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About

Professor Stewart Lockie began his research career investigating the evolution and impacts of environmental policy in agriculture. This has since been extended to studies of biodiversity conservation, environmental standards, markets in ecosystem services, food security, coastal management, resource development, management of natural and industrial hazards etc.

Professor Lockie’s work is multidisciplinary, high impact and focussed on critical issues associated with global social and environmental change.

Professor Lockie is involved in numerous leadership activities both within and external to the University. He is immediate past President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Environment and Society and a member of the International Council for Science’s Committee for Scientific Planning and Review. He is also Foundation Editor of the journal Environmental Sociology.

In 2012, Professor Lockie was elected to fellowship of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Interests

Research

Environmental policy
Natural resource management
Food security
Biodiversity conservation
Natural and industrial hazards
Sustainable development
Climate governance
Social impact assessment

Research Disciplines

Socio-Economic Objectives

Honours

Fellowships

2012 - Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

Publications

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

Pattnaik I, Lahiri-Dutt K, Lockie S and Pritchard B (2018) The feminization of agriculture or the feminization of agrarian distress? Tracking the trajectory of women in agriculture in India. Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 23 (1). pp. 138-155
Wong C and Lockie S (in press) Sociology, risk and the environment: a material-semiotic approach. Journal of Risk Research,
Siddiqui M, Lahiri-Dutt K, Lockie S and Pritchard B (2017) Reconsidering women's work in rural India: analysis of NSSO data, 2004–05 and 2011–12. Economic and Political Weekly, 52 (1). pp. 45-52
Boström M, Jönsson A, Lockie S, Mol A and Oosterveer P (2015) Sustainable and responsible supply chain governance: challenges and opportunities. Journal of Cleaner Production, 107. pp. 1-7
Lockie S, Travero J and Tennent R (2015) Private food standards, regulatory gaps and plantation agriculture: social and environmental (ir)responsibility in the Philippine export banana industry. Journal of Cleaner Production, 107. pp. 122-129

Book Chapters

Boström M, Davidson D and Lockie S (2018) Conclusions: a proposal for a brave new world of conceptual reflexivity. In: Environment and Society: concepts and challenges. Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sociology and Policy. Palgrave McMillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 351-374
Lockie S and Wong C (2018) Conflicting temporalities of social and environmental change. In: Environment and Society: concepts and challenges. Palgrave and Macmillan, London, UK, pp. 327-350
Lockie S and Wong C (2017) Risk, sustainability and time: sociological perspectives. In: Social Science and Sustainability. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp. 187-198
McNaughton A and Lockie S (2017) Private actors in multi-level governance: GLOBALG.A.P. standard-setting for agricultural and food products. In: Multi-level Governance: Conceptual Challenges and Case Studies From Australia. ANU Press, Canberra, ACT, Australia, pp. 385-402
Hogan A, Cleary J, Lockie S, Young M and Daniell K (2015) Localism and the policy goal of securing the socio-economic viability of rural and regional Australia. In: Rural and Regional Futures. Routledge, Oxon, UK, pp. 260-281
Lockie S and Ransan-Cooper H (2015) Biodiversity and sustainable development. In: Routledge International Handbook of Sustainable Development. Routledge, Oxon, UK, pp. 123-135
Tennent R and Lockie S (2015) Natural resource management in Australia: a historical summary. In: Rural and Regional Futures. Routledge, Oxon, UK, pp. 71-83

More: ResearchOnline@JCU stores 142+ research outputs authored by Prof Stewart Lockie from 1993 onwards.

Current Funding

Current and recent Research Funding to JCU is shown by funding source and project.

Australian Research Council - Discovery Indigenous

Knowledge Integration for Torres Strait Sustainability

Indicative Funding: $387,811 over 3 years
Summary: This project aims to support sustainable development in the Torres Strait through the development of practical, locally-relevant strategies for collating, generating and integrating knowledge relevant to the management of intersecting social, economic and environmental challenges. The project seeks to generate new knowledge about how Torres Strait Islander people construct the idea of sustainable development by integrating participatory and quantitative methodologies to support research evaluation and decision-making in a way that supports community aspirations. The expected outcomes include enhanced capacity of Torres Strait Islander people to effectively seek the knowledge that is most useful in their decision-making for sustainability.
Investigators: Felecia Watkin, Stewart Lockie and Natalie Stoeckl in collaboration with Sanchia Shibasaki and Cass Hunter (Indigenous Education & Research Centre, The Lowitja Institute, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation, Cairns Institute and Division of Tropical Environments & Societies)
Keywords: Torres Strait; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; knowledge integration; knowledge translation

Department of the Environment and Energy - National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) - Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub

Regional Queensland Coordinator for NESP Northern Hub

Indicative Funding: $300,000 over 3 years
Summary: The role of the NESP Regional Queensland Coordinator is to: Help coordinate meetings and engagement within the region (Currently have a least four projects operating in the Cape/Mitchell/Gulf area); Organise workshops or briefings (plus conference displays or sessions) to communicate project outputs; Work with the communications team in Darwin to prepare project level communications materials; Help with negotiating research agreements with Indigenous communities if they are needed; Be a point of liaison for the Hub with regional stakeholders i.e.. NRM groups, Indigenous, Industry.
Investigators: Stewart Lockie (Cairns Institute)
Keywords: Traditional Owners; Land Management

