Lesley Head

The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 10-2010

DOI: 10.1016/J.JRURSTUD.2010.06.001

Living with Invasive Plants in the Anthropocene: The Importance of Understanding Practice and Experience

Publisher: Medknow

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.170411

Plant exploitation on Sahul: From colonisation to the emergence of regional specialisation during the Holocene

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 06-2009

DOI: 10.1016/J.QUAINT.2008.06.018

Climate change and Australia

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 09-10-2014

DOI: 10.1002/WCC.255

Abstract: Australia has had a variable and mostly arid climate as long as humans have been on the continent. Historically observed trends toward increased warming, with rainfall increases in many tropical areas and rainfall decreases in many temperate areas, are projected to continue. Impacts will be geographically variable but mostly negative for bio ersity, agriculture, and infrastructure. Extreme events such as bushfires and floods will increase in frequency and intensity, concentrated in summer. With an economy heavily dependent on coal for domestic electricity generation and as an export commodity, Australians are high per capita contributors to anthropogenic climate change. A quarter‐century of steps to mitigation led in 2012 to a carbon price that has the long‐term potential to shift the economy toward more renewable energy sources. However as in other parts of the world this change has come too late, and is proceeding too slowly, to avoid significant climate change. A heritage of indigenous adaptation, strong volunteer cultures, and contemporary cultural ersity provide Australia with considerable adaptive capacity for gradual changes, but the nation is underprepared for sudden or step changes. We identify four pressing research and policy needs focused on such changes: (1) systematic attention to processes and impacts of negative transformative change, or worst‐case scenarios, (2) improve forecasts of year‐to‐year rainfall and climate variability, focusing on processes and climate drivers that may change in response to higher greenhouse gases, (3) identification and engagement of erse cross‐cultural resources, and (4) articulation of alternative governance mechanisms that can interact dynamically with strong government. WIREs Clim Change 2014, 5:175–197. doi: 10.1002/wcc.255 This article is categorized under: Trans‐Disciplinary Perspectives National Reviews

Climate change and household dynamics: Beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 31-08-2011

DOI: 10.1111/J.1475-5661.2010.00403.X

The distinctive capacities of plants: Re-thinking difference via invasive species

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 15-12-2015

DOI: 10.1111/TRAN.12077

Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2015

DOI: 10.1016/J.ENPOL.2015.08.038

Gifts, sustainable consumption and giving up green anxieties at Christmas

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2013

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2013.08.004

Editorial: Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 05-11-2014

DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2014.973900

Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 27-07-2022

DOI: 10.1111/COBI.13929

Abstract: Successful management of invasive plants (IPs) requires the active participation of erse communities across land tenures. This can be challenging because communities do not always share the views of scientists and managers. They may directly disagree, have alternative views, or be unwilling to manage IPs. Reviews of IP social science identify opportunities to better understand the role of cultural processes and everyday practices to address these challenges. To scale up and leverage the insights of existing qualitative social science IP research, we used meta‐ethnography to unlock accounts and interpretations of lay perspectives. Meta‐ethnography is a form of qualitative research synthesis increasingly used beyond its origins in health and education to produce interpretive syntheses of an area of research. In the 7 phases of meta‐ethnography, we systematically identified and synthesized 19 qualitative articles pertinent to lay experience and knowledge of IPs in erse settings. Action and meaning regarding IPs were influenced by 6 meta‐themes in personal and social life: dissonance, priorities, difference, agency, responsibility, and future orientations. Through descriptions and ex les of each meta‐theme, we demonstrated how the meta‐themes are higher level structuring concepts across the qualitative research that we analyzed and we retained grounding in the in‐depth qualitative research. We characterized the meta‐themes as leverage points and tensions by which we reframed lay people in terms of capacity for reflective IP management rather than as obstacles. The meta‐ethnography synthesis shows how leverage points and tensions emerge from everyday life and can frame alternative and meaningful starting points for both research and public engagement and deliberation regarding IP management. These insights are not a panacea, but open up new space for reflective and mutual consideration of how to effectively navigate often complex IP problems and address conservation and social and livelihood issues in dynamic social and physical environments.

