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Brian Cook

Associate Professor (Geography)
Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
risk
disaster
agriculture
behaviour
participation
collaboration
science & technology
social sciences
life sciences & biomedicine
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Brian Cook

 
Division
Science
 
Primary Interest
Participation and Knowledge Controversies
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Projects

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Next generation agricultural extension: social relations for practice change

2020 - 2026
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Community Engagement Disaster Risk Reduction (CEDRR) program

2021 - 2026
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ASEM 2013/003 Uptake of agricultural technologies and best practice amongst farmers in Battambang and Pailin Provinces, Cambodia

2017 - 2023
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Community engagement for disaster risk reduction (CEDRR)

2020 - 2021
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UOM to collaborate with Western Sydney University and Deakin University for a sponsored research funded by Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC Ltd

2017 - 2020
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Community engagement for disaster risk reduction (CEDRR)

2017 - 2018
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WATER GOVERNANCE: REALISING SYSTAINABLE AND PRODUCTIVE OUTCOMES UNDER UNCERTAINTY

2013 - 2016
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THE IMPLEMENTATION OF WATER PRODUCTIVITY: IDENTIFYING BARRIERS AND SOLUTIONS

2013 - 2015
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Smallholder perspectives and decisions about technology adoption in agro-ecological zones and farming systems of Cambodia

2014 - 2015
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ACTION PLANNING FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CARLTON CONNECT WATER THEME INNOVATION STATEMNET FOR REGIONAL WATER PRODUCTIVITY

2013 - 2014
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Project Types

5

Internal Research Grant

4

Research Contracts

3

Research Grant

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 42 for Brian Cook.

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Awareness without learning: A preliminary study exploring the effects of beachgoer's experiences on risk taking behaviours

Peter Kamstra, Brian R Cook, Robert W Brander, Jasmin C Lawes, Bernadette Matthews, Hannah Calverley, Angelo Jonas Imperiale, Benjamin Hooper

Journal article  |  2022  |  HELIYON

Most drowning deaths on Australian beaches occur in locations not patrolled by lifeguards. At patrolled locations, where lifeguard..

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Experiential learning, practices, and space for change: The institutional preconfiguration of community participation in flood risk reduction

Brian R Cook, Isabel Cornes, Paula Satizabal, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT

Responding to societal challenges requires an understanding of how institutional change happens or does not happen. In the context..

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The power of connection: Navigating the constraints of community engagement for disaster risk reduction

Paula Satizabal, Isabel Cornes, Maria de Lourdes Melo Zurita, Brian R Cook

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Community engagement for disaster risk reduction has become central to participatory emergency management. In neoliberal contexts,..

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Political ecology of freshening the Mekong's coastal delta: narratives of place-based land-use dynamics

Anh Tran Thong, Van Tran Hieu, Jamie Pittock, Brian Cook

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF LAND USE SCIENCE

This paper explores how the state-led ‘freshening the coastal zones’ policy has been implemented in pursuit of sustainable develop..

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Relational Risk and Collective Management: A Pathway to Transformational Risk Management

Peter Kamstra, Brian Cook, Tim Edensor, David Kennedy, Matthew Kearnes

Journal article  |  2021  |  RISK ANALYSIS

Risk tends to be conceptualized at the individual scale, with global risk communication and governance efforts fixated on an indiv..

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Humanising agricultural extension: A review

Brian R Cook, Paula Satizabal, Jayne Curnow

Journal article  |  2021  |  WORLD DEVELOPMENT

Agricultural extension is booming. This interest is critical in the context of numerous pressing issues linked to agrarian change ..

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The impact of peer-review on undergraduate grades when students decide whether to participate

Brian R Cook, Peter Kamstra, Thomas Savige, Le-Anne Bannan, Elena Tjandra, Andreas Alexandra, Isabel Cornes

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Feedback is at the heart of debates over student satisfaction and academic workload, an issue likely to increase in importance as ..

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Drowning 'Truths': Contrasting experiential-experts' perceptions with official-experts drowning reports on Australia's hazardous coasts

Peter Kamstra, Brian Cook, David Kennedy, Eveline Rijksen, Shane Daw

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

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Stories of Risk from Rock Fishers on Australia's Hazardous Rocky Coasts

Peter Kamstra, Brian Cook, David M Kennedy

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH

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Expert perceptions of the 'freak' wave myth on Australia's rocky coasts

Peter Kamstra, Brian Cook, David M Kennedy, Sarah McSweeney, Eveline Rijksen, Shane Daw

Journal article  |  2019  |  OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Hazardous rocky coasts are a leading site for coastal drowning deaths worldwide. Between 2004 and 2017, 149 rock fishers have drow..

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Keyword Analysis

Human Geography
Expanding Knowledge
Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards
Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
Natural Hazards
Adaptation To Climate Change
Environmental Management
Library and Information Studies
Public Health
Urban and Regional Planning

News

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Floods are natural, but human decisions make disasters. We need to reflect on the endless cycles of blame

Brian Robert Cook

As the Victorian city of Echuca prepared for flooding this week, the council moved rapidly to build a temporary earthen levee as others san..

October 30, 2022
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To stop risky developments in floodplains, we have to tackle the profit motive – and our false sense of security

Brian Robert Cook, Tim Werner

In the aftermath of destructive floods, we often seek out someone to blame. Common targets are the “negligent local council”, the “greedy d..

July 4, 2022
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We should listen to coronavirus experts, but local wisdom counts too

Matthew Kearnes, Brian Robert Cook, Declan Kuch, Joan Leach, Niamh Stephenson, Rachel A. Ankeny, Sujatha Raman

Public health messages about COVID-19 have been inconsistent and changed rapidly. Many have called for a unified source of expertise to gui..

March 31, 2020
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Will water ever be worth more than oil?

Brian Cook, David Byrne, Angus Webb

Nature has declared that the world’s supply of water is fixed. As a means of keeping humanity alive, it has no substitute. Recently, Cape ..

March 5, 2018
pursuit Article

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Credentials

Positions

Associate Professor (Geography)

Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Member

Institute of Australian Geographers

Member

Royal Geographic Society

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Durham University

Masters of Arts

University of Western Ontario

Bachelor of Arts

University of Victoria

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