Australia
Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress 2021
Exploring short-term and long-term time frames in Australian population carrying capacity assessment
The author developed an Australian-orientated model, the Carrying Capacity Dashboard to explore temporal flexibility in resource-based carrying capacity modelling. The model offers users the ability to choose projected time frames of between one and 150 years for a variety of landscape scales and consumption patterns.
Ageing in remote and cyclone-prone communities: geography, policy, and disaster relief
To explore how those in regional Australian coastal communities have coped with repeated natural disasters, focussing on the experience of independent-living older adults, the study used an exploratory, mixed-method, and phenomenological approach, an array of non-probability snowballing techniques to seek participation from residents aged 65 years or more, and from emergency services officers, disaster managers, and community health care providers located in regional communities affected by Cyclone Larry (2006) and Cyclone Yasi (2011).
Assessing Socio-Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Environmental Hazards in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia
This article systematically reviews and synthesises academic, peer-reviewed literature focusing upon empirical research that identifies socio-economic factors associated with vulnerable subpopulationsto, to assess the state of knowledge concerning socio-economic vulnerability to climate change impacts and environmental hazards in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
Scalar considerations in carrying capacity assessment: an Australian example
In this paper, the authors describe results of the Carrying Capacity Dashboard, a tool for estimating local self-sufficiency, and analyses the effects of a range of resource consumption patterns on carrying capacity, highlighting the degree to which regions are under or over population capacity at varying scales.
Call for Papers, International Conference on Population Geographies 2015: The Spatial Dimensions of Population
One human settlement: A transdisciplinary approach to climate change adaptation research.
This paper reflects upon the challenges involved in undertaking transdisciplinary research aimed at developing and improving a range of adaptation options for specific sectors as well as across sectors by drawing on the experience of the South East Queensland Climate Adaptation Research Initiative (SEQCARI), Australia.
Recent human impacts on Australian environmental systems: A paleoenvironmental perspective
Australia is in a relatively unique position to provide baseline data on the impact of agriculture, forestry and urban expansion on a large variety of environmental systems. The major phase of European settlement began just over 200 years ago, and this brought a whole new set of cultural and technological practices that rapidly displaced those used by Aboriginal people. To assess the impact of humans it is necessary to establish proper baseline conditions against which change can be measured.
Integrating climate change, food prices and population health.
The objective of this research is to examine the food system so as to identify pressure points through which climate change may affect food prices and the subsequent implications for human health.
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