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Directory of Expertise - Environmental Sustainability
This IAG environmental sustainability study group directory of expertise is organised alphabetically by surname. The directory consists of brief statements of current and past projects. Links to homepages and e-mail contacts provide the opportunity to explore members research in more detail.
Would you like to join this list? If you would like to be added to this list, please e-mail your details to Nick Gill. For additions/corrections/changes to this directory please also contact Nick Gill, the current convenor of the IAG Environmental Sustainability Study Group:
Dr Nick Gill
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 AUSTRALIA
Email: ngill@uow.edu.au.
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Richard Baker
Deputy Dean of ANU College of Science
The Australian National University
ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA
Email: Richard.Baker@anu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/academics/bakerr.php
http://fennerschool-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/index.html
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: Aboriginal land management, public participation in environmental policy and resource management, environmental education, cultural landscapes and teaching and learning.
Dr Glenn Banks
Associate Professor, Development Studies Programme
Turitea Campus, Massey University
Email: G.A.Banks@massey.ac.nz
HOMEPAGE: http://pep.massey.ac.nz/massey/depart/cohss/schools/school-of-people-environment-and-planning/staff/glenn-banks.cfm
Areas of expertise: Mining in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Focus has been on the relationship between large-scale mines and local communities, including issues such as the economic relationship, social impacts, demographic and environmental change, migration and identity, sustainable development and mine closure.
Dr David Bass
Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management,
Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, AUSTRALIA
Email: David.Bass@flinders.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/geog/staff/bass.php
Environmental Weeds; Soils; Environmental Change; Biogeography; Seed Dispersal Ecology; Environmental Management
Dr Simon Batterbury
Assistant Professor Dept. of Geography and Regional Development The University of Arizona
409 Harvill Building, Box #2 Tucson, AZ 85721-0076, USA
E-MAIL: simonpjb@unimelb.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.simonbatterbury.net/home/
Dr Hugo Bekle
Senior Lecturer – Geography
Edith Cown University
Mt Lawley Campus
2 Bradford Street
Mt Lawley 6050
Email: h.bekle@ecu.edu.au
Assoc Prof Dushko Bogunovich
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Unitec Institute of Technology
ScALA/Unitec
PB 92015 Auckland, New Zealand
Email: dushko@unitec.ac.nz
HOMEPAGE: http://architecture.unitec.ac.nz
Dushko Bogunovich is Associate Professor of Urban Design at the ScALA - School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. Dushko has been at Unitec since 1996, teaching and researching urban design, environmental planning, and sustainable development. Previous to his Unitec appointments, which over the years spanned Landscape Architecture, Resource Management, Design Management, and Architecture, he taught Urban Studies and Planning Theory at the University of Waikato’s Geography Department.
Dushko immigrated to NZ from USA in 1993, after having finished his post-doctoral studies at the University of California at Berkeley, while on leave from the University of Sarajevo as a Senior Fulbright Scholar. Dushko’s formal qualifications are in architecture (a Dipl-Ing degree from the University of Sarajevo, 1976), city planning (Master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, 1981), and regional planning and geography (PhD from the University of Belgrade, 1988). His main areas of expertise are: strategic and sustainable urban design and use, master, and site planning; form, pattern, and landscape analysis/assessment;theory in the context of urban ecology and sustainable development.
Bill Boyd
Professor, School of Environmental Science & Management, Southern Cross University
Email: william.boyd@scu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/palaeo/Bill.index.html
Bill Boyd is a Professor in Geography in the School of Environmental Science & Management. His academic background is in the area of landscape studies, with an emphasis on environmental history and the management of historical places and landscapes. His research focuses on recent history (the last 10,000 years) of landscapes in Australia, New Zealand, PNG and S.E. Asia. He uses microfossil analysis, geomorphology and sedimentology to reconstruct the histories of vegetation change, physical environmental change, sea-level fluctuations and human impacts upon the environment. Bill conducts much of his work with archaeological teams, in particular being a long-term member of two international teams, one working in PNG and the other in Thailand and Cambodia. His sea-level change work is mostly in Vietnam. Bill is also an active researcher in the area of environmental management, specifically working on problems of the management of cultural heritage places and landscapes, including archaeological sites of the type he researches as an environmental historian. Bill has published extensively on these topics, with over 100 articles published in refereed scientific journals and academic books. He is the co-author of several recent books on cultural heritage management (Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place and Communities), the environmental and social impacts of catastrophic volcanic eruptions (Mauten Paia: Volcanoes, People and Environment), and environmental mapping (Environmental Mapping: A Professional Development Manual).
