Members

Measham T. G. (2006) Learning about environments: the significance of primal landscapes, Environmental Management. (in press)

Measham T. and Baker R. (2005) Combining People, Place and Learning in Keen, M, Brown, V. and Dyball, R. (eds) Social Learning in Environmental Management: Building a sustainable future. London: James & James/Earthscan pp. 91-103

Measham, T. G. (2005) Red Gum Plains Vegetation Survey Report Prepared for the Australian Landscape Trust, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra.

Measham, T. G. (2003) Management Studies Evaluation: report prepared for the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Townsville

Cowell, S. and Measham T. (2000) National Land Management Research Program Component 2 Regional Strategies and Environmental Characteristics: Report Prepared for Indigenous Land Corporation 2 Vols, CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, Townsville

Walker, D. H. and Measham T. (1999) Local Knowledge and its implications for ICM in Bellamy, J. A. Evaluation of Integrated Catchment Management in a Wet Tropical Environment: Collected Papers of LWRRDC R&D Project CTC7, Vol 7 Implementing ICM: Evaluation and Information Needs, CSIRO Tropical Agriculture, Brisbane pp 95-119

Measham, T. 1999 Community Vulnerability to Tropical Cyclones and Associated Storm Surges: Cairns caravan parks study, Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University, Townsville http://www.tesag.jcu.edu.au/cds/reports/caravan.pdf

"Determinants of outback livelihoods: case study of the upper Burdekin catchment." (Tropical Savannahs CRC / Desert Knowledge CRC. 2005-08. $100k)

"Best Practice Management for Salt and Biodiversity in Wallatin and O’Brien Creek Catchments" (CSIRO, $200k, 2004-06)

"Scoping study to developing social and economic indicators for cotton communities" (Cotton Catchment Communities CRC, 2005/06 $40k)

Evaluation of Capacity Building through community based NRM (Australian Landscape Trust $40k, 2004-2005)

Social Geographer

Resource Futures Program

CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

Tom Measham has ten years experience researching the relationships between society and environment with particular reference to

• Sense of place
• Social learning
• Sense of community
• Factors affecting adoption of land management practices
• Evaluation of research and management projects

Bill Pritchard [^]

Publications 

Pritchard, B. & Burch, D. (2003) Agri-food Globalization in Perspective: International Restructuring in the Processing Tomato Industry, Ashgate, Aldershot.
Beer, A., Maude, A. & Pritchard, B. (2003), Developing Regional Australia, UNSW Press, Kensington.
Pritchard, B. (2005) “How the rule of the market rules the law of WTO dispute settlement: a political economy interpretation of the ‘US lamb’ decision”, Review of International Political Economy.
Pritchard, B. (2005) “The political construction of free trade visions: the geo-politics and geo-economics of Australian beef exporting”, Agriculture and Human Values.
Pritchard, B. (2005) “Implementing and maintaining neoliberal agriculture in Australia. Part I: The development of policy” International Journal of the Sociology of Food and Agriculture, 13(1), pp. 1-12.
Pritchard, B. (forthcoming) “Implementing and maintaining neoliberal agriculture in Australia. Part II: Justifying policy” International Journal of the Sociology of Food and Agriculture.
Pritchard, B. & Curtis, R. (2004) “The persistence of national institutions in global commodity chains: Japanese dairy provisioning, the WTO and the Australian connection” Economic Geography 80(2), pp. 173-190.

Recent grants and consultancies 

2005-06 , “Building Institutional Capacity in Asia: Japanese Official Development Assistance”, Ministry of Finance, Japan/ Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.
2004-07, “Traceability as a mode of ordering”, ARC Discovery Grants Scheme (with Professor John Spriggs and Dr Jeffrey Neilson).
2004-05, “Building Institutional Capacity in Asia: Regulating Foreign Direct Investment”, Ministry of Finance, Japan/ Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.
2003, “The food processing industry in Southeast Asia”, Japanese Ministry of Finance (Building Institutional Capacity in Asia project; Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific).
2001-04, “Food commodity chains in the Asia-Pacific”, ARC Large Grants Scheme (With Professor R. Fagan, Assoc/Prof D. Burch).

Current position and affiliation

Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography, Division of Geography, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney

Experience and expertise

Bill Pritchard is Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Sydney. His main area of interest is the analysis of economic globalisation, with particular focus on food systems and the Asia-Pacific. During the past five years, he has published over 30 articles and chapters in academically refereed publications, as well as authoring two books and editing two others. In 2003 he was a Visiting Fellow at the Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University USA.

Visit Bill Pritchard's web page

Michael Roche [^]

Publications

Cloke  P, Le Heron R, & Roche M. 1990 Towards a political economy approach to understanding rural change: The example of New Zealand. Geografiska Annaler,  72B:13-25.

