An innovative research collaboration between human geographers and Yolngu women as part of Bawaka Country in north east Arnhem Land – celebrating the awarding of Laklak Burarrwanga’s honorary doctorate.
Tag Archives: Environmental Sciences
Environmental Risk and Sustainability in the Energy & Resource Industries
Environmental risk management in the energy and resource industries is essential in order to minimise impacts of emissions and waste on sustainability, and human and ecosystem health.
New recommendations regarding blood lead levels
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released new recommendations regarding blood lead levels in Australia. Researchers at Macquarie have been advocating for an adjustment to the NHMRC recommendations in 2009.
Application of thermal science to industrial ecology
Dr Vladimir Strezov designed thermo-analytical techniques for applying the thermal characterisation of materials, monitoring the energy required for their processing and understanding the fundamental properties responsible for pollutant formation at the source.
Theorising geographical scale
This project has reconceptualised geographical scale and its relevance to social theory and practice.
Isoprene emissions in the tropics
Isoprene represents approximately 50% of all non-methane biogenic volatile organic carbon emissions released into the atmosphere, and nearly 75% of the world’s isoprene emissions come from tropical ecosystems. Yet the tropics, and the Australian continent in particular, remains largely unstudied.
The Western New South Wales Archaeology Program
The Cultural Heritage Management industry has adopted landscape-based techniques for documenting and interpreting Aboriginal material culture. Associate Professor Patricia Fanning and the Western New South Wales Archaeology Program pioneered this technique.