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Honours theses completed in the Department of Human Geography (1970-2004)

Please note: copies of these Honours theses are held in the Department of Human Geography Office (E7A602). If you wish to gain access to any of these theses, please contact the Head of Department or, if you are an honours or postgraduate student, contact your supervisor.


Adams, Penny (1998) "Landscapes in Conflict: Reviewing Approaches to Conflicts between Indigenous and Non-indigenous People over Land".
Key words: cultural geography, Aborigines, conflict resolution, reconciliation, land claims, native title.

Atichian, Nicole (1994) "Environmental Mediation and the Sydney Harbour Tunnel".
Key words: environmental decision-making, mediation, community empowerment, Sydney.

Bain, Phillip L. (1978) "Common Land in New South Wales".
Key words: commons, history, land uses, NSW.

Baker, Peter G. (1970) "A Preliminary Industrial Impact Study of Decentralised Industry in Selected New South Wales Country Towns".
Key words: industrial geography, decentralisation, spatial analysis, semantic differential scaling, NSW.

Beardow, Margaret (1981) "Regional Growth Policies and Structural Change".
Key words: economic geography, growth, pole theory, restructuring, regional planning, Hunter Valley.

Bell, Lauren (2007) "Weighing the Scales: A Scale Analysis of Micro finance in Fiji".
Key words: micro finance, scale, development, Fiji

Bennett, Gemma (2007) "From rubbish to resource: domestic waste education in western Sydney ".
Key words: waste education, western Sydney.

Best, Louisa K. (1999) "A GIS Approach for Predicting Invertebrate Distribution in Arid Australia".
Key words: geographical information systems, land management, NSW.

Bilous, Susannah (2004) "Burning boundaries: the implications of boundaries for fire management cooperation in Sydney".
Key words: fire management, Sydney.

Bolam, Andrew (1989)"Bathurst-Orange Revisited: Decentralisation and Structural Change".
Key words: decentralisation, regional planning, manufacturing, restructuring, Bathurst-Orange.

Boyce, Ann (1976) "The Impact of Office Organisations on Regional Growth Centres".
Key words: economic geography, office location, regional planning, decentralisation, Bathurst-Orange.

Brennan, W.T. (1977) "Government and Urban Growth in South Eastern New South Wales".
Key words: political geography, government, urban development, NSW.

Brown, Talone (1996)"Change Detection utilising Aerial Photography and GIS: Tree Loss on the Central Coast 1975-1994".
Key words: geographical information systems, aerial photography, land management, tree loss.

Bruce, Melissa (2001) "The geography of crime versus the geography of fear: a woman's perspective".
Key words: social geography, crime, women, Sydney.

Calgaro, Emma (2005) "Paradise in tatters: analysis of the vulnerability of the tourism community in Khao Lak, Thailand to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami" ".
Key words: vulnerability, tourism, Thailand, tsunami.

Carter, Graham (1972) "Aspects of Perception: Recent Fringe Arrivals".
Key words: intra-urban migration, perception, residential environment, Sydney.

Chandler, Jane (2000) "Interpretation at the Jenolan Caves Reserve."
Key words: heritage, management, NSW.

Clark, Lindie (1984) "Restructuring in the Australian Whitegoods Industry, 1973-1983".
Key words: economic geography, restructuring, globalisation, manufacturing industry, white goods.

Codrington, Stephen (1976) "The Impact of New South Wales Milk Zone Legislation in the Dairying Industry with Particular Reference to Mumbulla Shire".
Key words: economic geography, agriculture, government regulation, milk industry, NSW.

Cole, Robert (1986) "Technology and Corporate Strategies: a Study of ATMs as an Innovation Diffusion Process".
Key words: economic geography, innovation, diffusion theory, organisational strategies, banking industry.

Coles, Rebekah(2005) "Human rights discourse and aid delivery: a case study of Australian aid delivery to Africa, an assessment of water projects".
Key words: aid delivery, Africa, water projects, human rights.

Colquhoun, Gary (1977), "Lithgow: a Case Study of a Region in Decline".
Key words: regional economic development, decentralisation, manufacturing, coal mining, NSW.

Conroy, Joan (2003) "A geography of the Gay Games".

