TASA - Environment & Society Thematic Group

The TASA Thematic Group on Environment & Society, which was established in 2006, aims to bring together TASA members who have an interest in environmental issues and to stimulate wider interest in the field of environmental sociology.

Aims and objectives:

• To provide a means of connection between sociologists who study or work in the area of environment and society.
• To promote environmental sociology to the wider sociological community and thus to encourage a stronger interest in society’s interaction with the environment among practising sociologists and sociology students.
• To strengthen relationships between Australian environmental sociology and international groups such as the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Environment and Society (RC24).
• To promote awareness outside academia of sociology’s potential contribution to environmental issues.
• To meet at the annual TASA conferences to share research and study interests; identify opportunities to connect with external groups and agencies; discuss current topical issues, and to develop strategies that will enable communication within and promotion of the group.

Convenors and contact details:

Dr June Marks, Department of Sociology, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide  SA  5001
Telephone: (+61 8) 8201 2628.   Email: june.marks@flinders.edu.au

A/Prof Stewart Lockie, School of Psychology and Sociology, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton QLD  4702
Telephone: (+61 7) 4930 6539    Email: s.lockie@cqu.edu.au
 

Members:

Heather Aslin; Marea Capell; Brian Cheers; Eileen Clark; Ian Coldwell; Alison Cottrell; Penelope Davidson; Jo-Anne Everingham; Karen Farquharson; Elery Hamilton-Smith; Vaughan Higgins; Geoffrey Lawrence; Ron Layton; Terry Leahy; Constance Lever-Tracy; Stewart Lockie; Barton Loechel; June Marks; Sarah Palmer; Anne Parkinson; Margaret Sargent; Sylvie Shaw; Louise Staley; Frank Vanclay; Angela Wardell-Johnson; James Whelan; Rob White; David Worth
 

Minutes of meetings:

Notes from meeting held at 2006 TASA meeting in Perth.  download PDF here
 

Links:

The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)
RC24 Research Committee on Environment and Society Part of the International Sociological Association (ISA)

TASA Env&Soc members are encouraged to subscribe (for free) to the AON listserv. See here for details.

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