[Commpsych] FW: Women & Climate Change - Seminar Wed 5 August 7.30-9.30pm @ Treacy Centre 126 The Avenue Parkville

[Heather Gridley]

Here's the next event on the Community Psychology Calendar - a Public
Interest Seminar with an outstanding panel of speakers:

 

Women and Climate Change

 

Guest presenters

Kathleen Maltzahn - Executive Director, Women's Health in the North

Janet Stanley - Chief Research Officer, Monash Sustainability Institute

Mary Crooks - Executive Director, Women's Trust and Director, the
Watermark Project

 

Date: Wednesday 5th August, 7.30-9.30pm

 

Venue: Treacy Conference Centre, 126 The Avenue, Parkville

(Easily accessible by public transport)

 

Cost (GST incl): $20; Women & Psychology members $10,
students/concession: $5

 

Light refreshments will be provided

 

*	Kathleen Maltzahn is the Executive Director of Women's Health In
the North, author of Trafficked and from 2004 to 2008 was a Greens
councillor at the City of Yarra
*	Janet Stanley is Chief Research Officer at the Monash
Sustainability Institute, and worked previously with the Brotherhood of
St Laurence on the implications of climate change for people at risk of
social exclusion.

*         Mary Crooks is the Executive Director of the Victorian Women's
Trust and was Director of the Watermark Australia Project.

"Men are usually seen as primary income generators while women's
economic activities, often the mainstay of the household economy, are
less visible. Women carry the primary responsibility for the care of
children, the elderly, the disabled and the ill, whose mobility and
survival in disasters may be limited. Sex-specific dependencies and
vulnerabilities based on reproductive differences are relevant in
disasters, as is the respective ability of women and men to participate
fully in household, community and national decision-making about hazard
and risk." United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(2004). Women, disaster reduction and sustainable development: How women
cope with natural disasters.

"The essence of the Watermark Australia process was that ordinary people
bring together small groups, meeting monthly to discuss water, then
sharing their thoughts, anecdotes and 'folk-wisdom'.... What emerged was
a shared vision for the future, a program of guiding principles and
decisive action on water; people working together like never before,
with new information, confidence and agreement to adopt solutions for
water on many levels - households, local communities, regions, states,
and nationally." http://www.watermarkaustralia.org.au
<http://www.watermarkaustralia.org.au>   

Climate change has been described as a disaster in slow motion that is
already affecting different populations and communities in different
ways, both globally and locally.  Women are likely to be in the
frontline of many adverse impacts, and they may also have a particular
investment and role to play in efforts to mitigate and adapt to those
impacts. This seminar will consider how gender may be factored into
debates around climate change and other environmental challenges, and
how women and men might be supported in contributing separately and
jointly to solutions to climate change threats.  

 

This event is supported by the APS College of Community Psychologists,
the APS Interest Group on Psychology and the Environment, and the APS
Psychology in the Public Interest team, whose aim is to:

*         prepare psychologists for how to communicate effectively with
and support others with regard to environmental threats

*         help professionals to develop their own personal,
organizational or community-based projects for promoting sustainable
behaviour 

*         consider the potential contribution of psychological science
to workable long-term changes in the collective impact of human
behaviour on the planet

 

For more information or to register your interest in attending, please
contact Heather Gridley 

Ph: 0419 113731 or Email: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au  


Heather Gridley

School of Social Sciences and Psychology

Footscray Park Campus (Monday & Friday)

Victoria University 

PO Box 14428 

Melbourne VIC 8001 

Australia

 

TEL +61 3 9919 5224

FAX +61 3 9919 4324

MOBILE: 0419 113 731

Email: heather.gridley at vu.edu.au

 

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