B Arts, M Arts, PhD

Director, Griffith School of Environment

Contact details for Professor Ralf Buckley

Research Expertise

Ecotourism, nature and adventure tourism

• recreation ecology including mechanisms, monitoring and management of ecotourism impacts;
• economics of ecotourism, including economic significance as a conservation tool;
• conservation and visitor management in World Heritage areas, other parks and protected areas, and other public lands;
• conservation and tourism on private landholdings, including market influences and policy instruments;
• environmental management, performance audit and triple-bottom-line accounting in the tourism sector.

Climate response

• policy, planning, management, legal
• economic and engineering consequences and tools for human societies to respond to short-term (1-30 year) impacts of climate change
• notably the increased frequency and severity of storms and floods, fires and droughts.