Lesley Head

“Winga Is Trying to Get in”: Local Observations of Climate Change in the Tiwi Islands

Jon Barnett, Teresa Konlechner, Elissa Waters, Michelle Woody Minnapinni, Sergio Jarillo, Brian Austral, James De Santis, Lesley Head, Clinton Rioli, Andrew King

Journal article  |  2023  |  Earth's Future

Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management

Nicholas Gill, Laurie Chisholm, Jennifer Atchison, Sonia Graham, Gina Hawkes, Lesley Head, Shaun McKiernan

Journal article  |  2022  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Successful management of invasive plants (IPs) requires the active participation of diverse communities across land tenures. This ..

Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires

Michela Mariani, Simon E Connor, Martin Theuerkauf, Annika Herbert, Petr Kunes, David Bowman, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head, A Peter Kershaw, Simon G Haberle, Janelle Stevenson, Matthew Adeleye, Haidee Cadd, Feli Hopf, Christy Briles

Journal article  |  2022  |  FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Recent catastrophic fires in Australia and North America have raised broad-scale questions about how the cessation of Indigenous b..

Beyond Green: Human–environment geographies for the ‘new’ century

Lesley Head

Journal article  |  2022  |  Environment and Planning F

The disciplinary heritage of examining human–environment relationships continues to be vital but needs continual updating. In the ..

The politics of evaporation and the making of atmospheric territory in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin

Sue Jackson, Lesley Head

Journal article  |  2021  |  ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE

Scholarship on the hydrosocial cycle has tended to overlook the atmospheric phase of the cycle. This paper identifies and conceptu..

The state of geography in Australian universities

Lesley Head, Ian Rutherfurd

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS

We place the state of Australian university Geography in brief historical context and assess the key contemporary challenges. We d..

Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants

Lesley Head, Natascha Klocker, Olivia Dun, Gordon Waitt, Heather Goodall, Ikerne Aguirre-Bielschowsky, Ananth Gopal, Sophie-May Kerr, Fatemeh Nowroozipour, Tess Spaven, Stephanie Toole

Journal article  |  2021  |  LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

Migration from the Global South to Global North is a major feature of contemporary population movements, and provides a lived expe..

The everyday and the uncanny

Lesley Head, Brett Story

Journal article  |  2020  |  DIALOGUES IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Comment: Community resilience, natural hazards and climate change

Lesley Head

Journal article  |  2020  |  NORSK GEOGRAFISK TIDSSKRIFT-NORWEGIAN JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY

Transformative change requires resisting a new normal

Lesley Head

Journal article  |  2020  |  NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE