Risk and Resilience
The risk and resilience theme will use the University's extensive expertise to examine:
- bio-security and decision analysis,
- climate change vulnerability,
- risks to water supplies from fire,
- public health - risks to health from social factors and disease risk,
- bushfire risk,
- waste management,
- business risk relating to industry regulatory change,
- corruption in development contexts, and;
- risks associated with mining such as tailings
The leader of the Risk and Resilience Research theme is Jon Barnett.
Research Leader Profile - Jon Barnett
Faculty: Melbourne School of Land and Environment
Research Interests: Environmental Change and Social Systems
Jon is an Australian Research Council Fellow. Prior to this he was a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at Melbourne University, and a New Zealand Science and Technology Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Canterbury.
Jon is a human geographer whose research investigates the impacts of and responses to environmental change on social systems. This includes research on climate change, environmental security, water, and food. He has been conducting research on the social and institutional dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change since 2000. This has included field based research in the South Pacific, China, and Timor-Leste.
Jon is host convenor of the research network on the social, economic and institutional dimensions of climate change, which is part of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF). He is a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of the Global Environmental Change and Human Security Project (GECHS) which is a core project of the International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP).
Jon is on the editorial boards of Global Environmental Change, Geography Compass and the Journal of Human Security. He is the Executive Editor of the adaptation domain of the forthcoming Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change.
Selected Recent Publications:
Barnett, J. 2008. ‘The Effect of Aid on Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change: Insights from Niue’, Political Science, 60(1): 31-47. full text attachment 12
Barnett, J. 2008. ‘Peace and Development: Towards a New Synthesis’, Journal of Peace Research, 45(1): 75-89. full text attachment 11
Barnett, J. 2008. ‘The Worst of Friends: OPEC and G77 in the Climate Regime’, Global Environmental Politics 8(4): 1-8. full text attachment 10
Barnett, J., Lambert, S. and Fry, I. 2008. ‘The Hazards of Indicators: Insights from the Environmental Vulnerability Index’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(1): 102-119. full text attachment 9
O’Brien, K., Sygna, L., Leichenko, R., Adger, W., Barnett, J., Mitchell, T., Schipper, L., Tanner, T., Vogel, C. and Mortreux, C. 2008. Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Human Security. A Commissioned report for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. GECHS Report 2008:3. University of Oslo, Oslo full text
Walton, G. and Barnett, J. 2008. ‘The Ambiguities of Environmental Degradation and Violence: The Case of the Tolukuma Gold Mine’, Society and Natural Resources, 21(1): 1-16. full text attachment 8
Webber, M., Barnett, J., Wang, M., and Finlayson, B. 2008. ‘Pricing China’s Irrigation Water’, Global Environmental Change, 18(4): 617-625. full text attachment 7
Webber, M., Barnett, J., Wang, M., Finlayson, B., Dickinson, D. 2008. ‘The Yellow River in Transition’, Environmental Science and Policy, 11(5): 422-429. full text attachment 6
Barnett, J. 2007. ‘The Geopolitics of Climate Change’, Geography Compass, 1(6): 1361-1375. full text attachment 5
Barnett, J. 2007. ‘Environmental Security and Peace’, Journal of Human Security, 3(1): 4-16. full text attachment 4
Barnett, J. 2007. Climate Change and Security in Asia: Issues and Implications for Australia. Melbourne-Asia Policy Paper 9. The University of Melbourne full text
Barnett, J. and Adger, N. 2007. ‘Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict, Political Geography, 26(6): 639-655. full text attachment 3
Barnett, J., Dessai, S. and Jones, R. 2007. ‘Vulnerability to Climate Variability and Change in East Timor’, Ambio, 36(5): 372-378. full text attachment 2
Wang, M., Webber, M., Finlayson, B. and Barnett, J. 2007. ‘Rural Industries and Water Pollution in China’, Journal of Environmental Management, 86(4): 648-659. full text attachment 1