Acknowledging concern over potential health impacts of CSG activity, CSIRO’s Gas Industry Social ... more Acknowledging concern over potential health impacts of CSG activity, CSIRO’s Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance (GISERA) and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences(QAEHS) funded a study design project to investigate the influence of CSG activity in Australia on human health. The project is a review of the state of knowledge about health impacts of CSG activity, identification of gaps in the knowledge base, and development of a framework that can be used to design a study to address identified gaps. The framework proposed uses the tenets of HIA to identify potential health impacts from a CSG developmentbut is designed to generate new, foundational evidence on possible exposures to local residents from CSG activities and associated health impacts.
Exposition d'un modele base sur l'enseignement et sur l'experience, et permettant d&#... more Exposition d'un modele base sur l'enseignement et sur l'experience, et permettant d'aborder l'apprentissage et la sauvegarde de l'environnement
SPE Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Conference and Exhibition, 2015
Objectives What benefits and burdens are being faced by the communities of Queensland, Australia&... more Objectives What benefits and burdens are being faced by the communities of Queensland, Australia's Surat Basin from AUD 60 billion in onshore gas development? This paper discusses the extent to which expectations of benefits and burdens were met or not met and how actual effects were distributed within and between the affected communities. Providing local benefits and mitigating potential damage to community wellbeing are critical to the social license to operate for the onshore gas industry. Methods Findings were derived from assessment of priority indicators agreed on by representatives of the community, industry, and government. These indicators track population, income, employment, housing costs, and crime rates as well as rainfall and petrol prices from 2001 to the present. These data were combined with insights from interviews to yield a ‘systems view' of the social and economic changes at the town level. This combination of aggregated data and local input enabled ‘gro...
International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2010
ABSTRACT Success in research – or ‘mastery’ as we call it – can lead to interdisciplinarity arisi... more ABSTRACT Success in research – or ‘mastery’ as we call it – can lead to interdisciplinarity arising among the increasingly fragmented disciplines of science: researchers in molecular biology can be assisted by advances in the physics of atomic imaging, when they become aware of a development's potential and feel motivated to take advantage of it. The unpredictability of advances in scientific research makes the location and nature of interdisciplinarity largely unpredictable. This unpredictability means that organisational structures in which scientific research takes place – and in which our students are trained – are likely to lag behind interdisciplinary synergies developing in the laboratory. The lag time suggested by our model explains the challenges faced by leaders of interdisciplinary programmes in higher education. One can conclude that opportunities for interdisciplinarity in science are held back by discipline-bound institutions.
About the Author Emmanuel Lazega has lectured and held research appointments at several European ... more About the Author Emmanuel Lazega has lectured and held research appointments at several European universities, including Geneva, Paris, and Oxford. Most recently he was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Yale. Though he has published several previous monographs in French, this is ...
Acknowledging concern over potential health impacts of CSG activity, CSIRO’s Gas Industry Social ... more Acknowledging concern over potential health impacts of CSG activity, CSIRO’s Gas Industry Social and Environmental Research Alliance (GISERA) and the Queensland Alliance for Environmental Health Sciences(QAEHS) funded a study design project to investigate the influence of CSG activity in Australia on human health. The project is a review of the state of knowledge about health impacts of CSG activity, identification of gaps in the knowledge base, and development of a framework that can be used to design a study to address identified gaps. The framework proposed uses the tenets of HIA to identify potential health impacts from a CSG developmentbut is designed to generate new, foundational evidence on possible exposures to local residents from CSG activities and associated health impacts.
Exposition d'un modele base sur l'enseignement et sur l'experience, et permettant d&#... more Exposition d'un modele base sur l'enseignement et sur l'experience, et permettant d'aborder l'apprentissage et la sauvegarde de l'environnement
SPE Asia Pacific Unconventional Resources Conference and Exhibition, 2015
Objectives What benefits and burdens are being faced by the communities of Queensland, Australia&... more Objectives What benefits and burdens are being faced by the communities of Queensland, Australia's Surat Basin from AUD 60 billion in onshore gas development? This paper discusses the extent to which expectations of benefits and burdens were met or not met and how actual effects were distributed within and between the affected communities. Providing local benefits and mitigating potential damage to community wellbeing are critical to the social license to operate for the onshore gas industry. Methods Findings were derived from assessment of priority indicators agreed on by representatives of the community, industry, and government. These indicators track population, income, employment, housing costs, and crime rates as well as rainfall and petrol prices from 2001 to the present. These data were combined with insights from interviews to yield a ‘systems view' of the social and economic changes at the town level. This combination of aggregated data and local input enabled ‘gro...
International Perspectives on Higher Education Research, 2010
ABSTRACT Success in research – or ‘mastery’ as we call it – can lead to interdisciplinarity arisi... more ABSTRACT Success in research – or ‘mastery’ as we call it – can lead to interdisciplinarity arising among the increasingly fragmented disciplines of science: researchers in molecular biology can be assisted by advances in the physics of atomic imaging, when they become aware of a development's potential and feel motivated to take advantage of it. The unpredictability of advances in scientific research makes the location and nature of interdisciplinarity largely unpredictable. This unpredictability means that organisational structures in which scientific research takes place – and in which our students are trained – are likely to lag behind interdisciplinary synergies developing in the laboratory. The lag time suggested by our model explains the challenges faced by leaders of interdisciplinary programmes in higher education. One can conclude that opportunities for interdisciplinarity in science are held back by discipline-bound institutions.
About the Author Emmanuel Lazega has lectured and held research appointments at several European ... more About the Author Emmanuel Lazega has lectured and held research appointments at several European universities, including Geneva, Paris, and Oxford. Most recently he was a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Yale. Though he has published several previous monographs in French, this is ...
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