Kathleen Broderick
Email: kathleen.broderick@gbrmpa.gov.au
Short statement current and past projects and methodological expertise: My PhD research project examined the role and nature of social and cultural factors in Ecosystem Management. My career has included: Environmental Management and Policy, Community Involvement in Environmental Management, Environmental Education, Education Management, Teacher Professional Development, Teacher in Western Australian Schools.
Dr Jan Carey
Geographical and Environmental Studies
School of Social Sciences
The University of Adelaide SA 5005
Email: jan.carey@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Jan Carey coordinates the University of Adelaide’s International Environmental Management Program at the Ngee Ann-Adelaide Education Centre, Singapore, a program initiated by UNEP for capacity building in developing countries. She was formerly employed in Australian national, state and local government agencies, including the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, the Maritime Services Board of NSW and the NSW Transport Department, and has worked with consulting engineers and community groups as a consultant in environmental impact assessment, mineral resource and natural resource management projects. Currently endeavouring to develop environmental sustainability education projects in North Thailand and western China.
Dr Brian Cheers
Associate Professor
University of South Australia
Conjoint Associate Professor – UNSW
Associate Dean: Research – Whyalla Campus, UniSA
Editor, Rural Social Work
Centre for Rural and Regional Development (CRARD)
Whyalla Campus, University of South Australia
Nicolson Ave
Whyalla-Norrie South Australia 5608
Australia
Email: Brian.cheers@unisa.edu.au
Brian Cheers, BSW, MSW, Phd is Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Research), and Director, Centre for Rural and Regional Development at Whyalla Campus of the University of South Australia, and Adjunct Associate Professor with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of NSW. He has authored several books and has published widely in international and Australian journals. Brian is a rural and community sociologist whose has been researching and writing about rural issues for about 25 years. Current, active research projects include: measuring community capacity and community strength in rural communities; community and social impacts of water market share trading; reviewing governance arrangements during implementation of the South Australia Integrated Natural Resource Management legislation; impacts on the livelihoods of Indigenous people and communities of their involvement in bush produce industries; commercialisation of Indigenous knowledge about native plants; early childhood parenting needs and services in remote communities; rural community participation in health; rural social care. Brian most recent book was Welfare Bushed: Social Care in Rural Australia (Ashgate) and he is currently writing two books with Australian, U.K. and Canadian colleagues, Rural Social Care Practice (Federation Press) and International Perspectives on Rural Social Work (Policy Press).
Dr Beverley Clarke
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
GPO Box 2100, Flinders University, Adelaide, 5001
Email: beverley.clarke@flinders.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/geog/staff/clarke.php
Beverley Clarke is a lecturer in the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University. She has considerable research experience in public and environmental policy evaluation. Dr Clarke has been conducting research in the area of environmental planning and management, specialising in coasts, over the last 10 years and has been published on topics such as community participation and capacity building. She completed a PhD in 2003 that evaluated of the role of community in Coastcare, a significant national environmental management program.
John Collins
School of Earth and Geographical Science
University of Western Australia
M004 35 Stirling Hwy
Crawley WA 6009
Email: jcollins@segs.uwa.edu.au
Associate Professor Arthur Conacher
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences
University of Western Australia
M004 35 Stirling Hwy
Crawley WA 6009
Email: Arthur.Conacher@uwa.edu.au
Initially, Arthur Conacher’s research was in the field of pedo-geomorphology, helping to formulate the nine-unit landsurface model. Interest then developed in the nature, extent and causes of secondary salinity in southwestern Australia, and the environmental, political and decision-making implications of clear felling of native forests for the export woodchip industry in Western Australia. These interests broadened into land degradation more generally on the one hand, and environmental planning and management on the other.
