Gill, Nicholas J.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management Published in Conservation Biology
2019	Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture Published in Global Environmental Change
2018	Weed hygiene practices in rural industries and public land management: Variable knowledge, patchy implementation, inconsistent coordination Published in Journal of Environmental Management
2016	Living with landscape fire: Landholder understandings of agency, scale and control within fiery entanglements Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2015	Landscape preferences, amenity, and bushfire risk in New South Wales, Australia Published in Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published in Conservation and Society
2015	Same but different: sources of natural resource management advice for lifestyle oriented rural landholders Published in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2014	Making country good: stewardship and environmental change in central Australian pastoral culture Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life
2012	Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: an international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration Published in Conservation and Society
2010	Stewardship among lifestyle oriented rural landowners Published in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2007	A work in progress: Aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia

Research Overview

I am a human geographer with interests in environmental management and rural cultures. My research focuses on rural areas, particularly on cultural and social aspects of land management, land use change, and environmental conflict. In my research I aim to bridge conventional natural resource management research and research on cultures of nature. I am interested in how people occupy landscapes and seek to inhabit, use, protect, and conserve those landscapes, usually simultaneously, and in ways that defy neat compartmentalisation of these activities.

Available as Research Supervisor

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Biosecurity hygiene in the Australian high country: footwear cleaning practices, motivations, and barriers among visitors to Kosciuszko National Park Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
2020	Urban greening and mobility justice in Dhaka’s informal settlements Published In Mobilities
2019	Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management Published In Conservation Biology
2019	Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture Published In Global Environmental Change
2018	Sleeper cells for urban green infrastructure: Harnessing latent competence in greening Dhaka's slums Published In Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
2018	Weed hygiene practices in rural industries and public land management: Variable knowledge, patchy implementation, inconsistent coordination Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2016	A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response Published In Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability
2016	Garden-related environmental behavior and weed management: An Australian case study Published In Society and Natural Resources
2016	Living with landscape fire: Landholder understandings of agency, scale and control within fiery entanglements Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2015	Divergent approaches to resolving pressures on NRM and DRR programs: A case study of sustainable fire management training Published In Geoforum
2015	Landscape preferences, amenity, and bushfire risk in New South Wales, Australia Published In Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published In Conservation and Society
2015	Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems Published In Energy Policy
2015	Movement of garden plants from market to bushland: gardeners' plant procurement and garden-related behaviour Published In Geographical Research
2015	Same but different: sources of natural resource management advice for lifestyle oriented rural landholders Published In Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2015	Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up Published In The Conversation
2014	Bushfires: rural residents are the solution, not the problem Published In The Conversation
2014	Making country good: stewardship and environmental change in central Australian pastoral culture Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2013	A method to dynamically subdivide parcels in land use change models Published In International Journal of Geographical Information Science
2013	Changing forest recovery dynamics in the northeastern United States Published In Area
2013	Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
2012	Engaging with the (un)familiar: field teaching in a multi-campus teaching environment Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2012	Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: an international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration Published In Conservation and Society
2012	Sustainable household capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? Published In Australian Geographer
2011	An automated land subdivision tool for urban and regional planning: concepts, implementation and testing Published In Environmental Modelling and Software
2011	Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2011	Trial by fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research Published In Australian Geographer
2010	Bushfire and everyday life: Examining the awareness-action 'gap' in changing rural landscapes Published In Geoforum
2010	Stewardship among lifestyle oriented rural landowners Published In Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2010	The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2009	Emerging amenity landscapes: Invasive weeds and land subdivision in rural Australia Published In Land Use Policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use
2009	Local engagements with urban bushland: Moving beyond bounded practice for urban biodiversity management Published In Landscape and Urban Planning
2009	Walking practice and suburban nature-talk Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2008	Guest Editors' Introduction: Water crisis? Socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of water and rivers Published In Geographical Research

