Meg Sherval
Meg Sherval is an environmental and resource geographer who works in the Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle. Her research interests revolve around constructs of nature, resource use and the social, cultural, legal and political impacts of environmental change. At the core of her research is a desire to understand and explain the spatial and temporal dynamics of natural resource development. She is interested in the economic processes and cultural practices through which nature and the environment are visualised and enacted as resources for utilisation by humankind. She is also interested in what transitions need to be made when resource stocks begin to decline and communities are faced with an uncertain future. Through this focus on resources, her work problematises the treatment of the environment and the commodification of nature within modern economic development.
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