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A/PROF RUTH BEILIN



Contact Details

Organization: Resource Management and Geography
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
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Homepage: http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person2368.html
Work: 8344 5009
Room: 153
Level: 01
Building: Melb School of Land & Environment
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Design and management of the wider landscape, including conservation issues in rural private land Gender and rural landscapes, Environmental and landscape sociology Australia
Environmental education in post-graduate multi-disciplinary programs Australia
Social research relating to water management, Catchment management, Community based resource management Australia
Social science, policy and planning relating to management of rural and regional change Rural sociology, Gender and rural landscapes, Agricultural extension Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts University of Guelph 31-Dec-1978
Diploma in Horticulture University of Guelph 31-Dec-1974
Master of Science The University of Reading 31-Dec-1984
Doctor of Philosophy Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology 31-Dec-1999

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
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION, RISK ASSESSMENT AND DECISION ANALYSIS FOR CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF AUSTRALIAN MARINE PARKS Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2005
A CRITICAL COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THE VALUE OF THE LANDSCAPE &LOCALITY IN THE FARMING & MARKETING OF FOOD PRODUCE FROM DISTINCT GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS Principal Supervisor DAIRY AUSTRALIA Postgraduate Awards 15/03/2005
Optimizing the allocation of resources for defending marine protected areas against invasive species. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2008
Incendiary Cultures: Co constructing resilience to engage with fire and risk in landscape management. Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/07/2011

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
SOCIAL INDICATORS IN THE MOORABOOL CATCHMENT Chief Investigator UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE,
CORANGAMITE CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY		 01/04/2005
KEY DRIVERS THAT MOTIVATE RESOURCE MANAGERS Chief Investigator DEPT OF SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT 23/06/2008
RETHINKING AGRICULTURAL LAND ABANDONMENT TO CREATE SOCIALLY RESPONSIVE AND BIODIVERSE LANDSCAPES Chief Investigator STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY 19/11/2010
SOCIAL CONSTRUCT OF FUELS IN THE INTERFACE (THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LANDSCAPE) Chief Investigator BUSHFIRE CRC 01/03/2011

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 2011

Book Chapters

  • Biodiversity and Land Abandonment: Connecting Agriculture, Place and Nature in the Landscape
    Year: 2011
    Book: Landscapes, Identities and Development
    Publisher: Ashgate
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Journal Articles

  • Where is the Coherent Response to Climate Change and Peak Oil? An examination of Policy and Practice Affecting Agriculture in Regional Australia.
    Year: 2011
    Journal: International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
    Volume: 18
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 199-216
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  • Biosecurity risk and peri-urban landholders - using a stakeholder consultative approach to build a risk communication strategy
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Journal of Risk Research
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 281-295
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  • Co-constructing the sustainable city: how indicators help us “grow” more than just food in community gardens
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Local Environment
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 523-538
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  • Gaining Legitimacy and Losing Trust: Stakeholder Participation in Ecological Risk Assessment for Marine Protected Area Management
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Environmental Values
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 417-438
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  • Interruption, interrogation, integration and interaction as process: How PNS informs interdisciplinary curriculum design
    Year: 2011
    Journal: Futures
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 158-165
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Publications in 2010

Book Chapters

  • The getting of interdisciplinarity: the everyday practice of environmental curriculum design
    Year: 2010
    Book: International perspectives on higher education, Vol. 5
    Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Of biodiversity and boundaries: a case study of community-based natural resource management practice in the Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
    Year: 2010
    Journal: Environmental Conservation
    Volume: 37
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 347-355
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Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

Reports

  • Using Stakeholder Mapping and Analysis With a Mental Models Approach for Biosecurity Risk Communication With Peri-Urban Communities
    Year: 2009
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Parkville)
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Landscape with Voices: reflecting on Resilience in the  'Heartbreak Hills'  of Strzelecki Victoria
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Local-Global
    Volume: 4
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 141-160
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  • Change of management and complexity: the case for narrative action research
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 163-176
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  • Reflecting on stakeholders' perceptions in an ecological risk assessment workshop: lessons for practitioners
    Year: 2007
    Journal: The Environmentalist
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 109-117
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  • Risk-based approaches to deal with uncertainty in a data-poor system: stakeholder involvement in hazard identification for marine national parks and sanctuaries in Victoria, Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Risk Analysis
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 271-281
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  • Sites of integration in a contested landscape
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Rural Society
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 258-273
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Reports

  • Identification of threats to natural values in Victoria’s Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries. Parks Victoria Technical Series No.33.
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 33
    Publisher: Parks Victoria(Melbourne)
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  • State-wide synthesis of threats to natural values in Victoria’s Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries. Parks Victoria Technical Series No. 34.
    Year: 2007
    Report No:: 34
    Publisher: Parks Victoria(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Community engagement and public administration: Of silos, overlays and technologies of government
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Public Administration
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 113-126
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Reports

  • The Social context of land management practice and decision making in the Moorabool Basin:  A case study of potato farming and water management in the landscape
    Year: 2006
    Customer: CORANGAMITE CATCHMENT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY
    Publisher: University of Melbourne(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Photo elicitation and the agricultural landscape: 'seeing' and 'telling' about farming, community and place in a world of changing expectations about practice

