Associate Professor Ben Cooke is a human geographer who teaches in the Sustainability and Urban Planning discipline group at RMIT.
Ben’s research interests focus on the social and political dimensions of nature conservation, land management and environmental governance. This interest encompasses urban natures, protected area conservation, human-environment relations and cultural landscape management.
Ben’s research projects are exploring the history, politics and futures of protected areas for conservation in Australia, emergent conflicts and tensions in urban greening and the potential of new governance relationships that recognise First Nations sovereignty and self-determination over private conservation lands.
