The Centre for the Environment’s Human Dimensions and Governance Program develops innovative tools to monitor and evaluate environmental policy, law and planning.
Transformational change through positive social action is necessary to bring about environmental sustainability. Our program enables collaboration between diverse qualitative, quantitative and design-focused social sciences to catalyse this change.
Understanding that transparency and accountability are integral to governance, our team develops innovative tools to monitor and evaluate environmental policy, law and planning for their ongoing evolution.
Real-world innovation
We support innovative methodologies, new knowledge, societal empowerment, socially responsible technology use, human decision making and effective environmental governance. Active partnerships between researchers and industry strengthen the pathways to impact, and aim to empower industry, business, Indigenous Australians and a wide range of community groups to adopt systems and ideas that will allow them to adapt and flourish now, and into the future.
Our projects
Program team
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Dr Keith Armstrong -
Associate Professor Amanda Beatson -
Dr Liz Brogden -
Professor Peter Bruza -
Associate Professor Debra Cushing -
Dr Andrew Gibson -
Dr Angela Guerrero Gonzalez -
Dr Evan Hamman -
Professor Melissa Haswell -
Dr Jacinta Holloway Centre for the Environment, Chief Investigator -
Professor Wenbiao Hu -
Professor Kim Johnston -
Dr Mark Limb -
Ms Susan Loh -
Associate Professor Kate Thompson -
Professor Karen Vella Program Leader, Human dimensions and governance -
Professor Kerrie Wilson -
Dr Katie Woolaston -
Professor Tan Yigitcanlar Professor