Fields of Research

Public policy
Australian government and politics
Environment policy
Environmental politics
Other Indigenous studies
Policy and administration
Political science
Environmental management
Conservation and biodiversity
Comparative government and politics
Public administration
Climate change law
Environmental assessment and monitoring
Other environmental sciences
Sustainable agricultural development
Government and politics of Asia and the Pacific
Economic development policy
Architectural science and technology
Environment and resource economics
Environmental law
Health services and systems
Sociology of education
Political theory and political philosophy

Research Objectives

Government and politics
Expanding knowledge in human society
Environmental policy, legislation and standards
Political systems
Public services policy advice and analysis
Electoral systems
Other environmental management
Civics and citizenship
Evaluation, allocation, and impacts of land use
Climate change mitigation strategies
Library and archival services
Environmentally sustainable energy activities
Environmental protection frameworks (incl. economic incentives)
Trade and environment
Understanding climate change
Work and labour market
Other education and training
Social impacts of climate change and variability
Health status (incl. wellbeing)
Effects of climate change on Australia (excl. social impacts)
Neonatal and child health
Industrial energy efficiency

Career Best Publications

Can deliberative democracy be practised? A sub-national policy pathyway; Politics & Policy
Defining regional climate leadership: learning from comparative analysis in the Asia Pacific; Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
Effective Environmental Federalism? Australia's Natural Heritage Trust; Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Irresistible force? Achieving carbon pricing in Australia; Australian Journal of Politics and History
Is Australia Faking It? The Kyoto Protocol and the Greenhouse Policy Challenge; Global Environmental Politics
Jobs and the environment: the 'double dividend' of ecological modernisation?; International Journal of Social Economics
Pricing carbon: the politics of climate policy in Australia; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Stepping stone, halfway house or road to nowhere? Green support of minority government in Sweden, New Zealand and Australia; Government and Opposition
The enduring challenge of ‘wicked problems’: revisiting Rittel and Webber; Policy Sciences
Up and down with climate politics 2013-2016: the repeal of carbon pricing in Australia; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change

