PhD Scholar
Affiliated student with the CRC for Forestry
Assessing socio-economic impacts of closure of native forest to timber harvest
E-mail: edwina.loxton@anu.edu.au

Forest and Wood Products Australia scholarship holder

My research interests focus on the social impacts (both negative and positive) of environmental management policy and decision making processes. This research area interests me because environmental management is highly influenced by people's behaviour, values and priorities.

My PhD project will assess the socio-economic impacts that have occurred due to changed access to native forest for timber harvesting. In particular, I will explore the social affects of the Regional Forest Agreement Process, which produced a twenty year agreement between Federal and State governments concerning the management of native forests.

Prior to beginning my PhD in 2008, I completed Honours in Bach. of Science (Resource and Environmental Management), also at ANU. My Honours project explored the participation of Indigenous people in the forest industry.