Cook, Richard (1996) "Competition and Greenhouse Policy: the Reorganisation of the NSW Electricity Industry".
Key words: economic geography, regulation, electricity, greenhouse policy, resource management, NSW.

Cooper, Megan (2003) "The guiding fictions of tourism: Aboriginal people and tourism in Coober Pedy, SA".
Key words: tourism, Aboriginal, Coober Pedy, SA.

Couch, Philip (2007) "Larrakia people are still here: Contested presences in post-colonial Darwin ".
Key words: Larrakia, Darwin, Indigenous identity.

Crabtree, Louise (1999) "Sustainability as Seen From a Vegetable Garden".
Key words: sustainability, urban agriculture, community gardens, networks, inner Sydney

Crawshaw, B.W. (1972) "Home Units and Houses: the Demographic, Socio-economic and Sociological Differences between their occupiers - a Study of Lane Cove, New South Wales".
Key words: social geography, residential choice, neighbourhood, Sydney.

Croft, Alise (1996) "Suburbs, Women and Transport: a Case Study of the Bankstown Local Government Area".
Key words: social geography, women, transport, motor vehicles, outer suburbs.

Croft, Nathan J. (1999) "Heritage Notions, Perceptions and Representations: a Study of Adaptive Reuse in George Street North, The Rocks, Sydney".
Key words: cultural geography, built heritage, heritage reuse, conservation, Sydney.

Cummings, Lara (2005) "What comes first, the chicken or the egg? A commodity chan analysis of attitudes to hen welfare".
Key words: commodity chain, chickens, hens, animal welfare.

Davison, Stephanie (2000) "Family decisions: how many children do we want?".
Key words: population geography, family size, fertility.

Deeming, Simon M. (1994) "Theorising a Metropolitan Business Agglomeration: an Enquiry into the Restructuring and Spatial Dynamics of Sydney's Advertising Services Industry".
Key words: economic geography, flexible specialisation, agglomeration networks, advertising, Sydney.

Dunstan, Kathryn (2003) "Constructing conflict in natural world heritage sites using the lens of geographical scale".
Key words: heritage.

Durney, Andria (1999) "Actively Aboriginal: Mythology as Action Research".
Key words: cultural geography, oral history, mythology, indigenous people, Aborigines, action research

Eggleton, Kylie (1998) "Rivers as resource; rivers as sanctuary: Aboriginal issues in river management".
Key words: river management, indigenous people, Aborigines, Barwon-Darling, river system, NSW.

El Khoury, Ann (1998) "The Geopolitical Economy of Guns and Butter: Rationalisation and the Global-Local Restructuring of Defence Industries".
Key words: political geography, globalisation, restructuring, arms industry.

Ellis, Elisabeth (1998) "Reaching Out/ Reaching In/ Reaching Across: Identity and the Spatial Politics of Disablement and Enablement".
Key words: social geography, cultural geography, disability, politics of space, Australia .

Emblem, Jeni (1997) "International Treaties on the Environment and their Effect on Australian National and Regional Sovereignty: Biodiversity - a Case Study".
Key words: political geography, international environmental treaties, biological diversity.

Fox, Paul (1992) "The Location of Universities in Sydney: Present Patterns, Observations and Alternatives for the Future".
Key words: economic geography, location theory, universities, Sydney.

Gee, Pam (1997) "Constructing Place: Kooragang Island, Newcastle NSW".
Key words: cultural geography, Kooragang Island, Newcastle.

George, John (2004) "Interpreting the cultural landscape of Parramatta Park".

Gibbs, Leah (1999) "Gold Country: Colonialism and Mining in the Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia".
Key words: resource management, mining, indigenous people, Aborigines, colonialism.

Greenwood, Verity (2001) "Weathering storms on the Stygian Ferry: the economic, social and cultural impacts of globalisation on the Australian funeral industry".
Key words: economic geography, cultural geography, funeral industry.

Harwood, Alison (1997) "Putting Protest in its Place: Power Protest and Participation: Gulf Aboriginal People and the Century Mine Proposal".
Key words: resource management, mining & indigenous people, Aborigines, protest.

Hayes, Anna-Lisa (1994) "Aborigines, tourism and Central Australia: national visions disarticulated from local realities".
Key words: cultural geography, tourism, indigenous people, Aborigines, central Australia.

