IHOPE Project
The international IHOPE Project (Integrated History and Future of People on Earth) Mike Smith, Libby Robin and Tom Griffiths are contributors to the international IHOPE project, which is…
Climate and Culture in Australia
To deepen contemporary debates about environment and climate, CEH is building on the successful National Academies Forum and book, A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia (2005).…
Desert Channels: The Impulse to Conserve
This project combines a book, art exhibitions and web-based materials in an exploration of the understandings of the distinctive Desert Channels country of south-western Queensland. The region…
Expertise for the future
The focus of the Expertise for the Future project is the development of environmental prediction, and the reception of predictions optimistic and pessimistic since the sixteenth century, ranging from…
Antarctic history and policy
This ARC-funded Discovery Project (2010-12) into the environmental and political history of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic Treaty System involves the ANU, the University of Tasmania and the…
The Victorian Bushfire Research Project
On the morning of 7th February, 2009, after a protracted drought and weeks of record temperatures, the state of Victoria faced warnings of extreme fire danger. The state’s Premier made public…
Indigenous fieldwork scholarship - Applications now open
The Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship has been established in honour of the pathbreaking scholar and inspiring colleague, Minoru Hokari (1971-2004) who made outstanding contributions towards ‘cross-…