Book

Year	Title
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Chapter

Year	Title
2016	The paradox of engagement: Land stewardship and invasive weeds in amenity landscapes Published In A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia: Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change Publisher Switzerland
2013	Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia Published In World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments Publisher Paris, France
2011	Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of household sustainability Published In Material Geographies of Household Sustainability Publisher Surrey, England
2007	A work in progress: Aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia Published In Geographies of Australian Heritages: Loving a Sunburnt Country? Publisher Aldershot, England

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2011	Understanding the term local food - a conceptual, political and empirical study Published In Book of Abstracts by Author: ESRS 2011, XXIV European Congress for Rural Sociology
2010	Environmental refugees: an accountability perspective Published In CSEAR Australasian Conference
2010	Parcel subdivision automation for agent-based land use modelling Published In International Congress on International Environmental Modelling and Software

Other Publications

Year	Title
2018	Hawkweed Community Based Social Marketing Project: A report on track users’ boot cleaning practices and attitudes in the Kosciuszko National Park
2018	Plant Sure Environmentally Safe Ornamental Plant Scheme: Review of existing certification or accreditation schemes and recommendations for a model scheme
2016	Weed hygiene practices in NSW: Knowledge and practices of landholders, public land managers, weed contractors and agricultural transport operators
2014	Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)
2008	Land Management and Land Cover on Land owned by Amenity Oriented Rural Landowners in Jamberoo Valley

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020	Managing Wild and Weedy Australia across Boundaries and Disciplines Awarded by: NSW Government Department of Industry Funding Scheme: NSW Research Attraction and Acceleration Program
2019 - 2020	Managing wild and weedy Australia across boundaries and disciplines Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: Fenner Research Conferences
2009	Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Benchmarking weed hygiene in NSW: current knowledge and adoption of best practices among land managers, contractors and transport industries Awarded by: NSW Department of Primary Industries Funding Scheme: NSW Weeds Action Program - Innovation Grants for Weeds 2014-15
	Mobile ecologies, complex landscapes: cultural environmental research to understand and enhance invasive plant management in high amenity rural areas Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Invasive species management
Engendering cultures of eradication for early invasion curve stage invasive plants
Hunting, "ferals", and cultures of conservation
Practices and significance of sharing meat amongst hunters
The status and role of alternative agriculture enterprises in the Illawarra
Predators and poo: the role of introduced invasive species scat analysis and related programs in rural landholder knowledge and stewardship
Topics related to regenerative agriculture - e.g. support and extension mechanisms; weed management in RA; visceral geographies of soil and land.

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Food, Household Sustainability and Migration. Practices of Papua New Guinean Migrants in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	Campbell, Rebecca
Master of Philosophy	The applications and function of Citizen Science in Growing Community Based Knowledge	Woods, Adam
Doctor of Philosophy	An Examination of the Relationships that the People of Rarotonga have with Native and Non-Native Species; in order to Inform Conservation Strategy on the Island	Llewellyn, Marc
Doctor of Philosophy	Crossing Land, Social and Biosecurity Boundaries: Recreational Visitor Networks, Values, Practices and Knowledge and the Management of Weeds in the Kosciuszko Region	Smart, Jen

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Geography and Natural Resource Management, University of New South Wales, Thesis Outback or at home? : environment, social change and pastoralism in Central Australia 2000
B.A. in Geography and Development Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, Thesis: Culture, context and conflict : a case study of bushfire management in conservation reserves on Kangaroo Island 1993

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-2837 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

H-6240-2016

Scopus Id

35952092100

Top Publications

Year	Title
2019	Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management Published in Conservation Biology
2019	Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture Published in Global Environmental Change
2018	Weed hygiene practices in rural industries and public land management: Variable knowledge, patchy implementation, inconsistent coordination Published in Journal of Environmental Management
2016	Living with landscape fire: Landholder understandings of agency, scale and control within fiery entanglements Published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2015	Landscape preferences, amenity, and bushfire risk in New South Wales, Australia Published in Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published in Conservation and Society
2015	Same but different: sources of natural resource management advice for lifestyle oriented rural landholders Published in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2014	Making country good: stewardship and environmental change in central Australian pastoral culture Published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life
2012	Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: an international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration Published in Conservation and Society
2010	Stewardship among lifestyle oriented rural landowners Published in Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2007	A work in progress: Aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia

Research Overview

I am a human geographer with interests in environmental management and rural cultures. My research focuses on rural areas, particularly on cultural and social aspects of land management, land use change, and environmental conflict. In my research I aim to bridge conventional natural resource management research and research on cultures of nature. I am interested in how people occupy landscapes and seek to inhabit, use, protect, and conserve those landscapes, usually simultaneously, and in ways that defy neat compartmentalisation of these activities.

