{"title":"Inclusion of nature in self and pro-nature beliefs: utilizing psychological scales in environmental management to Further understand if interconnectedness with nature supports sustainable outcomes – A case study in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"Lissy Fehnker, D. Pearson, P. Howland","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2022.2051682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2051682","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT It has been asserted that to overcome nature degradation, environmental managers need to understand the ways in which people view themselves in relation to nature as this influences their beliefs and actions toward nature. To examine this assertion, this study explored how 960 subjects in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand reported themselves in relation to nature, and whether the way in which they viewed themselves in relation to nature influenced their pro-nature beliefs. Results suggested that most respondents perceive some degree of connectedness with nature despite viewing a distinction between themselves and nature. Results further indicate that respondents who perceived complete interconnectedness with nature were more likely to hold pro-nature beliefs. Conversely, respondents who perceived complete separation between self and nature were less likely to hold pro-nature beliefs. The findings suggest that positive environmental management outcomes may be more achievable if environmental managers focus on increasing individuals’ feelings of interconnectedness with nature to prompt and/or enhance pro-nature beliefs. The study calls attention to the merit of deployment of psychological scales in environmental management contexts, which are currently lacking, to understand the divergent ways in which people relate to nature to contribute to more effective environmental management programmes and policy.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"53 1","pages":"61 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41790309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Kok, Matthew Tuson, B. Turlach, B. Boruff, A. Vickery, D. Whyatt
{"title":"Impact of Australian Bureau of Statistics data perturbation techniques on the precision of Census population counts, and the propagation of this impact in a geospatial analysis of high-risk foot hospital admissions among an Indigenous population","authors":"M. Kok, Matthew Tuson, B. Turlach, B. Boruff, A. Vickery, D. Whyatt","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2022.2046238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2022.2046238","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Precise population counts facilitate reliable estimation of differences in disease risk between population sub-groups or geographic regions, which informs rational public health decision-making. In Australia, Census population counts obtainable via the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS’) TableBuilder tool, which are widely used, are routinely perturbed to protect privacy. We examine this perturbation’s impact on: the precision of TableBuilder population counts, and a geospatial analysis of high-risk foot (HRF) hospital admissions among Western Australian (WA) Indigenous people. The former is severely compromised, disproportionately so for Indigenous people and under the currently employed ‘perturbation without additivity’ (PWoA) approach. E.g., based on fine-resolution, PWoA-affected data, the Indigenous population total for ‘Inner City’ WA was >50% lower than its true total. Imprecise calculation of WA Indigenous HRF admission counts, and misrepresentation of high-rate regions of such admissions in Perth, resulted. An approach suggested to manage this - examination of coarse-resolution data - is inadequate, partly due the modifiable areal unit problem. However, a novel map overlay technique alleviates this issue. We recommend that the ABS review the PWoA approach and consider implementing different statistical disclosure control techniques or reverting to the previously employed ‘perturbation with additivity’ approach, prior to releasing data from the 2021 Australian Census.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"53 1","pages":"105 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43775721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An exploratory study of house-sitting and ‘home’-making among older people","authors":"S. Alidoust, Fahimeh Khalaj","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2021.1999612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2021.1999612","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The growing housing unaffordability is forcing people to take on unconventional pathways and experiment with alternate means of ‘home’-making. This research explores opportunities for making ‘home’ that emerge from practices of house-sitting among older people, particularly those with no permanent housing. Findings from semi-structured interviews suggest that house-sitting is an affordable shelter that provides rent-free accommodation for older people experiencing financial insecurity and increases their capacity for care-related expenditure. However, it is not a viable option in the long term, due to the unstable and insecure nature of house-sitting and the increasing health issues of people as they age. Our findings stress that the meaning of home is multifaceted and complex. While ‘home’ can still be perceived as a source of ontological security by many, it is observed as a ‘nomadic’ and ‘fluid’ concept that could change over time/space, mainly by people that have chosen or were forced to house-sit on a full-time basis. The findings of this research can shed light on house-sitting, as a growing house-sharing model that is largely under-researched and informs housing policy-makers and researchers.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"52 1","pages":"391 - 406"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45981183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pop-up food provisioning as a sustainable third space: reshaping eating practices at an inner urban university","authors":"B. Middha, T. Lewis","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2021.2017250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2021.2017250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT We examine one innovative response to the social, spatial and environmental sustainability challenges posed by food provisioning and consumption for large-scale organisations—pop-up or mobile food provisioning—focusing on the specific example of a large, inner urban university campus in Melbourne, Australia. Emerging from a larger project examining sustainability and eating practices on campus, this study of pop-ups draws on a multi-method empirical investigation involving ethnographic fieldwork, semi-structured interviews, and digital methods. While the university’s use of pop-ups in this case has been primarily as a flexible, just-in-time way of engaging with the food needs of students during a large-scale campus rebuild, we argue that the mobile and malleable nature of pop-ups may offer a more sustainable way of envisaging eating spaces in urban organisational contexts. Drawing on conceptual frameworks taken from social practice theories and theories of space, the paper conceptualises the hybrid and convivial spaces produced through the bundling of mobile food provisioning practices with the university practices as third spaces of hybrid hospitality and urban commons. We argue that through disrupting and challenging many of the temporal and spatial norms that govern mainstream food provisioning and consumption, these third spaces can enable pathways to sustainable social practices.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"52 1","pages":"407 - 424"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41919932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rosabella Borsellino, E. Charles‐Edwards, Aude Bernard, J. Corcoran
