Ecology SIS

EIANZ Ecology

EIANZ Ecology is a special interest section of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand. It was set up to provide a focus on the ecology profession, drawing on the existing strengths of EIANZ and the Certified Environmental Practitioner program.

Download the working draft, ECOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES (750kB, PDF).

EIANZ Ecology's main objectives are:

To be compatible with other existing groups and to become complimentary with their needs.
To network other groups using the Institute's infrastructure to help them develop joint forums.
To communicate regional outcomes to professional ecologists throughout Australia and New Zealand.
To help develop and / or raise awareness of appropriate standards for ecological practice.

Some highlights from EIANZ Ecology

Paulette Jones of BAAM talks about the ascent of the Ecological Practitioner

From the International Ecology (INTECOL) conference in Brisbane, 2009.

Professor Mark Burgman talks about the uncertainty surrounding expert judgement

Extract from the EIANZ Conference on 31 October 2008

Decisions based only on quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo do not deal with sources of non-statistical uncertainty. Examples include absolute lack of knowledge, or linguistic uncertainties, where what we say can be construed in many different ways (vagueness, ambiguity, generality or failure to express a context for what is said). Altogether, it creates an illusion of false precision. Read more...

Email us: ecology@eianz.org or phone Simon Mustoe (Convenor) on +61(0)405 220830

Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand

Ecology SIS

EIANZ Ecology

Some highlights from EIANZ Ecology

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