    Year: 2005
    Journal: Visual Studies
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 56-69
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Community engagement: for whom?
    Year: 2005
    Event name: International Conference on Engaging Communities
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of International Conference on Engaging Communities
    Page numbers: 1-17
    Publisher: Queensland Department of Main Roads(Brisbane)
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  • Reflecting on stakeholders' perceptions in an ecological risk assessment workshop
    Year: 2005
    Event name: Environmental Change: Making it Happen
    Conference Publication: Conference Proceedings and Handbook - Environmental Change: Making it Happen
    Page numbers: 1-6
    Publisher: EERE Environmental Engineering Research Event
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Reports

  • Reconceptualising Extension to deliver triple bottom line outcomes. Cooperative Venture in innovation and human capacity building
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation
    Publisher: Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation(Canberra)
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  • Risk-based approaches to deal with uncertainty in a data-poor system: stakeholder involvement in hazard identification for Victoria's Marine National Parks and Sanctuaries
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: First International Marine Protected Areas Congress(Geelong)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Attachment to Landscape: A case study of the Box-Ironbark landscapes of Central Victoria
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 7th Annual Environmental Research Conference
    Conference Publication: Environmental Sustainability Through Multidisciplinary Integration
    Page numbers: 183-192
    Publisher: EERE Environmental Engineering Research Event
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  • Landholders' Assessment of the Quality of Riparian Areas in South Gippsland
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 7th Annual Environmental Research Conference
    Conference Publication: Environmental Sustainability Through Multidisciplinary Integration
    Page numbers: 390-399
    Publisher: EERE Environmental Engineering Research Event
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Capacity building, extension services, and the recognition of "sliding doors"
    Year: 2003
    Event name: 19th Annual Conference "Going Forward in Agricultural and Extension Education: Trends, Policies, and Designs Worldwide"
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference "Going Forward in Agriucltural and Extension Education: Trends, Policies and Designs Worldwide"
    Page numbers: 784 - 792
    Publisher: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education(Raleigh)
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  • Changing practice or practicing change? Defining landscapes of practice in resource management
    Year: 2003
    Event name: OECD CRP Workshop on "An Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Agriculture and Ecosystems Management"
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the OECD CRP Workshop on "An interdisciplinary dialogueAgriculture and Ecosystems Management"
    Page numbers: 261 - 270
    Publisher: NSW Agriculture
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  • Fostering collective action in water use efficiency
    Year: 2003
    Event name: Australian Farming Systems Conference
    Conference Publication: 2003 AFSA Conference Papers Database
    Page numbers: 1-13
    Publisher: Australian Farming Systems Association(Toowoomba)
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  • Re-examing an extension practice case study using  'Triple Bottom Line'  and  'Farming systems'  as concepts of sustainability
    Year: 2003
    Event name: the Australian Farming Systems conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the Australian Farming Systems conference
    Page numbers: -
    Publisher: Australian Farming Systems Association(Toowoomba)
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  • Social cohesion and civic space: underlining social policy obligation in production landscapes
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The Social Dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line in Rural Australia
    Conference Publication: The Social Dimensions of the Triple Bottom Line in Rural Australia
    Page numbers: 1 - 12
    Publisher: Bureau of Rural Sciences(Melbourne)
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  • Through the looking glass: organisational alignment for sustainable communities
    Year: 2003
    Event name: The 2002 Australian Academy of Science Fenner Conference on the Environment: Agriculture for the Australian Environment
    Conference Publication: Agriculture for the Australian Environment
    Page numbers: 141-149
    Publisher: Johnstone Centre, Charles Sturt University(Albury)
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Publications in 2002

Major Reference Works

  • Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens:Landcare
    Year: 2002
    Reference Work Title: Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
    Publisher: Oxford Press(Melbourne)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • The Brave New Order: Power, Visibility and the Everyday Landscapes of Australian Farmers
    Year: 2001
    Book: Environment Society and Natural Resource Management: Theoretical Perspectives from Australasia and the Americas
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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  • The brave new order: Power, visibility and the everyday landscapes of Australian farmers
    Year: 2001
    Book: Environment, Society and Natural Resource Management: theorectical perspectives
    Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing(Cheltenham)
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Journal Articles

  • After the Group: Extending the Farmer
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
    Volume: 8
    Issue: Summer 2001
    Page numbers: 43-52
    Publisher: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education(Baton Rouge)
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  • After the Group: Extending the farmer
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 43-52
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  • Underlying it All: Faceless Landscapes and commodified Views
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Rural Society
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 147-162
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  • Underlying it all: Faceless landscapes and commodified views
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Rural Society
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 147-161
    Publisher: Centre for Rural Social Research
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  • Using Participatory Approaches in Extension Research:  The case for Photo Elicitation. 
    Year: 2001
    Journal: ExtensionNet
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 3-5
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Rethinking Action Research: Theory and extension practice
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Exploring beyond the boundaries of extension and paving the way for a positive future for regional communities
    Conference Publication: Exploring beyond the boundaries of extension and paving the way for a positive future for regional communities
    Page numbers: 31-36
    Publisher: The University of Southern Queensland(Toowoomba)
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  • Rethinking Action research: theory and practice
    Year: 2001
    Event name: International Australasian Pacific Extension Network Conference
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of International Australasian Pacific Extension Network Conference
    Page numbers: 1-38
    Publisher: Australasia Pacific Extension Network(Melbourne)
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