{"title":"Forty years of internal migration in Australian regions: a sequence analysis of net migration, turnover, and retention","authors":"Rosabella Borsellino, E. Charles‐Edwards, Aude Bernard, J. Corcoran","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2021.2018772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2021.2018772","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Australia is one of the most migratory countries in the world, yet as internal migrants typically represent only a small proportion of the population, the impact of stayers and transient populations need to be considered to create a fuller picture of regional population dynamics. To that end, this paper analyses net migration, population turnover, and population retention for 69 Australian regions from 1976 to 2016. Applying sequence analysis to a temporally-consistent framework, we find that regions follow four ideal-typical trajectories: 1) escalator regions with transient populations, 2) amenity destinations with fading attractiveness, 3) regions at risk of terminal decline, and 4) sticky regions. This classification in part follows the urban hierarchy while unveiling some important regional differences, highlighting the utility of the long-term multi-dimensional framework developed in this paper. This approach offers policymakers a new capacity to measure and monitor changes in internal migration and population dynamics to design and deploy more targeted regional policies.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"52 1","pages":"425 - 452"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47437532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Place, belonging, and more-than-human community: a visual study of older lesbians in rural Tasmania","authors":"R. Grant, Briohny Walker","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2021.2012317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2021.2012317","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Rural areas have long been represented as unwelcoming to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. However, demographic trends show that lesbians are more likely than gay men to live in rural Australia, especially as they age. Despite this, little is known about lesbians’ motivations for living in these areas, how they experience rural communities, or what aspects of rural places support positive ageing for this group. Lesbian and feminist geographies highlight how lesbians have often cultivated socio-political links with the natural world. Building on this work, in this article we explore how older lesbians experience place-based belonging in rural communities and the role of more-than-human actors in fostering a sense of home. Through in-depth interviews with 13 women over 55 and participant-produced photography, we identified three overarching themes: (1) More-than-human Community; (2) Gardening as Placemaking and Community Building;(3) Belonging and Acknowledging Risk. In contrast with notions of lesbians as being ‘out of place’ in rural communities, we argue that belonging is established both through human and more-than-human kinships formed in rural places. By visually representing their lives in rural communities, our participants challenged the invisibility of older lesbians and demonstrated how the rural can offer rich possibilities for multi-species futures.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"52 1","pages":"357 - 372"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42012362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greening home: caring for plants indoors","authors":"C. Phillips, Eily Schulz","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2021.2014021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2021.2014021","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Plants are widely advocated as beneficial for indoor, urban environments; however, research into how people live with indoor plants in their homes remains limited. This article begins to investigate indoor plant keeping and how it is experienced and valued. Empirically, the article draws on exploratory qualitative research undertaken with houseplant keepers within the inner suburbs of Melbourne (Australia). The research shows that indoor plants are valued in diverse ways that orient around instrumental contributions of plants, caring practices within people’s homes, and extended sensibilities relating to wider social and ecological dynamics. By attending to plants as part of indoor home places, this analysis expands the empirical focus of human–plant geographies and provides future research directions to further productive conversations between urban greening and human geography.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"52 1","pages":"373 - 389"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48943184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The context is more important than the commodity in understanding stakeholder responses to blue gum plantations","authors":"Diego Cidrás, N. Pauli","doi":"10.1080/00049182.2021.1999628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2021.1999628","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Forestry plantations constitute fertile ground for critical analysis of land use conflict. Policy-makers are increasingly recognising the need to address controversial issues in the plantation forestry sector. However, these efforts are often grounded in short-term analyses, resulting in static or inappropriate responses to a dynamic commodity environment. This research article proposes that combining cognitive and social research approaches can elucidate place-based land-use conflicts that at their root, are about more than just the one particular commodity under examination. We explore stakeholders’ perceptions and attitudes around Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) plantations in a region that has witnessed three radically different social-economic stages of blue gum plantation growth and management over the last 25 years. Our findings show that individual perceptions and attitudes over time are most closely related to the economic characteristics of blue gum plantations than to any other factor. By extension, market instability shapes popular narratives around blue gum plantations. We conclude that the analysis of conflicts associated with long-established forestry plantations should encompass an understanding of community members’ worldviews and emotions in addition to economic analyses in order to adequately explain conflicts.","PeriodicalId":47337,"journal":{"name":"Australian Geographer","volume":"52 1","pages":"453 - 473"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41718227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}