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0000-0001-6273-493X
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University of Tasmania
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Social And Cultural Geography | Consumption and Everyday Life | Cultural Studies | Agriculture, Land and Farm Management | Geriatrics And Gerontology | Public Health and Health Services | Social and Cultural Geography | Globalisation and Culture | Sustainable Development | Environmental Management And Rehabilitation | Heritage And Conservation | Architecture | Health And Community Services | Human Geography | Landscape Ecology | Sociology | Education And Extension | Applied Sociology, Program Evaluation And Social Impact Assessment | Social Policy And Planning
Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified | Preserving the built environment | Civics and citizenship | The aged | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Health related to ageing | Studies in human society | Rural health | Heritage not elsewhere classified | Environmental education and awareness | Institutional arrangements | Other social development and community services | Health status (e.g. indicators of “well-being”) |
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-07-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-02-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2021
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-05-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S11213-023-09644-0
Abstract: Under national or state-based legislation, local governments are commonly required to prepare municipal health and wellbeing plans. Yet, the issues these plans aim to address are often complex, and programmatic planning approaches traditionally used by practitioners struggle to engage with such complexity as they assume these issues can be ‘solved’ in isolation. Systems thinking is increasingly being used as an approach to deal with those struggles more effectively, yet little is known about whether local governments and other stakeholders think systems approaches are feasible and acceptable in practice. This study tested a systems thinking approach to gauge if it could better address complex place-based health and wellbeing issues, such as to reduce noncommunicable diseases. Guided by a systems change framework, the approach comprised a facilitated systemic inquiry and rich picture process involving erse stakeholders in a remote municipality in the Australian state of Tasmania. Among the participants there was broad support for the systems approach tested and they thought it was effective for increasing systems thinking capacity, collaboratively revealing systemic issues, and identifying opportunities to address those issues. They valued the rich picture because it created shared understandings of local issues. The findings suggest more is needed from macro-level policy to support place-based stakeholders to undertake systems approaches in practice, which could result in more sustainable and effective systems change required to improve health and wellbeing outcomes. The findings have implications for theory, research, and practice across interdisciplinary fields concerned with placed-based systems change, especially in rural and remote municipalities.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-07-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2019
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-1998
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2006
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-07-2023
Abstract: Globally, local governments face increasing service delivery demands and citizen expectations, including in relation to community health and wellbeing. Inter‐municipal cooperation is one strategy to respond to those demands. In Australia, however, there is limited empirical research about the types of inter‐municipal cooperation local governments engage in and about their perspectives on community health and wellbeing. Without such knowledge, limits are placed on strategies the sector can develop and deploy to collectively tackle complex issues that extend beyond municipal boundaries. Responding to that gap in research and those consequential challenges for strategy, we surveyed municipal personnel in all 29 local governments in the state of Tasmania and included questions to quantify inter‐municipal cooperation using social network analysis. Results show the extent to which local governments cooperate across seven domains and reveal that participants prioritised community health and wellbeing and described funding, collaboration, legislation, and systems thinking as ways to advance their contributions to that priority. We found social network analysis to be a useful method to measure inter‐municipal cooperation however, further research into how and why local governments collaborate across erse service types would help inform how those services can be enhanced, including for community health and wellbeing. Inter‐municipal cooperation is important for local governments to manage resources with increasing service delivery demands and citizen expectations. This Australian study shows how inter‐municipal cooperation can be quantified and articulated visually using social network analysis—a method that could measure changes over time and enable cross‐jurisdiction comparisons. In Tasmania: inter‐municipal cooperation occurs in distinct regional networks and more research about how and why these networks function across erse service types could inform service enhancement and those in local government want to advance their contributions to community health and wellbeing and need support in the form of funding, collaboration, legislation, and systems thinking capacity.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-06-2013
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X12000402
Abstract: Staying socially engaged is known to improve health and longevity in older people. As the population ages, maintaining levels of social engagement among older people becomes increasingly important. Nevertheless, advancing age brings with it many challenges to social engagement, especially in rural areas. A three-year Australian Research Council Linkage Project sought to improve understandings of age-related triggers to social disengagement in six Tasmanian communities that are representative of rural Australian experience, and thus of wider salience. A collaboration between academics and health and social professionals, the project investigated design solutions for service frameworks that may be useful before ageing in iduals become isolated and dependent, and that may support those in iduals to actively contribute to and benefit from social life. The purpose of this paper is to report on perspectives about diminishing levels of social engagement held by older rural participants and service providers, and to advance a number of key insights on ways in which to nurture social engagement and improve the experience of ageing.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2004
DOI: 10.1068/B2944
