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About Resources, Environment and Development

The staff in the Resources, Environment and Development Department (RE&D) carry out cutting edge, interdisciplinary research and teaching, focusing on the social, political and economic dimensions of environmental management in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. RE&D’s research community hosts leading academics and students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds including environmental economics, geography, anthropology and environmental studies.

Academics located in RE&D teach into the following postgraduate programs:

RE&D researchers are engaged with pressing contemporary challenges in:

  • climate change
  • energy transitions
  • conservation
  • forestry and land management
  • agrarian transformations
  • water governance
  • extractive industries
  • gender and development
  • disaster response
  • resource conflicts and environmental security
  • and more
     

Mailing address

Resources, Environment and Development Department
Crawford School of Public Policy
ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
J.G. Crawford Building
132 Lennox Crossing
Acton ACT 2601 Australia

Contact details

Ms. Shuqun Zhao
Senior Program Coordinator
Ph: +61 2 6125 5628
crawford.degrees@anu.edu.au

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