Associate Professor Lawrence W. Crissman
Griffith Asia Pacific Research Institute
IBAS, Griffith University, Nathan, Q 4111
Email: crissman@griffith.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.asian.gu.edu.au
In 1992, I first obtained ARC Infrastructure Funding for the Spatial Information Infrastructure for Asian Studies in Australia Consortium, which by the time of the final ARC grant in 1996 had 22 UNS member institutions and had obtained over $1m. Since then, I have continued to produce and distribute spatial data for the Asian region, including the entire former Soviet Union, with a concentration on China for which I have GIS datasets for land use, hydrography, transport, and the administrative hierarchy down to county and urban district level. Most recently, I have geo-referenced all of the 50,000 or so township seats (jiedao, zhen, and xiang) for which 2000 PRC census data are available. I am a full member of the IGU LUCC Commission, and do research on documenting land use in PR China.
Dr Judith Crockett
Lecturer – Management and Sustainability
University of Sydney
Faculty of Rural Management
Orange NSW
Prior to undertaking doctoral research through the Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, Judith completed an Arts degree, majoring in rural social geography, a Graduate Diploma in Environmental Studies, a Graduate Certificate in Agronomy and Farming Systems and a Masters degree looking at the impact of restructuring on the South Australian dairy industry.
Judith’s PhD research involved a study of the traditional cornerstones of farming culture undergoing rapid change – family continuity of the farm, community involvement, religion, independence and patriarchal attitudes. Her project illustrates how an understanding of cultural influences on farming families is essential for all who wish to promote a sustainable future for farming and rural communities.
Judith is now putting her results to good use as she divides her time between her family’s farm near Wellington (NSW) and the Faculty of Rural Management, University of Sydney, Orange, where she is lecturing in management and sustainability. Her research interests include the role of deliberative democracy in resolving complex catchment management issues, impediments to adoption of sustainable management practice, indicators of sustainability, and regional economic development.
Dr Jocelyn Davies
Adjunct Senior Lecturer
University of Adelaide
Roseworthy Campus
Agronomy Office Building F3
Email: Jocelyn.davies@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Deirdre Dragovich
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
F09 Madsen University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
Email: D.Dragovich@geography.usyd.edu.au
Alexander English
Postgraduate Student
University of Melbourne
SAGES Victoria 3010
Geoff Evans
Email: geoffd@ozemail.com.au
Sarah Ewing
Email: saewing@bigpond.com
Bob Fagan
Professor – Human Geography
Department of Human Geography
Macquarie University
NSW 2119 Australia
Email: rfagan@els.mq.edu.au
Donna Ferretti
Email: donna.ferretti@unisa.edu.au
Megan Farrelly
Postgraduate Student
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences
University of Western Australia
M004 35 Stirling Hwy
Crawley WA 6009
Email: mfarrell@segs.uwa.edu.au
Megan is currently undertaking doctoral research into the regionalisation of environmental and natural resource management in Australia, with a specific focus on the Natural Heritage Trust program. The research involves looking at certain regions across Australia to examine how they have accommodated the changes instituted in the NHT Federal funding program, and the resultant effects on environmental community groups. Megan also has a keen interest in environmental planning and management, natural resource management, environmental community groups and regional planning.
Associate Professor Brian Finlayson
School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies
The University of Melbourne
VIC 3010
Email: brianlf@unimelb.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.geography.unimelb.edu.au/staff/finlayson.html
Brian Finlayson is an academic geographer who has been working in teaching, research and research supervision, and consulting for 30 years. His PhD was in the fields of geomorphology and hydrology and while still working in these areas he is now involved more broadly across the field of environmental management. He teaches environmental management to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Among his current PhD supervisions are projects on international environmental agreements (RAMSAR and CHAMBA), environmental history, implementation of sustainable development principles, and river management. Consulting activities have included advice to the Government of Laos on the development of shipping on the upper Mekong River; work for the governments of Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland on the management of environmental flows; and advice to the IWMI on the Dialogue on Water for Food and Environment.