Member Of

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2020	Biosecurity hygiene in the Australian high country: footwear cleaning practices, motivations, and barriers among visitors to Kosciuszko National Park Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
2020	Urban greening and mobility justice in Dhaka’s informal settlements Published In Mobilities
2019	Opportunities for better use of collective action theory in research and governance for invasive species management Published In Conservation Biology
2019	Transformational adaptation on the farm: Processes of change and persistence in transitions to ‘climate-smart’ regenerative agriculture Published In Global Environmental Change
2018	Sleeper cells for urban green infrastructure: Harnessing latent competence in greening Dhaka's slums Published In Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
2018	Weed hygiene practices in rural industries and public land management: Variable knowledge, patchy implementation, inconsistent coordination Published In Journal of Environmental Management
2016	A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response Published In Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability
2016	Garden-related environmental behavior and weed management: An Australian case study Published In Society and Natural Resources
2016	Living with landscape fire: Landholder understandings of agency, scale and control within fiery entanglements Published In Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
2015	Divergent approaches to resolving pressures on NRM and DRR programs: A case study of sustainable fire management training Published In Geoforum
2015	Landscape preferences, amenity, and bushfire risk in New South Wales, Australia Published In Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors
2015	Living with invasive plants in the Anthropocene: the importance of understanding practice and experience Published In Conservation and Society
2015	Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems Published In Energy Policy
2015	Movement of garden plants from market to bushland: gardeners' plant procurement and garden-related behaviour Published In Geographical Research
2015	Same but different: sources of natural resource management advice for lifestyle oriented rural landholders Published In Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2015	Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up Published In The Conversation
2014	Bushfires: rural residents are the solution, not the problem Published In The Conversation
2014	Making country good: stewardship and environmental change in central Australian pastoral culture Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2013	A method to dynamically subdivide parcels in land use change models Published In International Journal of Geographical Information Science
2013	Changing forest recovery dynamics in the northeastern United States Published In Area
2013	Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy Published In Australasian Journal of Environmental Management
2012	Engaging with the (un)familiar: field teaching in a multi-campus teaching environment Published In Journal of Geography in Higher Education
2012	Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: an international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration Published In Conservation and Society
2012	Sustainable household capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? Published In Australian Geographer
2011	An automated land subdivision tool for urban and regional planning: concepts, implementation and testing Published In Environmental Modelling and Software
2011	Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability Published In Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
2011	Trial by fire: natural hazards, mixed-methods and cultural research Published In Australian Geographer
2010	Bushfire and everyday life: Examining the awareness-action 'gap' in changing rural landscapes Published In Geoforum
2010	Stewardship among lifestyle oriented rural landowners Published In Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
2010	The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia Published In Journal of Rural Studies
2009	Emerging amenity landscapes: Invasive weeds and land subdivision in rural Australia Published In Land Use Policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use
2009	Local engagements with urban bushland: Moving beyond bounded practice for urban biodiversity management Published In Landscape and Urban Planning
2009	Walking practice and suburban nature-talk Published In Social and Cultural Geography
2008	Guest Editors' Introduction: Water crisis? Socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of water and rivers Published In Geographical Research

Book

Year	Title
2013	Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life Publisher Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Chapter

Year	Title
2016	The paradox of engagement: Land stewardship and invasive weeds in amenity landscapes Published In A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia: Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change Publisher Switzerland
2013	Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia Published In World Social Science Report 2013: Changing Global Environments Publisher Paris, France
2011	Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of household sustainability Published In Material Geographies of Household Sustainability Publisher Surrey, England
2007	A work in progress: Aboriginal people and pastoral cultural heritage in Australia Published In Geographies of Australian Heritages: Loving a Sunburnt Country? Publisher Aldershot, England