Henderson, Craig G. (1983) "Foreign Banking in Australia".
Key words: economic geography, international financial centres, banking, Australia.

Hillman, Michael (2000) "The use of scientific information in environmental decision-making: a case study of environmental flows on the Lachlan River, NSW".
Key words: environmental management, rivers.

Hirst, Philip (1977) "The Role of Local Government in the Heavy Mineral Sands Industry along the Central Coast of New South Wales".
Key words: resource management, political geography, local government, sand mining, NSW.

Hodge, Stephen (1992) "The University of Western Sydney; a University in Western Sydney or a University for Western Sydney?".
Key words: cultural geography, universities, outer suburbs, Western Sydney.

Howarth, Robyn (2007) "Battlers polishing the rust belt? Networks and managing disadvantage in western Newcastle, NSW. ".
Key words: disadvantage, Newcastle.

Hueneke, Klaus (1971) "Evaluation of Natural Landscapes for Recreational Conservation and Amenity Preservation: Geographical Studies in the Sydney Region".
Key words: recreational geography, resource management, bushland, Sydney.

Hughes, Janet (1976) "Flooding in the Lower Hawkesbury Valley, NSW, with Particular Reference to Flood Perception and Adjustment".
Key words: natural hazards,, flood perception floodplain management, NSW.

Irvine, Rebecca (1992) "An Experiment in Measuring the Value of Alternative Landuses: a Case Study on the Balmain Peninsula".
Key words: behavioural geography, landuse evaluation, contingent valuation, urban environment.

Jay, Murray (2004) "Visitor impacts and the need for a Plan of Management at Bents Basin SCA, Greendale, NSW".

Johnson, Niall P.A.S (1990) "Residential Environmental Quality: a Reappraisal based on the Sydney Experience".
Key words: behavioural/social geography, neighbourhood quality, urban environment, Sydney.

Jordan, Claudia (2000) "Social Issues in Environmental Management: How Might Public Participation Contribute to better Outcomes?".
Key words: urban environmental management, decision-making, public participation, social impact.

Kealy, Venessa (1996) "Imagined Spaces: Interpreting Perceptions of Place and Regulation of Spaces through the Processes of Normalisation and Reconciliation at Weipa".
Key words: cultural geography, company town mining & indigenous people, Aborigines, reconciliation.

Kearnes, Matthew (1997) "Music Videos and the Construction of Symbolic Geographies".
Key words: cultural geography, music industry, media global market.

Keating, Michael E. (1976) "Hobby Farms in New South Wales: a Study in the Mudgee Area".
Key words: hobby farms, rural development, recreation, NSW.

Kennedy, Danny (1994) "Development is not Sustainability: A Case Study of the Kutubu Petroleum Development Project, Papua New Guinea".
Key words: sustainable development, mining & indigenous people, oil industry, Papua New Guinea.

Kerr, James (2003) "The clustering of ethnic small businesses: Korean retailers in Eastwood".
Key words: small business, Korean retailers, Eastwood.

Kite, James (2007) "Obesogenic environments in Sydney: A comparative study".
Key words: obsogenic environments, Sydney.

Kotsis, Chrisoula (2001) "The east/west divide - service and social provision inequity in Sydney ".
Key words: service, social provision, Sydney.

Lane, Rodney (1994) "The Plight of the Independent Retailer: Retail Structural Change and its Implications for Small Store Survival".
Key words: economic geography, retailing restructuring, small businesses, Sydney.

Larsen, Lynn (1973) "Race and Spatial Form: with Special Reference to the Assimilation and Dispersal of Aborigines in the Sydney Area".
Key words: urban geography, ethnic and racial minorities, Aborigines, Sydney.

Lawrence, Rebecca (2002) "Governing Warlpiri subjects: indigenous Employment and training programs in the Central Australian mining industry".
Key words: indigenous employment, mining industry, central Australia.

Lee, John (1989) "Childhood Accidents in Sydney - Towards a Better Understanding".
Key words: medical geography, accidents, children, Sydney .

Lee, Yoke Yen (Pam) (1997) "Green is Good: Environmental Management in Singapore".
Key words: urban environmental management, government regulation, Singapore.

