Mr Brett Bennett

Brett M. Bennett is a Lecturer in Modern History and an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow from 2011 to 2013. Currently, he is completing the ARC-Funded Saving the World the First Time (co-authored with Gregory A. Barton). He has published widely in leading peer-reviewed international journals and has been featured in numerous national and international media outlets including ABC National Radio?s The Science Show, The Australian, The Canberra Times and The Times Higher Education Supplement. In the medium-term (2-5 years), he is pursuing research projects on the global history of the world's forests. He is developing ways to use history as an applied social science and scientific methodology to improve development and environmental management decision-making, particularly in regions surrounding the Indian Ocean. To this end, he is collaborating with the American forestry scientist Dr Jeff Wright to use historical records of experimental forest trials to help assess how climate change might influence the future planting of Australian trees in Australia and around the world. He is working with Dr Fred J. Kruger, former director of the South African Forestry Research Institute, on this project and also to assess potential biodiversity management policies that incorporate the theory of convergent evolution. He is also collaborating with Barton, Kruger and Wright to edit a book on the history of forestry in South Africa for a series he co-edits with Barton, ?World Forest History?, published by the ANU E-Press.

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