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2011	Understanding the term local food - a conceptual, political and empirical study Published In Book of Abstracts by Author: ESRS 2011, XXIV European Congress for Rural Sociology
2010	Environmental refugees: an accountability perspective Published In CSEAR Australasian Conference
2010	Parcel subdivision automation for agent-based land use modelling Published In International Congress on International Environmental Modelling and Software

Other Publications

Year	Title
2018	Hawkweed Community Based Social Marketing Project: A report on track users’ boot cleaning practices and attitudes in the Kosciuszko National Park
2018	Plant Sure Environmentally Safe Ornamental Plant Scheme: Review of existing certification or accreditation schemes and recommendations for a model scheme
2016	Weed hygiene practices in NSW: Knowledge and practices of landholders, public land managers, weed contractors and agricultural transport operators
2014	Social construct of fuels in the interface: final report for the social construction of fuels in the interface (project one)
2008	Land Management and Land Cover on Land owned by Amenity Oriented Rural Landowners in Jamberoo Valley

Investigator On

Year	Title
2020	Managing Wild and Weedy Australia across Boundaries and Disciplines Awarded by: NSW Government Department of Industry Funding Scheme: NSW Research Attraction and Acceleration Program
2019 - 2020	Managing wild and weedy Australia across boundaries and disciplines Awarded by: Australian Academy of Science Funding Scheme: Fenner Research Conferences
2009	Making less space for carbon: cultural research for climate change mitigation and adaptation Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
	Benchmarking weed hygiene in NSW: current knowledge and adoption of best practices among land managers, contractors and transport industries Awarded by: NSW Department of Primary Industries Funding Scheme: NSW Weeds Action Program - Innovation Grants for Weeds 2014-15
	Mobile ecologies, complex landscapes: cultural environmental research to understand and enhance invasive plant management in high amenity rural areas Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Other Research Activities

Potential Supervision Topics

Invasive species management
Engendering cultures of eradication for early invasion curve stage invasive plants
Hunting, "ferals", and cultures of conservation
Practices and significance of sharing meat amongst hunters
The status and role of alternative agriculture enterprises in the Illawarra
Predators and poo: the role of introduced invasive species scat analysis and related programs in rural landholder knowledge and stewardship
Topics related to regenerative agriculture - e.g. support and extension mechanisms; weed management in RA; visceral geographies of soil and land.

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Food, Household Sustainability and Migration. Practices of Papua New Guinean Migrants in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	Campbell, Rebecca
Master of Philosophy	The applications and function of Citizen Science in Growing Community Based Knowledge	Woods, Adam
Doctor of Philosophy	An Examination of the Relationships that the People of Rarotonga have with Native and Non-Native Species; in order to Inform Conservation Strategy on the Island	Llewellyn, Marc
Doctor of Philosophy	Crossing Land, Social and Biosecurity Boundaries: Recreational Visitor Networks, Values, Practices and Knowledge and the Management of Weeds in the Kosciuszko Region	Smart, Jen

Education And Training

Ph.D. in Geography and Natural Resource Management, University of New South Wales, Thesis Outback or at home? : environment, social change and pastoralism in Central Australia 2000
B.A. in Geography and Development Studies, Flinders University of South Australia, Thesis: Culture, context and conflict : a case study of bushfire management in conservation reserves on Kangaroo Island 1993

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7514-2837 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

H-6240-2016

Scopus Id

35952092100

Overview

Top Publications

Research Overview

Available as Research Supervisor

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Available as Research Supervisor

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Identity

Orcid Id

Web Of Science Researcher Id

Scopus Id

Overview

Top Publications

Research Overview

Affiliation

Member Of

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Other Publications

Funding

Investigator On

Other Research Activities

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Background

Education And Training

Identity

Orcid Id

Web Of Science Researcher Id

Scopus Id

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