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Fire and Flood: a biocultural heritage approach to resolving the polycrisis of climate and biodiversity change.

Peter Bridgewater
Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra
 

Peter Bridgewater - brief bio

From 1990-1997, Peter was CEO of the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (which included the statutory role of Director of National Parks and Wildlife) chairing a range of intergovernmental bodies from the International Whaling Commission and UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Council.

Between 1997-199 he was Chief Science Adviser to Environment Australia, subsequently moving to Director of the Division of Ecological Sciences in UNESCO in late 1999. In 2003 he became Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention until 2007, when he became Chair of the UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee, serving two terms until 2014.

 Since 2015 he has held honorary posts at Beijing Forestry University, the University of Canberra, and the Australian National University, and has assisted Australia’s work at the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and UNESCOs Man and the Biosphere Programme. 

He currently Chairs Wildlife Health Australia.