Stephen Dovers is the director of the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University (ANU), Honorary Professorial Fellow at Charles Darwin University, an ANU Public Policy Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. His research and teaching cover the policy and institutional dimensions of sustainable development, emergency and disaster management, and climate change adaptation. He is co-author of Environment and Sustainability: A Policy Handbook (with Karen Hussey, 2013) and The Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions (with John Handmer, 2013).