Professor Chris Cocklin
- Ph.D McMaster University, Canada (1985)
- M.A. University of Guelph, Canada (1981)
- B.Soc.Sci University of Waikato, New Zealand (1979)
- Dip.Bus.Stud., Massey University, New Zealand (1999)
Research Interests:
Resources and environmental policy Regulatory analysis Environmental change and human security Sustainability and sustainable development Corporate environmental management Rural production systems and rural communitiesCurrent Teaching:
GES2420 Environmental policy and management
Current Research:
1. Human dimensions of global environmental change
Much of my work on global environmental change has been framed by concepts of human security and vulnerability. It is known that environmental variability and change has the potential to affect human security, although it is difficult to establish precisely what the links might be. Recent research in this field has been concerned with urbanisation and how this relates to human security/vulnerability, with a focus on the Pacific and Asia. A project funded by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) examined on urbanisation, water resources and climate change in Asia-Pacific cities. The research on human security has carried out in association with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP)( http://www.ihdp.org ) project on Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) ( http://www.gechs.org/ ), of which I was a member of the Scientific Steering Committee from 1999-2005. I am currently also pursuing interests in global environmental change as a Lead Author for the Inter-govermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, to be published in 2007 ( http:www.ipcc.ch ).
2.Corporate environmental management.
There is a growing acceptance of the fact that the transition to sustainability must involve a substantial change in the way that companies manage their environmental and social performance. Work on the theme of corporate environmental management is carried out in collaboration with the Monash Sustainability Enterprises. A major feature of this work is the assessment of environmental and social performance of Australian companies, in support of the socially responsible investment. This led to the development, in collaboration with BT (formerly Westpac Investment Management), of Australia's first mainstream environmentally screened investment fund - the Australian Eco-Share Fund. Westpac, in collaboration with Monash, now also offers the Australian Sustainability Share Fund. Other aspects of my work on corporate environmental management included a project funded by the Commonwealth Government on the environmental products and services sector in Melbourne. I have also involved in the establishment of business networks to support the transition to improved environmental and social performance ( http://www.mei.monash.edu.au/rebate/ ).
3. Rural systems and communities.
I have had a long-standing interest in rural land use and rural communities, which has previously involved projects based in Canada and New Zealand. Most recently, a major new research project has been established to examine social and structural change in regional and rural Australia - The Monash Regional Australia Project (MRAP) ( http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/affiliates/mrap/whatismrap.html ). This multi-disciplinary project is concerned with changes in population, economic structure and communities. A related project, funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), examined the re-regulation of the Australian dairy industry. I was also the Project Director for the Academy of Social Sciences project on the "Sustainability of Australian Rural Communities", funded by the ARC. This project involved research groups at six universities, each of which carried out a case study of rural communities. A current ARC Discovery Grant supports the project "From Productivism to Multifunctionality: Agri-environmental Governance in Australia and the United Kingdom". In collaboration with Vaughan Higgins and Jacqui Dibden, I am also currently working on EMS and agri-environmental governance. I am a member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems ( http://www.stratec.ca/igu_rural_systems ).
Selected Recent Publications
a) Books
- Bowler, I, Bryant, C. and Cocklin, C. (eds.), 2002, The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical Interpretations. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.
- Cocklin, C and Alston, M. (eds.), 2003, Community Sustainability in Rural Australia: A Question of Capital? Wagga Wagga, NSW: Academy of Social Sciences in Australia/Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University..
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J. (eds.), 2005, Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia . Sydney: UNSW Press. 292 pp.
b) Refereed Journals
- Cocklin, C. and Blunden, G., 1998, Sustainability, water resources and regulation, Geoforum, 29(1), pp. 51-68.
- Bradshaw, B., Cocklin, C. and Smit, B., 1998, Subsidy removal and farm-level stewardship in Northland, New Zealand Geographer, 54(2), pp. 12-20.
- Cocklin, C., Craw, M. and McAuley, I., 1998, Marine reserves in New Zealand: use rights, public attitudes and social impacts, Coastal Management, 26(3), pp 213-231.
- Pryde, P. and Cocklin, C., 1998, Habitat islands and the preservation of New Zealands avifauna, The Geographical Review, 88(1), pp. 86-113.
- Cocklin, C., 1999, Environmental change, vulnerability and security in the Pacific, Aviso, 1, 8 pp.
- Cocklin, C., Walker, L and Blunden, G., 1999, Cannabis highs and lows: sustaining and dislocating rural communities in Northland, New Zealand,Journal of Rural Studies, 15(3), pp. 241-255. Haw, M.,
- Cocklin, C. and Mercer, D., 2000, A pinch of salt: landowner perception and adjustment to the salinity hazard in Victoria, Australia, Journal of Rural Studies, 16(2), pp. 155-169. Walker, L.,
- Cocklin, C. and Le Heron, R., 2000, Regulating for environmental improvement in the New Zealand forestry sector, Geoforum, 31(3), pp 281-297.
- Fayers, C., Cocklin, C. and Holmes, D., 2000, Environmental considerations in the decisions of Australian investment professionals, Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management , 2(2), pp. 173-201.
