Steve Dovers focuses on generic policy and institutional dimensions in environment and sustainability, combining contemporary and historical perspectives, across a diverse range of sectors and issues including climate adaptation, biodiversity, water, urban studies, forests, coastal management and others.

• An assessment of Australia’s existing statutory frameworks, associated institutions, and policy processes: do they support or impede national adaptation planning and practice?
• Defining meta-governance and institutional capacity for integrated water management
• Living with floods: key lessons from Australia & abroad