Research Publications

'Globalisation' and Ecological Modernity: challenges for local environmental governance in Australia; Local Environment
2016 Climate Challenges Society By J.S. Dryzek, R.B. Norgaard and D. Schlossberg
A Failed Greening? The Electoral Routing of the Tasmanian Greens; Environmental Politics
ABC Drive Canberra Interview - About Minority Government
ABC Northern Drive - Commentary on Labor/Green Crisis
ABC Radio - Swearing In of New Premier Lara Giddings
ABC Radio interview Leon Compton Morning Show ' Giddings Government'
ABC Tasmania 7.30 Report - Forestry and Conservation Groups
ABC Tasmania Morning Show - Hare Clarke Recount in Denison
ABC Tasmania Morning Show - legislative Council Election
ABC Tasmania Morning Show - NSW State Election
ABC Tasmania Morning Show - Tasmania's Adjustment to Carbon Pricing
ABC Tasmania Northern Drive EMRS November Poll
ABC Tasmania WSouthern Drive - Government in Turmoil
ABC Tasmanian Northern Drive - Barlett Resignation
ABC Tasmanian Southern Drive - Government in Turmoil
ABC TV 7.30 Report - Commentary on Lyn Thorp
ABC TV 7.30 Report - Swearing In of New Premier Lara Giddings
ABC TV News interview on the Role of the Tasmanian Climate Council
Academics lash Lennon 'ethics'
Accomodating industry in Tasmania: Eco Political factors behind the Electrona Silicon Smelter dispute; University of Tasmania. Centre for Environmental Studies. Occasional Paper
Addressing the resilience-community dynamic: climate change adaptation, natural disaster management and the need for policy resilience; 36th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment [IAIA]
Adolescent Health and Well Being: Joining Up Youth Policy Pathways
Against Green minority government: themes and traditions in Tasmanian politics; Tasmanian Historical Studies
An Comparative Analysis for Natural Disaster Insurance in the Asia-Pacific region- Australia, New Zealand and Japan; Journal of Land and Environmental Institute
Assessing regional climate leadership; Environmental Management
Assessing Regional Climate Leadership in the East-Asia-Pacific Region: A Case Study on Australia and Japan; Environmental Management
Australia and the Greenhouse Challenge: the Politics of Ratification and Policy Implementation; Public Policy Network Conference
Australia's climate change mitigation policy towards the Paris Agreement; Environmental Management
Australian aid needs a new approach to evaluation
Australian Environmental Groups
Australian Environmental Policy 2: Studies in Decline + Devolution; University of New South Wales Press
Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas; Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Bounded Governance: The Politics of Carbon Pricing in Australia; ECPR
Can deliberative democracy be practised? A sub-national policy pathyway; Politics & Policy
Chair Public Policy Network Conference
Changing the Political Landscape: Greens and Minority Government; ACT Legislative Assembly
Climate Change Question and Answer in The Examiner
Climate Clever: Kyoto & Australia's Decade of Recalcitrance; Global Commons, Domestic Decisions: The Comparative Politics of Climate Change
Climate policy failure: Was Australia's CPRS more politics than policy?; Environmental Policy Failure: The Australian Story
Climate policy failure: Was Australia's ETS more politics than policy? ; APSA Conference
Community, Sustainability and Participation: Form-Function Dilemmas in State-Local Partnerships Tasmania; Governments and Communities in Partnership: From Theory to Practice
Community, Sustainability and Participation: form-function dilemmas in Tasmanian state-local partnerships; Public Policy
Conclusions; Environmental Policy Failure: The Australian Story
Contesting Nature: Modernity, Ecology, Policy
Defining regional climate leadership: learning from comparative analysis in the Asia Pacific; Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
Delivering Performance And Accountability
Delivering public services: locality, learning and reciprocity in place based practice; Australian Journal of Public Administration
Designing a Community Renewable Energy (CRE) Strategy; Environmental Management
Disenfranchising the Greens: Labor's Electoral 'Reform' Strategy in Tasmania; 2000 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association
Disenfranchising the Greens: Labor's Electroral 'Reform' Strategy in Tasmania; Australasian Political Studies Association Conference
Ecology and Social Change: Is Greener Employment Possible?; Just Policy: a journal of Australian social policy
Effective Environmental Federalism? Australia's Natural Heritage Trust; Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning
Effective Federalism? The Case of the Natural Heritage Trust; Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association
Energy disadvantage in Australia: policy obstacles and opportunities; IREE 2017 Conference
Environmental Employment Opportunities: How Green are Australia's Green Job Credentials?; Environmental Politics
Environmental Policy; Government, Politics, Power and Policy in Australia
Environmental Policy and Politics in Australia; Australian Public Policy
Environmental Policy Centrism: the Howard Government Legacy; Public Policy Network Conference
Environmental Policy Failure; Tilde University Press
Examiner Interview - An article on Forestry
Examiner Newspaper Interview on Carbon Pricing
Expansive Globalisation: Rescuing the Environment; Policy, Organisation and Society
Expert advisory councils in the policy system; Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis
Explaining Environmental Policy: Challenges, Constraints and Capacity; Australian Environmental Policy 2: Studies in Decline + Devolution
Federal Greens vote will be bad news for Tasmania’s environment
Fighting the future: the politics of climate policy failure in Australia (2015–2020); Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Governing Climate Change: The Role of Advisory Councils; Public Policy Network Conference
Green Power: The Environment Movement in Australia; Alternatives
Greens and Minority Government in Tasmania 1996-98; Minority Government: The Liberal-Green Experience in Tasmania
Greens Take Centre Stage In Tasmania
If it needs it, Australia can draw on significant experience of minority government
Imagining Pedder: Past Loss as Future Hope; Island
Independents in Tasmania’s Legislative Council: analysing strategies to achieve influence; Australasian Parliamentary Review
International Park(ing) Day Friday 17th September
Interview ABC National Radio News- About Minority Government
Interview for 'The Mercury' on Climate Change Failure'
Interview with ABC News Online 'Climate Council Claims Government Snub'
Interview with Canberra's Radio Station 2CCC - About Minority Government
Interview with Canberras City News
Introduction; Environmental Policy Failure: The Australian Story
Introduction; Australian Environmental Policy 2: Studies in Decline + Devolution
Irresistible force? Achieving carbon pricing in Australia; Australian Journal of Politics and History
Is Australia Faking It? The Kyoto Protocol and the Greenhouse Policy Challenge; Global Environmental Politics
Is minority government the path to power for Tasmanian Labor?; Inside Story
Jobs and Environment: Modernising The Debate; Fourth National Conference on Unemployment
Jobs and Environment: Modernising The Debate; Unemployment: Economic Promise and Political Will
