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Tasmania is world famous for its environment, its environmental issues, its environmental solutions and its wilderness areas. Its university is building an outstanding reputation for its research and education in this area, spread across many Schools in the University, including Geography and Environmental Studies, the Life Science Schools (Agriculture, Aquaculture, Plant Sciences and Zoology), Architecture, Engineering, Law, Government, Sociology, Social Work, Tourism and Accounting and Finance. Research and teaching in this theme area are enhanced by the concentration of activities through the TIAR partnership with the State Government, and through the Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism.
With an extremely diverse landscape and large areas designated as World Heritage or National Park, Tasmania is an exciting place for teaching and research on the environment. Some of this is focussed solely on the Tasmanian environment, but other aspects of this work have a national or international dimension, especially in comparative studies. Research and teaching programs in this area include the built environment, ecosystem and wilderness management including protection of rivers and groundwater, natural resource management, environmental engineering, waste management, water management, soil salinity and acidity and environmental remediation, new technologies to minimise environmental impacts, new energy technologies, capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide, mapping and protecting biodiversity, IT for environmental management and monitoring, biodiversity, environmental law, policy and politics, environmental tourism and the impacts of tourism on wilderness, environmental management, accounting and economics and representations of landscape in art, music and literature.
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Centre for Environment
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