Dear All
ARIES was funded by the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Water Resources (DEW) to engage with professional accrediting institutions in the fields of engineering, planning, landscape architecture and architecture to investigate opportunities to strengthen effective professional education in climate change adaptation. The participating partner institutions were Engineers Australia (EA), the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA), the Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). The project is now complete and a public document, which reports on the significant findings, outcomes and recommendations of the project, is now available.
A direct outcome of the project has been the recent announcement by the Federal Minister for the Environment, Malcolm Turnbull, of a $2 million grants program to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into education and training for professionals. The grants program will be administered by the Australian Greenhouse Office within DEW. Applications for grants close on 3 December 2007. Click here to find out more: http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/impacts/about.html#professionals.
For further information on the project, please contact the Project Director, Dr Anna Lyth at [log in to unmask] or on (02) 9850 6975.
You can download a copy of the pdf report at http://www.aries.mq.edu.au/project.htm#recent.
If you would like a hard copy of the report when it becomes available, please contact Jessica North, ARIES Coordinator at [log in to unmask], or on (02) 9850 8597. Please forward this email on to anyone you think may be interested in reading the report.
All the Best!
Jessica
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Jessica North
ARIES Coordinator
Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES)
Graduate School of the Environment
Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109
Australia
P: +61 2 9850 8597
F: +61 2 9850 7972
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W: www.aries.mq.edu.au
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