Resource Management

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This area of research covers technological development and systems based solutions for natural resource use and management. To remain sustainable and competitive, a concerted effort is urgently required to provide integrated, cost-effective and practical solutions to remediate, maintain and enhance the natural resource base and primary products.

ISR places particular emphasis on addressing water, energy supply and demand and resource-use efficiency in all sectors – integrating technical, socio-economic and policy dimensions.

Work in this area is addressed at both a macro and micro level and includes the use of advanced technologies in natural resource management and the effective use and re-use of resources in natural, urban and developed environments. State-of-the-art predictive modelling, advanced computational methods and scenario development are significant research tools.

The components of Sugar Research and Innovation now form part of QUT provide particular strengths in areas related to bio-processing and refining, bio-fuels, and bio-commodities

• Climate Change
• Water Systems
• Environmental Banking
• Biosecurity
• Energy Systems

Examples of current projects and core capacity with the ISR in these areas include:

• Carbon trading
• Environmental offsets
• Bio-fuel and biocommodity production
• Climate change and agricultural productivity
• Water saving technologies in natural and urban environments
• Greenhouse gas emissions from sub-tropical terrestrial systems
• Greenhouse gas emissions and the cotton industry
• Mitigating climate change through agricultural interventions
• Predicting urban spread and minimisation of impacts on natural capital
• Global change characteristics and implications on regional, national and international biodiversity
• Biotechnical applications for improved agricultural productivity
• Bio-remediation of contaminants
• Quarantine and bio-security
• Peri-urban land uses and development
• Long-term ecological research
• Climate change, emergent law, liabilities and markets

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