Jobs and the environment: the 'double dividend' of ecological modernisation?; International Journal of Social Economics
Joined Up Governance: Pushing the Youth Policy Boundaries?; Public Administration Today
Joining Up for Sustainability: Tasmania Together as a Subnational Pathway?; APSA Conference
Labor Flees to Opposition in Tasmania
Lake Pedder's Loss and Failed Restoration: Ecological Politics Meets Liberal Democracy in Tasmania; Australian Journal of Political Science
Looking for a Way Out - backing away from dangerous climate change; Australian Review of Public Affairs
Milne got results from minority pacts with both sides of politics
Minority Government: The Liberal Green Experience in Tasmania; School of Government, University of Tasmania and the Australasian Study of Parliament Group (Tasmanian Chapter)
Minority Government: Who benefits?
Nature, Culture & the Green State: Policy Challenges & Complications in Australia; Environmental Justice: Global Ethics for the 21st Century Conference
Nature: Reinvention, Restoration or Preservation?; Environmental Politics
New Governance, Green Planning and Sustainability: Tasmania Together and Growing Victoria Together; The Australian Journal of Public Administration
Opportunities to Reduce Tasmania's Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Parliamentary experiences of the Tasmanian Greens: The politics of the periphery; Ecopolitics: Thought & Action
Participatory policy-making for sustainability; In: Beyond the Policy Cycle: The Policy Process in Australia
Policy analysis in Australia; Policy Press
Policy Analysis in Australia- Complexities, Arenas and Challenges; The Policy Space
Policy analysis in Australia: The state of the art; Policy Analysis in Australia
Policy or politics?; Public Administration Today
Power for climate body urged
Power Theory and Environmental Policy Analysis: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis; University of Tasmania. Centre for Environmental Studies. Occasional Paper
Pricing carbon: the politics of climate policy in Australia; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Public Administration Today; Public Asministration Today
Public Administration Today, Special Issue: Policy Theory and Practice: Initiatives-Ideas-Practice; Public Administration Today
Public Has Spoken, Time for Stable Power Sharing
Pulp mill politics set to dominate Tasmanian election
Re-framing utilization focused evaluation: lessons for the Australian Aid programme?; Journal of Asian Public Policy
Reconsidering Policy: Complexity, Governance and the State; Policy Press
Regional Action and Carbon Trading in the East Asia Pacific; Sustainable Regional Development: Theoretical and Practical Issues
Regional Climate Leadership; Environmental Management
Restoring the lost Lake Pedder?; Ecological Management and Restoration
Review of 'Australian National Audit Office 2001 Performance Information for Commonwealth Financial Assistance under the Natural Heritage Trust: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Department of the Environment and Heritage, Audit Report No. 43'; Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration
Review of 'Implementation of Ecologically Sustainable Development by Commonwealth Departments and Agencies', by the Productivity Commission; Australian Journal of Public Administration
Review of Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies and Sociology by Tom Jagtenberg and David McKie
Review of Ecological Pioneers: A Social History of Australian Ecological Thought and Action by Martin Mulligan and Stuart Hill
Review of Institutional Change for Sustainable Development by Robin Connors and Stephen Dovers
Review of Silent Rivers: the Ecology & Politics of Large Dams by Patrick McCully
Review of Elim Papadakis, Environmental Politics and Institutional Change; Australian Journal of Political Science
Review of Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia, by Timothy Doyle and Aynsley Kellow; Australian Journal of Political Science
Review of Marian A.L.Miller, The Third World in Global Environmental Politics; Australian Journal of Political Science
Review of Recovering Community Place and Home by J. de Gryse and A. Sant
Review of Robin Eckersly (ed) Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards integration; The Canberra Bulletin of Public Administration
Review of The Reluctant Nation: Environment, Law & Politics in Australia, by P. Toyne; Australian Journal of Political Science
Review of Wasteland to World Heritage, by C.Hall; Environmental Politics
Saving the Franklin: A People's Rebellion in a Distant Forest
So close, and yet so far? The Tasmanian Greens and the 2006 state election; Environmental Politics
Stepping stone, halfway house or road to nowhere? Green support of minority government in Sweden, New Zealand and Australia; Government and Opposition
Strained Parliamentary Relations: Green-supported minority government in Tasmania; Australasian Parliamentary Review
Tasmania; Climate Change Law and Policy
Tasmania Together and Growing Victoria Together: Can State Plans Deliver Environmental Sustainability?; Public Administration Today
Tasmania's governing partnership: the possibilities and the perils
Tasmanian Climate Action Council 2010 Acting on Climate Change: Progress in Tasmania 2008-10, Inaugural Biennial Report to the Minister for Climate Change
Tasmanian Climate Action Council 2010 Annual Report to the Minister for Climate Change 2009-10
Tasmanian Climate Action Council 2010 Setting Interim Emission Reduction Targets for Tasmania: The Tasmanian Climate Action Coucil's Advice to the Minister
Tasmanian Greens
The 'super politics' of climate change; Australian Journal of Political Science
The Climate Challenge: Thinking Globally, Changing Locally; Tasmanian Local Government Conference
The Devil is in the Detail: The Governance Challenge of Climate Change; Public Policy Network Conference
The enduring challenge of ‘wicked problems’: revisiting Rittel and Webber; Policy Sciences
The Greens are Back in Town! World Record Vote Achieved by Tasmanian Greens; Ecopolitics: Thought+Action
The literature review: Not sinking, writing; Supervising Doctorates Downunder: Keys to Effective Supervision in Australia and New Zealand
The Origins, Impact and Significance of 'Wicked Problems'; The Policy Space
The Place of Nature? Electoral Politics and the Tasmanian Greens; People and Place
The politics of the environment in Australia; The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics
The polycentric approach to the climate action in the Asia Pacific region: the role of carbon markets; Environmental Management
The Rise and Rise of the Tasmanian Greens: The State Election of 2002; Environmental Politics
The Tasmanian State Election 1996: Green Power and Hung Parliaments; Environmental Politics
Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Cross-Cutting? Policy Appraisal, Implementation and the Problem of Climate Change; ECPR Joint Session # 30
Understanding the population-environment debate: Bridging disciplinary divides; 2004 Fenner Conference on the Environment
Up and down with climate politics 2013-2016: the repeal of carbon pricing in Australia; Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Values and the State in Natural Resource Management: The Mt Wellington Skyway dispute, Hobart, Tasmania; Local Environment
Where greens support conservatives: lessons from the Rundle minority government in Tasmania 1996-98; Australian Journal of Politics and History
Working together, living apart

