Peter Kamstra1, Brian Cook1, Tim Edensor2, David Kennedy1 1University Of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia 2Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom Risk tends to be conceptualized at the individual scale, with risk management targeting individual’s knowledge, practices, and behaviors. However,...
- June 13, 2019
Prof. Uma Kothari1,2, Dr Alex Arnall3 1University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia 3University of Reading, Reading, UK This paper explores the different timescales and temporalities of the movement of sand. In recent years, growing...
- June 13, 2019
Dr Tim Edensor Melbourne University, Carlton, VIC Melbourne’s built environment and infrastructure is rapidly growing. The city has always been amply bestowed with large quantities of high-quality building material: local clay deposits have supplied the large brick industry and...
- June 13, 2019
Dr Alison L Browne1, Beth.F.T. Brockett2 1University Of Manchester, United Kingdom 2Natural England/Lancaster Environment Centre, United Kingdom Drawing on our new paper in People and Nature, this presentation explores opportunities for increasing and maintaining soil carbon stocks through carbon...
- June 13, 2019
Lesley Crowe-Delaney1 1Curtin University Tourism in Western Australia has been disrupted by politics in an unstable state economy. While eastern Australia gains from tourism expenditure, Western Australian tourism numbers are falling or remain static. The implications are felt most...
- June 13, 2019
A/Prof Robyn Mayes Queensland University Of Technology According to the Cultural Au Pair Association of Australia (CAPAA) au pair agencies in Australia are unable to meet the rising demand. The increasing use of au pairs in Australia is enabled...
- June 13, 2019
Dr Christoph Rupprecht1, Dr Maximilian Spiegelberg1, Ms Rika Shinkai1, Dr Jingchao Gan2 1Research Institute For Humanity And Nature,Kyoto, Japan 2Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Bees are increasingly recognized by scholars and policy-makers for their crucial role in eco- and...
- June 13, 2019
Tayanah O’Donnell Director, Future Earth Australia, Australian Academy of Science, ANU Legal geography has become more than a focus on spatialised law in its myriad forms. These differentiations include renewed focus on temporality (Valverde, 2015); materiality (Graham and Godden,...
- June 13, 2019
Dr Meg Mundell1 1Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC This paper explores the how of literary wheres: the “backstage” work of conjuring place in textual form. While geography and literary studies have long been in fruitful dialogue, the emergent discipline of...
- June 12, 2019
Dr Lisa Stafford1 1Queensland University of Technology It is hard not to find some reference to how being involved in public discourse and policy is every citizen’s fundamental right. Yet, exercising this right is privileged for only a certain few. ...
- June 11, 2019
