“SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNMENT – A CASE STUDY OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ”

PRESENTER : MR. DON CLIFTON
DATE : 17 DECEMBER 2008 (RABU)
TIME : 2.30 PM
VENUE : CONFERENCE ROOM, BUILDING C06
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Background
Don Clifton commercial background is in the financial services sector (over 30 years in that industry) having held a number of senior positions with firms involved in investment funds management, plus ran his own financial planning business for a while in the 1980's. Currently he is undertaking a PhD at the University of South Australia, the title of the project being "Sustainability and Government - a case study of the South Australian Government". He also lecture in the UniSA MBA programme in areas of corporate strategy.

He hold a Master of Advanced Business Practice (UniSA), a Master of Business Administration (Advanced) (University of Adelaide) and a Bachelor of Arts (University of Adelaide). He is also a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

PhD research
Don Clifton PhD thesis focuses on how the outcomes of government policies and practices contribute to or detract from the global objective of a 'Sustainable World' that is, the objective of humans living sustainably on the Earth.

The project involves a number of aspects including:
• Clarifying what it means for there to be a Sustainable World, which involves an extensive review of the literature and the building of a typology that sets out various views on how a Sustainable World is conceived.
• The use of Resilience Theory to assess the merits of various approaches to sustainability to better understand how these different approaches are more or less likely to see a Sustainable World come about.
• A case study of a particular government approach to sustainability (in this case, the South Australian government)
• The use of Ecological Footprint Analysis to assess the likely outcomes of the Government's approach from a sustainability perspective.
• Consideration of the implications of the South Australian Government's approach to sustainability, what this means in relation to its contribution or otherwise to achievement of a Sustainable World, and how these insights might be useful in aiding the progress of a broader sustainability agenda beyond the South Australian context.

In my presentation, I will overview each of these key aspects of my research work and present some preliminary findings and insights.

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