Assoc Professor Michael Buxton

Position

Assoc Professor, Environment & Planning

School / Work Unit

Global Studies, Social Science &Planning

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 3039

michael.buxton@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 8
Level: 7
Room: 22

City Campus

Portfolio

Design & Social Context

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Key activities

Associate Professor Michael Buxton joined RMIT in 1998 after 12 years in senior management with Victorian Government Planning and Environment agencies, and with the Victorian Environment Protection Authority. He formerly headed the intergovernmental process for Australia’s National Greenhouse Strategy, the group responsible for the development and implementation of environmental policy in Victoria, and has ten years experience in local government. He is a former lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, and has published extensively on environmental and planning issues.

Michael is also part of a research team carrying out a landmark study of peri-urban regions in two Australian states, Victoria and Queensland. This project Change and Continuity in Peri-Urban Australia will investigate the nature and extent of contemporary peri urban regions in Australia, identify future patterns of socio-economic ,environmental change in peri-urban landscapes; and also develop scenarios for future land use and management based on 'business as usual', interventionist and deregulated options. ‘Change and Continuity in Peri-Urban Australia’ is a collaborative project between Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Griffith University, Brisbane and has been funded by Land and Water Australia.

Qualifications

BA Monash, Dip Ed Monash, BEd Monash, PhD Monash

Research/Scholarship

Research Interests

  • International environmental law and its impact on national policy
  • Greenhouse policy
  • Intergrated transport-land use planning and city planning
  • Fringe area and rural planning
  • Natural resource use

Publications and Reports

A full list of Michael’s publications will be available here soon.