Environment
Our research is dedicated to our multiple understandings of the relationships between human, more than human and environment, and our interdependent vulnerabilities and wellbeing. We explore issues such as the impacts of environmental degradation, habitat loss, extractivism and cascading environmental catastrophes on the human and nonhuman realms.
As social scientists, we are interested in regulatory regimes, policy and governance, and how they can realise justice – social, environmental, ecological and multispecies. We also consider how human-nonhuman engagements are perceived and expressed by different sectors of the community and the implications for policy formation, institutional transformation, governance, social arrangements and planetary system stability.
Our research ranges across spatial scales—encompassing the embodied (a species, a river), the local, national and international, and planetary—and the full range of temporal scales—the historical to the almost unimaginably far future.
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Our people
- Professor Warwick Anderson
- Dr Susan Banki
- Dr Juliet Bennett
- Dr Gareth Bryant
- Professor Danielle Celermajer
- Dr Sophie Chao
- Dr James Dunk
- Dr Ainsley Elbra
- Dr Stewart Jackson
- Professor John Keane
- Dr Robert MacNeil
- Associate Professor John Mikler
- Dr Claire Parfitt
- Professor Susan Park
- Dr Christopher Pepin-Neff
- Professor David Schlosberg
- Dr Susan Schroeder
- Dr Suneha Seetahul
- Dr Shiori Shakuto
- Associate Professor Dinesh Wadiwel
- Dr Lee White