CASPR is committed to advancing evidence-based policymaking for issues concerning the environment and sustainability. Our work supports decision-makers and practitioners in a variety of domains and applications, including defence, climate resilience, disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in the Indo-Pacific. Systematic and well-focused evidence-based policy research responds to rapid social and environmental change, which is crucial for good practice.
Based at Flinders University in South Australia, our group assists government and private sector stakeholders to achieve greater accountability, effectiveness and innovation locally, nationally and globally.
Prae has a consulting and research background across sustainability, coastal management and adaptation, and waste management and resource recovery. She has worked in international organisations, research institutes and local government. Her research interests include coastal adaptation, sustainability strategy and social dimension of ecosystem management.
Carla’s research focus lies on human-environment interactions amidst environmental change. She has almost a decade of experience working with urban poor communities in participatory contexts as a local community development facilitator in the Philippines. Her research interests include community engagement (participation), climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and environmental politics and policy.
Shani is CASPR's professional and project manager and research assistant. She has a diverse background in sustainability practice and teaching, environmental policy, sustainable architecture and permaculture.
Anthony J. Langlois is a critical human rights theorist. He has a keen interest in the way in which rights language is used for politics, policy and theory, including how this applies to environmental and sustainability concerns.
Sabine’s expertise lies in coastal ecosystem ecology, restoration and Blue Carbon. She is working closely at the interface between research and environmental management, through translation of research outcomes into scientific advice to achieve ecosystem health and conservation outcomes.
Cobi has more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of environmental governance, science communication and disaster response. She has worked in organisations from the UN in Geneva to state environment and disaster response agencies. Cobi has been Visiting Scholar at Melbourne Law School and has experience with Aid-funded programs in Asia and the Pacific.
Dr Helen McLaren is motivated by research that can be applied to building healthier environments, stronger communities and improvements to people’s lives. Recent projects are focused on climate and disaster resilience, the future of sustainable development goals in the context of climate change and Covid-19, and allied health worker secondary trauma and resilience related to climate and drought.
Alessandro is an environmental historian who works on polar and oceanic environments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is interested in how environmental knowledge is formed in a variety of institutional contexts at national and global scales, how environmental knowledge is acted upon to preserve or exploit the Earth, and how communities build affective and ethical relationships with remote and extreme environments.
Kirstie is a human geographer with a decade of experience conducting research in the Pacific. Her research interests include migration, guestworker schemes, urbanisation and development.
Matt conducts research and supports practical projects that strengthen the quality and legitimacy of policy and law through citizen participation. As Deputy Chief of Staff to a South Australian Premier he led work on the government's internationally-recognised democratic reform program, helped craft a strategic policy agenda, and advised on climate policy and the state’s participation in the Paris Climate Summit.
An article recently published in the Health Promotion International journal reports on work conducted by Flinders and Deakin University researchers that examined the food regulatory decision-making process in Australia. The national policy on the voluntary fortification of foods and drinks with vitamins and minerals developed between Read more…
My Honours dissertation proved that directors of five Australian fossil fuel corporations had contravened several criminal sections of the Corporations Act, by their conduct in relation to climate change, and that they could be sentenced Read more…
A paper just released by Dr Beverley Clarke and Cong Chi Vu (Flinders University Master of Environmental Management graduate) presents a unique empirical study from Vietnam based on the perspectives of those engaged in the Read more…
Study measures social value of key coastal assets Australians love their beaches, and now a new study also confirms the broad appeal of other coastal assets such as coastal wetlands and protected areas. In one Read more…
Associate Professor Cassandra Star presented a lunchtime lecture as part of the Flinders University online miniseries ‘Braving COVID’. A/Prof Star’s presentation was titled ‘Climate activism and the COVID moment: securing the green new deal and Read more…
Climate Change: Managing the Unavoidable, Avoiding the Unmanageable was the topic of the sold-out 2020 Flinders University Investigator Lecture. The annual lecture is an important part of Flinders University’s public education program and contribution to Read more…
There's a new issue of politics and governance out on climate politics, emergency, engagement and justice - full of great articles! https://bit.ly/3eciCu7
Policy actors' perceptions on applying a SDH approach in child health policy in Australia: A cross‐disciplinary approach. Newly published paper from CASPR's @cassandra_star, with @LittletonDr, Matt Fisher and Paul Ward. #publichealth #policy
Policy actors' perceptions on applying a SDH approach in child health policy in Australia: A crossâdisciplinary approach (public health and political science)
This study applies a political science lens to explore policy actors‘ perceptions on the formulation of four A...
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CASPR researchers are out on the road this week on the Eyre Peninsula and Upper Spencer Gulf talking to councils about challenges being faced by SA's coastal councils in response to changing climatic conditions.
Integrated assessment of local governments’ coastal adaptation planning and practice
All South Australian coastal councils are exposed to changing climatic conditions. Some are already directly responding ...
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Does ‘formal’ stakeholder consultation influence the outcome of Australian food regulatory policy?
New research from CASPR's @cassandra_star with Bronwyn Ashton, @MarkLawrence_Oz and @ProfJohnCoveney
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Does ‘formal’ stakeholder consultation influence the outcome of Australian food regulatory policy?
An article recently published in the Health Promotion International journal reports on work conducted by Flinders and Deak...
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Today we had an overdue catchup with the @thecasprgroup academics, associates and research students to remind ourselves of how far we've come in a little over a year (including a global pandemic!) - so pleased to work with these awesome people on interesting + important projects!
Local governance and service delivery challenges: an investigation into waste management Policy in Sri Lanka
Exploring policy for energy governance in Indonesia
Effectiveness of NGO influence on policy formation - a case study of women's organisations and domestic violence policy
Sustainable materialism, farmers markets and alternative food systems
Sustainable Development and Climate Change: How Sustainable is Sustainable Development?
Understanding the role of indigenous engagement in marine park management: a case study from Indonesia
The governing of unsustainability: The corporate capture of sustainable development
The politics of democratic innovation
An Analysis of Food Waste Management Habits in Local Food Service Businesses
Actors, implementation and implications of China’s climate-related energy policies: analyses of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and the Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Scheme (ECERS)
Formulating policy in Indonesia: perceptions of key stakeholders on the conditions for the introduction of a carbon tax
Identifying operational mechanisms for the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation in Nepal
The effect of financial crisis and global recession on climate change policy as explained by ecopolitical theory
Big business and sustainable development
Understanding household recycling attitudes and practices in the City of Mitcham
Municipal solid waste management in a rapidly urbanising area in Thailand: Barriers and recommendations
Improving the efficiency of the management and operation of small and medium irrigation systems with Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) in Vietnam.
A cross disciplinary study on formulating
child health policy with a focus on the
social determinants of health - an Australian perspective
Fatally flawed public policies - The cruel optimism of self-employed women’s retirement planning
The conforming power of neoliberal violence in youth and hyper-governed young people’s stories of resistance
Global Justice: A Rawlsian Perspective
