Senior Lecturer
"BSc (Monash) MEnvS (Melbourne) PhD (Queensland)"
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Geography-Geology Building |
| Room Reference | 426 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2834 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2989 |
| Michael.Lockwood@utas.edu.au |
Michael teaches the undergraduate unit Environmental Management, as well as two postgraduate coursework units: Planning Theory, Process and Applications and Protected Area Management. He also coordinates masters research and project units: Planning Project and Research Thesis.
He is course coordinator for the Graduate Diploma and Master of Environmental Planning, and the Graduate Diploma and Master of Environmental Management.
Michael is an environmental social scientist whose work embraces the broad fields of environmental planning and management, with a particular emphasis on nature conservation. His primary teaching roles are in postgraduate environmental planning and management courses, which he also coordinates. Michael’s research contributes to understanding and improving environmental governance; our knowledge of the social and institutional dimensions of environmental conservation; and good-practice planning and management for protected areas. He is a member of the World Commission on Protected Areas, Planning Institute of Australia and a Ministerial appointee to the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council.
(Funding: National Environmental Research Program $6,000,000)
Michael is co-leader of the Social and Instructional Futures Program within the Landscapes and Public Policy Research Hub, led by Professor Ted Lefroy. The Social and Institutional Futures team is exploring the theoretical and practical applications of social ecological systems and resilience thinking in the context of policy, planning and management approaches for biodiversity conservation. The Program will identify policy, planning and institutional measures to support biodiversity conservation at regional scales. Two study areas have been selected to explore plausible policy, planning and management regimes for biodiversity conservation into the future – the Australian Alps and the Tasmanian Midlands. This work will contribute to the hub’s mission which is to bring consideration of biodiversity into mainstream planning processes by fostering an interdisciplinary approach that (i) incorporates integrated assessment of social, institutional, economic and biophysical attributes and (ii) is capable of examining the likely consequences of alternative biodiversity policies, planning instruments and institutional arrangements.
(Funding: FRDC-DCCEE $314,000)
Michael is leading this project that will identify adaptive governance and management arrangements for conserving marine biodiversity in the context of climate change. Climate change and a range of coastal and marine development pressures mean that we need an adaptive approach to conserving marine biodiversity. Current arrangements have limited capacity to deal with expected shifts in the structure and composition of marine ecosystems and habitats. This project focuses on three study areas: Whitsundays (Queensland), Tweed-Morton (NSW/Queensland), and East Coast Tasmania. The project will: (i) identify governance and management requirements for conserving marine biodiversity in the context of climate change; (ii) assess how well current arrangements meet these requirements; (iii) identify alternative arrangements that would better conserve marine biodiversity; and (iv) provide advice to authorities on implementing reforms.
Sarah Clement (with Associate Professor Sue Moore, Murdoch University)
Institutions and biodiversity conservation under a changing climate in the Tasmanian Midlands and Australian Alps
Catherine Elliot
Communities' responses to post-disaster housing projects in Aceh, Indonesia
Samantha Gadsby
Improving biodiversity outcomes on private land in the Northern Midlands, Tasmania: a social-ecological systems approach
Melissa Gordon
Adoption of community engagement in Australian plantation forest companies
Victoria Harvey
Developing environmental indicators for off-road vehicle use in protected areas: a Tasmanian case study
Sharon Joyce
The utility of resilience thinking and social-ecological systems analysis for achieving landscape scale biodiversity conservation
Javad Jozaei
Incorporating knowledge of uncertainties into adaptive decision-making and management for coastal zones
Chia-Chin Lin
Sense of place, protected areas and tourism: two Tasmanian case studies
Madeleine Porter
Biodiversity conservation on private agricultural Land in the Midlands: analysis of policy instruments
Lockwood. M., Davidson, J., Curtis, A., Stratford, E., Griffith, R. (2010) Governance principles for natural resource management. Society and Natural Resources 23: 1-16.
Lockwood, M., Davidson, J. (2010) Environmental governance and the hybrid regime of Australian natural resource management. Geoforum 41: 388–398.
Lockwood, M. (2010) Good governance for terrestrial protected areas: a framework, principles and performance outcomes. Journal of Environmental Management 91: 754-766.
Worboys, G., Francis, W., Lockwood, M. (eds) (2010) Connectivity conservation management: a global guide. Earthscan, London.
Davidson, J., Lockwood, M. (2008) Partnerships as instruments of good regional governance: innovation for sustainability in Tasmania. Regional Studies 42(5): 641-656.
Lockwood, M., Worboys, G., Kothari, A. (eds) (2006). Managing protected areas: a global guide. Earthscan, London.
Curtis, A., Lockwood, M. (2000) Landcare and catchment management in Australia: lessons for state-sponsored community participation. Society & Natural Resources 13: 61-73.
Lockwood, M. (1999) Humans valuing nature. Environmental Values 8: 381-401.
Lockwood, M. (1999) Preference structures, property rights, and paired comparisons. Environmental & Resource Economics 13: 107-122.
Lockwood, M. (1998) Integrated value assessment using paired comparisons. Ecological Economics 25: 73-87.
Lockwood, M. (1996) End values, evaluation and natural systems. Environmental Ethics. 18(3): 265-278.