Leech, Bret (1989) "The Sydney Airport Problem".
Key words: environmental decision-making, public policy, location of airports.

Lendrum, Mitchell (2007) "Fire management, carbon abatement and sustainable futures on country for Indigenous Australians: the west Arnhem Land experience".
Key words: fire management, carbon abatement, indigenous resource management, west Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.

Lissenden, Richard (1988) "Technological Change and Corporate Restructuring from EFTPOS in Sydney's Retailing Industry".
Key words: economic geography, retailing restructuring, technological change, information industry.

Lyth, Anna (1989) "Local Labour Markets and Local Policy, the Case of Penrith".
Key words: urban economic geography, restructuring local government, local labour markets.

Macdonell, Kieran (1998) "The Importance of Culture for Sustainable River Management: a Case Study on the Snowy River".
Key words: cultural geography, river management, environmental management, community action.

Mackenzie, Ihian D. (1972) "The Optimal Location of Warehouses: an Application of the Location - Allocation Model".
Key words: economic geography, location theory, warehousing.

Mann, Peter (1987) "The Parramatta Stadium Development: a Case Study in Urban Conflict".
Key words: conflict theory, community action groups, Parramatta Stadium.

Mansfield, Andrew (2000) "Retail gentrification: the case of Broadway and Norton Street, Leichhardt".
Key words: gentrification, retailing, inner-city suburbs.

Martin, Tamsin (1997) "Sydney's Solid Waste: the Re-use of Materials Salvaged from Landfill".
Key words: environmental management, urban waste management, recycling, Sydney, Canberra.

Mason, Chloe (1971) "A Medical-Geographic Study of the Social Environment of Psychogeriatric Patients".
Key words: medical geography, social geography, elderly, psychiatric care, Sydney.

Metcalf, Simone (1989) "Retirement Migration: A Case Study of Bateman's Bay and Narooma".
Key words: behavioural geography, elderly migration, NSW.

Mills, Chris J. (1980) "Financial Institutions and Change in Peninsular Balmain".
Key words: urban geography, gentrification, financial institutions, inner Sydney.

Moore, Brendan (2000) "Breast cancer and experiences of the mammography service provided by Breast Screen NSW Western".
Key words: medical geography, screening services.

Moore, Stephanie (2002) "Places and horizons: Aboriginals and pastoralist perspectives and experiences of place and race in the western division of NSW".

Morone, Christopher R. (1976) "Botany Bay Port Development: an Analysis of reaction to a proposed major development".
Key words: land use, conflict, community action groups, port facilities, Botany Bay, Sydney.

Mountford, Helene (2001) "Your call has been placed in a queue: new work at and locations of call centres in Sydney".
Key words: economic geography, call centres, new work, location.

Murney, Anthony P (1977) "Peripheral Settlement: an Examination of two New South Wales Shires - 1952-1977".
Key words: urban geography, settlement patterns, peripheral settlement, Lithgow, Orange.

Myers, Lucy (1993) "Child Immunisation: Uptake and Attitudes in three areas of New South Wales".
Key words: medical geography, immunisation, NSW.

Nadolny, Andrew J. (1995) "The Cultural Perceptions of Old-Growth Forests: How Natural Really?".
Key words: cultural geography, perceptions, resource management, Australia.

Neuhold, Rhonda (1994) "Flexible Specialisation in an Australian Peripheral Region: a Study of the Hunter Valley".
Key words: economic geography, flexible specialisation, location decisions, Hunter Valley.

New Than T. (1976) "The Significance of Urban Growth to Development with Particular Reference to some South East Asian Countries".
Key words: urbanisation, development, South East Asia.

Noon, Gerard (1984) "Technology and Structural Change in the Australian Consumer Electronics Industry: a Geographical perspective".
Key words: economic geography, restructuring, product cycle theory, electronics industry, Australia.

Norris, Beth (1996) "Local culture or global coal: Aboriginal struggles to protect and nurture their cultural heritage in the upper Hunter Valley ".
Key words: indigenous cultural heritage, Hunter Valley, NSW.

Nugent, Ellis (1977), "Wholesaling and Urban Structure".
Key words: economic geography, restructuring, wholesaling location theory, hardware industry.