He is currently engaged in a study of the Brigalow Development Scheme in Central Queensland, a project that, at its core has the issue of environmental sustainability.
Dr Leah M. Gibbs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Geographical & Earth Sciences University of Glasgow
HOMEPAGE: http://www.ges.gla.ac.uk/staff/lmgibbs
My research focuses on the interface between nature and culture.
‘Environmental knowledge production and water governance in the global south’ investigates the extent to which diverse environmental knowledge is acknowledged in water governance, and the methods used to elicit knowledge. This project draws on field research in Tanzania, and contributes to debates around the politics and practice of environmental knowledge production, and the production of knowledge about nature within academic discourse. Ongoing work, ‘Valuing Water: variability and the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia’, considers the discord between dominant approaches to valuing water and the values associated with particular water and water places. I take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding human interactions with nature, and draw on a number of analytical traditions including postcolonialism, social construction, materiality, and critiques of natural resource management.
Dr Nicholas Gill
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong NSW 2522
Phone: 61 2 4221 4165
Fax: 61 2 4221 4250
Email: ngill@uow.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/eesstaff/UOW002998.html
Nicholas Gill is a human geographer with interests in environmental management, rural cultures, outback mythology, Aboriginal land use and cultural history, and cultural geography. In the past he has worked in the environment movement on wilderness issues and the development of legislation, and as a curator at the National Museum of Australia. At the NMA he collected and documented material culture from the inland pastoral industry.
His research focuses on rural areas, particularly on cultural and social aspects of land management, land use and environmental conflict. Past research has focused on the responses of rural people to social and economic change, especially the contemporary environmental and Aboriginal land rights movements. Current research directions include work on Aboriginal landscapes of labour and land use in areas of rural residential subdivision.
His teaching interests lie in EESC210 Social Spaces: Rural and Urban, and EESC308 Environmental and Heritage Management.
Mick Hillman
Postgraduate Student
Department of Physical Geography
Division of Environmental and Life Sciences
Macquarie University, NSW 2109
Email: mhillman@els.mq.edu.au
My background has been in community development work but more recently I have been studying in environmental science. I am currently doing a Ph D on “Environmental Justice and Stream Rehabilitation”, trying to reconcile these two strands and to develop a transdisciplinary perspective on river management. I am particularly interested in how biophysical dimensions of scale and natural variability influence what is seen as just and how institutions can or can’t adapt to dealing with these characteristics. My ‘case study’ is in the Hunter Valley, in particular so far looking at environmental history and community perceptions.
Dr Kersty Hobson
Department of Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Email: kersty.hobson@anu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/hobsk_hg.html
I have a broad interest is in issues of environmental governance. Doctoral work examined issues of sustainable consumption in the UK using qualitative methods to explore the experiences and practices of households attempting to change their consumption patterns. Whilst still maintaining an interest in this work, with a view to extending it geographically, I am now also examining governance practices in Singapore, particularly the work of environmental NGOs. I also have an interest in transboundary environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific. Methodological strengths are qualitative methods, with extensive experience of group facilitation both as an academic and consultant.
Dr Lesley Hodgson
Department of Outdoor Education and Environment
Latrobe University
PO Box 199, Bendigo VIC 3552
Email: l.hodgson@bendigo.latrobe.edu.au
I developed an interest in environmental sustainability issues through my PhD research on salinity management in Gippsland. In particular I have been concerned with the practicality of managing such a large environmental issue with limited data. More recently my experience, through both teaching and research, has broadened into social issues associated with environmental sustainability. Specifically this includes ways of educating for sustainability and role of tourism in contributing to sustainability.