- Scott, K., Park, J. and Cocklin, C., 2000, From sustainable rural communities to social sustainability, Journal of Rural Studies, 16(4), pp. 433-446.
- Cocklin, C. and Keen, M., 2000, Urbanisation in the Pacific: Environmental change, vulnerability and human security, Environmental Conservation, 27(4), pp. 411-422.
- Hain, M and Cocklin, C., 2001, The effectiveness of the courts in achieving the goals of environment protection legislation, Environmental and Planning Law Journal, 18(3), pp 319-338.
- Mills, J., Cocklin, C., Fayers, C. and Holmes, D., 2001, Sustainability, socially responsible investment and outlook of investment professionals in Australia, Greener Management International, 33 (Spring), pp 31-44.
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J., 2002, Taking stock: farmers reflections on the deregulation of Australian dairying, Australian Geographer, 33(1), pp. 29-42.
- Hain, M., Cocklin, C. and Gibbs, D., 2002, Regulating biosciences: the Gene Technology Act 2000, Environmental and Planning Law Journal 19(3), pp 163-179.
- Park, J., Scott, K., Cocklin, C. and Davis, P., 2002, The moral life of trees: production forestry in Northland, New Zealand, Journal of Anthropological Research, 58(4), pp.521-544.
- Barlow, K. and Cocklin, C., 2003, Reconstructing rurality and community: plantation forestry in Victoria, Australia, Journal of Rural Studies, 19(4), pp 503-519.
c) Book Chapters
- Cocklin, C., 1999, Islands in the midst: environmental change, vulnerability and security in the Pacific. In S. Lonergan (ed.) Environmental Change, Adaptation, and Security , pp. 141-159. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Cocklin, C., Blunden, B. and Davis, P., 2000, Sustainable resource management: Views from Northlands paddocks. In A. Memon and H. Perkins (eds.), Environmental Planning and Management in New Zealand (2 nd ed.), pp. 168-176. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
- Davis, P. and Cocklin, C., 2000, Who pays? Habitat protection on private land. In J. Craig, N. Mitchell and D. Saunders (eds.), Nature Conservation 5: Nature Conservation in Production Environments Managing the Matrix , pp. 468-479. Sydney: Surrey Beatty & Sons.
- Scott, K. and Cocklin, C., 2001, Interpreting environment and sustainability in rural Northland, New Zealand. In S. Lockie and W. Pritchard (eds.) Consuming Foods, Sustaining Environments , pp. 97-109. Brisbane: Australian Academic Press.
- Lewis, N., Moran, W. and Cocklin, C., 2002, Restructuring, regulation and sustainability. In I. Bowler, C. Bryant and C. Cocklin (eds.) The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical Interpretations . Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer.
- Cocklin, C., 2002, Water and cultural security. In E. Page and M. Redclift (eds), Human Security and the Environment: International Comparisons. London: Edward Elgar.
- Cocklin, C. and Dibden, J., 2002, Deregulating the Australian dairy industry. In P. Holland, F. Stephenson and A. Wearing (eds.), 2001, Geography A Spatial Odyssey . Proceedings of the 3rd NZGS/IAG Joint Conference, New Zealand Geographical Society, Hamilton, New Zealand. pp. 356-362.
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C., 2003, Tarra, Victoria. In C. Cocklin and M. Alston (eds.) Community Sustainability in Rural Australia: A Question of Capital? pp. 170-201. Wagga Wagga, NSW : Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University.
- Cocklin, C., 2005, Natural capital and the sustainability of rural communities. In C. Cocklin and J. Dibden (eds.), Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia , pp. 171-191. Sydney: UNSW Press.
- Tagar, E. and Cocklin, C. Offsetting the disadvantages of smallness: promoting green entrepreneurs through industry clusters. In M. Schaper (ed.) Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship . UK : Ashgate (forthcoming, 2005).
- Borsky, S., Arbelaez-Ruiz, D., Cocklin, C. and Holmes, D. International trends in socially-responsible investment: implications for corporate managers. In D. Annadale, D. Marinova and J. Phillimore (eds.), International Handbook on Environmental Technology Management. London: Edward Elgar (forthcoming).
- Little, L. and Cocklin, C. The vulnerability of urban slum dwellers to global environmental change. In R. Matthews, N. Gleditsch and D. Giannikopoulus (eds.) Global Environmental Change and Human Security . Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (forthcoming).
- Dibden, J. and Cocklin, C. Sustainability and agri-environmental governance. In V. Higgins and G. Lawrence (eds.), Agricultural Governance: Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation. London: Routledge (forthcoming).
- Towns, B. and Cocklin, C., Triple bottom line (TBL) reporting and strategic change in higher education. In D. Carpenter and W. Leal (eds.) Advances in Sustainability in Australasian Universities . Bern: Peter Lang Publishing Group (forthcoming).
- Little, L. and Cocklin, C. Environment and human security. In J. Pretty, A. Ball, T. Benton, J. Guivant, D. Lee, D. Orr, M. Pfeffer and H. Ward (eds.) Sage Handbook on Environment and Society . UK : Sage (forthcoming).
Address
- Room Number : S215 Menzies Building
- Phone Number: +61-3-99052926
- Chris.cocklin@arts.monash.edu.au