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Our Research

CEG’s core research themes are:
1. Natural resource management and water governance.
2. Climate change, disaster recovery and resilience, and wellbeing.

These themes prioritise applied research partnerships with government, industry, university and stakeholder organisations, both domestically and internationally, and are underpinned by a focus on the ‘social-environment nexus’.

Photograph: Darren Sinclair

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Our research is undertaken across the globe, having a positive impact on Australia, our neighbours in the Pacific and Asia, and further afield.

Go Electric: Behavioural and structural policy approaches to speed ACT households’ gas to electric transition
Go Electric: Behavioural and structural policy approaches to speed ACT households’ gas to electric transition
ACT Government, 2025-2026
Murray-Darling Basin Resilience, Adaptation and Drivers of Change
Murray-Darling Basin Resilience, Adaptation and Drivers of Change
Murray-Darling Basin Authority, 2023-2025
Living well in the ACT with a changing climate
Living well in the ACT with a changing climate
ACT Government, 2023-2025
Social license for tree removal to increase success of exotic pest eradication programs
Social license for tree removal to increase success of exotic pest eradication programs
Forest and Wood Products Australia, Hort Innovation, University of Canberra, 2023-2024
Future Farmers of South-East Asia
Future Farmers of South-East Asia
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2024-2026
Transformation through adoption of trees and shrubs for salinity management in the Southern Indus Basin
Transformation through adoption of trees and shrubs for salinity management in the Southern Indus Basin
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources, Pakistan Agricultural Research Centre and Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, 2024-2025.
Intersectionality and gender diverse climate change action in the Pacific: Eliciting a Pasifika-led policy for future engagement
Intersectionality and gender diverse climate change action in the Pacific: Eliciting a Pasifika-led policy for future engagement
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, 2024-2025.
Research report: Towards a coherent energy transition: expanding renewable energy and reducing inequalities in Australia
Research report: Towards a coherent energy transition: expanding renewable energy and reducing inequalities in Australia
Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development, 2023.
Non-urban water regulation: Next generation compliance and enforcement
Non-urban water regulation: Next generation compliance and enforcement
Australian Research Council (Linkage Grant), NSW Natural Resources Access Regulator, 2024-2027.
ClimatePods: Supercharging Social Networks for Disaster Preparedness (ClimatePods)
ClimatePods: Supercharging Social Networks for Disaster Preparedness (ClimatePods)
ANU’s Asia Pacific Innovation Program 2024 seed funding, 2024-2025.
The Mekong Thought Leadership and Think Tanks Network Program
The Mekong Thought Leadership and Think Tanks Network Program
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2023-2024.
Living with wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate (LiFi)
Living with wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate (LiFi)
Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS), 2023-2026.
Sustainability of Humboldt Fisheries
Sustainability of Humboldt Fisheries
Walton Family Foundation, Advanced Conservation Strategies and the Instituto Milenio en Socio-Ecología Costera, 2023-2024.
Environmental Governance Post Coronavirus Crisis (EPOC)
Environmental Governance Post Coronavirus Crisis (EPOC)
Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (FORMAS), 2021-2025.
Non-urban water governance: Rethinking compliance and enforcement
Non-urban water governance: Rethinking compliance and enforcement
Australian Research Council (Discovery Grant), 2019-2023.
School to work transitions - modelling policy interventions
School to work transitions - modelling policy interventions
ITLA Children's Research Foundation (Finland), 2022-2023.

The Centre for Environmental Governance acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.

©2023 by Centre for Environmental Governance at the University of Canberra.

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