Aidan Davison

Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2017

DOI: 10.1016/J.APGEOG.2017.10.002

A precautionary tale:

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-2002

DOI: 10.1016/S0016-3287(01)00052-0

Personal encounters with trees: The lived significance of the private urban forest

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2014.11.003

Wild tradition: Hunting and nature in regional Sweden and Australia

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 05-08-2016

DOI: 10.4324/9781315597591

EFFECT OF PHORBOL ESTERS ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND TOTAL ACTIVITY OF PROTEIN KINASE-C IN THE PERFUSED RAT-HEART

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 1989

DOI: 10.1016/0020-711X(89)90164-X

Abstract: 1. The perfused rat heart was treated with the tumour-promoter and protein kinase C activator, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate and the distribution of protein kinase C activity between cytosolic and particulate fractions determined. 2. Phorbol ester treatment led to a rapid loss of protein kinase C activity from the cytosol (t0.5 = 2 min) with a corresponding translocation into the particulate fraction. Translocated protein kinase C activity was tightly bound to the particulate fraction, could only be extracted with buffers containing 2% Triton X-100 and could therefore be misinterpreted as being down-regulated. 3. Claims of rapid down-regulation of protein kinase C activity by phorbol esters need to be supported by rigorous procedures for extraction of the particulate material.

Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity?: the role of residents’ dispositions and household practices

Publisher: IOP Publishing

Date: 09-2016

DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095014

Using communities of practice to enhance interdisciplinary teaching: lessons from four Australian institutions

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 24-10-2014

DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2013.832168

How climate change research undermines trust in everyday life: a review

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 18-10-2015

DOI: 10.1002/WCC.320

Abstract: Empirical and theoretical research on trust has received little attention in climate change literature despite the central role of trust in determining responses to climate science. We reassess the challenge of climate change communication in light of recent research on trust across social, psychological, and neuroscientific disciplines. We argue that networks of explicit and implicit trust in everyday practices are a foundation of stable society. Climate change research demands that we re‐evaluate our trust in many elements of our everyday lives in a way that is profoundly unsettling. The threat posed to networks of trust by climate science has contributed to political polarization of the issue. Such adversarial debate has its source not in competing biophysical claims, but in different networks of trust in existing socio‐technical systems. We argue that a more nuanced understanding of the psychological and social foundations of trust offers opportunities for messengers of climate change to connect with alienated publics. We conclude that the challenge of climate change communication is not primarily to engender trust in scientific claims, but to re‐align the networks of trust that make everyday life possible. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:79–91. doi: 10.1002/wcc.320 This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change Communication Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge Sociology/Anthropology of Climate Knowledge

Building on sand?: Liquid housing wealth in an era of financialisation

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 05-05-2016

DOI: 10.4324/9781315669342

Distributed leadership: Building capacity for interdisciplinary climate change teaching at four universities

Publisher: Emerald

Date: 20-12-2014

DOI: 10.1108/IJSHE-10-2012-0091

Abstract: – Interdisciplinary approaches to climate change teaching are well justified and arise from the complexity of climate change challenges and the integrated problem-solving responses they demand. These approaches require academic teachers to collaborate across disciplines. Yet, the fragmentation typical of universities impedes collaborative teaching practice. This paper aims to report on the outcomes of a distributed leadership project in four Australian universities aimed at enhancing interdisciplinary climate change teaching. – Communities of teaching practice were established at four Australian universities with participants drawn from a wide range of disciplines. The establishment and operation of these communities relied on a distributed leadership methodology which facilitates acts of initiative, innovation, vision and courage through group interaction rather than through designated hierarchical roles. – Each community of practice found the distributed leadership approach overcame barriers to interdisciplinary climate change teaching. Cultivating distributed leadership enabled community members to engage in peer-led professional learning, collaborative curriculum and pedagogical development, and to facilitate wider institutional change. The detailed outcomes achieved by each community were tailored to their specific institutional context. They included the transformation of climate change curriculum, professional development in interdisciplinary pedagogy, innovation in student-led learning activities, and participation in institutional decision-making related to curriculum reform. – Collaborative, non-traditional leadership practices have attracted little attention in research about sustainability education in university curricula. This paper demonstrates that the distributed leadership model for sustainability education reported here is effective in building capacity for interdisciplinary climate change teaching within disciplines. The model is flexible enough for a variety of institutional settings.

