Current Research Projects

 

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Adaptive environmental management, including aspects of social learning, particpatory natural resource management, evaluation and instituional processes and governance. Water management is a current focus, but also native vegetation and soils. Catherine Allan
Dr Rosemary Black has research interests in human dimensions of natural resource management, sustainable tourism, environmental communication, tour guiding,  sustainability, outdoor and environmental education and gender issues in natural resource management. Rosemary Black
Spatial Science, particularly remote sensing and GIS for understanding and improving environmental and agricultural systems. Remy Dehaan
The socio-psychological aspects of water management and conservation behaviour. Including behavioural change, attitudes, how people value water and the effectiveness of different policy instruments. Jonathon Howard
Interaction of climate variability with landscape scale phenology; habitat occupancy modelling in wetlands; applications of advanced GIS techniques, geocomputation and vegetation remote sensing image analysis.  Andrew Hall
Ecology of fish and rivers: contemporary and historical Paul Humphries
Human dimensions of natural resources, science education, environmental education, environmental attitudes and behaviours, community engagement, geography, sustainability, connection to nature, and watershed hydrology. Shelby Gull Laird
Ecosystem services (particularly contribution of native ecosystems/organisms to service provision), fauna conservation in human-dominated landscapes (particularly urban and agricultural landscapes and studies conducted from interdisciplinary perspectives) Gary Luck
Vegetation and disturbance ecology; ecosystem restoration; native grassland and woodland ecology; long-term changes in Australian ecosystems. Ian Lunt
Wildlife ecology, including landscape and climate change influences on species distributions and studies of alpine fauna. Alison Matthews

New South Wales Department of Industry and Innovation 2011 to 2015 "Socio-economic study of fish harvesting by villagers around Pak Pun reservoir in Laos."

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research 2010 to 2014 "Diversification of smallholder coastal aquaculture in Indonesia" Collaborator with University of Sydney

Joanne Millar
Cultural Heritage Management / Historic Preservation in Australia and the Pacific
Heritage Futures: Documenting and Preserving emergent Technologies
Dirk HR Spennemann
Vegetation, landscape & road ecology; specifically anthropogenic disturbance regimes, plant composition, structure, and dispersal processes. Peter Spooner
Social science: Community/environment interactions in Australia and less developed countries; sustainable development; ecotourism, community based tourism and community development; communities and landscape change; climate change perceptions and responses. Rik Thwaites
River and floodplain ecology, specifically ecosystem and species responses to flow and flooding regimes Robyn Watts

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