O'Dwyer, Bronwen (1995) "Homelessness, Schizophrenia and Gender: a Comparison of Housing Histories among Homeless Schizophrenic Men and Women and Homeless non-schizophrenic Women in Sydney's Inner City Refuges".
Key words: medical geography, mental health, residential mobility patterns, gender, Sydney.

O'Neill, Phillip (1975) "The Impact of a Large Firm on a Regional Labour Market".
Key words: economic geography, regional development, local labour markets, multiplier analysis.

Pagan, Rebecca (1999), "Homecomings".
Key words: cultural geography, place, home, return migration, Australia.

Panagopoulos, Vivian (1997) "The Case of Popular Music in Inner Sydney".
Key words: cultural geography, gender, popular music, inner Sydney.

Parry, Bronwyn (1993) "The Economic, Political and Cultural Geography of Toxic Exposure".
Key words: medical geography, toxic exposure, environmental management, tick dips, northern NSW.

Picker, Jane (2002) "A study into the geography of alternative healthcare in Sydney".
Key words: alternative healthcare, Sydney.

Power, Emma (2003) "Nature-culture and the suburban garden ".
Key words: nature-culture, gardens, non-human agency, Sydney, NSW.

Prendergast, John J. (1975) "Areal Differentials in Educational Opportunity within the Sydney Metropolitan Area".
Key words: social geography, social differences, education, Sydney.

Price, Anna (1990) "Local consequences of global and national restructuring: the Hunter Valley wine industry ".
Key words: restructuring, Hunter Valley, wine industry.

Ptak, Tom (2007) "Retaining Tibetan culture and identity in a geopolitical landscape".
Key words: Tibetan diasporas, identity, culture, geopolotics, Sydney.

Pugh, Ann, (1978) "Recreation on Inland Rivers of New South Wales: Problems of Access to a Recreational Resource".
Key words: recreational geography, resource management, rivers, NSW.

Ralfe, Phil (2007) "Love thy neighbour? An evaluation of Australian aid delivery to East New Britian province, Papua New Guinea".
Key words: development, Australian aid, Papua New Guinea.

Rein, Frances C. (1976) "Suburbanisation and the Evolution of Resort Land on the New South Wales Central Coast".
Key words: recreational geography, resort landuse, suburbanisation, Gosford- Wyong.

Richardson, Bronwyn J. (1972) "A Procedure for Assessing Air Pollution Potential and its Application to the Evaluation of Airport Location".
Key words: air pollution, location of airports, Richmond.

Ricketts, Janine (1976) "Office Employment and Decentralization - a Study in Gosford-Wyong".
Key words: economic geography, office location, decentralisation, regional planning, Gosford-Wyong.

Russo, Stephanie (2007) "Saltwater futures: marine resource-based livlihoods for remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory ".
Key words: indigenous resource management, marine livlihoods, Northern Territory.

Salier, Matthew (1997) "The Community, Total Catchment Management and SOJI - the way forward for urban catchment management".
Key words: suburban environmental management, total catchment management, Berowra Creek .

Salmond, Amanda (1996) "Prospects for Indigenous Self Determination: the case of the Torres Strait Protected Zone".
Key words: resource management, indigenous people, economic development, Torres Strait Islands.

Savage, Elizabeth (1993) "Water Quality and Human Health with Reference to the Chemical Constituents Sodium, Nitrogen, Iron and Fluoride in Australian Drinking Water".
Key words: medical geography, human health, water quality.

Scandurra, Vanessa (2006) "The influences on, and experiences of, sustainable house design in a new urbanist community ".
Key words: new urbanism, sustainable house design.

Scott, Beverley (1987) "Outwork and Restructuring in the Australian Clothing Industry: A Geographical Perspective".
Key words: economic geography, restructuring, clothing industry, outworkers, Sydney.

Sharpe, Scott (1995) "Geography of the Birthing Moment: Space and Social Practice at the RHW Birth Centre".
Key words: cultural geography, birthing centres, embodied geographies, space and social practice.

Shepherd, Nigel K. (1993) "Profound Transformations: A Study of Urban Permaculture in Sydney".
Key words: permaculture, humane social change, sustainability, Sydney.

