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DoctorVishnu Prahalad

Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography

Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences

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  • Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography
    Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences
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  • School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences, GEO428 GPSS Building, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

SUPERVISION AND TEACHING SUMMARy

Teaching responsibility

Unit Coordinator

KGA223 - Environmental Management (Hobart and Launceston) (2010 onwards)
KGA207 - Systems Thinking (distance) (2022 onwards)

KGA171 - Global Geographies of Change (2024 onwards)

KGA514 - Planning and Managing for Sustainable Systems (Hobart and distance) (2010-2021, unit not offered since 2022)

Lecturer
KGA213 - Natural Environment Field Techniques (2019 onwards)

KGA308 - Political Ecologies of Development (2019 onwards)

Research supervision

Vishnu is currently supervising several PhD students working on conservation ecology, urban nature, systems thinking, and ecological sustainability. He also supervises Masters and Honours students, and is inviting potential students interested in any topic related to his research interests.

SUPERVISION & TEACHING

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mitigating inequity in climate collapse
    3 Feb 2025
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Social Accountability: Rurality & Gender
    1 Jul 2024
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Conservation Ecology of Swamp Paperbark
    28 Aug 2023
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Equity and dissensus in a changing climate
    3 Jul 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Evolving Role of Conservation Covenant Regimes in Australian Environmental Law and Policy: Where to next?
    1 Mar 2022 - 22 Apr 2026
    Sarah Lindsay Brugler
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Bird Communities of Tasmanian Saltmarshes: Structure, drivers, and responses to hydrological restoration
    1 Dec 2021
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Using Smartphone/Tablet Technology to Improve Community Awareness Collaboration, Risk and Identify Shared Responsibility Opportunities for Bushfire Resilience.
    2 Aug 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Evolving Role of Nativeness in Urban Greening: Exploring the social dimensions of native and non-native urban trees
    20 Nov 2019 - 26 Aug 2026
    Haylee Kaplan
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Fish Use of Tasmanian Saltmarsh Wetlands
    17 Dec 2018 - 22 Aug 2023
    Violet Margaret Harrison Day
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Better Managing Social-ecological Systems to Address Wicked Problems: A new complex relational systems-thinking approach
    26 Jun 2018 - 9 Dec 2025
    Glen David Rutherford
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Biogeography of Tasmanian Coastal Saltmarshes
    29 Jun 2015 - 16 Aug 2019
    John Gerard Aalders