Book Reviews
A framework for change: The state of the community Landcare movement in Australia
Helen Alexander
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie, Frank Vanclay
A History of the Wagga Wagga Sub-Branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia, 1918-1998
S Morris and H Fife
Reviewed by Joanna Seczkowski
A man's town - inequality between women and men in rural Australia
Ken Dempsey
Reviewed by Margaret Alston
A Question of Balance: Natural Resources Conflict Issues in Australia
David Mercer
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie, Frank Vanclay
A Shared Harvest: The Australian Wheat Industry
Greg Whitwell and Diana Sydenham
Reviewed by David B Moore
Agricultural and resource policy: Principles and policy
David Godden
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Agricultural Restructuring and Sustainability: A Geographical Perspective
Brian Ilbery, Quentin Chiotti and Timothy Rickard
Reviewed by Neil Argent
Agriculture and World Trade Liberalisation: Socio-environmental Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy
Michael R Redclift, Joseph N Lekakis and George P Zanias
Reviewed by Jay A Leitch
Agriculture in Australia: An Introduction
Lyle R Malcolm, Peter Sale and Adrian Egan
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Agriculture in the New Global Economy
William D Coleman, Wyn Grant, and Timothy Edward Josling
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
An Introduction to Applied Biogeography
Ian F Spellerberg, John WD Sawyer and Tony Whitten
Reviewed by Kathleen Bowmer
An Introduction to Economics: Concepts for students of agriculture and the rural sector (3rd edn)
B Hill
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Applying the Precautionary Principle
Adrian Deville and Ronnie Harding
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Australia Burning: Fire Ecology, Policy and Management Issues
G Cary, D Lindenmayer and S Dovers (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Australian Cultural Geographies
Elaine Stratford (ed)
Reviewed by James Logan
Australian families: A comparative perspective
Michael Gilding
Reviewed by Sotirios Sarantakos
Beside the Seaside: Victorian Resorts in the Nineteenth Century
Andrea Inglis
Reviewed by Lyn Gorman
Beyond Broadacres: Successful small farming
Ian Knox (ed)
Reviewed by Marie Macklin
Beyond Drought: People, Policy and Perspectives
Linda Courtenay Botterill and M Fisher (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race
Gillian Cowlishaw
Reviewed by AW (Bill) Anscombe
Bound by Blood: The True Story Behind the Wollongong Murders
JS Linton
Reviewed by Thérèse Taylor
Breaking through the grass ceiling: Women, power and leadership in agricultural organisations
Margaret Alston
Reviewed by Heather J Aslin
Building Stronger Communities
Philip Hughes, Alan Black, Peter Kaldor, John Bellamy and Keith Castle
Reviewed by Neil Argent
Charlie's Book: The Life and Times of a Country Town
Lynn Sunderland
Reviewed by Sherry Morris
Colonial Armidale
John Ferry
Reviewed by Don Boadle
Community Bushfire Safety
John Handmer, Katharine Haynes
Reviewed by Rosemary Hill
Community sustainability in rural Australia: A question of capital?
Chris Cocklin and Margaret Alson (eds)
Reviewed by Bill Pritchard
Conservation and Biodiversity
Andrew P Dobson
Reviewed by Kathleen Bowmer
Constructing the Countryside
Terry Marsden, Jonathan Murdoch, Philip Lowe, Richard Munton and Andrew Flynn
Reviewed by Perry Share
Coping With Risk in Agriculture
J Brian Hardaker, Ruud BM Huirne, Jock R Anderson and Gudbrand Lien
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Country boys: Masculinity and rural life
H Campbell, M Bell and M Finney (eds)
Reviewed by Ian Coldwell
Critical Landcare, Key Papers Series, Number 5
Stewart Lockie and Frank Vanclay (eds)
Reviewed by Bruce Frank
Currency companion to music and dance in Australia
J Whiteoak and A Scott-Maxwell (eds)
Reviewed by Roland Bannister
Developing Community for the Future: Community development in Australia
Susan Kenny
Reviewed by AW (Bill) Anscombe
Development Economics and Policy: The Conference Volume to Celebrate the 85th Birthday of Professor Sir Hans Singer
Hans Wolfgang Singer, David Sapsford and John-Ren Chen
Reviewed by Lyn Gorman
Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology
Tom Jagtenberg and David C McKie
Reviewed by Lyn Gorman
Economic Concepts for the Social Sciences
Todd Sandler
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Economic Reform in Vietnam
Keith Griffin (ed)
Reviewed by Lyn Gorman
Economics for collaborative environmental management: Renegotiating the commons
G Marshall
Reviewed by Ingrid van Putten
Environment and Sustainability Policy: Creation, Implementation, Evaluation
Stephen Dovers
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment
Frank Vanclay and Daniel A Bronstein (eds)
