The following research centres are affiliated with the Griffith School of Environment:
- Atmospheric Environment Research Centre - The Atmospheric Environment Research Centre focuses its research primarily on the role of aerosols in industry, biotechnology, health, climate and the environment. Aerosols are solid or liquid particles suspended in a gas, and are ubiquitous in the atmosphere. Our research includes both natural and anthropogenic aerosols and is captured by four research themes.
- Environmental Futures Centre - 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 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.
- Australian Rivers Institute - The Australian Rivers Institute was established by Griffith University in 2006 to provide a focus for Australia's largest group of university-based scientists with expertise in river, catchment and coastal research and education and builds on the University's long-standing reputation in environmental science.
- Griffith Centre for Coastal Management - This Centre develops and promotes, on a national and international level, targeted research that contributes to all aspects of sustainable management of coastal regions. The objectives of the Centre are to develop a broad research and training agenda related to coastal management.
- International Centre for Management of Pest Fruit Flies - International Centre for the Management of Pest Fruit Flies is a new Queensland based initiative to improve food security and nutrition, reduce poverty and facilitate international trade within the Australian-Asian region. The Centre addresses the problem of fruit flies, which are serious pests of fruits and vegetables.
- International Centre for Ecotourism Research - The International Centre for Ecotourism Research provides a focus for ecotourism research both within Australia and worldwide. The centre���s interests are indeed international and cover the environmental impacts and management of tourism, the management of visitors and resources in protected areas, the economics of ecotourism and a range of related issues.
- Urban Research Program - This program has identified urban governance, transportation, urban liveability, housing, infrastructure, ecology, urban economy and health as research areas of strategic importance. In all our research we are mindful that contemporary urban life is, more than ever before, part of a national and global dynamic.