Sarah Milne studies natural resource struggles and environmental intervention, particularly when it comes to community-based conservation; resource rights initiatives; and market mechanisms for conservation like Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Reducing Emissions from forest Degradation and Deforestation (REDD+). Sarah has combined various roles in research, advocacy and community-engaged practice since 2002. She recently completed an ARC Discovery project  on the concept of rupture in cases of dramatic environmental change. She is now investigating the political ecology of carbon farming in Australia.