Environmental and Energy Transformations

Our research addresses critical socio-environmental problems and uncertainties related to climate change, ecosystem decline, land degradation, urban metabolisms, and the designation and extraction of ‘resources’ including minerals, water, and biomass. We examine critically the political, economic, and social dimensions of energy and resource transitions and their impacts on people, livelihoods, and places.

Our work is committed to tackling the injustices and vulnerabilities pertaining to large-scale, top-down interventions, in relation to inter alia class, gender, age, race, Indigeneity, and their intersections. We are concerned with the politics of environmental knowledges, studying the histories and geographies of how scientific, local, and Indigenous knowledges are produced, valued and mobilised. We advocate for decolonial and inclusive governance approaches, including community-led management and stewardship.

Through collaboration with a range of stakeholders across sectors, we generate evidence and approaches that inform policy, planning, and industrial strategies to support the flourishing and wellbeing of people and communities, in interdependence with ecosystem and planetary health.