STAFF PROFILE
Dr Ben Cooke
Position:
Lecturer Sustainability and Urban Planning
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
Global, Urban and Social Studies
Phone:
+61 3 9925 9943
Email:
ben.cooke@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Ben is a human geographer with a broad interest in the socio-ecological dynamics of conservation and a commitment to praxis-based pedagogy in environmental studies.
I am a lecturer based in the Bachelor of Environment and Society Program who has conducted extensive research into the practice and policy of private land conservation in Australia. My current work is focused on questions of equity, justice and property around urban greening, as well as the application of market-based instruments to leverage conservation outcomes.
Research interests include:
- Geography of human-environment relations
- Politics of urban greening
- Private land conservation practice and policy
- Nonhuman agency
- Qualitative research methods
- Interdisciplinary environmental research
Teaching responsibilities include:
- ENVI1049 - Environment Assessment, Monitoring and Systems
- ENVI1062 - Client Based Research
- ENVI1128 - Environmental Management Systems and Tools
- ENVI1213 - Sustainability Strategies (capstone)
By appointment
- BEnvSc (Deakin University) - 2005
- BA (Hons) (Monash University) - 2006
- PhD (RMIT University) - 2013
Local Government Environmental Planner
Consultancy work for private land conservation agencies
Teaching and research collaborations with the policy, NGO and community sector
- Cooke, B. (2017). The co-presence of past and future in the practice of environmental management: Implications for rural-amenity landscapes In: Nature Temporality and Environmental Management Scandinavian and Australian Perspectives on Peoples and Landscapes, Taylor and Francis Group, New York, United States
- Torabi, N.,Cooke, B.,Bekessy, S. (2016). The role of social networks and trusted peers in promoting biodiverse carbon plantings In: Australian Geographer, 47, 139 - 156
- Cooke, B.,West, S.,Boonstra, W. (2016). Dwelling in the biosphere: Exploring an embodied human-environment connection in resilience thinking In: Sustainability Science, 11, 831 - 843
- Selinske, M.,Cooke, B.,Torabi, N.,Hardy, M.,Knight, A.,Bekessy, S. (2016). Locating financial incentives among diverse motivations for long-term private land conservation In: Ecology and Society, 22, 1 - 10
- Cooke, B.,Lane, R. (2015). How do amenity migrants learn to be environmental stewards of rural landscapes? In: Landscape and Urban Planning, 134, 43 - 52
- Cooke, B.,Lane, R. (2015). Re-thinking rural-amenity ecologies for environmental management in the Anthropocene In: Geoforum, 65, 232 - 242
- Cooke, B.,Moon, K. (2015). Aligning 'public good' environmental stewardship with the landscape-scale: Adapting MBIs for private land conservation policy In: Ecological Economics, 114, 152 - 158
- Cooke, B.,Langford, W.,Gordon, A.,Bekessy, S. (2012). Social context and the role of collaborative policy making for private land conservation In: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 55, 469 - 485
- Wyborn, C.,Jellinek, S.,Cooke, B. (2012). Negotiating multiple motivations in the science and practice of ecological restoration In: Ecological Management and Restoration, 13, 249 - 253
Human-environment relationships, Time and environment management, Rural-amenity migration and changing rural landscapes, Private land conservation policy, Environmental stewardship as concept and policy.
2 PhD Current Supervisions