PERC is hosting two lunchtime seminars with visiting scholars this week. Recordings will be made available on the website soon after. Join the online events here. We hope to see you there! Plastics and Planetary Boundaries with Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez Wednesday 9 August, 12 – 1pm NZST In person Massey SST 3.07 and online In this lunchtime event, Patricia will be presenting …
Politics of Plastic Pollution lecture
Associate Professor Farrelly will give a public talk at the Palmerston North Central Library on Tuesday 15 November. Trisia will speak about her involvement in the United Nations Environment Assembly since 2017, the resolution for a global plastics treaty, her role as technical advisor for Pacific Island countries and New Zealand’s potential role in negotiating a comprehensive and effective treaty. …
Marine Litter, Plastics Pollution, and Human Rights: Factsheets on preventing plastic pollution in the Pacific region launched
16 November 2021, Apia (PRESS RELEASE) Despite not being producers of plastics, and contributing as little as 1.3% to global plastics pollution, the Pacific region is on the frontline of the plastic crisis and is disproportionately impacted by plastics pollution. In a bid to support Pacific Island policy makers in their efforts to develop strategies to address this issue, a …
Webinar: A ‘Whole of society’ response
A Whole of Society Response: Te Moananui (Oceania) Non-State Actors and the Plastic Pollution Crisis The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Secretariat for the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) are convening a webinar exploring a whole-of-society’ approach to plastic pollution in the Pacific. Speakers include PERC co-director Trisia Farrelly and researcher, scholar …
On the Brink
One million species are facing extinction within the next decade. It is estimated that 200 species go extinct every day. PERC member Laura Jean McKay is taking part in On the Brink, an online event to raise awareness of this threat of extinction. Bringing together 20 writers and cultural figures, the event features readings of new work and speeches on …
“Extraction: Tracing the Veins” online conference a success
The Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) at Massey University, New Zealand, and Wageningen University co-hosted PERC’s third online conference, titled “Extraction: Tracing the Veins”, on June 29 – July 10, 2020. The conference sought to re-examine extraction and its contested place in contemporary capitalism. Presentations from across the globe included more than eighty pre-recorded video presentations as well as live …
Zero waste around the world
**POSTPONED** Talk by Emeritus Professor Paul Connett New Date TBC Ground Floor, Palmerston North City Library In this talk Dr. Connett, a retired professor of chemistry and author of the book The Zero Waste Solution, will explain why neither incineration nor related thermal technologies are an appropriate or safe solution for waste management in NZ. Connett will explain why such techniques …
Feral Keynote Speaker Announcement
PERC is very excited to announce that Arian Wallach will be giving a keynote address at the upcoming ‘Feral’ conference. Arian is the Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. Her research investigates the ecological role of large predators on biodiversity and functioning of novel ecosystems. She conducts fieldwork across the Australian arid zone, where she is researching the …
Feral Keynote Speaker Announcement
PERC is very pleased to confirm that Fred Pearce will be delivering a keynote presentation at the upcoming ‘Feral: A Nearly Carbon-Neutral Conference.’ Fred Pearce is a freelance author and journalist based in London. A former news editor of the UK-based New Scientist magazine, he has been its environment consultant since 1992, reporting in that time from 87 countries. He also …
Call for Papers: The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic
More plastic was produced in the past decade than during the entire 20th century. We currently produce over 300 million tonnes of plastic each year. We have built a world in which we are reliant on plastic for our medical health and everyday functioning, and yet we are also coming to realise that the global explosion of plastic has revealed …