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Members of staff and their fields of special interest

PAUL BISHOP Landscapes and environmental history of SE Australia and Thailand; catchment processes - erosion and sedimentation; rates of landscape change; soils (Codirector, Graduate School of Environmental Science).

KATE BROWN Process geomorphology with interests in arid zone landscapes and land management issues.

PETER COCK Conserver societies; environmental education; environmental politics and decision making; multidisciplinary team research; environmental psychology, ecotourism.

CHRIS COCKLIN Natural resources and environmental management; energy resources; regional development; rural land use; sustainable development; resource and environmental policy

GALE DIXON Geography of Southeast Asia; inter-island sea trade; health issues; rural development (Centre of Southeast Asian Studies).

DAVID DUNKERLEY Fluvial environments and processes; hydrology and process geomorphology of arid regions; paramaterisation and numerical methods in geomorphology (Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology, Department of Civil Engineering).

FRANK FISHER Social construction as environmental science; technology as a social construct; conserver society theory and practice. Environmental management (Director, Monash Centre for Environmental Management; Co-director, Graduate School of Environmental Science).

KATHRYN GIBSON Industrial restructuring; regional development and resources; feminist critiques of economic development.

GEOFF GOLDRICK Landscape evolution and soil geomorphology. Uplift and erosion as agents of landscapes evolution. Soil formation and erosion rates. Environmental economics.

JOHN GRINDROD Australian ecological systems, Quaternary vegetation, climate and megafauna, coastline dynamics and sea-level change, particularly in the tropics.

PETER KERSHAW Biogeography; palynology; vegetation and environmental history (Director, Centre for Palynology and Palaeoecology).

STEPHEN LEGG Historical geography; economic development; environmental policy; forestry and farming; regional history.

CHRIS MAHER Urban geography; population mobility; housing markets; urban policy; urban systems development; research techniques. (Associate Director [Research], Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).

PETER MARDEN Economic geography, political geography; and social theory, development studies (Development Studies Centre, Monash Asia Institute).

DAVID MERCER Environmentalism; political economy of Australian resources; forestry issues; Aboriginal land rights; environmental policy.

KEVIN O'CONNOR Urban and economic geography; national settlement patterns and urban growth; development of Melbourne (Centre for Population and Urban Research; Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute).

JIM PETERSON Geomorphology; Quaternary studies; environmental thematic mapping and Geographical Information Systems (Director, Centre for Geographical Information Systems).

SHARRON PFUELLER Community education and participation in environmental planning and monitoring; environment and health; environmental assessment, ecotourism.

JOE POWELL Historical geography: studies in pioneer settlement, resource management and conservation in Australia, New Zealand and North America (Australian Studies, American Studies).

NIGEL TAPPER Climatology; pollution effects in urban areas, especially in Indonesia; field applications of computer-assisted pollution source identification (Centre for Dynamical Meteorology, Department of Applied Mathematics).


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