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PROF MICHAEL WEBBER



Contact Details

Organization: Resource Management and Geography
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Homepage: http://www.sages.unimelb.edu.au/staff/webber.html
Work: 8344 3172
Mobile: 0402 421 283
Fax: 9349 4218
Room: 117
Level: 01
Building: 207 Bouverie St.
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Regional economic development in China Australia
Human resource management in China Australia
Water and environmental management in China Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Cambridge
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 01-Dec-1964

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Association of American Geographers Member 01-Jan-1975
Member Institute of Australian Geographers Member 01-Jan-1985

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) 31-Dec-1989

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Implications of emerging forms of labour management in transitional economies for households livelihood strategies: China & Vietnam Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
The geography of labour market dynamics: Competition between new migrants and laid-off workers in China's urban labour markets Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Involuntary Resettlement as an Opportunity for Development: The Case
    of Urban Resettlers of the Three Gorges Project, China


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Refugee Studies
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 82-102
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  • NEW FORMS OF OWNERSHIP AND HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES IN
    VIETNAM
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Human Resource Management
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 157-175
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  • Pricing China's Irrigation Water
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Global Environmental Change - Human and Policy Dimensions
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 617-625
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  • Primitive accumulation in modern China
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Dialectical Anthropology
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 299-320
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  • The Places of Primitive Accumulation in Rural China
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Economic Geography
    Volume: 84
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 395-421
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  • The Yellow River in Transition
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Environmental Science & Policy
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 422-429
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Primitive accumulation, transition and unemployment in China
    Year: 2007
    Book: Unemployment in China: economy, human resources and labour markets
    Publisher: Routledge
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Journal Articles

  • Rural industries and water pollution in China
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Environmental Management
    Volume: 86
    Page numbers: 648-659
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Commentary: Brown, L.A 1981: Innovation diffusion: a new perspective.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Progress in Human Geography
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1-2
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  • Managing the Yellow River: Questions of borders, boundaries and access
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Transforming Cultures eJournal
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 114-135
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  • Ten key questions about the management of water in the Yellow River Basin
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Environmental Management
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 179-188
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Primitive accumulation, transition and unemployment in China
    Year: 2006
    Event name: IIRA 14th World Congress
    Conference Publication: Social Actors, Work Organization and New Technologies in the 21st Century
    Publisher: International Industrial Relations Association
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Globalisation and unemployment: East Asia and the OECD
    Year: 2005
    Book: Unemployment in Asia
    Publisher: Routledge(Hants)
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Journal Articles

  • Markets in the Chinese countryside: the case of 'rich Wang's village'
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Geoforum
    Volume: 36
    Page numbers: 720-734
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Ten key questions about the human dimensions of water in the Yellow River Basin
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 2nd International Yellow River Forum
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum on keeping healthy life of the river
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 127-135
    Publisher: Yellow River Conservancy Press(Zhengzhou)
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  • The Yellow River in the big picture
    Year: 2005
    Event name: 2nd International Yellow River Forum
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2nd International Yellow River Forum on keeping healthy life of the river
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 263-271
    Publisher: Yellow River Conservancy Press(Zhengzhou)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Ansett airlines employees: a preliminary survey of post-retrenchment outcomes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Economic and Labour Relations Review
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 305-330
    Publisher: Centre for Applied Economic Research
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  • Involuntary resettlement, production and income: evidence from Xiaolangdi, PRC
    Year: 2004
    Journal: World Development
    Volume: 32
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 673-690
    Publisher: Pergamon
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  • Will OPEC lose from the Kyoto Protocol?
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Energy Policy
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 2077-2088
    Publisher: Pergamon
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A theory of patterns of passby noise
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Sound and Vibration
    Volume: 262
    Page numbers: 1047-1056
    Publisher: Academic Press(London)
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  • Peace and development in post-war Iraq
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Middle East Policy
    Volume: X
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 22-32
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
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  • Using LCA to examine greenhouse gas abatement policy
    Year: 2003
    Journal: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 19-26
    Publisher: Ecomed Publishers(Landsberg)
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Publications in 2002

Books

  • China's transition to a global economy
    Year: 2002
    Publisher: Palgrave(Basingstoke)
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Book Chapters

  • China goes out: investing overseas
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave(Basingstoke)
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  • China's puzzle game: four spatial shifts of development
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Conclusions: opening the gate to the world economy
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Foreign direct investment and labour relations
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Knocking on WTO's door
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Making markets
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Managed openness: opening China's door
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • Reconfiguring the microgeography of China: special economic zones
    Year: 2002
    Book: China's transition to a global economy
    Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan(Basingstoke)
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  • What happens when you are retrenched from an old declining industry?
    Year: 2002
    Book: The price of prosperity: the economic and social costs of unemployment
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Journal Articles

  • How LCA studies deal with uncertainty
    Year: 2002
    Journal: International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 47-52
    Publisher: Ecomed Publishers(Landsberg)
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  • Involuntary resettlement in China: a model of good practice?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Forced Migration Review
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 38-39
    Publisher: Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford(Oxford)
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Reports

  • 'Using boundaries to become global: globalisation and difference' in Developing a teaching programme to be designed for the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
    Year: 2002
    Customer: UMAP - University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific
    Report No:: 11480035
    Publisher: Hitotsubashi University(Tokyo)
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Publications in 2001

Books

  • Refashioning the Rag Trade: Internationalising Australia's textiles, clothing and footwear industries
    Year: 2001
    Publisher: University of New South Wales Press(Sydney)
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Book Chapters

  • Growth and change in the World Economy since 1950
    Year: 2001
    Book: Phases of capitalist development: booms, crises and globalizations
    Publisher: Palgrave(Basingstoke)
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  • Precarious employment and occupational change
    Year: 2001
    Book: Work rich, Work poor: Inequality and economic change in Australia
    Publisher: Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University of Technology(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Finance and the real economy: theoretical implications of the financial crisis in Asia
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Geoforum
    Volume: 32
    Page numbers: 1-13
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Trade and inequality: Australia's textile, clothing and footwear industries, 1986-1996
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Economic Geography
    Volume: 1
    Page numbers: 381-403
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