Research
Research themes
Agricultural landscapes and catchment processes
Agricultural landscapes are increasingly characterised by resource tension and competition. New cultivation regimes, new forms of state regulation, and strengthened linkages between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors mean that rural resource m...
Environmental policies, regimes and institutions
Increasing awareness of the need to protect or manage the natural environment has given rise to increasingly complex institutional arrangements for environmental governance...
Local knowledge, common property, community practice
There is widespread debate about the relationship between systems of 'rational', scientific or bureaucratic knowledge and bodies of local, traditional or indigenous knowledge in the management of natural resources. However, it is not clear how the st...
Scaling ecosystem change in time and space
It is becoming increasingly apparent that long-lasting land use legacies need to be part of present-day environmental assessment and natural resource management. The subtle but persistent effects of past human activities may have profound consequence...
Social and economic sustainability of extractive industry
Conventional economic theories propose that natural resource endowments are part of a nation's overall wealth, and thus contribute to investment, economic growth, and social welfare. However, there is a growing body of evidence that developing countr...
List of all projects
All RMAP research projects are aligned with one or two of the Program's five major research themes, outlined in the box to the right
All CURRENT staff and student research projects.
All COMPLETED staff and student research projects
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