Our researchers investigate environmental policy, law and governance as it relates to islands and coastal communities and resources.
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Advancing Sustainable Development Goal 6


Our researchers
Derek Armitage
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
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Management and governance of aquatic systems (coastal-marine and freshwater)
- Human dimensions of environmental change
- Social-ecological systems
- Resilience
Kelsey Leonard
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
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Ocean and water policy
- Earth law and Indigenous Law
- Ocean/Coastal/Marine Participatory Mapping
- Indigenous climate change policy
- Indigenous data sovereignty
Prateep Nayak
School of Environment, Enterprise and Development
- Environmental governance
- Social-ecological system resilience
- Environmental justice
- Political ecology
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
Jeremy Pittman
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Environmental policy and governance in the Anthropocene
- Landscape- and seascape-scale approaches to planning
- Human communities in an interconnected world
- Social-ecological connectivity
- Can also supervise graduate students in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development and the School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
Graham Epstein
School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability
- Environmental governance
- Collective action
- Landscape ecology of institutions
- Human dimensions of conservation