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0000-0002-9585-0627
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University of the Sunshine Coast
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Natural Resource Management | Environmental Science and Management | Environment And Resource Economics | Other Policy And Political Science
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Rights to environmental and natural resources | Ownership of the land | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage |
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Publications
Local Governance for Social Sustainability: equity as a strategic response to neoliberal constraints in food security initiatives
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-01-2017
Synchronous Breeding: Wedge-tailed ShearwatersPuffinus pacificusin Eastern Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-1997
DOI: 10.1071/MU97044
Thinking outside the framework: equitable research partnerships for environmental research in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-11-2007
Nest–site Selection and Breeding Success of Wedge–tailed Shearwaters Puffinus pacificus at Heron Island
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-1997
Butchulla perspectives on dingo displacement and agency at K’gari-Fraser Island, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Segregation and protectionism: Institutionalised views of Aboriginal rurality
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2009
Teaching Indigenous geography in a neo-colonial world
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-02-2017
Governing extension and extending governance for Pacific organic farming
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-05-2022
Abstract: Organic farming in the Pacific region could provide higher‐than‐average premiums to small‐scale farmers. Thus, many farmers seek specific information on market access and internationally recognised global standards and third‐party certification. Agricultural extension work has changed in terms of formal and informal understanding and expression. Concomitantly, pluralist extension networks and innovation have replaced singular, publicly‐delivered extension services because of an increase in private commercial interests under prevailing neoliberal logics. Nevertheless, there are socio‐spatial barriers to farmers accessing extension and establishing relations with certifying bodies and some extension partners. Thus, agricultural extension experts will need to create new governance arrangements with local farmer groups as nodes within pluralist public–private–producer networks and regional information flows to support these groups and their accountability and trust with local constituents. In this article, we argue that geographically disparate local farmer groups should be supported by flatter governance of agricultural extension to better link local farmer nodes in comparable growing regions with other transnational local nodes, and with regional certification bodies. Aided by powerful supporting partners in such a plural extension network, this type of flat governance would build trans‐local connections that better situate small‐scale farming and food security as responsive to future uncertainties.
Addressing rural diffuse pollution in peri-urban agricultural catchments using the FarmFLOW framework: a study in the Pumicestone catchment
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2012
The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity. Creed, Country, Colour, Class, CultureKwame AnthonyAppiah, 2018. London: Profile Books. 256 pp. ISBN 9781781259238. eISBN 97811782833901, AUD $29.99
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-10-2020
Dis-placed voices: sense of place and place-identity on the Sunshine Coast
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2007
Socio-Economic Factors in Companion Animal Relinquishment on the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Publisher: Brill
Date: 25-04-2018
DOI: 10.1163/15685306-12341473
Abstract: There is a critical need to reduce the surrender rates of companion animals by understanding the socio-economic circumstances of caretakers. This research analyzed questionnaires with 117 relinquishers and 13 interviews. Interviews were conducted with relinquishers and staff at Sunshine Coast Animal Refuge Society and Sunshine Coast Animal Pound. Most companion animals relinquished were from litters and around half were de-sexed and micro-chipped. A caretaker’s living situation was a critical reason for relinquishment. Humans need to understand the time and space needs of companion species, how these might change with time, and the relationality between humans and companion animals. Alongside regulated breeding and accessible sterilization, shelter staff and other organizations might offer more tailored solutions, especially temporary care, during times of socio-economic crisis. Fundamentally, in iduals need to critically examine their commitment to caretaking, but solutions are also structural and should be tailored to the underpinning socio-economic geography of different regions.
Representations of the dingo: contextualising iconicity
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2015
Doctoring knowledge or acknowledging doctors?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2018
Breeding Cycle of Wedge-tailed ShearwatersPuffinus pacificusat Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-1996
DOI: 10.1071/MU9960195
Assessing the plant availability of manganese in soils using Diffusive Gradients in Thin films (DGT)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2012
Academic ‘place-making’: fostering attachment, belonging and identity for Indigenous students in Australian universities
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 22-09-2017
A new method for determination of potassium in soils using diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT)
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1071/EN11070
Abstract: Environmental contextPotassium is an essential plant nutrient and farmers need to be able to predict how much soil K is plant available in order to optimise fertiliser applications and crop production. Traditional methods such as chemical extraction are generally poor predictors. A DGT based methodology that could enhance the assessment of plant available K is developed, which will assist plant growers to determine the correct fertiliser application, thereby avoiding crop deficiencies and limiting the misuse of K as a precious natural resource. AbstractPotassium is an essential plant nutrient often limiting plant productivity. Ammonium acetate extraction is often used to predict the potassium status of soils. However, correlation between extracted K and plant uptake is often poor, especially over a range of different soil textures. Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT), which determines the diffusive supply of elements, has been shown to accurately measure plant available elements in several cases. Up until now, however, the DGT devices available have not been suitable for measuring K. We set out to develop a DGT device suitable for the measurement of K in soil and test its ability to predict plant available K. The DGT device contained a binding layer based on Amberlite IRP-69 cation exchange resin. It proved suitable for the measurement of K under conditions similar to those usually found in soil if a 2-h deployment time was used and the labile K concentration was limited to 400 µM. Prediction of plant K concentrations with DGT were similar to those with ammonium acetate extractions over a range of typical agricultural soils with sandy and sandy loam textures. The results indicate that this new type of DGT has the potential to improve the accuracy of predictions of the K status of soils, although more tests using a wider range of plant species and soils are necessary.
