Environmental Futures Centre

Sustainability in natural, production and urban ecosystems

The future of human society hinges upon the conservation, sustainable use and policy frameworks surrounding our natural environment and its biodiversity. Solutions to global challenges such as climate and environmental change require a multidisciplinary approach to understanding how these complex systems function. This Centre combines science, innovation and experience to expand new knowledge and deliver effective environmental solutions in natural, production and urban landscapes.

The magnitude of the environmental challenges already being felt regionally, nationally and globally require a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach from a comprehensive series of scientific fields. Issues of sustainability, climate change and biodiversity conservation cannot effectively be approached from traditional disciplinary perspectives.

The Environmental Futures Centre brings together a large number of committed and productive researchers who share the common goal of undertaking excellent research of immediate relevance to critical environmental issues. Being located within the fastest growing region in Australia provides an opportunity to understand and address a range of significant issues of relevance to urban and natural environments, farms and plantations.