Research Projects

Adolescent Health, Wellbeing and Education Policy Project; Australian Research Council (ARC)
Developing a Cross-faculty Climate Change Focussed Research Centre at Utas; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Greens and Government: A Comparative Assessment of Regime Formation and the Role of Green Partners; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Local Government Partnerships in Tasmania: Determining an Evaluative Criteria; University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Polar politics - regime convergence; Antarctic Science Advisory Committee (ASAC)
Regionalising Local Governance: An Evaluative Review of Tasmanian Regional Partnerships; University of Tasmania (UTAS)

Research Candidate Supervision

'Soft' and 'Hard' Climate Policy Instruments- Policy Effectiveness in Australia?
A Case Study in the Rise of Public Sector Transparency- Understanding the Global Diffusion of Freedom of Information Law
A Dialogue of the Deaf- The Rise and Stall of Harm Reduction Policy in Australia from 1980 to 2000
A Greener Alternative? Deliverative Democracy Meets Local Government in Australia
Causation as a spandrel of four dinensional spece-time A corollory to Hgh Price's perspectualism
Climate Change and Environmental Citizenship- Transition to a Post-Consumerist Future?
Destruction, Creation and Immortality- Australian Public Policy and Nascent Human Life
eGovernment/eGovernance in a dot bomb world
Emotional framing of Environmental Journalism- An Australian history
Environmental Politics and Forest Policy in Tasmania
Exploring the Science-Policy Gap with Australian Marine Scientists, Policymakers, and Interest Groups
France and the Antarctic Treaty System
Health and well-being policy, planning and implementation- A comparative study of Tasmania and international processes using regional development approaches.
High Seas Marine Protected Areas- Concept and Discourse Analysis
Identity, Power and Prosperity - Why Image is important in Regional Economic Development
Intergenerational Equity and Australian Agri-environmental Policy (1992 to 2002)
Leadership - A Critical Analysis
Municipal Reforms in Tasmania- The Impact of the Purchaser-Provider Split on Service Delivery in Hobart and Sorell Councils
Political Mavericks in Australia
Politicisation of the Australian Public Service- Social and Environmental Issues
Public Policy on Human Cloning
Tasmania's Native Vegetation Policy- Towards an Integrated Framework
The interpretation and role of science in the philosophy and practice of environmental debates and policy making
The political economy of development in Tasmania- investigating alternatives to governance and development strategies
The Politics of Childhood
Tobacco control and public policy in Tasmania- Barriers to implementation of an evidence based approach
Towards an Australian Governmental Policy on Environmentally Forced Migration- A Considered and Humanitarian Approach to the Emerging Crisis of the Human Impact of Climate Change