Reviewed by Ron Kerr
Environmental Impact Assessment in Australia: Theory and Practice
Ian Thomas and Mandy Elliott
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Environmental Imperative: Eco-social Concerns for Australian Agriculture
Frank Vanclay and Geoffrey Lawrence
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie, Frank Vanclay
Environmental Policy: Australian Practice in the Context of Theory
Ian Thomas
Reviewed by Ingrid van Putten
Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia
Timothy Doyle and Aynsley Kellow
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie
Faces of Mandurama: Photographic Ballad of the Bush
EJ Lumme (photographer) and J Thompson (introduction)
Reviewed by Lyn Gorman
Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice
Andrew Dobson (ed)
Reviewed by Steve Matthews
Farm as a Business (Practical Farming)
Jim Richardson
Reviewed by Matthew Tonts
Fashioning Australia's forests
John Dargavel
Reviewed by Robert Youl
First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies
Peter Bellwood
Reviewed by Phillip Edwards
Futures for Central Queensland
D Cryle, G Griffin and D Stehlik (eds)
Reviewed by Perry Share
Gender & Rural Geography: Identity, sexuality and power in the countryside
Jo Little
Reviewed by Barbara Pini
Getting Equal: The History of Australian Feminism
Marilyn Lake
Reviewed by Elizabeth West
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
Sharon Beder
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Grass Roots and Green Tape: Principles and Practices of Environmental Stewardship
Anna Carr
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Green or Gone: Health, ecology, plagues, greed and our future
David Shearman and Gary Sauer-Thompson
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Greening a Brown Land
Neil Barr and John Cary
Reviewed by David B Moore
Health for all: The South Australian experience
Frances Baum (ed)
Reviewed by Lindsay Smith
Heartland: The regeneration of rural place.
G Main
Reviewed by Ingrid Muenstermann
How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening Political Debate in Australia
Lindy Edwards
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Humble and obedient servants: The administration of New South Wales (Vol 2) 1901-1960
Peter J. Tyler
Reviewed by Don Boadle
Humble and Obedient Servants: The administration of New South Wales (Vol 2) 1901-1960
Peter J Tyler
Reviewed by Don Boadle
Humble and obedient servants: The administration of New South Wales (Vol 2) 1901-1960 (2006)
Peter J Tyler
Reviewed by Don Boadle
In Search of Sustainability
J Goldie, B Douglas and Furnass
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
In-depth Interviewing: Researching people
Victor Minichiello, Rosalie Aroni, Eric Timewell and Loris Alexander
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Information Exchange
E Woods, G Moll, J Coutts, R Clark and C Ivin
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Kakadu: The Making of a National Park
David Lawrence
Reviewed by AW (Bill) Anscombe
Key Technologies for the 21st Century: Scientific American : A Special Issue
Scientific American
Reviewed by Lyn Gorman
Killing Me Softly: Toxic Waste, Corporate Profit, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice
Eddie J Girdner and Jack Smith
Reviewed by Ian Gray, Rachael Williams
Land Care: Rural Property Planning
Bill Matheson
Reviewed by Andrew Blake
Land of discontent: The dynamics of change in rural and regional Australia
Philip McManus and Bill Pritchard
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Land settlement in early Tasmania: Creating an antipodean England
Sharon Morgan
Reviewed by David B Moore
Landcare in Victoria: Getting the job done
A Curtis, P Tracey and T De Lacy
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie
Landcare: Communities Shaping the Land and the Future
Andrew Campbell (with case studies by Greg Siepen)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay, Stewart Lockie
Learning to learn with farmers: An adult learning extension project
Gus (NA) Hamilton
Reviewed by AM (Tony) Dunn
Listen to the People, Listen to the Land
James Sinatra and Phin Murphy
Reviewed by Elizabeth West
Losing ground: An environmental history of the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment
Sue Rosen
Reviewed by Melissa Kennedy
Losing ground: Grazing in the Snowy Mountains 1944-1969
John Merritt
Reviewed by Dick Williams
Making ecopreneurs: Developing sustainable entrepreneurship.
Schaper, M (Ed)
Reviewed by Lionel Boxer
Making Social Science Matter: Why Social Inquiry Fails and How it Can Succeed Again
Bent Flyvbjerg and Steven Sampson
Reviewed by Ian Gray
Marketing Agricultural Products: An Australian Perspective
Tony Dunne
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Masculinity beyond the metropolis.