Slack, Benjamin W. (1999) "The Economic Geography of Sydney's Web Page Design Industry".
Key words: economic geography, information service industry, flexible specialisation, Sydney.

Sloan, Michael (2006) "The dynamics of an outer suburban sub-region: exploring employment access on the NSW central coast. ".
Key words: employment, central coast, NSW.

Sloane, Belinda (2001) "Experiences of disability, ageing and emotional health in institutional (home) places".
Key words: social geography, nursing homes, disabilities.

Smith, Karl (1995) "A Locality Divided: Community Responses to the M2 Motorway".
Key words: political geography, community action groups, motorways, local politics, northern Sydney.

Smith, Natalie (2002) "Infinite cartographies of the possible".

Smith, Rosie (2007) "Caring for country ranger programs: towards sustainable futures".
Key words: indigenous resource management, country, ranger programs, Daly Region, Northern Territory.

Snook, Stephen A. (1975) "Social Impacts of Urban Expressways on Residential Environments - a Case Study in Leichhardt".
Key words: urban transport, motorways, local impact, inner Sydney.

Sparkes, Ashley M. (1973) "Demographic Indicators of Spatial Variations in Mental Health: a study in Manly-Warringah".
Key words: medical geography, mental health, planning services, Sydney.

Spinks, Harriet (2002) "Freeing the slaves of fashion: the regulation of outworking in the Australian clothing industry".

Steel, Janet (1996) "Values, Ethics and Wilderness Protection: the Quaid Road as a Case Study".
Key words: environmental management, wilderness, environmental impact assessment, ethics.

Suchet, Sandra (1994) "Rekindling Culture Through Resources: Aboriginal resource management strategies and aspirations at Weipa".
Key words: resource management, indigenous people, cultural identity, Aborigines, Weipa.

Symonds, Douglas (1998) "Tuberculosis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues".
Key words: medical geography, public health, tuberculosis, Sydney Health Areas.

Tagg, Simon (2003) "Application of health impact assessment: an evaluation of two case studies".

Tan, Katrina (2006) "Assessing the effectiveness of transport policies in improving transport sustainability and delivering sustainable transport outcomes ".
Key words: transport, sustainability, policy.

Thompson, Susan M. (1978) "Land and Water in the Upper Kangaroo and Shoalhaven Valleys - a study in Resource use Conflict".
Key words: resource management, landuse conflict, national parks, recreation, Shoalhaven.

Tonkin, Liza (1992) "Have Community Action Groups Changed the Structure of the Katoomba/Leura Tourism Industry? A Study of Restructuring, Politics and Space".
Key words: political geography, restructuring tourism, community action groups, social movements.

Underabi, Husnia (2007) "Tourism in Afghanistan: Prospects, opportunities and challenges for tourism-led development in a war-affected setting ".
Key words: tourism, development, Afghanistan, diasporas.

Van Leeuwen, Marina (2000) "The social and emotional health implications of permanent park living".
Key words: social geography, caravan parks.

Veitch, Craig (1988) "Spatial Aspects of Childhood Asthma in the Cessnock Local Government Area - New South Wales".
Key words: medical geography, asthma, Cessnock.

Verdich, Paul (1975), "Optimal Location of Community Health Care Facilities: a Theoretical Approach".
Key words: social geography, community health, location of health facilities, Western Sydney.

Walsoe, Anna M. (1972) "Some Regional Aspects of "Livability": a Comparison of Blacktown and Wagga Wagga".
Key words: social geography, decentralisation, city-country differences, Wagga Wagga, Blacktown.

Webb, Melissa (1999) "The Place of the Suburban in the Rural: A Cultural Geography of East Bowral".
Key words: cultural geography, suburbanisation, rural geography, Southern Highlands, NSW.

Wilcock, Deirdre (2006) "Including multiple knowledges in adaptive management: an investigation of decision-making in Barmah forest, Australia ".
Key words: adaptive management, ontological plurism, geomorphology, indigenous knowledge, Barmah forest.

Worley, Elizabeth (2000) "The public attitude towards genetically modified food: a study of local difference".
Key words: genetically modified food, comparative attitudes.

Wright, Barry (1975) "Geographical Dimensions of Diphtheria in New South Wales".
Key words: medical geography, diphtheria, NSW.

 

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