Sustainable Landscapes

Investigate broader issues concerning the sustainable management of natural resources and connections with communities within our catchments.

Research Skills include:

• Managing climate change and variability by both involving adoption and mitigation to minimize GHG, creating carbon neutral catchments;
• Developing market-based instruments such as carbon trading and other incentive schemes;
• Opportunities and challenges for Clean Development Mechanisms in China;
• Modelling soil and biomass carbon;
• Production and opportunities with Agrichar;
• Ecosystem modelling, understanding the impact of hydrological regime on ecosystem;
• Water law and rural policy adjustment, structural adjustment policy, farm forestry policy
• Community consultation and socio-economic analysis;
• Education and training for capacity building in government and private sectors.

Members include:

• Dr Andy LeBrocque (Group Leader)
• Dr Khorshed Alam  
• Dr Guangnan Chen
• Assoc Prof Geoff Cockfield 
• Dr John Dearnaley
• Dr Chuxia Lin
• Dr Tek Maraseni (Deputy Director, Operations)
• Dr Jerry Maroulis
• Mr David Parsons
• Prof Grace Pretty
• Prof Steven Raine

Associate members include:

• Dr Martine Maron (Adjunct Lecturer, Uni of Queensland)
• Dr Cassandra Star (Adjunct Lecturer, Flinders Uni)
• Prof Charlie Zammit (Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage)