Forest and environmental governance. This research includes work on forest practices, Indigenous Australians and forestry, market-based mechanisms such as forest certification and REDD+, and wood legality verification;
planted forest policy, including farm-scale tree growing within the context of the farm enterprise, and societal development and sustainability objectives. This work includes ACIAR-supported research in Lao PDR and Vietnam, with precursors in Australia and globally; and work with The Forest Dialogue's Tree Plantations in the Landscape initiative;
education in forestry, environment and society, and sustainability.