Environmental Futures

The Environmental Futures team is an interdisciplinary, impact-focused team. We listen and respond to partners and stakeholders, working with them to co-develop shared systems understanding, benefitting from multiple perspectives and knowledge systems. We use both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques when working with partners to enable decisions and actions for improving environmental outcomes that meet diverse stakeholder values.

Grigg, Nicky

Senior Research Scientist - Team Leader, Interdisciplinary research methods, integration science, resilience and adaptation, human-environment systems

Maryam Ahmad

Senior Experimental Scientist, PhD Student, Knowledge transfer and co-production; knowledge brokering; PhD student; transformative information pathways

Capon, Tim

Agricultural and Environmental Economist, Economic theories of decision-making under risk and uncertainty, economic resilience, disaster mitigation, climate change adaptation decision-making, the design of market-based instruments

Michael Dunlop

Senior Research Scientist, Climate adaptation - linking science, people and policy; Integrated analysis of land, water, biodiversity and climate; Managing long-term natural resource issues

Seona Meharg

Integration Scientist, Adaptation to global change; Research for Development; Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning; Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience

Leah Talbot

Indigenous Researcher, Indigenous negotiations, collaborative Indigenous research methods, participatory planning with Indigenous communities, conservation and environmental management

Emma Woodward

Research Scientist, Co-research to build understanding of the complexities of natural and cultural resource management, transdisciplinary research to incorporate multiple values and weave knowledge systems.

We aspire to support sustainable and equitable futures for natural and cultural systems by building capacity in our partners. We use context-specific qualitative and quantitative science to take informed, adaptive learning approaches to decision-making, integrating knowledge and experience drawn from diverse perspectives.

We work on real-world problems in close collaboration with our non-research partners to create new knowledge that supports workable decision-making strategies and actions. We use diverse, tailored methods, including interdisciplinary systems analysis, mathematical analysis and computer modelling, scenario planning, coproduction and participatory action research approaches to bring multiple kinds of knowledge to the fore, understand current and future risks, reveal new options and enable improved decision-making. We develop and apply appropriate interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, often in highly uncertain contexts facing rapid, novel changes outside recent historical experience.

Our core capability is to listen to our clients’ needs and work with them to co-produce unique, adaptive approaches that integrate insights from diverse research disciplines and cross-sectoral experience.