Dr Carina Wyborn
Areas of expertise
- Environmental Management 050205
- Human Geography 1604
- Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology 160808
- Sociological Methodology And Research Methods 160807
- Environmental Politics 160605
- Environment Policy 160507
- Environmental Sociology 160802
- Conservation And Biodiversity 050202
- Natural Resource Management 050209
Research interests
- Science, politics and policy of environmental futures
- Co-production of science, policy and society
- Foresight, futures thinking
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Adaptive and anticipatory governance
Biography
Carina is an interdisciplinary social scientist with background in science and technology studies, and human ecology. She works at the intersection of science, policy, and practice, where she is interested in understanding how decisions are made in complex and contested environmental management challenges. Carina is particularly interested in the capacities that enable future-oriented decision making, and the methods and practice that are used to support decision-making in the context of uncertainty. After completing her PhD at the ANU in 2012, Carina has worked internationally, in the United States, Colombia and Switzerland, working with government and non-government organisations on climate adaptation, wildfire governance, and biodiversity conservation. Carina holds an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award, which involves research on foresight practices and anticipatory governance to identify methods that enable stakeholders to negotiate shared pathways for action in water reform in the Murray Darling Basin.
Researcher's projects
- Foresight in times of disruption: Advancing the theory and practice of adaptive governance in the Murray Darling Basin (2020-2023)
- Biodiversity Revisited (2018-2020)
- Co-Management of Wildfire Risk Transmission (2017-ongoing)
Current student projects
- Narratives of climate adaptation for future-oriented conservation (Claudia Munera, PhD Candidate, ANU)
- How keystone actors influence social-ecological system governance after severe disturbance (Amber Datta, PhD candidate, University of Montana/James Cook University)
Past student projects
- The role of uncertainty in determining the Murray Darling Basin Sustainable Diversion Limites (Leila Noble, Honours, ANU)
- Organizational influence on the co-producton of fire science for management application (Evora Glenn, Masters, University of Montana)
Publications
- Bednarek, A. T., Wyborn, C., Cvitanovic, C., Meyer, R., Colvin, R. M., Addison, P. F. E., Close, S. L., Curran, K., Farooque, M., Goldman, E., Hart, D., Mannix, H., McGreavy, B., Parris, A., Posner, S., Robinson, C., Ryan, M., Leith, P. 2018. Boundary spanning at the science–policy interface: the practitioners’ perspectives. Sustainability Science. doi:10.1007/s11625-018-0550-9.
- Fazey, I, Schapke, N, Caniglia, G et al 2018, 'Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research', Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 40, pp. 54-70pp.
- Wyborn, C 2015, 'Co-productive governance: A relational framework for adaptive governance', Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions, vol. 30, pp. 56-67.
- Wyborn, C & Bixler, R 2013, 'Collaboration and nested environmental governance: Scale dependency, scale framing, and cross-scale interactions in collaborative conservation', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 123, pp. 58-67.
- Wyborn, C, Jellinek, S & Cooke, B 2012, 'Negotiating multiple motivations in the science and practice of ecological restoration', Ecological Management and Restoration, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 249-253.
- Wyborn, C 2011, 'Landscape scale ecological connectivity: Australian survey and rehearsals', Pacific Conservation Biology, vol. 17, no. 1-2, pp. 121-131.
- Cleland, D & Wyborn, C 2010, 'A Reflective Lens: Applying Critical Systems Thinking and Visual Methods to Ecohealth Research', EcoHealth, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 414-424.
- Wyborn, C & Cleland, D 2010, 'Fences and Windows: Using Visual Methods to Explore Conflicts in Land and Seascape Management', in Valerie Brown, John Harris, Jacqueline Russell (ed.), Tackling Wicked Problems: Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London, UK and Washington DC, USA, pp. 161-170.
- Wyborn, C 2009, 'Managing change or changing management: climate change and human use in Kosciuszko National Park', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 16, pp. 208-217.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Foresight: Anticipatory decision-making in water resource management (Primary Investigator)
- Wildlife corridor projects and initiatives (Compendium and socio-economic factors) (Primary Investigator)
- Mainstreaming climate adaptation into nature conservation management and policy. (Primary Investigator)
- Cross-tenure landscape management (Primary Investigator)
