Embedding net zero carbon emissions in Northern Australia
Embedding net zero carbon emissions in Northern Australia
About the Project
Led by Associate Professor Timothy Neale from the Alfred Deakin Institute (ADI), the project aims to explore how people in Northern Australia view the local, national and global value of large net zero carbon emissions projects. This project plans to generate new knowledge on how local social factors shape the embedding of the net zero paradigm in place through industrial infrastructures, including insights into how climate change policy agendas are normatively evaluated at a local scale.
This project looks to provide significant benefits by highlighting potential challenges and opportunities to government, industry and others and allowing for improved success and planning capacity, as well as reducing negative effects in future net zero implementation.
Project Team
Associate Professor Timothy Neale (lead)
Anthropologist and STS scholar whose research addresses two overlapping fields of inquiry. The first focuses on the politics of settler and Indigenous relations to lands and waters, and the second examines natural hazards and disasters with a particular interest in the social and cultural life of their technical infrastructures.
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences and the co-convener of the Philosophy and History of Ideas research group.
Social anthropologist and ethnographer interested in the social and ethical aspects of energy production and consumption in Australia.
Her work is situated at the intersection of economic and environmental anthropology, with a particular interest in the anthropology of energy, climate change, and transition.
Deputy Head of School (Research), of the School of Humanities and Languages, UNSW. Member of the UNSW Environment and Society group, with research and teaching in the Environmental Humanities and the Geographical Studies programmes.
Anthropologist who is interested in organisational ethnography, the study of policy and bureaucracy, and Indigenous endurance under ongoing settler occupation. These concerns are angles to also understand conditions of the present and future challenges, such as global boiling.
Associate Professor Gisa Weszkalnys
Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Project Details
Project Start Date: 1 January 2025
Project End Date: 31 December 2027
Project Funding: This project is funded by the Australian Research Council under the 2025 Discovery Project Scheme ($406,298)