Master of Sustainability - People
Dr. Ruth Lane
Coordinator of the E&S Stream
Ruth's research and teaching interests are in the area of environmental governance, and the social and cultural dimensions of land use change and environmental sustainability. She is currently researching issues of household sustainability in an urban context but has also worked on land use and environmental change in rural Australia.
Phone: +61 3 9905 2937
Email: Ruth.Lane@monash.edu
Dr. Wendy Stubbs
Coordinator of the CESM Stream
Wendy’s research interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate sustainability, sustainable business models, industrial ecosystems and education for sustainability. She teaches corporate sustainability in both the CESM program and Master of Business Administration and has extensive industry experience.
Phone: +61 3 9905 2915
Email:
Wendy.Stubbs@monash.edu
Dr. Craig Thorburn
Coordinator of the Master of Sustainability and Coordinator of the IDEA stream
Craig has worked at the community level with NGOs , development agencies and bilateral aid programs in Indonesia for over 25 years. His research interests are in the management of common-property resources, customary rights, decentralisation and regional governance issues.
Phone: +61 3 9905 9319
Email: Craig.Thorburn@monash.edu
Associate Professor Haripriya Rangan
Priya Rangan is Associate Professor in economic and development geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science. Her research and teaching centre on issues linked with international and regional development and sustainable management of common property resources. Her current research focuses on the economic geography of the medicinal plant trade in South Africa. She has also worked and published extensively on resource-based conflicts, regional development, and natural resource management in South Asia.
Phone: +61 3 9905 5300
Email: Haripriya.Rangan@monash.edu
Associate Professor Christian Kull
Christian is Senior Lecturer in GES and his research focus is on three broad programs that investigate the social processes that transform landscapes in developing countries:
- Environmental transformations and their causes.
- The politics of conservation and development, specifically with respect to natural resource management, and
- Fire management: local practice, science, and policy.
Phone: +61 3 9905 2913
Email: Christian.Kull@monash.edu
Dr. Bruce Missingham
Bruce's research and teaching focus on issues related to the anthropology of development, environmental change and social movements in Thailand and Southeast Asia. He also teaches at the International Water Centre, Brisbane.
Phone: +61 3 9905 9874
Email: Bruce.Missingham@monash.edu
Professor Rebekah Brown
Rebekah Brown is a Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, and a Director of Monash University’s Centre for Water Sensitive Cities where she leads interdisciplinary research focused at the interface between society and technology. With a PhD (2003) in Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) (1994), she specialises in sustainable urban water management, adaptive environmental governance and socio-technical transitions. Rebekah led the former National Urban Water Governance Program at Monash between 2005 and 2009, partnered by twelve water management organisations across Australia. This was the first Australian program dedicated to urban water governance research the Urban Water Governance program is now a major research theme of the Centre for Water Sensitive Cities.
Phone: +61 3 9905 9992
Email: Rebekah.Brown@arts.monash.edu.au
Professor Nigel Tapper
Nigel Tapper is Professor of Environmental Science. His teaching and research interests lie in the area of environmental change and variability and associated impacts in the Australia-Southeast Asian region. Recent research projects have examined climate-fire and climate-health relationships in Southeast Asia and traditional knowledge systems in Indonesia, Australia and Southern Africa.
Phone: +61 3 9905 2931
Email: Nigel.Tapper@monash.edu