Dr Darren Holloway
Senior Research Officer
AHURI Research Centre Faculty of Built Environment
University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052
Email: d.holloway@unsw.edu.au
Associate Professor Richard Howitt
Department of Human Geography
Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia
Email: rhowitt@els.mq.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.es.mq.edu.au/~rhowitt/
Richie Howitt (Human Geography, Macquarie University) is Director of the Bachelor of Environmental Management program and teaches in areas of resource management, social impact assessment and social justice. He supervises research in resource management, corporate strategy, indigenous rights, regional planning, social theory, human rights and resource and environmental policy. He received the Australian Award for University Teaching (Social Science) in 1999 and became Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers in 2004. Richie’s research deals with the social and environmental impacts of mining on indigenous peoples and local communities, the strategies of transnational resource corporations and the regional development effects of resource projects.
His work includes a major review of impacts of the Weipa bauxite mine and the Alice Springs to Darwin railway, and native title negotiations in South Australia and Central Australia.
Lesley Instone
Email: lesley.instone@arts.monash.edu.au
Tom Jenkin
Email: tom.jenkin@flinders.edu.au
Roy Jones
Dean, Research & Graduate Studies
Professor of Geography, Curtin Sustainable Tourism Centre.
The Centre is affiliated to the national Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism (CRC-ST) , Curtin University of Technology.
E-MAIL: r.jones@curtin.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.humanities.curtin.edu.au/staff.cfm/r.jones
MA in Applied Geography (1970), PhD in Historical Geography (1982). Hence interested in regional change, development and sustainability. Member of the IGU Commission on Sustainable Rural Systems since 1995. Co-Director of the Curtin Sustainable Tourism Centre and, thus, of the Sustainable Tourism CRC. Research interests in the UK and Canada as well as Australia (mainly WA). Geographer at WAIT/Curtin since 1970. Seconded to the Commonwealth Department of Territories and Local Government in 1984 to work on the Regional Community Development Program. Currently supervising three PhD students on sustainability-related topics (one state wide, two in WA Pastoral Regions).
Professor Jamie Kirkpatrick
School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania
Private Bag 78
GPO Hobart, TAS 7001
Email: J.Kirkpatrick@utas.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.scieng.utas.edu.au/geog/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=342
Jamie Kirkpatrick is a geographer and ecologist who’s main loves are alpine, grassy, coastal and garden ecosystems, nature conservation and understanding the politics of environment. He has been recognized by several national awards and prizes for his work developing methods for planning reserves and his contribution to forest conservation and world heritage matters, and has been recognized internationally for producing the seminal work on minimum set reservation planning methods. By himself, and with colleagues, he has published more than 170 refereed papers and more than 20 books, several of which make ecological knowledge accessible to the general public. His major current research projects seek to gain improved understanding of disturbance effects on alpine vegetation, the integration of nature conservation and wool production and the causes of variation in the composition and structure of domestic gardens.
Dr Laurence Knight
Lecturer in Geography
Humanities Program
Queensland University of Technology
K Block, Kelvin Grove
Email: l.knight@qut.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.humanities.qut.edu.au/about/staff/knight.jsp
Current research interests include: Sustainable waste management, and the activities of Australian birdwatchers.
Previous research areas include: Environmental attitudes, urban structure and travel choices; Urban air quality management; The potential for telecommuting to ameliorate transport externalities; The management and administration of Australia’s rangelands; The environmental implications of biotechnology; and The potential for futuring activities to inform environmental policy development.
Dr Marcus Lane
Dr Lane leads the Social and Economic Sciences Program with CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
HOMEPAGE:http://www.csiro.au/people/Marcus.Lane.html
Dr Ruth Lane
School of Social Sciences and Planning
RMIT University
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne Vic 3001
Phone: +61 3 9925 3578 Fax: +61 3 99251855
Email: ruth.lane@ems.rmit.edu.au
Jerry Maroulis
Email: maroulis@usq.edu.au
Natalie Marshall
Limnologist and Environmental Consultant
Science and Technology, environment and innovation
Sydney Water Corporation
51 Hermitage Road
West Ryde NSW 2114
Phone: 93340733 Fax: 93340976
Email: natalie.marshall@sydneywater.com.au
Associate Professor Alaric Maude
School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management
Flinders University
26 Blyth Street
Parkside SA 5063
Email: polymaude@ozemail.com.au
For the last 15 years I have been an economic geographer teaching and researching on regional development, but gradually drifting towards things environmental. I have written a chapter on sustainable regional development, and currently teach a Masters topic on Sustainable Environmental Management. I am particularly interested in marrying regional development with environmental sustainability.
