Allen Kearns, CSIRO; Edward Blakely, University of Sydney
10.10	Healthy by Design Stephanie Knox, Planning Institute of Australia, Vic Division and National Heart Foundation 'Healthy-by-design' Initiative
10.30	Morning Tea
DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR CITIES AS 'HUMAN HABITAT'
10.55	Facilitator: Pieta Laut, Public Health Association of Australia
11.00	Workplace and interactions with home environment Lyndall Strazdins, NCEPH ANU
11.20	Insights from WHO Healthy Cities Program Susan Mercado, WHO Centre for Health Development
11.40	Suburban design and 'walkability'; safety Billie Giles-Corti, University of WA
12.00	Re-designing to build social capital Steve Garlick, University of the Sunshine Coast & Swinburne University of Technology
12.20	Designing out crime in Western Australia Paul Cozens, Office of Crime Prevention, Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Perth
12.40	Lunch
IN REVAMPING AUSTRALIAN CITIES, CAN WE ESCAPE THE 'STICKINESS' OF HISTORY? Chair: CSIRO
13.30	Impediments to change: what makes the situation really 'sticky' Lawrence Frank, University of British Columbia, Peter Newman, Murdoch University
OK: SO WHAT SHOULD WE DO DIFFERENTLY IN THE FOLLOWING FIELDS:
14.00	Interactive research agenda Lorrae van Kerkhoff, NCEPH ANU
14.15	Policy and planning Glenn Mitchell, University of Wollongong
14.30	Financing Howard Pender, Australian Ethical Investment
14.45	Delivery Tom Snow, Canberra International Airport Geoff Lawler, City of Melbourne
15.15	Afternoon Tea
AND CAN WE ACTUALLY GET THERE? Chair: Tony McMichael, NCEPH, ANU
15.45	Introduction
15.50	Panel contributors who will address the question: Mobilising political will; advancing ecological literacy; workforce and other capacity constraints; and overcoming the research/policy divide. Tony Capon, NSW Health; Brendan Gleeson, Griffith University; Renata Howe, Deakin University; Ruth Durack, Urban Design Centre of WA; Dennis O'Neill, Australian Council for Infrastructure Development (AusCID)
16.40	Audience question, answer, reflection
16.55	Wrap-up overview Ian Lowe
17.15	Close

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