Finding common ground in weed management: Peri-urban farming, environmental and lifestyle values and practices in southeast Queensland, Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2014
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12034
Framing adaptive capacity through a history-futures lens: Lessons from the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research Initiative
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Troubling knowledge in Australian Indigenous Studies: how prior knowledge affects undergraduate student learning
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-05-2023
“Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-02-2023
Benefits and risks for Melanesian households from commercialising Canarium indicum
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2017
DOI: 10.1111/APV.12169
GIS as a Rapid Decision-support Tool for Raptor Conservation Planning in Urbanising Landscapes
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2009
‘Cause we’re gonna lose big time’: Indigenous resource negotiations in settled Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-03-2017
'There's nothing standard about standards': exploring tensions between two standards documents in higher education
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-03-2016
BOOK REVIEWS
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2007
Structural modeling of resident perceptions of tourism and associated development on the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2007
Displacing Indigenous Cultural Landscapes: the Naturalistic Gaze at Fraser Island World Heritage Area
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-10-2010
An indigenous role in partnerships for sustainable homelands occupation in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2006
DOI: 10.1002/SD.261
Countering Brutality to Wildlife, Relationism and Ethics: Conservation, Welfare and the ‘Ecoversity’
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 27-01-2011
DOI: 10.3390/ANI1010161
Beliefs and Attitudes of Residents in Queensland, Australia, about Managing Dog and Cat Impacts on Native Wildlife
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 11-09-2020
DOI: 10.3390/ANI10091637
Abstract: Many humans have created close relationships with wildlife and companion species. Notwithstanding that companion species were at some point themselves wild, some wild (i.e., feral) and domesticated (owned) dogs and cats now have significant impacts on wildlife. Many strategies exist to control the impact of dogs and cats on wildlife, but the successful implementation of management initiatives is tied to public opinions and the degree of acceptability of these measures. This paper reports the findings of a survey assessing the beliefs of residents in Queensland, Australia, about dog and cat impacts on wildlife, and their attitudes towards various strategies and options for controlling wild (i.e., feral) and domesticated (owned) dogs and cats. The responses of 590 participants were analysed. Our respondents collectively grouped strategies into those that directly cause wild dog and cat deaths and those that allow wild dogs and cats to live a ‘natural’ life, which is a variation on past research where respondents grouped strategies into lethal and non-lethal methods. Community acceptability of strategies that directly cause wild dog and cat deaths (each assessed using five-category Likert scores) was lower amongst females and respondents aged 34 years or less. Gender expectations in most places and cultures still predominately suggest that women are more ‘caring’, supportive of animal welfare, and perhaps cognizant that wild dogs and cats are also sentient creatures and appreciate the problematic tension between controlling wild and companion species. Age-related differences may reflect the changing social values of communities at different points in time. There was high support for regulations that enforce responsible pet ownership but not for the importance of pet-free suburbs, which the majority of respondents considered unimportant. These important variations in beliefs and attitudes require careful management within each community for the success of any program to control wild dogs or cats.
Biogeographies: Transcending anthropocentrism in the Anthropocene
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-08-2020
Using videoed stories to convey Indigenous ‘Voices’ in Indigenous Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 02-09-2019
DOI: 10.1017/JIE.2019.15
Abstract: Abstract Australian higher education policy espouses the need to expose students to Indigenous knowledges, cultures and pedagogies by embedding appropriate content into the curriculum. One way to overcome the challenges of guest speakers, lack of capacity and a crowded curriculum is to use digital materials regularly during lectures and tutorials. Videos have been shown to create empathy and emotional connection between students and the storyteller. The Voices project consisted of 12 semi-structured conversations with local Indigenous people covering a range of topics, each of which was edited for particular topics and courses to avoid student resistance to difficult material and avoid homogenous representations of Indigenous peoples. The edited video clips were shown in class and evaluated. This research reports on formal anonymous student feedback on teaching, questionnaire responses from 115 students and 10 in-depth interviews. Findings include the authenticity, emotional connection and empathy the storytellers provide, and the need for cultural courage to reflect on one's own positionality and privilege. We argue that digital storytelling is an effective pedagogy that also engages the community and helps further the higher education agenda for culturally inclusive knowledges and perspectives.