Dr Lynne McCarthy
Curator - People and the Environment
National Museum of Australia
Contact Address: GPO Box 1901 Canberra ACT 2601
Email: l.mccarthy@nma.gov.au
My expertise lies in the field of environmental history with a PhD in Geosciences. I have specialist knowledge in the interpretation of environmental change documented in Australian landscapes throughout historical and geological timescales. I also have an interest in the environmental and cultural dimensions to contemporary environmental issues facing Australia, such as the sustainability debates and biodiversity issues.
Within the Museum, my interests and work include the development, research and interpretation of Museum Programs including exhibitions. Acquisition, assessment and documentation of material culture related to environmental history and cultural landscape themes.
Dr Deirdre McKay
BA (Hons), MES (Dal), PhD (BrCol)
Human Geography, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Acton ACT 0200
Email: deirdre.mckay@anu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://rspas.anu.edu.au/people/personal/mckad_hg.html
My research focuses on agro ecosystems and household economic strategies in the upland Philippines. Current projects connect rural communities in developing nations to global cities, tracing the gendered links created by female labour migrants between urban ethnic enclaves overseas and remittance landscapes at home. I have expertise in social impact assessment, agricultural development appraisal models and qualitative research methodologies and have worked on projects funded by Canada’s CIDA and IDRC as well as AusAID. I am interested in the social, cultural and environmental impacts of globalization.
Patricia (Trish) O’Connor
Postgraduate student, University of New South Wales
E-MAIL: trish.oconnor@pacific.net.au
Research interest: Trish is currently undertaking a study of the contemporary Irish immigrant experience in Australia, based on
an interview questionnaire survey of 203 post-1980 immigrants now resident in the Greater Melbourne area.
Ruth Panelli (formerly Liepins)
Reader, Department of Geography, University College London
E-MAIL: r.panelli@ucl.ac.uk
HOMEPAGE: http://intranet.geog.ucl.ac.uk/about-the-department/people/academics/ruth-panelli/
Short statement of current and past projects and methodological expertise: My interests focus on notions of community as well as the discursive constructions and struggles occurring over youth and gender in rural settings. Recent work has included geographies:of community change; youth experiences in rural and urban settings; gendering of agriculture; and constructions of farm health issues. I regularly use methods in discourse analysis and various forms of participatory and/or action research.
Assoc. Prof. Stuart Pearson
School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences
UNSW @ ADFA
Canberra ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61 2 6268 8305
Fax: +61 2 6268 8017
Email: stuart.pearson@adfa.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/pems/research/pearson/index.html
Tim Perkins
Edith Cowan University
School of Natural Sciences
100 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup WA 6027
Phone: 08 6304 5730
Email: t.perkins@ecu.edu.au
I am currently working at the School of Natural Sciences, ECU where I am course coordinator for the B.Sc (Environmental Management) programme. I lecture in the fields of environmental planning, environmental management and GIS. I am also studying part-time at Curtin University where I am trying to complete my PhD on the environmental behaviour of farmers in the WA Wheatbelt.
I have worked previously at the University of Wollongong, the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Agricultural College in areas of GIS and natural resource management.
Dr Christopher Pettit
School of Mathematical and Geospatial Science
GPO Box 2476V
Melbourne 3001 Victoria Australia
Email: chris.pettit@rmit.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.gs.rmit.edu.au/staffhome/c-pettit/index_cp.htm
Dr Chris Pettit has qualifications in urban and regional planning and geographical information systems (University of Queensland) and is currently a post-doctoral research fellow within the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Science at RMIT University, Melbourne. He has previously held positions at both the State and Federal levels of government, specifically in the Queensland Department of Natural Resource and Mines and in the Australian Surveying Land Information Group in Canberra. He is also the principal author to the international on-line virtual campus course -
http://campus.esri.com/ - “Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning using Arcview GIS” His current research initiatives focus on formulating and evaluating what-if Scenarios and the application of geographical visualization as a form of democratizing spatial information for achieving sustainable futures. In 2003 he was awarded the Sendai Prize for Excellence at the 8th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management held in Sendai, Japan for his paper titled “Using a GIS-based Planning Support System to Formulate a Sustainable Development Land Use Strategy for Hervey Bay 2021”. Dr Pettit is currently chief investigator on a number of research initiatives including the community spatial scenario simulation group (C-S3) www.c-s3.info.
