Libby Robin

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Alexander Morrison

University of Oxford

Marta Diaz-Guardamino

Durham University

Henry Tantaleán

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Victoria GRIEVE WILLIAMS

RMIT University

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Emrah Safa Gürkan (ESG)

Istanbul 29 Mayis University

Luc Duerloo

University of Antwerp

Michaela Valente

Università degli Studi "La Sapienza" di Roma

Stéphane Péquignot

Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes

Franco Barchiesi

Ohio State University

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Led up the Garden Path (DRAFT 2016)

Aust J Env Management, 2017

At what scales does the concept of 'weed' really make sense? When and where does a garden plant b... more At what scales does the concept of 'weed' really make sense? When and where does a garden plant become a weed, rather than just a garden plant?
Pre-pub draft requested by readers, but blocked by paywalls only accessible to academics. This is a practical paper of interest to ecological restoration practitioners DOI 10.1080/14486563.2017.1300954
Co-authors: Dave Kendal, Libby Robin, Anna Wilson, Cameron Muir, Lilian M. Pearce, Sharon Willoughby, Ian Lunt

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‘Led up the Garden Path? Weeds, conservation rhetoric and environmental management’, 24:3, pp. 228-241

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. , 2017

Draft (2016) of paper (2017) by Dave Kendal, Libby Robin, Anna Wilson, Cameron Muir, Lilian M. P... more Draft (2016) of paper (2017) by Dave Kendal, Libby Robin, Anna Wilson, Cameron Muir, Lilian M. Pearce, Sharon Willoughby, Ian Lunt
Final is locked behind a paywall. This is a paper I am often asked for. Sick of paywalls blocking practitioners from useful stuff

At what scales does the concept of 'weed' really make sense? When and where does a garden plant become a weed, rather than just a garden plant?

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Papers by Libby Robin

Frith, Harold James (Harry) (1921 - 1982)

Commentary: Arthur Tansley, "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms" (1935)

The Environment" Is Only 70 Years Old A new book traces the surprisingly short history of the environment as a shared conceptual construct

"The Environment" Is Only 70 Years Old A new book traces the surprisingly short history... more

A curriculum for a Cause

In the eighties, many natural graph classes for which MIS allows to have a polynomial time algori... more In the eighties, many natural graph classes for which MIS allows to have a polynomial time algorithm were found, and many other natural classes for which MIS remains $\mathrm{N}\mathrm{P}$-complete were also found [7]. In the nineties, approximateness have received much attention. With the advance of study of relationship between nonapproximation and interactive proofs, the results on hardness of MIS to approximate have been improved. It is known that for MIS there is a polynominal time approximation algorithm with a ratio of $o

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Displaying the Anthropocene in and beyond museums

Uncertain Seasons in the El Niño Continent: Local and Global Views

Australia, 2019

As global climate change shifts seasonal patterns, local and uncertain seasons of Australia have ... more As global climate change shifts seasonal patterns, local and uncertain seasons of Australia have global relevance. Australia’s literature tracks extreme local weather events, exploring ‘slow catastrophes’ and ‘endurance.’ Humanists can change public policy in times when stress is a state of life, by reflecting on the psyches of individuals, rather than the patterns of the state. ‘Probable’ futures, generated by mathematical models that predict nature and economics, have little to say about living with extreme weather. Hope is not easily modelled. The frameworks that enable hopeful futures are qualitatively different. They can explore the unimaginable by offering an ‘interior apprehension.’

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Natural Resources and Environmental Justice

Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such... more Environmental management involves making decisions about the governance of natural resources such as water, minerals or land, which are inherently decisions about what is just or fair. Yet, there is little emphasis on justice in environmental management research or practical guidance on how to achieve fairness and equity in environmental governance and public policy. This results in social dilemmas that are significant issues for government, business and community agendas, causing conflict between different community interests. Natural Resources and Environmental Justice provides the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of justice research in Australian environmental management, identifying best practice and current knowledge gaps. With chapters written by experts in environmental and social sciences, law and economics, this book covers topical issues, including coal seam gas, desalination plants, community relations in mining, forestry negotiations, sea-level rise and...

Light on Landscape

Local Places, Global Processes, 2016

Resilience in the Anthropocene : A Biography

Conference on Rethinking Invasion Ecologies, June 18, 2012, Sydney, Australia, 2014

Uncorrected proof only. Final in Jodi Frawley and Iain McCalman (eds.) &lt;&lt;Rethinking... more

Conservation Science: here and beyond

The view from off-centre : Sweden and Australia in the imaginative discourse of the Anthropocene

Migrants and nomads: seasoning zoological knowledge in Australia

Maxwell Frank Cooper Day 1915–2017

Historical Records of Australian Science, 2020

Max Day (1915–2017) entomologist, scientific diplomat and conservationist, was a national scienti... more Max Day (1915–2017) entomologist, scientific diplomat and conservationist, was a national scientific leader across the twentieth century, a time that spanned the rise of the idea of the environment and of concern about ecological limits. He was a pioneer in Australia of integrated, cross-disciplinary science and an important advocate of evidence-based policy-making. His fundamental disciplinary work in entomology, virology, ecology and forestry focused on nationally significant problems and their international context.

Environmental humanities and climate change: understanding humans geologically and other life forms ethically

WIREs Climate Change, 2017

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Boom & Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country

Pacific Conservation Biology, 2010

As the subtitle says, this is a book of bird stories. The overall theme examines the population d... more As the subtitle says, this is a book of bird stories. The overall theme examines the population dynamics and evolution of some Australian inland birds in 12 separate essays, each by a different author or group of authors. It is apparent that the dates of preparation of these chapters cover an extended time period, one prepared by an author who died in 2001, and there is little attempt to integrate the stories. Each of the essays is well referenced and written by a respected authority on the bird, birds or topic that are the subject of the essay. In this way the book is authoritative, but it is also innovative, because it is clear that peer review has not been applied, or if applied then applied gently, because the authors have been allowed to speculate on the interpretations of the data they present. Modern journal editors and peer reviewers do their best to eliminate such speculation and yet it is from the presentation of such untested ideas that inquiry begins and science advances...

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The platypus debate

Eco-humanities Corner

Perceptions of place and deep time in the Australian desert: using art in environmental history

Perceptions of place and deep time in the Australian desert : using art in environmental history

Led up the Garden Path (DRAFT 2016)

Aust J Env Management, 2017

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‘Led up the Garden Path? Weeds, conservation rhetoric and environmental management’, 24:3, pp. 228-241

Australasian Journal of Environmental Management. , 2017

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Frith, Harold James (Harry) (1921 - 1982)