Centre for Development, Environment and Policy

Senior Teaching Fellow, Environmental Management

Name:

Dr Ros Taplin

Email address:

rt33@soas.ac.uk

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7074 5179

Office No:

479

Biography

Ros is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Environmental Management in the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy. She was formerly Research Director, ACSMP, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Head of the Department of Sustainability Science, Bond University, Queensland, Director of the Environmental Management Program, Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University, and Director, Climatic Impacts Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney. Her qualifications include two doctorates in environmental policymaking and environmental art. Ros has contributed to the environmental policy, climate change policy, energy sustainability, environmental art, and education for sustainability literature. She is an enthusiastic and committed interdisciplinary educator and researcher.

Programmes Convened

• MSc/PGDip/PGCert in Environmental Management (2018)

Modules Taught

• Biodiversity, Conservation and Development
• Environmental Assessment
• Environmental Science and Management
• Ethics for Environment and Development
• Research Methods
• Water Resources Management

Modules Taught

• Environmental Assessment
• Environmental Auditing and Environmental Management Systems
• Biodiversity, Conservation and Development
• Environmental Science and Management
• Research Methods
• Dissertation

Approach
Ros’s pedagogical approach is derived from education for sustainability principles.

PhD Students Supervised
Ros has previously supervised 16 PhD students in the areas of climate change policy, sustainable energy policy and environmental assessment.

• Ros has carried out environmental research in areas including: climate change adaptation and mitigation; climate change art; energy access and renewables; mining and resource extraction impacts; forest and biodiversity impacts; and education for sustainability.

• She is currently investigating: ‘Enabling carbon removal: Expert alliances, creative arts visualisations and public involvement to realise Paris Agreement transitions’.

• Her climate change research contribution focuses on the challenges of implementation of effective governance approaches both at the international and domestic levels. Joint papers in 2016-2017 focussed on Cambodia and climate change adaptation work in the water resources and agriculture sectors. Ros’s previous climate change research includes studies on Clean Development Mechanism projects; the role of the Asia-Pacific Partnership; and Australian climate change policy.

• Projects on sustainable energy supply, and renewable energy policy and energy access have included studies of the Pacific Islands developing countries’ situations, south and south-east Asian case studies including the countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Thailand and Vietnam and biofuels exploitative developments in the African countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. Her joint 2015 Global Environmental Change paper looks at regional cooperation on sustainable energy in energy deprived developing country regions globally, and the link of access to energy with poverty alleviation and overall human development and quality of life goals.

• Research on mining and resource extraction impacts includes a Journal of Cleaner Production paper with hydro-geologist and accounting colleagues that looked at voluntary and mandatory sustainability reporting disclosures on water usage in regional Australia and the questionable usefulness of the information for the disempowered local communities that are most impacted by lack of the resource. Also, with co-authors in a Journal of Environmental Management paper, she reflected on mining company use of biodiversity offsets in Australia, Madagascar, Ghana and South Africa and the need for more transparency in evaluation of ‘no net loss’ of biodiversity.

• Ros has been involved in environmental education research using action research methods for more than a decade. In 2015, she was joint investigator of a project, led by University of Newcastle that resulted in the development of Australian national standards for undergraduate and postgraduate environmental education, and was given an Australasian Green Gown Award.

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Available for

• TV
• Radio
• Press
• Special Study Programmes
• Short Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

• Africa
• China and Inner Asia
• Oceania
• South Asia
• South East Asia

Country Expertise

• Australia
• c10

Languages

Authored Books

Phelan, L. and McBain, B. and Ferguson, A. and Brown, P. and Brown, V. and Hay, I. and Horsfield, R. and Taplin, Roslyn (2015) Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability. Sydney, Australia: Office for Learning and Teaching, Government of Australia.

Articles

Va, D. and Bajracharya, B. and Lebel, L. and Regan, M. and Taplin, Roslyn (2016) 'Narrowing gaps between research and policy development in climate change adaptation work in the water resources and agriculture sectors of Cambodia'. Climate Policy, (16) 2, pp 237-252.

Taplin, Roslyn (2014) 'Contemporary Climate Change Art as the Abstract Machine: Ethico-Aesthetics and Futures Orientation'. Leonardo, (47) 5, pp 509-510.

Virah-Sawmy, M. and Ebeling, J. and Taplin, Roslyn (2014) 'Mining and biodiversity offsets: A transparent and science-based approach to measure “no-net-loss”'. Journal of Environmental Management, (143), pp 61-70.

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