Director: Fenner School of Environment and Society. Chair of Advisory panel for Climate, Energy and Water Linkages (CEWL) project

B.Appl.Sci (Canberra)

B.Letters (ANU)

PhD (ANU)

Professional background.

Steve is Director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, and is associated with the national adaptation research networks in settlements and infrastructure, disasters, and social science. He is Associate Editor of Environmental Science and Policy and the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, and a member of the editorial board of Global Environmental Change.

Research and teaching interests.

Policy and institutional aspects of sustainable development, natural resource management, disaster policy, integrative research design.

Notable publications

Dovers, S. 2009. Normalizing adaptation. Global Environmental Change. 19: 4-6.

Ross, A. and Dovers, S. 2008. Making the harder yards: environmental policy integration in Australia. Australian Journal of Public Administration. 67: 245-60.

Handmer, J. and Dovers, S. 2007. Handbook of disaster and emergency policies and institutions. London: Earthscan.

Hussey, K. and Dovers, S. (eds). 2007. Managing water for Australia: the social and institutional challenges. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing.

Dovers, S. 2006. Precautionary policy assessment for sustainability. In: Fisher, E., Jones, J. and von Schomberg, R. (eds). The precautionary principle and public policy decision making. pp88-109. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 

Dovers, S. 2005. Environment and sustainability policy: creation, implementation, evaluation. Sydney: Federation Press.

Connor, R. and Dovers, S. 2004. Institutional change for sustainable development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.