Jane Kenway and Anna Hickey-Moody
Reviewed by Barbara Pini
Mastering Risk: Environment, markets and politics in Australian economic history
Colin White
Reviewed by David B Moore
Means of Survival: A Study of Off-Farm Employment
CN Taylor and HM Little
Reviewed by Ian Gray
Modern families: An Australian text
Sotirios Sarantakos
Reviewed by Bert Wigman
New England Lives
JS Ryan (ed)
Reviewed by Zita Denholm
Nugget Coombs: A reforming life
Tim Rowse
Reviewed by Don Boadle
Orangesearch: A community view of issues and needs in Orange
Margaret Carroll
Reviewed by Marietta Elliot
Participation and governance in regional development: Global trends in an Australian context.
R Eversole and J Martin (eds)
Reviewed by Chris Cocklin
Participative Approaches for Landcare: Perspectives, Policies, Programs
Shankariah Chamala & Ken Keith (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay, Stewart Lockie
Persistence and change in rural communities: A fifty year follow-up to six classic studies
AE Luloff and RS Krannich (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Perspectives on the Precautionary Principle
Ronnie Harding and E Fisher (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Pioneering Days: People and innovations in Australia's rural past
Gerald Walsh
Reviewed by Perry Share
Policing the Rural Crisis (Sydney Institute of Criminology: Monograph Series)
Russell Hogg and Kerry Carrington
Reviewed by John McQuilton
Policy issues in putting rural Australia online
Jim Groves
Reviewed by Perry Share
Politics, Patronage, and Public Works: The Administration of New South Wales, 1842-1900
Hilary Golder
Reviewed by Don Boadle
Power and Gender in European Rural Development (Perspectives on Rural Policy and Planning)
Henri Goverde, Mireia Baylina, Henk De Haan and Henk De Haan
Reviewed by Barbara Pini
Project appraisal and valuation of the environment: General principles and six case-studies in developing countries
Peter W Abelson
Reviewed by Jay A Leitch
Putting rural child poverty on the agenda
VCOSS papers no. 2
Reviewed by Perry Share
Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice
Bent Flyvbjerg and Steven Sampson
Reviewed by Ian Gray
Recoding Nature: Critical Perspectives On Genetic Engineering
Richard Hindmarsh and Geoffrey Lawrence (eds)
Reviewed by Wendy Russell
Remaking Australia: The state, the market and Australia's future
Hugh V Emy
Reviewed by David B Moore
Renegotiating the Environment: The Power of Politics
J Stewart & G Jones
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Resourceful Communities: Integrating education, training and work for young people in rural Australia
James Cumming
Reviewed by Andrew FitzSimons
Rural action: A collection of community work case studies
Paul Henderson and David Francis
Reviewed by Robert Doyle
Rural Australia and the Great War: From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga
John McQuilton
Reviewed by James Logan
Rural Australia online
Roger Buckeridge
Reviewed by Perry Share
Rural communities looking ahead
Papers, abstracts and notes from the NSW Rural Social Policy Conference, Dubbo, June 1995.
Reviewed by Perry Share
Rural Employment: An International Perspective
Ray D Bollman and John Bryden (eds)
Reviewed by Jay A Leitch
Rural Gender Relations: Issues and Case Studies.
B Bock & S Shortall (eds)
Reviewed by Ruth Beilin
Rural Land Degradation in Australia
Arthur Conacher and Jeannette Conacher
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie, Frank Vanclay
Rural tourism and recreation: Principles to practice.
L Roberts and D Hall
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Rural Women's Leadership in Atlantic Canada: First-hand Perspectives on Local Public Life and Participation in Electoral Politics
Louise Carbert
Reviewed by Barbara Pini
Slaughterhouse Blues: The Meat and Poultry Industry in North America
Donald D Stull and Michael J Broadway
Reviewed by Bill Pritchard
Social assessment in natural resource management institutions
Allan Dale, Nick Taylor and Marcus Lane
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
Social change in rural Australia
G Lawrence, K Lyons and S Momtaz (eds)
Reviewed by Perry Share
Social learning in environmental management: Towards a sustainable future.