Roche M, 1992 Privatizing the Exotic Forest Estate - The New Zealand. Experience.  In Dargavel J, and Tucker R, (ed).  Changing Pacific Forests. IUFRO, Forest History Society, Durham, UK.  pp. 139-154

Le Heron R, and Roche M.  1995 A Fresh Place for Food's Space.  Area, 27:23-33.

Roche M, McKenna M, and Le Heron R, 1999 Making Fruitful Comparisons: Southern  Hemisphere Producers and  the Global Apple Industry. Tijdschrift voor Economishe en Sociale Geografie, 90: 410 -426.

Roche M, 2002 The State as Conservationist, 1920-60: 'Wise use' of forests, lands and water. In  Pawson,  E and Brooking T (eds) Environmental Histories of New Zealand, Oxford University Press,  Melbourne, pp.183-199.

Roche M, 2003 'Wilderness to Orchard': The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908-1940. Environment and History 9: 435-450.

Roche M, 2003 Rural Geography: A Stock Tally for 2002 Progress in Human Geography 27(6): 779-786.

Current position and institutional affiliation

Professor of Geography

Head of School People Environment and Planning

Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Experience and expertise.

A background in historical geography, particularly interested in forestry sector and in agrifood systems, especially the 'fresh' complex.

Frank Vanclay  [^] 

Vanclay & Lawrence 1995 The Environmental Imperative: Ecosocial Concerns for Australian Agriculture, Rockhampton: Central Queensland University Press.

Becker & Vanclay (eds) 2003 The International Handbook of Social Impact Assessment, Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar.

Vanclay & Bronstein (eds) 1995 Environmental and Social Impact Assessment, Chichester (UK): Wiley.

Vanclay et al. 2004 Committing to Place and evaluating the higher purpose: Increasing engagement in natural resource management through museum outreach and educational activities, Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management 6(4): 539-564.

Vanclay 2004 Social principles for agricultural extension to assist in the promotion of natural resource management, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 44(3): 213-222.

Vanclay 2003 International principles for social impact assessment, Impact Assessment & Project Appraisal 21(1), 5-11.

Vanclay 2002 Conceptualising social impacts, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 22(3), 183-211.

2005-2008. Transforming the Environment through Transformational Education: Engaging Students in Natural Resource Management, $22,500

2004. Meat and Livestock Australia Limited. Consultancy MLA triple bottom line evaluation. $5000

2004. Murray-Darling Basin Commission, Consultancy. The Living Murray: An independant peer review' framework for social impact .... Murray Irrigation area...$2,500

2004-2006 Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation,Scholarship-Postgraduate Research Endogenous Regional Development: Cottage Industries in Tasmanian Agriculture $34,500

2004-2005 University of New England Consultancy Preparation and Delivery of Electronic Lectures $3,500

2003 Australian Research Council Grant-SRI Seed Funding for Research Networks Social Research Network for Sustainable Rural Communities $10,000

2003 Grains Research & Development Corporation Grant-Travel/Conference

2003 Australasia Pacific Extension Network Forum: 'Change Management in Rural and Regional Communities from Theory to Practice' $10,000

2003 Murray-Darling Basin Commission Consultancy Living Murray Peer Review $5,000

2002-2004 Australian Research Council Grant-Linkage Activating and Maintaining Community Participation in Natural and Cultural Resources Initiatives in the Murray-Darling Basin Murray-Darling Basin Commission; National Museum of Australia $394,700 and $772,993

2002-2003 Australian Research Council Grant-SPIRT Improving Water Management in NSW Irrigated Agriculture through Social Analysis of Water UsersNew South Wales Agriculture $67,284 and $42,524

2002 Repetitive Activity Presentations $1,210

2002 World Bank Consultancy Expert Advice $28,657

1999-2002 Australian Research Council Large Grant A79905575 Innovation, exclusion, and commodification of plant types: a social and philosophical investigation of plant variety rights in Australia $130,000

1997-2003 CRC Temperate Hardwood Forestry Grant-Industry Farm Forestry - Payment of A Fulton's salary $73,787

Prof Frank Vanclay
Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research
University of Tasmania

Prof Frank Vanclay is a professorial research fellow in rural and environmental sociology at the Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research (TIAR) at the University of Tasmania in Hobart since early 2002. TIAR is a partnership between the University and the Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment. Prof Vanclay specialises in the areas of social impact assessment, and social aspects of environmental management, particularly in agriculture. He has a BSc(Hon) in environmental studies from Griffith University, a Masters degree in sociology (rural and environmental sociology and research methods) from the University of Queensland, and a PhD in agricultural and environmental sociology from Wageningen University in The Netherlands. He was the 2000-2004 President of the International Rural Sociology Association, a past Director of the International Association for Impact Assessment and has been Chair of its Awards and Publications Committees.