Abstract: Sustainability may be viewed as a principled form of conduct. Among its effects is a growing emphasis on civil society and local governance through which the members of communities are encouraged to rethink democratic ideas and practices, and reconfigure how to live. Although normative, sustainability cannot properly be conceived as prescriptive such a characteristic would undermine central elements of it, such as participation and equity. In this sense, requiring both mechanisms for community participation in decisionmaking and planning, and an ethic of engagement based on trust, reciprocity, and an acceptance of the rights of noncitizens and nonhuman nature, sustainability might also be construed as a deliberative form of democratic governance. Perhaps problematically, in the last decade this governmental aspect of sustainability has come to be associated with the procedures of communicative rationality. Supported by research conducted over three years in a local government in Tasmania, Australia, we argue that a deliberative and democratic praxis of sustainability may be effective only if and when underpinned by substantive changes to the exercise of power and leadership, and to the ways in which deliberative decisionmaking and planning are pursued. Communicative rationality alone is unlikely to achieve these ends.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-03-2021
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.WBIEG1038.PUB2
Abstract: Among erse peoples and cultures, the need to hear and be heard, the urge to remember, reflect, and communicate, and the compulsion to understand the world will often gather as a combined force and show up in our lives as storytelling and narrative. As a sapient species, it is through language that we learn meta‐awareness – awareness of ourselves and other entities. We speak ourselves into existence, if you like. Thus, oral history is a powerful qualitative research method to directly engage with those who are still living and help preserve their memories, stories, and knowledges while they live and after their deaths. Using such field methods, practitioners seek to understand participants' experiences of the lifeworld: ways of being, in place and on the move, over the whole life course. Practitioners of oral history are also concerned to understand how participants' experiences reveal and illuminate other issues and events which, in the past, may have been remarkable or may have seemed quite mundane. Oral history's capacity to uncover the extraordinary that resides within the everyday empowers both participants and readers or audiences of oral histories. This method also enables practitioners – geographers among them – to validate and value knowledge hitherto consigned to historical obscurity, including among the most marginalized in our communities.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-10-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-03-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2022
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-08-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-1997
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
Date: 2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-1999
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2001
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-10-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-01-2016
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 14-07-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 17-07-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-1997
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2004
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2020
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 03-11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2001
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-11-2003
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 13-10-2023
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 20-11-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 11-10-2018
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2000
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-07-2022
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 2009
DOI: 10.1068/A40198
Abstract: This paper seeks to contribute to the theorization of belonging as a resource on which people draw in the local politics of place—especially in contestations over ecological space and decisions about land use that resonate at many scales and across many domains. The task is advanced with reference to a controversial development proposal to build a marina and residential sub ision on estuarine mudflats near a seaside dormitory suburb in the capital city of Hobart on the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Particular attention is paid to story lines generated in three discourse coalitions which have formed around the controversy over the proposal: a multimillion dollar mainland company known as the Walker Corporation, the Tasmanian state government, and a community action group known as Save Ralphs Bay Inc. Techniques of narrative and discourse analysis are used to read these story lines for evidence of belonging. In this analysis of ‘text, talk, and practice’, opportunities arise to consider the wider salience of the case to geographers, among them connection and attachment to place, and counterpoints of belonging such as social and ecological dispossession and displacement.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-10-2023
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 30-08-2020
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2022
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Date: 2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-08-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-01-2023
DOI: 10.1111/ANTI.12924
Abstract: The Anthropocene is deployed as incontrovertible fact, yet its foundations merit strong critique to challenge how particular voices and locations are absented, silenced, or enrolled in the fallacies that attend this epochal framework. Other placed, grounded, and scale‐sensitive explanations exist for present and future state scenarios, including on islands—often the focus of apocalyptic thinking. Dealing with historical and contemporary struggles to decolonise is more powerful than engaging with a reified framework that is part of ongoing colonial‐imperial excesses, uneven development, and racial capitalism. This work considers how four of us, as instigating authors, worked with five others, as collaborating authors, to understand academic works, activism, and artistic expressions of island life and concerns. Our aim was to learn about how and why their efforts to prioritise decolonisation is at the heart of what is needed to shore up island peoples’ futures.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-03-2019
DOI: 10.1002/9781118786352.WBIEG1038
Abstract: Across peoples and cultures, erse capacities to remember, reflect, and communicate, and the compulsion to understand the world in which we live, gather as a combined force in storytelling and the use of narrative to hear and be heard. Oral history is a powerful qualitative research method to directly engage with and preserve the memories, stories, and knowledge of those still living. Using such field methods, practitioners are motivated to understand participants' direct experiences of the lifeworld, of place, and of space and spatiality. Furthermore they are concerned with the ways in which those experiences illuminate other important issues and events which, in the past, have appeared unremarkable. Oral history's capacity to uncover the extraordinary within the everyday empowers participants and audiences, and enables practitioners – geographers not least among them – to validate and value knowledge hitherto consigned to historical obscurity.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-1998
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(98)00003-3
Abstract: This paper asks how health and nature are represented in the Australian women's press during the late nineteenth century. A time of significant social change during which women, and sympathetic male colleagues, challenged traditional roles as pathological creatures of the domestic sphere, this period is explored through the writing of women working for popular magazines. As women captured, transformed and redeployed stereotypical views of them as essentially and naturally ill, they consolidated their push into the public realm, while also convincing themselves and others of their vital place in the private sphere, but as capable, well and fit creators of people and of a nation.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-11-2022
