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Email

simonpjb@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor in Environmental Studies
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Education
PhD
Clark University
Masters (Research)
Clark University
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
The University of Reading

University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0002-2801-7483

Prof Simon Batterbury

Professor in Environmental Studies
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

157 Scholarly works
5 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Book Chapter

    Prefiguring Consumption Reduction in Shadow Networks: Recirculating Resources, Knowledge, and Skills in Urban Tool Libraries and Community Bike Workshops
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-07395-2_4
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Publishing in political ecology: Rethinking Unequal Relationships and Social Justice
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003430995-26
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Degrowth Urban Transitions: A Tool Library Case Study in Australia
    DOI: 10.3138/jccpe-2024-0056
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    Integrating Indigenous Learning for Holistic Approaches in Teacher Education
    DOI: 10.4324/9781003536406-16
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Against book enclosures: Moving towards more diverse, humane and accessible book publishing
    DOI: 10.1111/area.12916
  • 2025

    Report

    Critical Raw Materials: Seven key questions on mining for the energy transition
    DOI: 10.25365/phaidra.671
  • 2020

    Journal article

    The geopolitical ecology of New Caledonia: territorial re-ordering, mining, and Indigenous economic development
    DOI: 10.2458/v27i1.23812
Simon Batterbury

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2023
tenable 2024 British Academy Visiting Fellowship
2019
Outstanding Graduate student Supervisor, Uni Melb, 2019
2007
James Martin Fellowship, James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford, Jul 07-Jan 08. University of Oxford
2002
Visiting Professor, Intl' Development, Roskilde University, Denmark. Sept-Dec. 2002. Roskilde University

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Not in my backyard? Prospects, problems and perceptions of lithium extraction in Austria
    DOI: 10.1186/s13705-025-00521-3
  • 2025

    Book Chapter

    The chequered history of scholar-led OA: Doing it and supporting it
    DOI: 10.17613/x1tsq-3gt95
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Community bike workshops in Australia: increasing demand for cycling through mutual aid
    DOI: 10.5507/tots.2024.023
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Book review of Nicole George. (2025). Between Rights and Rightfulness: Gender and violence in the Pacific Islands
    DOI: 10.26021/16135

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2011

    Research Contracts

    Nickel Mining and Local Governance in New Caledonia
  • 2009

    Research Grant

    Enhancing Social Transformation Processes as a Climate Change Response to Foster More Sustainable Livelihood
  • 2008

    Research Grant

    Livelihoods, Land and Poverty in Post-Conflict East Timor
  • Research Grant

    Climate Impacts on Remote Indigenous Australians in Northern Australia

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