Research
Antarctic history and policy
An environmental and political history of Australia’s involvement in the Antarctic Treaty System.
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After Agriculture
A research project on the history of agricultural science for inland Australia.
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Archaeology of Australia’s Deserts and Drylands
This project reviews and synthesizes the deep history of Australia’s deserts, charting the development of distinctive Aboriginal societies over 30 millennia.
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Australian Environmental Historiography
The Centre for Environmental History encourages scholarship and debate about the distinctive character of Australian environmental historiography.
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Associations Make Identities: Heritage Preservation and Colonial Identity
This project explores the nexus between colonisation and the politics of history, by examining the construction and negotiation of colonial identity through settler interest in New Zealand in heritage preservation and historic landscapes of both Māori and European origin.
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The Changing Science and Ecology of Forests in Australia, India, and South Africa 1850-1950
This project investigates how imperial institutions and networks across the Indian Ocean region from the mid nineteenth until the mid twentieth centuries facilitated the spread of flora and the creation and diffusion of local forms of scientific knowledge relating to trees.
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Climate and Culture in Australia
Current research includes a study of Australian environmental history and prophecy in the twentieth century, and reflections on the contributions of humanities scholarship to climate studies.
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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.
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Expedition to Arnhem Land in 1948: Intercultural Inquiry in a Trans-National context
This research project investigates the genealogy, preparations, activities and legacies of the event known as the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (AASEAL).
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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.
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Global Climate Theory and Desiccation
Centre for Environmental History Research Fellow, Dr Gregory Barton, has launched a research project into the longer cultural history of climate perceptions and policy.
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IHOPE Project
The Centre for Environmental History is contributing to the international IHOPE Project (Integrated History and Future of People on Earth).
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‘Keeping places’: historic preservation and the politics of history-making in Australia
This project explores the use of historical narrative in the cultural politics of history-making in Australia through the lenses of historic preservation and interest in the historical landscape.
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The Victorian Bushfire Research Project
A collaboration between the Centre for Environmental History and the residents of Steels Creek, Victoria, this project seeks to address the gap in the understanding of the social, cultural and ecological dimensions of fire experience.
Read about the Victorian Bushfire Research Project.