Dr Rosalie CHAPPLE

Director, Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute

My work focuses on education and capacity building for conservation that moves beyond today’s dominant paradigms, and that can support the urgent need for transformation in the way we look after Australian land and seascapes. I am concerned that protected areas and other conservation measures be based on more effective and equitable stewardship, and connect people and nature rather than separate them.  We need to work together across sectors (agricultural, Indigenous, conservation), in respectful and inclusive ways, so together we manage productive and conserved areas. In my work, I seek to emphasize different ways of knowing including Indigenous knowledge. I co-founded the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute in 2004, teach in the Master of Environmental Management program at the University of NSW Sydney, and work with the Protected Areas Collaboration for Learning and Research. In 2020-21, I am on the Executive for the Australian Committee of IUCN.