Late Quaternary landscape evolution in the Keep River region, northwestern Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 09-2005

DOI: 10.1016/J.QUASCIREV.2004.11.004

Introduction: Applied natures - Cultural engagements with Australian environmental management

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-2006

DOI: 10.1080/00049180500511921

Walking practice and suburban nature-talk

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 02-2009

DOI: 10.1080/14649360802553186

Comparison of sedimentation and occupation histories inside and outside rock shelters, Keep-River region, northwestern Australia

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 2005

DOI: 10.1002/GEA.20087

Archaeology in Environment and Technology

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 02-05-2013

DOI: 10.4324/9780203508947

Culture, nature and landscape in the Australian region

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 05-2008

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2007.10.013

Australia’s mass fish kills as a crisis of modern water: Understanding hydrosocial change in the Murray-Darling Basin

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 02-2020

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2019.12.020

Australasia

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Date: 26-03-2009

DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780199271016.013.0028

Conversations with Lesley Head about Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Reconceptualising Human‐Nature Relations

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 17-07-2018

DOI: 10.1111/1745-5871.12292

Shifting settler-colonial discourses of environmentalism: Representations of indigeneity and migration in Australian conservation

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 08-2018

DOI: 10.1016/J.GEOFORUM.2018.06.005

The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 02-09-2003

DOI: 10.4324/9780203202449

Zones of friction, zones of traction: The connected household in climate change and sustainability policy

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 12-2013

DOI: 10.1080/14486563.2013.835286

The boundaries of nature tourism

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 07-2003

DOI: 10.1016/S0160-7383(02)00104-4

A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 21-03-2016

DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2016.1139560

Archaeobotany of fruit seed processing in a monsoon savanna environment: evidence from the Keep River region, Northern Territory, Australia

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 02-2005

DOI: 10.1016/J.JAS.2004.03.022

Local engagements with urban bushland: Moving beyond bounded practice for urban biodiversity management

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 12-2009

DOI: 10.1016/J.LANDURBPLAN.2009.07.004

Sustainable household capability: Which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability?

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 03-2012

DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2012.649519

“Winga Is Trying to Get in”: Local Observations of Climate Change in the Tiwi Islands

Publisher: American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Date: 03-2023

DOI: 10.1029/2022EF002808

Abstract: There is a growing body of research documenting Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities' observations of changes in climate. The accuracy, efficacy, and transferability of this research depends on its motives and methods. In this paper, we report on research to produce a working knowledge of changes in climate and its impacts on local biophysical systems in the Tiwi Islands in Northern Australia. Interviews with 52 Tiwi people were combined with erse forms of aerial data to produce a nuanced understanding of climate change in these remote islands. These data show changes in climate‐sensitive biophysical systems that would otherwise remain undetected by instruments conventionally used for monitoring climate change. These include changes in shorelines, which are causing concerns about damage to buildings that are important for Tiwi well‐being, and changes in the marine environment and wetlands, which are causing concerns about damage to natural heritage. We discuss the implications of these findings, arguing that systematic observations collected by networks of people “on Country” can provide excellent monitoring of climate change impacts, and that Indigenous people's interests in the effects of climate change overlap with those of non‐Indigenous people, as do their rights to support from the State for adaptation.

Becoming differently modern

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Date: 21-02-2012

DOI: 10.1177/0309132512438162

The Prehistory of Food

Publisher: Routledge

Date: 14-01-2004

DOI: 10.4324/9780203203385

From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 06-12-2014

DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2014.973008

Retrofitting the Suburban Garden: morphologies and some elements of sustainability potential of two Australian residential suburbs compared

Publisher: Informa UK Limited

Date: 09-2009

DOI: 10.1080/00049180903127754

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210100884

Start Date: 06-2021

End Date: 05-2025

Amount: $246,827.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0665932

Start Date: 2006

End Date: 12-2010

Amount: $299,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140101165

Start Date: 2014

End Date: 12-2017

Amount: $354,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0986041

Start Date: 2009

End Date: 12-2014

Amount: $403,984.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190100875

Start Date: 06-2019

End Date: 12-2024

Amount: $336,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200322

Start Date: 05-2021

End Date: 05-2025

Amount: $281,446.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Australian Laureate Fellowships - Grant ID: FL0992397

Start Date: 02-2010

End Date: 12-2016

Amount: $2,467,253.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0211327

Start Date: 03-2002

End Date: 12-2005

Amount: $250,000.00

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