Project Details
Project Description
ARC Discovery Project
Conflict over environments, resources and landscapes has become a feature of contemporary political life. Increasingly, these conflicts are articulated, negotiated and potentially resolved across national boundaries and complex networks of media and communications. In the context of intensifying pressure for resource access, market opportunities and changing media practices in Australia and the Asian region, it is critical to examine how competing environmental claims are mediated, and how this mediation influences public debate, policy and market viability. Providing evidence-based analysis of transnational conflicts as they emerge and travel, this project is expected to inform debate on Australia's environmental and economic sustainability.
Outcome Statement:
The project revealed new ways in which environmental conflicts occur in the Australia-Asian region, impacting regional communities, businesses and industries, diplomatic relations, and international markets. Supported by original evidence gathered through case studies of forestry, aquaculture and mining, and fieldwork in Australia, Japan, Malaysia and China, it showed how resource industries become the focus of protest activity through complex organisational networks and fast-changing media platforms and practices. It identified key moments in industrial expansion that lead to conflict and potential loss of social licence to operate. Outcomes include 2 books, 2 PhDs, 2 symposia, 2 keynotes, 12 articles and chapters, and media commentary.
Conflict over environments, resources and landscapes has become a feature of contemporary political life. Increasingly, these conflicts are articulated, negotiated and potentially resolved across national boundaries and complex networks of media and communications. In the context of intensifying pressure for resource access, market opportunities and changing media practices in Australia and the Asian region, it is critical to examine how competing environmental claims are mediated, and how this mediation influences public debate, policy and market viability. Providing evidence-based analysis of transnational conflicts as they emerge and travel, this project is expected to inform debate on Australia's environmental and economic sustainability.
Outcome Statement:
The project revealed new ways in which environmental conflicts occur in the Australia-Asian region, impacting regional communities, businesses and industries, diplomatic relations, and international markets. Supported by original evidence gathered through case studies of forestry, aquaculture and mining, and fieldwork in Australia, Japan, Malaysia and China, it showed how resource industries become the focus of protest activity through complex organisational networks and fast-changing media platforms and practices. It identified key moments in industrial expansion that lead to conflict and potential loss of social licence to operate. Outcomes include 2 books, 2 PhDs, 2 symposia, 2 keynotes, 12 articles and chapters, and media commentary.
| Status | Finished |
|---|---|
| Effective start/end date | 1/01/15 → 31/12/19 |