Australian Geographer

21/08/2024

Revisit 'Environmental and Cultural Implications of Visitor Access in the Kimberley Region, Australia':

The Kimberley coast in Australia's far north-west is the traditional country and home of a number of Indigenous groups and hosts some of the country's richest cultural heritage, most spectacular ...

20/08/2024

Revisit 'Pop-up food provisioning as a sustainable third space: reshaping eating practices at an inner urban university':

We examine one innovative response to the social, spatial and environmental sustainability challenges posed by food provisioning and consumption for large-scale organisations—pop-up or mobile food ...

19/08/2024

Online now 'Reimagining smart city collaboration in Colombo, Sri Lanka after Gilbert Simondon':

Most cities across the globe are embarking on various ‘smart’-based initiatives that seek to use technological developments to enhance people’s lives and make society more productive. Within such s...

16/08/2024

Revisit 'Some things do change: indigenous rights, geographers and geography in Australia':

Using a recent editorial comment in this journal as a focus, this paper reviews the extent to which geography has been implicated in the ‘colonial project’ in Australia. It argues that recent wor...

15/08/2024

Revisit 'Counterurbanisation, demographic change and discourses of rural revival in Australia during COVID-19':

The term ‘counterurbanisation’ is receiving renewed academic attention due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While not in vogue in popular discourse, the concepts invoked by the term counterurbanisation of...

14/08/2024

Revisit 'Evaluating consumer preferences for health care services in rural Australia':

Service provision to remote rural areas is extremely costly, and only likely to be effective if the services provided are appropriate and accessible to the population. To date, little is known abou...

13/08/2024

Revisit 'Suffer a Sea Change? Contrasting perspectives towards urban policy and migration in coastal Australia:

Has the notion of ‘sea change’ and its considerable implications for non-metropolitan coastal Australia been exaggerated? In this article alternative perspectives of ‘sea change’ in Australia are...

12/08/2024

Revisit 'Seeds for Change? Attaining the benefits of community gardens through council policies in Sydney, Australia':

Modern industrial systems of food production cause a wide range of detrimental impacts to the environment, human health and society. Integrating community gardens into local food systems is one way...

09/08/2024

Revisit 'Flower viewing from horseback? New directions in Chinese tourism in Australia':

In this century Chinese tourists in Australia have rapidly become the most numerous national source. Relatively little is known about their socio-economic status, their geographical origins and exp...

08/08/2024

Revisit 'Sustainable Housing Development in Urban Australia: exploring obstacles to and opportunities for ecocity efforts':

Basic aspects of sustainable housing design such as increasing density, mixed use and proximity to public transport are being adopted increasingly in Australian cities. Sustainable building codes s...

07/08/2024

Revisit 'The informal Australian city':

In recent years, a vibrant literature on urban informality has emerged in urban geography. A key claim of this literature is that informality is not only present in cities in the Global South, and ...

06/08/2024

Revisit 'The Demise of Place Equity in Sydney's Economic Development Planning':

The role of planning in Sydney's economic development since the mid-1970s is explored, focusing on its role in reducing spatial disparities across the region. Planning policies during the period of...

05/08/2024

Online now 'Long-Term Hierarchic Changes in Settlement Systems at Geographic ‘Edges’':

Sparsely populated geographic edges of colonised nations exhibit heterogenous historical demographic trajectories. In this study, we analyse the longitudinal evolution of the settlement system in N...

02/08/2024

Revisit 'A Geography of Place: principles and application for defining ‘eco-civic’ resource governance regions':

River catchments have been the dominant form of regionalisation for natural-resource management in many countries since the 1980s. Local governments play a considerable role in planning with ever...

01/08/2024

Revisit 'Introduction: enacting modernity in the Pacific?':

Published in Australian Geographer (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2012)

31/07/2024

Revisit 'Population Resettlement in the Pacific: lessons from a hazardous history?':

For more than a century Pacific Islanders have been resettled away from difficult circumstances arising from population pressures, environmental hazards and political or economic pressures. Past re...

30/07/2024

Revisit 'Spatial targeting of early childhood interventions: a comparison of developmental vulnerability in two Australian cities':

Healthy development in early childhood is a predictor of success in later life. As such, monitoring the development of young children and, where appropriate, intervening to support that development...

29/07/2024

Revisit 'Compartmentalising Culture: the articulation and consideration of Indigenous values in water resource management':

Social values are receiving increased attention in natural resource management policy and practice, and the notion of cultural values has recently emerged, particularly in relation to water resou...

26/07/2024

Revisit 'Economy, culture and environment: perspectives on the Australian food industry:

Intersections between economy, culture and environment pose exciting future challenges for human geography. Part of Griffith Taylor's pioneering role as a geographer was to investigate relationship...

25/07/2024

Revisit 'Food security, remoteness and consolidation of supermarket distribution centres: Factors contributing to food pricing inequalities across Queensland, Australia': https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049182.2015.1093700'

There is a clear association between food prices, affordability and issues of food security. Australian food supply chains have lengthened in recent years in response to consolidation policies of t...

24/07/2024

Revisit 'The Econo-techno-social Design of Invasive Animal Management: costs and benefits or beneficiaries and benefactors?':

This paper examines invasive animal management institutions, using theories at the interstices of anthropology and geography, to question current approaches to management based on neoclassical and ...

23/07/2024

Revisit 'Quantitative Research Performing other Worlds: lessons from sustainable agriculture in the Philippines':

For those interested in ethical research, quantitative methods are often dismissed as apolitical; as unreflective exercises in ‘mere counting’. If, however, in doing research, we bring into being t...

22/07/2024

Revisit 'The Wild Life of Pesticides: urban agriculture, institutional responsibility, and the future of biodiversity in Sydney's Hawkesbury-Nepean River':

Agricultural chemicals are a notoriously intractable source of environmental pollution. Offering enhanced agricultural productivity, they simultaneously risk degrading the ecological basis upon whi...

19/07/2024

Revisit 'Physical effects of hurricane bere upon Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu':

Detailed aerial photograph analysis of the effects of hurricane Bebe (21 October 1972) on Funafuti atoll using ‘before and after’ photos plus ground truthing give a detailed picture of wind and wat...

18/07/2024

Revisit 'Two Tales of a City: detecting socio-economic disadvantage in an ‘advantaged’ Australian urban centre':

Understanding the distribution of socio-economic status (SES) within and between communities of varying spatial scales is vital for equitable and effective resource delivery and policy development....

17/07/2024

Revisit 'Shari’a and Everyday Life in Sydney':

(2016). Shari’a and Everyday Life in Sydney. Australian Geographer: Vol. 47, The Geographies of Everyday Muslim Life in the West, pp. 341-354.

16/07/2024

Revisit 'The context is more important than the commodity in understanding stakeholder responses to blue gum plantations': https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00049182.2021.1999628

15/07/2024

Revisit 'GIS as a Rapid Decision-support Tool for Raptor Conservation Planning in Urbanising Landscapes':

(2009). GIS as a Rapid Decision-support Tool for Raptor Conservation Planning in Urbanising Landscapes. Australian Geographer: Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 471-494.

12/07/2024

Revisit 'When History May Lead us Astray: using historical documents to reconstruct swampy meadows/chains of ponds in the New South Wales Central Tablelands, Australia':

This paper examines historical evidence on the occurrence and status of an important landscape element in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales: the swampy meadow/chain of ponds landform. Our f...

11/07/2024

Revisit 'An exploratory study of house-sitting and ‘home’-making among older people':

The growing housing unaffordability is forcing people to take on unconventional pathways and experiment with alternate means of ‘home’-making. This research explores opportunities for making ‘home’...