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Overview

Lesley Head is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has a research portfolio primarily situated within the Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations, Global and Planetary Change, and General Health Professions.

Their research interests encompass a variety of interconnected topics, such as:

  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Fire effects on ecosystems

Lesley Head has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals with a total of recent papers spread across diverse venues. Notable publications include:

  • "Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires," 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • "Australia's mass fish kills as a crisis of modern water: Understanding hydrosocial change in the Murray-Darling Basin," 2020, Geoforum
  • "Transformative change requires resisting a new normal," 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants," 2021, Local Environment
  • "The state of Geography in Australian universities," 2021, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Their work often involves collaboration with other researchers, as reflected in frequent co-authorship with colleagues such as Sue Jackson, Michela Mariani, Simon Connor, Martin Theuerkauf, and Annika Herbert.

Lesley Head's publications are dispersed across a range of academic journals including:

  • Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Geoforum
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Local Environment
  • Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Best Publications

  • Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human–nature relations

    Lesley Head

  • Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies

    Lesley M Head;Jennifer M Atchison

  • Landscape - a usefully ambiguous concept

    Chris Gosden;Lesley Head

  • Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change

    Lesley M Head

  • Early human occupation of northern Australia: archaeology and thermoluminescence dating of Jinmium rock-shelter, Northern Territory

    R. L. K. Fullagar;D. M. Price;L. M. Head

  • Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape

    Lesley M Head

  • Climate change and Australia

    Lesley Head;Michael Adams;Helen V. McGregor;Stephanie Toole

  • Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens

    Lesley M. Head;Pat Muir

  • NATIVENESS, INVASIVENESS, AND NATION IN AUSTRALIAN PLANTS*

    Lesley M Head;Pat Muir

  • A science of loss

    Jon Barnett;Petra Tschakert;Lesley Head;W. Neil Adger

  • Cultural ecology: adaptation – retrofitting a concept?

    Lesley M Head

  • Australian Backyard Gardens and the Journey of Migration

    Lesley Head;Pat Muir;Eva Hampel

  • Walking practice and suburban nature-talk

    Gordon R Waitt;Nicholas J Gill;Lesley M Head

  • Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics

    Lesley M Head;Christopher R Gibson

  • Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

    Michela Mariani;Simon E. Connor;Martin Theuerkauf;Annika Herbert

  • The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia

    Christine Eriksen;Nicholas J Gill;Lesley M Head

  • Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability

    Christopher R Gibson;Lesley M Head;Nicholas J Gill;Gordon R Waitt

  • Ingrained: A Human Bio-geography of Wheat

    Lesley M Head;Jennifer Atchison;Alison Gates

  • The Boundaries of Nature Tourism

    Gordon R Waitt;Ruth Lane;Lesley M. Head

  • Changing cultures of water in eastern Australian backyard gardens

    Lesley M Head;Patricia A Muir

  • Landscapes socialised by fire: post‐contact changes in Aboriginal fire use in northern Australia, and implications for prehistory

    Lesley Head

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon R Waitt
Gordon R Waitt University of Wollongong
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
Chris Gibson
Chris Gibson University of Wollongong
Tim Edensor
Tim Edensor Manchester Metropolitan University
John Dodson
John Dodson Chinese Academy of Sciences
David M. Price
David M. Price University of Wollongong
Helen McGregor
Helen McGregor University of Wollongong
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
Peter Caputi
Peter Caputi University of Wollongong

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