Department of Industry, Innovation and Science - Contract Research

Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program Design Phase

Indicative Funding: $176,500 over 2 years (administered by AIMS)
Summary: The RRAP Design Phase seeks to deliver a business case for government, industry and private investment, the primary objective of which is to develop reef restoration and adaptation technologies that can be applied at scale, within affordability and practicality limits, to retain key functional attributes of the Great Barrier Reef. This project will contribute JCU expertise to evaluating coral restoration methods, undertaking regulatory and institutional environment mapping required for restoration to occur and an analysis of the viewpoints and engagement of stakeholders in reef restoration.
Investigators: Ian McLeod, Maxine Newlands and Stewart Lockie (TropWATER, College of Arts, Society & Education and Cairns Institute)
Keywords: Great Barrier Reef; Reef Restoration

Department of Environment and Heritage Protection - Tender

Coordination and capacity-building: Communities in transition

Indicative Funding: $315,339 over 2 years (administered by University of Southern Queensland)
Summary: This project will implement Action 5.1 of the Queensland Climate Transition Strategy to `Build leadership capacity within communities to develop place-based climate transition roadmaps?. It will build the capacity of key economic community development leaders in six Queensland communities to work with their community to identify and document shared objectives and pathways to a prosperous low-carbon future. Community plane will identify barriers to carbon reduction and/or future socio-economic prosperity and work with partners to overcome these.
Investigators: John Cole, Andrew Chamberlain, Geoffrey Woolcock, Allan Dale, Stewart Lockie, Margaret Gooch and Veronica Doerr in collaboration with Russell Wise, Deborah O'Connell, Yiheyis Maru, Penny Prasad, Don Parry, Jane Gaffel and Nicole Price (University of Southern Queensland, Cairns Institute, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation and The Ecoefficiency Group)
Keywords: Climate change; Zero net emissions; Low carbon economy; Queensland Climate Transition Strategy; Regional prosperity; Climate transition roadmap

Mission Australia - Contract Research

Stronger Together ? Cairns South Early Years Collective Impact Initiative

Indicative Funding: $225,000 over 3 years
Summary: Community Partner Funding: Cairns South and Yarrabah Communities for Children. This project will support the Early Years sector to lead the development of a detailed child development 'agenda' and to establish long-term system improvements that can lead to better support for children and their families in Cairns South.
Investigators: Allan Dale, Stewart Lockie, Fiona Allison and Jennifer McHugh (Cairns Institute)
Keywords: Early years; Socio-economic disadvantage; Cairns South; Collective impact; Yarrabah; Families

Australian Research Council - Discovery - Projects

Farmers of the future: Challenges of a feminised agriculture in India

Indicative Funding: $5,910 over 3 years (administered by ANU)
Summary: Neoliberal economic policies are fundamentally transforming the social landscapes of rural India, causing a deep agrarian crisis. The agrarian changes accentuate the unequal consequences for poor women and women in relation to: production (labour, tenure); livelihood and food security; access to and ownership of assets such as land and water and access to agriculture innovations and institutions. This multiscalar project investigates the causes and consequences of feminisation of agriculture in India's transitioning economy in order to understand how gender roles and relations are being re-shaped in communities and households in diverse socioeconomic and cultural contexts and agro-ecological areas.
Investigators: Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Amita Shah, William Pritchard, Patrick J Kilby and Stewart Lockie (Australian National University, Gujarat Institute of Development Research, The University of Sydney and Cairns Institute)
Keywords: India; Food Security; feminisation; Women; neoliberal economic policy

Australian Research Council - Discovery - Projects

Conflicting temporalities of climate governance: a comparative sociology of policy design and operationalisation in Australia and the UK

Indicative Funding: $237,865 over 3 years
Summary: This research will investigate the ways in which climate governance both reflects and reconstitutes our understanding of the temporal dynamics of anthropogenic climate change. Through a comparative case study of Australia and the UK, the project aims to promote a deeper understanding of potential contradictions between the temporalities of global environmental change and the temporalities of governance strategies developed in response to it: to develop a more sophisticated sociological theorization of the temporalities of socio-ecological change; and to contribute to informed debate in Australia and elsewhere concerning the utility of key conceptual frameworks and policy instruments.
Investigators: Stewart Lockie (Cairns Institute)
Keywords: climate governance; environmental sociology; temporality

Wet Tropics Management Authority - Research Grant

Collecting, cognitioning and capitalising local cultural knowledge for residential and visitor supply and demand: a Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area Traditional Owners rainforest Aboriginal peoples' study - regional overview

Indicative Funding: $1,330
Summary: Visiting the 20 traditional owner groups and 80 legal entities as appropriate: 1. Tape recording discussion about the topic as known within each group; 2. Transcribing the recordings; 3. Appropriately sharin the information with stakeholders (including WTMA) as negotiated with the RAP groups;and 4. Developing a paper on the spread and nature of WTQWHA local Aboriginal cutural tourism products December 2015, finalised February 2016.
Investigators: Stewart Lockie in collaboration with Joann Schmider (Cairns Institute)
Keywords: Indigenous; Wet Tropics; Tourism; Culture

Supervision

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples at the local level - Self-determination (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
From Rural to Digital: A Case Study of Mobile Money in Rural Uganda (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
Country Self-binding to the G20 and Financial Stability Board Reforms for Global Finance: Implications for Policy Negotiations (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM)
The Drivers of Sustainability in Small Communities in Northern Australia (PhD , Advisor Mentor)
A Sociological Exploration of the Digital Nomad Lifestyle and its Influence on how we will Work in Future (PhD , Advisor Mentor)

Completed

Trauma and gender in natural disaster and conflict contexts: a comparative study of Aceh, Indonesia and the Deep South of Thailand (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor)

Collaboration

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