Associate Professor Alan Pilgrim
Department of Social Sciences
Curtin University of Technology
Email: A.Pilgrim@curtin.edu.au
Dr David Pullar
Geography Planning and Architecture
University of Queensland
Brisbane 4072
Email: d.pullar@uq.edu.au
Stephen Schweinsberg
Masters Student
School of Geosciences
Madsen Building FO9
University of Sydney NSW 2006
Email: Stephen.C.Schweinsberg@uts.edu.au
I am currently a postgraduate Masters student. My area of research is into tourism industry sustainability on the NSW south coast.
Dr Steffanie Scott
Department of Geography
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave
West Waterloo
Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada
Phone (519)888 4567 Fax: (519) 746 0658
Email: sdscott@fes.uwaterloo.ca
Jady Smith
PhD Candidate
School of Human and Environmental Studies
University of New England
Armidale NSW 2351
Email: jsmith73@pobox.une.edu.au
Dr Elaine Stratford
Associate Professor & Head of School, School of Geography and Environmental Studies,
University of Tasmania
E-MAIL: Elaine.Stratford@utas.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://fcms.its.utas.edu.au/scieng/geog/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=240
Geraldine Teakle
PhD Scholar
School of Resources, Environment and Society
Building 48A, Linneus Way
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
E-mail: geraldine.teakle@anu.edu.au
Geraldine Teakle is currently (2006) a PhD scholar in the School of Resources , Environment and Society at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Her PhD thesis “Adapting to Risk in Complex Adaptive Systems: Towards Social Resilience and Sustainability” is close to completion and takes a transdisciplinary approach to address the underlying social and environmental factors that contribute to risk in complex adaptive systems. In particular she utilises findings from a case study to investigate the issue of human adaptation to risk, where adaptation refers to cognitive adaptation or learning from past experience. Her thesis is expected to provide new and better understandings of the processes of risk adaptation and will benefit individuals, societies and policy makers through identification of latent risk variables and mitigation recommendations. More urgently it will help policy-makers make better policy that will in turn contribute to better decision-making and more resilient and sustainable societies.
Professor Bruce Thom
Email: bthom@mail.usyd.edu.au
Dr Matthew Tonts
Senior Lecturer/Head of Institute of Regional Development
School of Earth and Geographical Sciences
University of Western Australia
M004 35 Stirling Hwy
Crawley 6009 WA
Email: mtonts@segs.uwa.edu.au
Interested in linkages between human activity and environmental change, particularly in rural regions.
Ruth Turia
PhD Student
Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Phone: +61 2 6125 2125 Fax: +61 2 6125 4896
rturia@coombs.anu.edu.au
Professor Stephen M. Turton
Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Research)
Associate Professor of Geography
Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
James Cook University
PO Box 6811
Cairns, Qld. 4870, Australia
Ph: Intnl +61 (0)7-40-421-292 (Voicemail)
Fax: Intnl +61 (0)7-40-421-247
Mobile: 0408 014 994
Email: Steve.Turton@jcu.edu.au
HOMEPAGE: http://www.jcu.edu.au/ees/staff/academic/JCUDEV_014397.html
Dr Sarah Wright
Email: slwright@u.washington.edu
Professor Charlie Zammit
Research Professor in Land Use Studies
Director Land Use Study
Centre Faculty of Sciences
University of South Queensland
Toowoomba QLD 4350
+61 7 4631 5578/5577 Fax: + 61 7 4631 5581
Email: zammit@usq.edu.au
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Dr Nick Gill
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 AUSTRALIA
Email: ngill@uow.edu.au.