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Environment Prize:
In 2004 the Claudio Alcorso Foundation launched an Environment Prize valued at $5000. The Prize is awarded to a student who has completed PhD., Masters, Honours or Graduate Diploma studies in any of the University’s Schools in the year that they enter. The prize will be presented early in the following year.
Congratulations to furniture designer, Chalit (Num) Kongsuwan, awarded the prize for work completed in 2007. Num’s work uses recycled materials and is inspired by a beautiful mix of influences from his home in Thailand and Tasmania
Natasha Wiggins, won in 2006 Environment Prize, for her ground breaking research into natural alternatives to repel native browsing animals. This research offers acceptable solutions to the controversial use of current repellents such as 1080.
The inaugural prize was won by Geography and Environmental Studies student, Ronlyn Duncan, for her PhD thesis Science Narratives: the construction, mobilisation and validation of Hydro Tasmania’s case for Basslink. The thesis has global implications and demonstrates the double standards linked with the validation process for development projects. There are lessons to be learned for developers, government, the media and the public in this case analysis.
Stewart Wells a photographer, won the 2005 prize. Stewart's photos highlighted in stark reality the impact of the human footprint on our natural environment. Log piles at Triabunna and the weaving trails through the wilderness made by walkers illustrated the huge variation of causes that impact on nature and gave much food for thought on how we might manage them better.
Dates for the 2007 Environment Prize have not yet been finalised. .
All entries must be forwarded on an official entry form available for download or by emailing Lucinda info@claudioalcorso.org or writing to Claudio Alcorso Foundation GPO Box 2010 Hobart 7001.
The prize will be judged against the following criteria:
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