Jim Walmsley  [^] =================

Publications

‘Tourism cognitive mapping of unfamiliar environments’, Annals of Tourism Research 19, 268-86, 1992 (with J.M. Jenkins).

Contemporary Australia: Explorations in Economy, Society and Geography, Longman Cheshire, Melbourne, second edition, 1993, xiv + 397pp, ISBN 0 582 87501 3 (with A.D. Sorensen). Reprinted 1995.

People and Environment: Behavioural Approaches in Human Geography, Longman, London, 1993, xii + 290pp. ISBN 0 582 07866 0 (with G.J. Lewis). Reprinted 1994, 2002.

‘Is Australia becoming more unequal?’, Australian Geographer 28, 69-88, 1997 (with H.C. Weinand).

‘Migration to the New South Wales North Coast 1986-1991: lifestyle motivated counterurbanisation’, Geoforum 29, 105-18, 1998 (with W.R. Epps and C.J. Duncan).

‘Community, place and cyberspace’, Australian Geographer 31, 5-19, 2000.

‘Rural tourism: a case of lifestyle-led opportunities’, Australian Geographer, 34, 61-72, 2003

Research contracts from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs for Atlas of the Australian People – 1996 Census: New South Wales, Victoria, and Australian Capital Territory, 1997-1998 (with F. Rolley and H. Weinand) ($23824)

Large ARC Grant 2001-3 for the project: The community without propinquity hypothesis: an elaboration and investigation of its validity and salience in human well-being ($90646).

Commonwealth Department of Transport and Regional Services, Research and Development Programs for Rural and Regional Australia, Best Practice Community Development Grant 2001-2 for "A study of the Coolah case" ($30000 with T. Sorensen, J. Archer, N.Argent and R.Epps). This project was selected for inclusion in the 2003 National Arts Research Showcase at Parliament House in Canberra in August 2003, one of twelve pieces of research in the humanities and social sciences nationally to be brought to the attention of politicians in the Showcase.

Member of the ARC Research Network for Spatially Integrated Social Science. Funded $1,500,000 by the ARC and run from the University of Queensland 2004-.

ARC Discovery Grant 2005-7: Reinventing rural places? The extent and impact of festivals as regeneration strategies (with C.R. Gibson (Wollongong), J. Connell (Sydney) and G. Waitt (Wollongong), $185,000.

ARC Learned Academies Special Project 2005: Patterns of population mobility and internal migration in Australia. The team is headed by Professor Martin Bell at the University of Queensland. A team (J. Walmsley, N. Argent, F. Rolley, M. Tonts) is responsible for the component of the study relating to inland migration. $100,000.

Professor of Geography and Planning, School of Human and Environmental Studies, UNE, Armidale.

Jim Walmsley is a human geographer and social scientist who specialises in (1) leisure, lifestyle, tourism and associated population movement in Australia, (2) regional development and social well-being, and (3) scenarios for what Australia will be like in 2020 and beyond.

Introduction

The Rural Studies Group is an active and growing group of researchers, primarily geographers, who are associated with either or both the Institute of Australian Geographers and New Zealand Geographical Society. The Group was established in the early 1990s and has always involved a range of researchers, and students, from both Australia and New Zealand. Members of the Study Group work individually or collaboratively on a wide range of research interests and communicate through both regular newsletters and special sessions at the conferences of the Institute of Australian Geographers and the New Zealand Geographical Society.

Rural people and rural researchers know the importance of networking and staying in touch, and this Directory has been developed with that principle in mind. It records current work being conducted by many members of the Rural Studies Group. The Directory has been compiled to demonstrate the breadth of research interests and work being completed by this Study Group and we trust that this record of activities will provide a networking tool for researchers, policy administrators, government and community groups.

We believe that this Directory will be an evolving document since not all members were able to contribute immediately to this initial edition. Additional information is available through the Study Group Newsletter, and people interested in this publication should contact Neil Argent. Feedback, suggestions and updates for this Directory are always welcome. If you wish to have your contribution included (or modified) , please forward your details to Neil for collation in our database.

Building the Directory

Following the Annual General Meeting of the Rural Studies Group in 1997, it was agreed that a directory of members' activities should be compiled. In the intervening months all members were invited to provide contributions. Deirdre Shaw contacted all members be email or in writing, and compiled a database of materials returned. Not all members were able to contribute to this first edition of the directory, but we look forward to including their activities in further editions.

Finally, a note is in order regarding the listings of research interests. Initially members were invited to describe their research interests, however, the range of responses was very broad. It was decided that a more concise list of categories was required and each member's descriptions were coded according to this key list of categories. This is one area of the directory that will require further development and editing in coming editions. Your feedback is welcomed.

Key to Research Interests