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-11-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2019
Publisher: American Library Association
Date: 11-1998
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-2017
DOI: 10.1111/NZG.12139
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-1993
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 15-05-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-08-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-02-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-02-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2002
Abstract: In their design or implementation, many natural resource management (NRM) programs ignore critical socio-cultural dimensions of the challenge to advance sustainability. Building on particular ideas about culture and human ecosystems, we combine the strengths of the capital assets model of sustainability and the idea of intercultural borderlands to respond to this gap. To advance our thesis about the utility of these tools, we critically reviewed and analysed a cross-disciplinary literature relating to the socio-cultural dimensions of NRM. This paper stems from that labour and examines particular tensions that arise in land management as a result of Australians' specific colonial and postcolonial legacies. These tensions--related to ethnicity, gender, population, age and health--are among the threads in the larger tapestry that comprises the socio-cultural dimensions of NRM. For the Australian case, they are central, longstanding and persistent, and thus worthy of analysis and they are applicable in general terms to other places with similar histories of settlement and land use.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2009
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 14-09-2023
Publisher: BRILL
Date: 24-10-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-09-2022
Abstract: Professional and society journals often publish obituaries in which colleagues reflect on and celebrate the lives of others—in this instance, geographers—who are no longer with us and who have been closely associated with a discipline and sometimes also with a country or region. Less often do journal editors and contributors curate collections of works that recognise and reflect upon the sustained contributions made by colleagues who are still with us. Festschrift offerings such as the kind I am thinking of are almost unheard of in this journal. We begin to remedy that gap now because such offerings show colleagues’ influences on us and the discipline. To those ends, this inaugural offering celebrating Ruth Fincher initiates what I hope will be the first of many in coming years.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-09-2020
DOI: 10.1111/TRAN.12337
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 25-05-2023
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-09-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1993
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-04-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-02-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-01-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-1998
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-11-2021
Abstract: This article documents an attempt to decolonise our approach to methodology to explicitly show respect for islands and their islanders. Our twin starting points are an awareness of a turn to the Anthropocene in studies related to islands and an appreciation of the imperative to think outside colonial frames. The Anthropocene has been conceived as both an enduring colonising force and a significant moment in decolonisation, and islands have been viewed as emblematic of the Anthropocene, so the relationship between them is complex. These dynamic conceptions raise dilemmas for those wanting to apply methodologies to island research and negotiate ethical relations across multiple geographies and knowledge systems. For those whose cultures have been subjected to colonial oppressions, there are emotional and material costs and varied risks in participating in attempts to decolonise island research. Settler researchers seeking to ally themselves with others to advance such agendas and aspirations may slow or damage decolonising practices if they act without appropriate permissions, respectful commitments to support and understand decolonisation, and preparedness to engage in deep learning about what decolonisation of knowledge means. With these challenges in mind, we detail an approach to decolonising one of our own island research projects in ways that are enriched by a Tuvaluan concept, Fale Pili , which means treating a neighbour’s problems as your own.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1995
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2000
DOI: 10.1046/J.1523-1739.2000.99382.X
Abstract: Abstract: There is a complex scientific, ethical, and cultural debate in Australia about how best to conserve koalas and their habitat. Despite the erse array of management and research options promoted by scientists, wildlife agency staff, and koala advocates, there remains a gap in our acknowledgment of the social factors influencing decision making about koala conservation. Koala management research has generated valuable scientific knowledge about koala biology and ecology but has been weak about organizational and policy processes and about the cultures within which we produce, disseminate, and legitimize this kind of knowledge. We suggest that more effective koala conservation will result from making the political and cultural influences on decision making regarding the koala more explicit in research, management, and policy‐making forums. Research must be conducted in the context of the cultural significance of the koala. The koala's survival depends on preserving the valuable lands that these creatures (and many others) inhabit. Ultimately, the koala symbolizes conflicting land‐use values and illustrates the need for greater collaboration, cooperation, and trust among social and natural scientists in the conduct of koala conservation research, management, and policy.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-2004
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-08-2010
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2008
Start Date: 2016
End Date: 2018
Funder: Department of Education Tasmania, con
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2015
Funder: University of Tasmania
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2016
End Date: 2016
Funder: Kentish Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2018
End Date: 2018
Funder: University of Tasmania
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2015
End Date: 2017
Funder: Ian Potter Foundation
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2016
End Date: 2020
Funder: Department of Education Tasmania
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 05-2008
End Date: 05-2011
Amount: $289,944.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2022
End Date: 06-2024
Amount: $85,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 03-2003
End Date: 12-2005
Amount: $113,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 10-2014
End Date: 12-2018
Amount: $160,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 02-2004
End Date: 06-2004
Amount: $10,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 01-2004
End Date: 12-2004
Amount: $10,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
View Funded Activity