DipBusStud, BSocSci, MA, PhD

Professor Cocklin was appointed to the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and IT at JCU in February 2007. Prior to that he was employed at Monash University, where he served for four years as Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Science and for five years as Director of the Monash Environment Institute.

His research and teaching interests are inresources and environmental policy, agriculture and rural communities, global environmental change, urban water governance, sustainable development, and corporate environmental management. Professor Cocklin currently holds an ARC Discovery Project for the project ‘From Productivism to Multifunctionality: Agri-environmental Governance in Australia and the United Kingdom.’ He is also co-investigator, with Dr Rebekah Brown (Monash University), on the ARC Linkage Project ‘Sustainable Urban Water Governance: Institutional Development and Organisational Change.’

Professor Cocklin is a board member of the Australian Tropical Herbarium, AIMS@JCU, and the Tropical Landscapes Joint Venture. He is also a member of the Water Quality and the Great Barrier Reef Steering Committees of the Marine and Tropical Science Research Facility (MTSRF). In 2004 he was appointed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a Lead Author of the Fourth Assessment Report. Professor Cocklin previously served as a member of the Board of Greening Australia (Vic), the Victorian Catchment Management Council, and the Australian Academy of Science National Sustainability Committee. Other appointments have included the Scientific Planning Committee, Global Environmental Change and Human Security (GECHS) Project of the International Human Dimensions of Global Change Programme (IHDP) and Chair of the Australian Eco-share Fund/Sustainability Fund Advisory Committee (on behalf of Westpac Investment Management and Monash University) and as a member of the Board of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).

Over the course of his career, Professor Cocklin has published approximately 190 articles, books, research monographs, technical reports and reviews. His most recent books are The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical Interpretations (edited with I. Bowler and C. Bryant, Kluwer, 2002) and Sustainability and Change in Rural Australia (edited with J. Dibden, UNSW Press, 2005). For a list of other recent publications, click here. He has delivered approximately 120 papers to professional conferences and meetings, including 30 invited/keynote addresses.

In addition to his current position at JCU, he holds the position of Honorary Professor in Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University.