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Professor David Brunckhorst

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Professor David Brunckhorst has worked in various executive management roles within public, private  and research sectors in Australia and Internationally. This work focused on interdisciplinary approaches to integrated  ecological conservation and natural resources management. David was a principal advisor to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on the Environment. His research and applied policy interests include: landscape ecology; bioregional planning and integrated  management; biosphere reserves; multi-scale conservation assessment and planning; and understanding complex social-ecological systems,  nested institutional design for resource governance; local, national and international resource and environmental policy.   Current interests include identification of eco-civic regions for nested governance, planning and natural resource management, alternative landscape futures analysis, institutions for common property resource management, resolution of institutional impediments to ecosystem management and, understanding transformations in social-ecological systems. David is the author of more than 120 scientific papers and 5 books, and editor or co-editor of several others. He is recipient of a UNESCO medal. Current interests include identification of eco-civic regions for nested governance, planning and natural resource management, alternative futures analysis and, understanding transformations in social-ecological systems.

Recent Books

Reinventing the Common: Cross-Boundary Farming for a Sustainable Future

Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium

Recent Articles

Reeve, I. and D. Brunckhorst. 2007. 'Spatially bounded regions for resource governance'. Australasian Journal of Environmental Management.  14: 39-51.

Brunckhorst, D. and Reeve, I., 2006. 'A Geography of Place: principles and application for defining 'eco-civic' resource governance regions', Australian Geographer, 37(2), 147-166.

Brunckhorst, D., Coop, P. and Reeve, I., 2006. ‘'Eco-civic' optimisation: A nested framework for planning and managing landscapes’, Landscape and Urban Planning, 75(2006), 265-281.

Brunckhorst, D.J., 2005. ‘Integration Research for Shaping Sustainable Regional Landscapes’, Journal of Research Practice, 1(2), Article M7.

Lectures and Presentations

Brunckhorst, D.J., 2009.  'Landscapes of property, politics, and place: Understanding "Regions" for conservation actions', College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, USA, September 18th, 2009.