“Without wholesale reform that includes input from every area of knowledge the future of Australia’s natural environment and the wellbeing of its people is at risk,’ peak bodies warn

The Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, the Australian Council of Deans of Science, and the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities responded yesterday to the state of the environment report released this week by Minister Tanya Plibersek.

“Leaders from Australia’s scientific and environmental sectors will play an important role in rehabilitation and reform while those from an arts, social sciences and humanities background will provide the means for real changes to human behaviour,” the peak bodies state.

The science deans are firm friends to DASSH, backing humanities researchers when the previous government was less dismissing than ignoring them (CMM January 24).