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Stewart Lockie is affiliated with James Cook University in Australia and has contributed significantly to research at the intersection of environmental science and social sciences. Their work primarily explores the sociological dimensions of environmental issues, with an emphasis on climate change, marine ecosystems, and sustainability governance.

Their most frequent publication venues include Environmental Sociology, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, and PLoS ONE. Other venues where their work has appeared include Biological Conservation and Society & Natural Resources.

Stewart Lockie's research spans various fields and subfields, focusing most prominently on Environmental Science with 38 publications, alongside Social Sciences with 19. Within these broader categories, their work touches on Sociology and Political Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Risk Perception and Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Stewart Lockie include:

  • "Coral restoration and adaptation in Australia: The first five years," 2022, PLoS ONE
  • "Markets and the crowding out of conservation-relevant behavior," 2020, Conservation Biology
  • "Mainstreaming climate change sociology," 2022, Environmental Sociology
  • "Challenges and opportunities for assisted regional ecosystem adaptation: International experience and implications for adaptation research," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Sociological responses to the bushfire and climate crises," 2020, Environmental Sociology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Stewart Lockie include Bruce Taylor, Gillian Paxton, Henry A. Bartelet, Karen Vella, and Umberto Baresi. Collaborative work with these co-authors reflects interdisciplinary approaches within environmental sociology and related fields.

Best Publications

  • Eating ‘Green’: Motivations behind organic food consumption in Australia

    Stewart Lockie;Kristen Lyons;Geoffrey Lawrence;Kerry Mummery

  • Choosing organics: a path analysis of factors underlying the selection of organic food among Australian consumers.

    Stewart Lockie;Kristen Lyons;Geoffrey Lawrence;Janet Grice

  • Beyond the Farm Gate: Production‐Consumption Networks and Agri‐Food Research

    Stewart Lockie;Simon Collingwood Kitto

  • Sustainable and responsible supply chain governance: challenges and opportunities

    Magnus Boström;Anna Maria Jönsson;Stewart Lockie;Arthur P.J. Mol

  • Mining Developments and Social Impacts on Communities: Bowen Basin Case Studies

    Vanessa Petkova;Stewart Lockie;John Rolfe;Galina Ivanova

  • The role of Landcare group networks in rural Australia: exploring the contribution of social capital

    Jonathan Sobels;Allan Curtis;Stewart Lockie

  • The 'Conventionalisation' thesis reconsidered: structural and ideological transformation of Australian organic agriculture

    Stewart Lockie;Darren Halpin

  • The invisible mouth: mobilizing the consumer in food production-consumption networks

    Stewart Lockie

  • Responsibility and agency within alternative food networks: assembling the “citizen consumer”

    Stewart Lockie

  • Roll-out neoliberalism and hybrid practices of regulation in Australian agri-environmental governance

    Stewart Lockie;Vaughan James Higgins

  • Coal mining and the resource community cycle: A longitudinal assessment of the social impacts of the Coppabella coal mine

    Stewart Lockie;Maree Franettovich;Vanessa Petkova-Timmer;John Rolfe

  • The feminization of agriculture or the feminization of agrarian distress? Tracking the trajectory of women in agriculture in India

    Itishree Pattnaik;Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt;Stewart Lockie;Bill Pritchard

  • Market instruments, ecosystem services, and property rights: Assumptions and conditions for sustained social and ecological benefits

    Stewart Lockie

  • SIA in review: setting the agenda for impact assessment in the 21st century

    Stewart Lockie

  • Lessons from the Social and Economic Impacts of the Mining Boom in the Bowen Basin 2004-2006

    John Rolfe;Bob Miles;Stewart Lockie;Galina Ivanova

  • Re-discovering the social: neo-liberalism and hybrid practices of governing in rural natural resource management

    Vaughan Higgins;Stewart Lockie

  • Capturing the sustainability agenda: Organic foods and media discourses on food scares, environment, genetic engineering, and health

    Stewart Lockie

  • Rurality bites: The social and environmental transformation of rural Australia

    Stewart Lockie;Lisa Bourke

  • Networks of Agri‐Environmental Action: Temporality, Spatiality and Identity in Agricultural Environments

    Stewart Lockie

  • Going Organic: Mobilising Networks for Environmentally Responsible Food Production

    Stewart Lockie;Kristen Lyons;Geoffrey Lawrence;Darren Halpin

  • Post-truth politics and the social sciences

    Stewart Lockie

  • Routledge international handbook of social and environmental change

    Stewart Lockie;David A. Sonnenfeld;Dana R. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Lawrence
Geoffrey Lawrence University of Queensland
Jane Dixon
Jane Dixon Australian National University
Sharon Friel
Sharon Friel Australian National University
Nadine Marshall
Nadine Marshall James Cook University
Mark Lawrence
Mark Lawrence Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies
Barbara J. Howlett
Barbara J. Howlett University of Melbourne
Andreas L. Lopata
Andreas L. Lopata James Cook University
Peter Oosterveer
Peter Oosterveer Wageningen University & Research
Tania C. Sorrell
Tania C. Sorrell University of Sydney
Kevin R. Ronan
Kevin R. Ronan Central Queensland University

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