Current Research Projects
| Research Topic | Contact |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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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 |