Protocols, particularities, and problematising Indigenous ‘engagement’ in community‐based environmental management in settled Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 02-08-2010
Nesting activity, breeding success and colony size for the Wedge‐tailed Shearwater Puffinus pacificus on Heron Island
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-1996
The Agency of Dolphins: Towards Inter‐species Embassies as Sites of Engagement with ‘Significant Otherness’
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-04-2012
Concepts, conceptualization, and conceptions in geography
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-10-2019
Indigenous community-based fisheries in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2007
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2006.10.021
Abstract: The commercial sea cucumber species known as Sandfish (Holothuria scabra) occurs intertidally and subtidally in the Northern Territory of Australia, on or adjacent to Aboriginal land. A 4-yr program of community-based fisheries research with Aboriginal Australians was implemented to assess the viability of indigenous Australians' involvement in the wild-stock fishery. The research involved extensive and intensive indigenous participation, unusual in Australian biophysical sciences research, during field survey and habitat mapping, complemented by commercial catch data modelling and discussion of its implications. Field surveys produced Sandfish distribution and site-specific density, and revealed some areas that were not commercially fished. Catch data modelling results suggested that no additional effort could be sustained, however commercial fishers increased their effort, expanding their operations into the newly mapped areas. These actions effectively precluded indigenous peoples' aspirations of entry into the commercial fishery. The efficacy and outcomes of participatory program design with indigenous Australians need critique in the absence of the political will and statutory backing to provide equitable access to resources.
Care in the contested geographies of Dolphin-Assisted Therapy
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 26-03-2018
Towards institutional fit? The reality of institutional capacity through two food security exemplars
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Dilemmas of transgression: Ethical responses in a more-than-human world
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-09-2017
Abstract: To transgress is ‘to do something that is not allowed’ in a human-constructed world, animals, especially those seen as ‘incompanionate’, are often deemed to be doing something not allowed. We explore the ethical dilemmas of ‘transgression’ in the context of critical reflection on an instructive ex le of dingo–human relations on Fraser Island, Australia, which has incited ongoing debate from erse publics about the killing of ‘problem’ dingoes. We outline the historical and ethical complexity of such relations and suggest that human–nonhuman encounters, direct or indirect, have the potential to produce new, less anthropocentric topologies in which transgression is reconstructed, and humans and animals can share space more equitably. The kind of knowledge and ethical re-positioning beginning to emerge in dingo–human relations suggests transgression itself as a metaphor for its further re-imagining: a disruption of spatial, emotional and ethical boundaries to shape more responsive, respectful and less anthropocentric topologies.
Exploring Residents' Perceptions of the Social Impacts of Tourism on the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-07-2008
Critiquing environmental management in indigenous Australia: two case studies
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2007
Dingo singing: the howl of the advocate
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1071/PC17036
Abstract: World Heritage protected areas are increasingly valuable for civil society. Sectors of broader society can feel invested in such areas and engage in forms of conservation advocacy that challenge traditional formal management. Advocacy is found wherever management decisions are negotiated or contested, revealing sharp ides in positions. But there are also opportunities for partnerships in advocacy. Identifying the narrative details of advocacy positions is crucial but complicated when the parties being represented are non-human animals, plant species or broader environments: they depend on the advocate’s voice as they cannot speak in any literal sense. Thus advocates discussed in this paper are those representing scientific decision-frames: managers and scientists. Both groups frequently draw on empirical research, giving primacy to the proof of scientific voice. In this research we presented methods to build interdisciplinary literacy to move beyond traditional categorical analysis. Semantic mapping was applied to identify narrative themes as the basis for close textual analysis in a specific case study: advocacy on behalf of the K’gari-Fraser Island dingo. We differentiated three critical pillars of wisdom – Indigenous, local and scientific – but here only considered the advocacy positions within the scientific knowledge decision-making community. Thus, we compared positions taken by the formal management community (government managers) with positions taken in the scientific research community (academic researchers). Narrative themes in advocacy agendas and metaphorical strategies taken to frame positions identify differences and common ground for the two groups. Management advocacy was premised on limits to human–dingo interaction while science advocacy called for dingo welfare. The synergy was tourists, defined as the greatest threat to dingo welfare and viability. This common ground provides an effective starting point to support dingo interests. Identifying options and constraints in advocacy positions is crucial for the future of dingoes on K’gari, but also for all people who engage with World Heritage values. Implicitly, this paper defends the place of advocacy in scientific discussion. By exploring potential options for negotiation, conservation outcomes that support contested iconic species in a World Heritage context are more likely.
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Related Funding Activities
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR0354516
Start Date: 01-2004
End Date: 03-2004
Amount: $10,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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