Rocky Coasts: A Framework for Risk Assessment in Order to Reduce Drowning

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

P Kamstra, B Cook, T Edensor, D Kennedy, M Kearnes

2021-10-01

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

The role of seaward morphology on wave transformation onto and across a microtidal shore platform

TR Savige, HEL Kowalczyk, TE Fellowes, DM Kennedy

2021-07-15

Waves are a primary erosive agent on intertidal shore platforms. In microtidal environments, as waves cross a shore platform the e..

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

P Kamstra, B Cook, D Kennedy, E Rijksen, S Daw

2020-08-01

Qualitative GIS to Relate Perceptions with Behaviors among Fishers on Risky, Rocky Coasts

P Kamstra, B Cook, DM Kennedy, C Brennan-Horley

2019-07-03

This article presents an innovative mixed methodology that integrates qualitative geographic information systes (GIS) methods to e..

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

P Kamstra, B Cook, DM Kennedy, S McSweeney, E Rijksen, S Daw

2019-05-01

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

A morphology-based drowning risk index for rock platform fishing: a case study from southeastern Australia

RC Carvalho, DM Kennedy, CD Woodroffe

2019-03-15

There has been an increase in drownings over recent decades in Australia, particularly among rock fishers swept from the edge of r..

Re-casting experience and risk along rocky coasts: A relational analysis using qualitative GIS

P Kamstra, B Cook, T Edensor, DM Kennedy

2019-03-01

This study invites readers to experience risk on Australia’s hazardous rocky coasts with the rock fishing community. In the paper,..

Treating risk as relational on shore platforms and implications for public safety on microtidal rocky coasts

P Kamstra, B Cook, DM Kennedy, B Brighton

2018-04-01

Drowning on rocky coasts is a problem with global significance, but it is a particularly acute issue in Australia where rocky coas..

Wave hazards on microtidal shore platforms: testing the relationship between morphology and exposure

DM Kennedy, D Ierodiaconou, A Weir, B Brighton

2017-03-01

Open-ocean rocky coasts are dangerous environments when there is a coincidence of recreational activities occurring in areas of hi..

Where is the seaward edge? A review and definition of shore platform morphology

DM Kennedy

2015-08-01

Shore platforms are erosional coastal landforms that have attracted scientific attention since the mid 19th century. The defining ..