Joanne is a sustainability consultant and has extensive professional experience working internationally as a freelance business analyst and more recently as a principal sustainability consultant in Australia for an international consulting firm. Her experience includes sustainability strategies and management plans for organisations and urban development projects, sustainability assessment of major infrastructure projects, cost benefit analysis, and economic incentives.
She is currently undertaking PhD research at Murdoch University that models the connections between carbon neutral settlements and development of sustainable livelihoods in Aboriginal communities. This involves developing a carbon accounting framework, establishing the current carbon and livelihood situation in three scales of community, and reviewing existing and proposed programs to improve carbon management and the possibilities for income generation. The interdependencies and correlations between the programs will then be mapped to produce a future scenario framework. The research is based on the holistic concept that closed-loop carbon management cycles will produce positive results in livelihood (financial, physical, environmental, human and social) assets.
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Climate Change: Impacts and Responses
