Dr John Meadows is a Research Fellow with the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast.
John is a forester and social scientist with expertise in forest management, revegetation, restoration ecology, agroforestry, rural socio-ecological change, NRM extension and incentive programs, small-scale biomass energy systems, indigenous land-use/livelihoods including indigenous protected area management, qualitative research, editing, and project management.
John has a PhD in small-scale forestry / social science and has published in leading scholarly journals.
Advance Queensland Innovation Partnerships (AQIP) project ‘Indigenous employment, forestry livelihoods, mining’.
Forest & Wood Products Australia (FWPA) project ‘Indigenous commercial forestry opportunities: East Arnhem, northern Australia’.
Ongoing project work for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI).
Research areas
- Forestry
- Small-scale forestry
- Agroforestry
- Farm forestry
- Urbanisation of rural land
- Forest restoration
- Environmental management
- Indigenous forest livelihoods
- Bioenergy
John is a forester and social scientist with expertise in forest management, revegetation, restoration ecology, agroforestry, rural socio-ecological change, NRM extension and incentive programs, small-scale biomass energy systems, Indigenous land-use/livelihoods including Indigenous Protected Area management, qualitative research, editing, and project management.