Dialogues with Tomorrow - Future of the Commons
Following the success of the 2010 series, Hikurangi is proudly supporting a second season of Dialogues with Tomorrow, a series of stimulating not lecturing lectures produced by Now Future.
The Future of the Commons - Friday 5 August 2011
If you are in Wellington, come along to the next dialogue: The Future of the Commons - a dialogue between Nobel Laureate Professor Elinor Ostrom, Aroha Mead and Journalist Rod Oram.
In the face of a globalised “tragedy of the commons” – ecological crisis driven by exploitative use of the natural world for short term economic gain – what are the most urgent individual and collective responses that need to be made in order to avert full scale human tragedy and build resilience?
Nobel Laureate Professor Elinor Ostrom will address the future of the commons in the context of the 2011 Dialogues with Tomorrow discussion series. Response to Professor Ostrom will be led by Rod Oram and Aroha Mead.
Professor Ostrom is the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics. Her research on the commons “has challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized” (The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences). She is based at Indiana University Bloomington.
Rod Oram is a business journalist and trustee of The Hikurangi Foundation.
Aroha Mead is a Senior Lecturer in Maori Business at Victoria University Management School.
Details:
Friday 5 August, 2011
8:30am - 10:00 am (this time accommodates the time difference with Indiana, USA)
Venue:
Hunter Council Chamber, Hunter Building, Kelburn Parade
Victoria University of Wellington
Google Map here
Cost: Free
Further Information
For more information on the 2011 season of dialogues click here.
For information on the 2010 series of dialogues click here.
For podcasts of the 2010 series click here.
