Professor Anthony Bebbington
Current Organisation
Administering Organisation
Discipline Area
Clark University, Massachusetts, The University
of Manchester Institute for Development Policy
and Management, United Kingdom
The University of Melbourne
Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences
Fellowship project summary:
Mining and society in a changing environment: pathways to sustainability (FL160100072)
This Fellowship seeks to address an urgent, largely unstudied global challenge: how to govern mining
activities so they enhance sustainability, justice and development. It will conduct a systematic
comparative analysis of mining activities across Latin America, Australasia and South-East Asia,
drawing on political ecology, sustainability science, Indigenous geography and geographic
information science. Such an in-depth, theoretically innovative study of government, company and
civil society efforts to adapt mining projects and policy should make Australia a recognised centre of
expertise and is likely to make the mining industry more socially and environmentally sustainable.
Australian Research Council funding: $2,840,132
About Professor Bebbington
Professor Anthony Bebbington is currently Higgins Professor of Environment and Society and
Director of the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Professor Bebbington is also a
Research Associate of the Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales, Peru and a Professorial Research
Fellow at the University of Manchester. Professor Bebbington’s work addresses the political ecology
of rural change with a particular focus on extractive industries and socio-environmental conflicts,
social movements, indigenous organisations and livelihoods.
Find out more about Professor Bebbington and his research by visiting his profile page on the Clark
University website.
For further information about this funding scheme please visit the Australian Laureate Fellowships
scheme page on the ARC website.