Environment, Wellbeing and Sustainable Communities
The Environment, Wellbeing and Sustainable Communities cluster seeks to understand how interdependent environmental and social systems affect the wellbeing and sustainability of people and populations. It examines how people inhabit, use and alter ‘natural’, rural and urban environments in diverse places
Our research has specific expertise in relation to:
- Environmental disruption and displacement
- The political ecology of resource access
- Vulnerabilities to environmental change and infectious disease
- Climate change and its impacts
- Agri-food systems and practices
- Biogeography
- The impacts and management of extractive industries
- The contestation and governance of lived experiences of nature.
Our research is conducted largely in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region, using scientific, spatial, social scientific, and interdisciplinary approaches, and often working in collaboration with institutions and communities in our research settings.
Coordinator
Celia McMichael
Academic staff
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Dr Elizabeth Straughan
Research Fellow - Human Geography
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Dr Colette Mortreux
Research Fellow in Climate Change Adaption
Email: mortreux.c@unimelb.edu.au
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Professor Jon Barnett
Arc Laureate Fellow
Phone: +61383440819
Email: jbarn@unimelb.edu.au -
Dr Ariane Utomo
Senior Lecturer in Demography
Phone: +61390358258
Email: ariane.utomo@unimelb.edu.au -
Associate Professor Brian Cook
Associate Professor (Geography)
Phone: +61390358370
Email: brian.cook@unimelb.edu.au -
Dr Candice Boyd
Phone: +61383447839
Email: cboyd@unimelb.edu.au -
Dr Catherine Phillips
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Phone: +61390353187
Email: catherine.phillips1@unimelb.edu.au -
Associate Professor Simon Batterbury
Associate Professor in Environmental Studies
Phone: +61383449319
Email: simonpjb@unimelb.edu.au -
Associate Professor Celia McMichael
Associate Professor in Health Geography
Phone: +61383446704
Email: celia.mcmichael@unimelb.edu.au -
Dr Rebecca Runting
Arc Decra Senior Research Fellow
Phone: +61383448418
Email: rebecca.runting@unimelb.edu.au -
Dr Tim Werner
Decra Fellow
Email: tim.werner@unimelb.edu.au
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Dr Kelvin Say
Rf in Integration of Renewable Energy Resources
Email: kelvin.say@unimelb.edu.au
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Associate Professor Robyn Schofield
Associate Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry
Phone: +61383441661
Email: robyn.schofield@unimelb.edu.au
Graduate researchers
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Yardena Tankel
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Nilanjana Sen
Email: nsen@student.unimelb.edu.au
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Wil Ross
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Kate Douglas
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Mia Dunphy
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Aishath Azfa
Email: aazfa@student.unimelb.edu.au
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Nadia Degregori
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Mahsa Alidoostsalimi
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Manning Young
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Adam Kelly
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Sara Guest
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Ryan Schoenbaum
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Ali Mahaqi
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Maheshinderjeet Garg
Email: gargm@student.unimelb.edu.au
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Tessa Toumbourou
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Vera Alexandra Gougoulas
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Carolina Mayen Huerta