Professor Allan Dale

Allan Dale


Position:

Leader, Tropical Regional Development

Department:

The Cairns Institute

Role:

Theme Lead,Research Committee

Areas of research & interest:

  • Regional and natural resource policy and governance systems; Environmental and social impact assessment; Indigenous and rural community development; greenhouse gas abatement; climate change adaptation; disaster management

Topics:

  • Agriculture & environment

Research Institution:

Geographic Coverage:

Queensland

Location:

Cairns


BIO

Allan Dale is a Professor of Tropical Regional Development at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University and the Chief Scientist for the Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia (CRCNA). Allan is also a University Fellow with Charles Darwin University’s Northern Institute and has a strong interest in integrated societal governance, with a particular focus across the tropical world, northern Australia and the Great Barrier Reef. He leads JCU’s contributions to Queensland’s Rural Economies Centre of Excellence (RECoE) and the Communities in Transition Program, the Human Dimensions of the GBR, the Northern Development agenda and emerging approaches to Collective Impact.