Four impediments to embedding education for sustainability in higher education

Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Date: 12-2015

DOI: 10.1017/AEE.2015.36

Abstract: Higher education institutions have an unavoidable responsibility to address the looming economic, environmental and social crises imperilling humans and ecosystems by placing ‘education for sustainability’ at the heart of their concerns. Yet, for over three decades, the practice of ‘higher education for sustainability’ (HEfS) has encountered significant barriers to implementation, begging the question as to why. Drawing on a erse, interdisciplinary literature, we identify four structural impediments to implementing HEfS: (1) disciplinary contestation, which creates confusion over what ‘sustainability’ means (2) institutional fragmentation, which prevents the interdisciplinary dialogue that sustainability demands (3) economic globalisation, which transforms higher education into just another market opportunity and (4) ‘fast and frugal’ habits of reasoning, which steer time-pressed academics towards poorly integrated decisions and unsustainable positions. Our analysis highlights that wider structural change within and beyond the academy will be required if higher education institutions are to meet their responsibilities and drive the necessary social transformation.

Can teacher collaboration overcome barriers to interdisciplinary learning in a disciplinary university? A case study using climate change

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 10-2012

DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2012.658560

Innocent heroes or self‐absorbed alarmists? A thematic review of the variety and effects of storylines about young people in climate change discourses

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 06-07-2023

DOI: 10.1002/WCC.853

Abstract: Discourses about young people are interacting with climate change discourses in ways that often marginalize the young in social responses to climate change. The resulting stories about young people in a changing climate build upon long‐standing representations of youthhood in late modern societies as a liminal, ill‐defined state between childhood and adulthood. The social and behavioral sciences have both helped produce these stories and critically examined their origins, characteristics, and effects. This article offers a novel critical review of ideas about young people in climate change research across a wide variety of disciplines and fields, including geography, psychology, sociology, education, political studies, health studies, media studies, legal studies, and youth studies. We employ Hajer's account of discursive storylines to identify seven ways in which young people are storied in climate discourses. While distinct, stories of young people as innocent , vulnerable , heroic , alarmist , inheriting , apathetic or narcissistic overlap, and interact. This variety of storylines reflects the mutable category of young people and the deliberate ambiguity with which it is often deployed. We use this typology in three ways to advance the interests of young people in climate change discourses. First, we show how these discourses are indebted to while also changing understandings of young people in late modern societies. Second, we consider the potential impacts of these stories on young lives and on responses to climate change. Third, we identify prospects for new stories to emerge as young voices become increasingly important in urgent social discussions of climate change. This article is categorized under: Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change Communication Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change Perceptions of Climate Change

Pragmatic factors outweigh ecosystem service goals in street tree selection and planting in South-East Queensland cities

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2017

DOI: 10.1016/J.UFUG.2016.12.003

From activism to “not-quite-government”: the role of government and non-government actors in the expansion of the Australian protected area estate since 1990

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 07-03-2022

DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2022.2040452

Valuing third sector sustainability organisations – qualitative contributions to systemic social transformation

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 07-03-2016

DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2016.1149457

Uncertainty and disciplinary difference: Mapping attitudes towards uncertainty across discipline boundaries

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 11-2021

DOI: 10.1016/J.DESTUD.2021.101055

Not ‘getting on the bandwagon’: When climate change is a matter of unconcern

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 13-12-2019

DOI: 10.1177/2514848618818763

Abstract: Extensive research into public attitudes about climate change commonly portrays those who do not express concern about this issue as unwitting victims of their own or others’ biases. Characterised as apathy, ignorance, scepticism or denial, absence of concern about climate change has been presented as being rooted in an in idual’s lack of considered engagement with scientific reasons for concern. This ‘concern deficit’ is framed as a problem to be addressed through policy, education and communication that seeks to maximise concern about climate change. In contrast, we conceptualise unconcern about climate change as an expression of focal life concerns that are incommensurable with dominant narratives of climate change. Originating in active cognitive, social and experiential processes, we regard unconcern about climate change as inseparable from the lived contexts in which it is expressed and irreducible to the attitudes or attributes of in iduals. Using narrative analysis of repeat in-depth interviews with Australians who express unconcern about climate change, we find that this unconcern has multiple sources, takes erse forms and is entangled in epistemological and normative engagements with other issues. It is constituted through social relationships, discursive processes, moral values and embodied experiences that are overlooked in much existing research. We argue that respectful attention to the experiential conditions in which concern about climate change is resisted can enable constructive re-negotiation of narratives of climate change. Such agonistic processes could lead to more reflexive, pluralist and dialogical forms of discourse that better articulate climate science and policy with a wider ersity of lived concerns.

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344074

Start Date: 11-2003

End Date: 05-2008

Amount: $210,262.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP130104933

Start Date: 04-2013

End Date: 06-2017

Amount: $499,786.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP180103118

Start Date: 05-2018

End Date: 12-2023

Amount: $338,609.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0987099

Start Date: 01-2009

End Date: 01-2012

Amount: $130,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200441

Start Date: 01-2021

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $289,479.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354620

Start Date: 2004

End Date: 12-2004

Amount: $10,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council