M Keen, V Brown & R Dyball (eds)
Reviewed by Chris Cocklin
Social Work with Rural Peoples
Ken Collier
Reviewed by Linda Freedman
Spoils and spoilers: A history of Australians shaping their environment
Geoffrey Bolton
Reviewed by David B Moore
Strategic environmental assessment in Australasia
S Marsden & S Dover (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Struggle country: The rural ideal in twentieth-century Australia
G Davison & M Brodie (eds)
Reviewed by Troy Whitford
Sustainability And Change In Rural Australia
Chris Cocklin and Jacqui Dibden
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Sustainability and Policy: Limits to Economics
Michael Common
Reviewed by Jeff Gow
Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Age of Globalization
Jennifer Summer
Reviewed by Elizabeth Beaton
Sustainability Strategy
P Martin and M Verbeek
Reviewed by Ian Coldwell
Sustainable Farm Enterprises (Rural Property Planning)
Jim Richardson and M Krause
Reviewed by Matthew Tonts
Sustainable Regional Development
J Dore and J Woodhill
Reviewed by Stephen Dovers
Telecommuting on the information highways
Richard Upton
Reviewed by Perry Share
The Accidental Politician: Edgar Hugh Graham
Nancy Blacklow
Reviewed by Sherry Morris
The Australian Policy Handbook
Peter Bridgman and Glyn Davis
Reviewed by Elizabeth Moore
The Cambridge Handbook of Social Sciences in Australia
Ian McAllister, Steve Dowrick and Riaz Hassan (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture
Jane Dixon
Reviewed by Bill Pritchard
The Colonial Earth
Tim Bonyhady
Reviewed by Don Boadle
The emergence of agriculture
Bruce D Smith
Reviewed by Allan Tunstall
The Family Business in Tourism and Hospitality
D Getz, J Carlsen, and A Morrison
Reviewed by Ian Knowd
The Foundations of Social Research: Meaning and Perspective in the Research Process
Michael J Crotty
Reviewed by AP Thompson
The New Public Health: An Australian perspective
Frances Baum
Reviewed by Robert Doyle
The Philosopher’s Dog
Raimond Gaita
Reviewed by Alex Segal
The precautionary principle in practice: Environmental decsion-making and scientific uncertainty
Peel J
Reviewed by Warwick Gullet
The Quest for Sustainable Agriculture and Land Use
Brian R Roberts
Reviewed by Stewart Lockie, Frank Vanclay
The Road Ahead
Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, and Peter Rinearson
Reviewed by Max Staples
The Rural Entrepreneurs: A History of the Stock and Station Agent Industry in Australia and New Zealand
Simon Ville
Reviewed by Don Boadle
The Sharing Economy: Solidarity Networks Transforming Globalization
Lorna Gold
Reviewed by Jennifer McKinnon
The Shearer's Tale: Murder and Injustice in the Australian Bush
T Molomby
Reviewed by Thérèse Taylor
The Still-Burning Bush
Stephen J Pyne
Reviewed by Rosemary Hill
The subsistence perspective: Beyond the globalised economy
Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen and Maria Mies
Reviewed by Jennifer McKinnon
Tourism, leisure, sport: Critical perspectives
David Rowe and Geoff Lawrence (eds)
Reviewed by Frank Vanclay
Tropical odyssey of a pioneer social worker in North Queensland
JL Reid and R Thorpe
Reviewed by Susan Young, Marilyn Palmer
Use with Care: Managing Australia's Natural Resources in the Twenty-First Century
Doug Cocks
Reviewed by David B Moore
Wadham: Scientist for Land and People
Ross Humphreys
Reviewed by Don Boadle
Wagga Wagga: A History
Sherry Morris
Reviewed by John Ferry
Water Politics in the Murray-Darling Basin
Daniel Connell
Reviewed by Kathleen Bowmer
We're Not Ladies, We're Women!: A Herstory of the Wagga Wagga Women's Health Centre
J Roberts and B Stewart
Reviewed by Thérèse Taylor
What's on the web now for Australian farmers? A content analysis of 206 World Wide Web sites for Australian farm businesses
Jenny DaRin and Jim Groves
Reviewed by Perry Share
When species meet
Donna J Haraway
Reviewed by Ian Coldwell
Whose Reality Counts?: Putting the First Last
Robert Chambers
Reviewed by AM (Tony) Dunn
Women and Empowerment: Illustrations from the Third World
Haleh Afshar
Reviewed by Barbara Johnson
Women on the Land: The hidden heart of rural Australia
Margaret Alston
Reviewed by Lia Bryant
Working and networking: Women's voices from elsewhere. A report of the project: Queensland rural women's use of communications technologies: implications for information and referral services and for networking organisations
Margaret Grace, Roy Lundin and Leonie Daws
Reviewed by Cathy McGowan
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