Land management

Australia’s Epic Story

Now is the Time to tell a culturally inclusive, globally significant human and environmental history of Australia. We like to call it, Australia’s Epic Story.

The invisible farmer: Securing Australian farm women's history

This project, believed to be the first national study of farm women in Australia, aims to address their historical and contemporary invisibility by creating an online, publicly accessible, multimed

Cross-cultural management of freshwater on resource-constrained islands

This project aims to develop a methodology for community-led adaptive water management on resource-constrained islands and will involve Indigenous communities in the development of predictive groun

The basis of oyster resilience to global environmental change

This project aims to investigate the impact of global environmental change on the survival of Australia’s oyster industry, by combining the science of genetics, physiology and ecology to identify a

Environmental Transformations linked to Early Human Occupation in Northern Australia

How have interactions between climatic change, human activities and other disturbances over thousands of years shaped the landscapes we know today in Australia?

Has it always burned so hot? Fuel and fire in southeast Australian forests.

Indigenous cultural burning has been raised as a way of mitigating against climate-driven catastrophic bushfires in southeast Australian forests.

Planning for sustainable development and biodiversity on Indigenous lands

This project aims to develop a new approach to participatory land-use planning for sustainable development and conservation, in partnership with the Tiwi Land Council.

The coming of the dingo and its interaction with Indigenous Australian

This project will identify more precisely the time of the entry of dingoes into Australia and will investigate their impact on the lives of Indigenous Australians.

Murujuga: Dynamics of the Dreaming

Despite the acknowledged National Heritage significance of the Dampier Archipelago's petroglyphs and stone features, there has been little research which assists in knowing when, why and how t

Can coastal floodplains of north Australia survive ferals and rising seas?

Tropical Coastal Floodplains are an iconic feature of northern Australia; however, they are experiencing widespread degradation due to complex interactions between feral ungulates and relative sea