Rodney Keenan

PF Olsen PhD project

2020 - 2024

CSP – Maximising co-benefits of trees on farms

2021 - 2024

Assessment the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on smallholder teak wood industry and their livelihoods in Laos

2021 - 2022

Developing exploitation factors associated with annual allowable cut in timber concessions in Papua New Guinea

2021 - 2022

Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Systems and Management

IMPROVING POLICIES FOR FOREST PLANTATIONS TO MEET COMMUNITY, INDUSTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS IN LAO PDR

2016 - 2020

Completed

53

Projects

Project Types

41

Research Contracts

11

Research Grant

1

Internal Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 149 for Rodney Keenan.

Potential for forest thinning to reduce risk and increase resilience to wildfire in Australian temperate Eucalyptus forests

Rodney J Keenan, Christopher J Weston, Liubov Volkova

Journal article | 2021 | Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health

Unprecedented wildfires in south-eastern Australia in 2019–2020 focused attention on forest management to reduce their risks and i..

The potential impacts of climate change on the distribution of key tree species and Cordyceps in Bhutan: Implications for ecological functions and rural livelihoods

Kunzang Choden, Craig R Nitschke, Stephen B Stewart, Rodney J Keenan

Journal article | 2021 | ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Rural communities in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan are dependant on natural capital for their livelihoods. Climate change impact..

Lao Plantation Policy: Prospects for Change

Hilary Smith, Peter Kanowski, Rodney J Keenan, Somvang Phimmavong

Journal article | 2021 | FORESTS

Policies to promote tree plantations in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic have been developed since independence to support nat..

No evidence that timber harvesting increased the scale or severity of the 2019/20 bushfires in south-eastern Australia

RJ Keenan, P Kanowski, PJ Baker, C Brack, T Bartlett, K Tolhurst

Journal article | 2021 | AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

In the summer of 2019/20, bushfires of unprecedented scale in south-eastern Australia focused attention on how forest management m..

The severity and extent of the Australia 2019-20 Eucalyptus forest fires are not the legacy of forest management

David MJS Bowman, Grant J Williamson, Rebecca K Gibson, Ross A Bradstock, Rodney J Keenan

Journal article | 2021 | NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The 2019-20 wildfires in eastern Australia presented a globally important opportunity to evaluate the respective roles of climatic..

The evolution of community forestry through the growth of interlinked community institutions in Java, Indonesia

Heni Kurniasih, Rebecca M Ford, Rodney J Keenan, Barbara King

Journal article | 2021 | WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Devolving governance from the state to local communities is an increasing trend in forest and natural resource management. Effecti..

Spatial Assessment of Ecosystem Services from Planted Forests in Central Vietnam

Kiran Paudyal, Yusuf B Samsudin, Himlal Baral, Beni Okarda, Tan Phuong Vu, Shyam Paudel, Rodney J Keenan

Journal article | 2020 | Forests

Globally, planted forests are increasing, providing increased resources to forest industries and ecosystem services (ES) to local ..

An approach for assessing adaptive capacity to climate change in resource dependent communities in the Nikachu watershed, Bhutan

Kunzang Choden, Rodney J Keenan, Craig R Nitschke

Journal article | 2020 | ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Vulnerability to climate change is a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Econometric and indicator-based appr..

A typology of community forestry approaches in Indonesia: implications for external support to forest communities

H Kurniasih, RM Ford, RJ Keenan, BJ King

Journal article | 2020 | INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY REVIEW

Community-based management is an increasingly important form of governance and control of forests and other natural resources. In ..

Learning through practice? Learning from the REDD plus demonstration project, Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP) in Indonesia

Anna JP Sanders, Rebecca M Ford, Rodney J Keenan, Anne M Larson

Journal article | 2020 | LAND USE POLICY

Despite a growing recognition of the importance of social learning in governing and managing land use, the understanding and pract..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Forestry Sciences

Environmental Management

Expanding Knowledge

Forestry

Applied Economics

Terrestrial Systems and Management

Adaptation To Climate Change

Climate Change Science

Ecological Applications

News

Displaying the 10 most recent news articles from 19 for Rodney Keenan.

Planting timber forests on Australian farms

Rodney Keenan, Nerida Anderson

Australia’s catastrophic bushfires earlier this year may seem like a long time ago now as focus has shifted to the COVID-19 pandemic, but th..

April 23, 2020

Forest thinning is controversial, but it shouldn’t be ruled out for managing bushfires

Rod Keenan, Chris Weston, Luba Volkova

Prescribed burning in thinned silver top ash forest. Forest thinning should be one way we tackle fire management and forest resilience, but ..

January 19, 2020

There's only one way to make bushfires less powerful: take out the stuff that burns

Rod Keenan

Hazard reduction burns reduce bushfire fuel loads, but the current approach is not working. Mick Tsikas/AAPAs monstrous blazes overwhelm Aus..

January 6, 2020

Where’s the proof internet voting is secure?

Vanessa Teague

Victoria’s Electoral Commissioner, Warwick Gately AM, says that Victoria should legislate to allow Internet voting because “there is an inev..

August 25, 2019

Ten years ago, climate adaptation research was gaining steam. Today, it's gutted

Rod Keenan

Ten years ago, on February 7, 2009, I sat down in my apartment in central Melbourne to write a job application. All of the blinds were down,..

February 6, 2019

Making surgery safe in Mongolia

Amanda Baric, David Pescod

For decades, anaesthesia training in Mongolia has been neglected. As recently as the 1980s there was limited formal academic training for an..

May 28, 2018

Planting trees for the Earth

Rodney Keenan, Patrick Baker

Tree-planting campaigns generally bring to mind open fields and children in school uniforms jabbing saplings into two inches of dirt. But i..

April 21, 2016

Seeds of hope lie in forests

Rodney Keenan

Forests should be at the core of any climate change discussion because they are irrefutably part of the solution.So it’s good news to see th..

January 20, 2016

Forest loss has halved in the past 30 years, latest global update shows

Rod Keenan

Forests are vital to life on earth. Forest image from www.shutterstock.comForest loss has halved over the past 30 years according to the 201..

September 7, 2015

A great big new forest park won't save Leadbeater's possum

Rod Keenan

The recent change to the conservation status of Leadbeater’s possum from endangered to critically endangered has renewed calls for an extend..

May 18, 2015