Research Units
Research Centres
CASPI brings together researchers from across the university working on climate change. This is a list of the research centres, schools and departments at the University of Melbourne that are working in areas relevant to climate science, policy and adaptation.
- Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society
- Australasian Centre for Governance and Management of Urban Transport
- Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis
- Centre for Automotive Research and Testing
- CRC for Spatial Information
- Centre for Energy and Resources Law
- Centre for Environmental Applied Hydrology
- eWater CRC
- Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research
- CRC for Irrigation Futures
- Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development
- Forest and Ecosystem Science Institute
- Melbourne Water Research Centre (MWRC)
- Bushfire CRC
Research Areas of Faculties/Departments
Architecture, Building and Planning
- Creativity and Sustainable Development
- Cities and Ecologically Sustainable Development
- Housing and Ecologically Sustainable Development
Arts
School of Philosophy, Anthropology, & Social Inquiry
Economics and Commerce
Relevant research topics include:
- Environmental Economics
- Risk Management
Engineering
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Department of Geomatics
- Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Land and Food Resources
- School of Agriculture and Food Resources
- Crop Production
- Sustainability of Agriculture
- Crop Improvement
- Drought
- Irrigation
- Drought Resistance and Water Use Efficiency
- Pasture and Grassland Ecology
- Grazing Management
- Sustainability of Grazing Systems
- School of Forest and Ecosystem Science
- School of Resource Management and Geography
Law
- Resource Law and Regulation
- Land and Water Rights