Douglas K Bardsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 149769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas K Bardsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas K |
| FAMILY NAME | Bardsley |
| SIGNATURE | BARDSLEY D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Regenerative Supermarkets for a New Era of Socio-Ecological Risk
Supermarkets increasingly dominate food systems. They are the primary influence on food supply chains that are failing to enable sustainable outcomes or deliver affordable food during acute or prolonged crises. In Australia, the dominant food retail model neither fully accounts for risk, thereby contributing to rising food insecurity, nor ensures socially or ecologically sustainable farming systems. The limitations of food systems dominated by mo…
Multifunctional agriculture
Peri-urban multifunctional agriculture (MFA) is examined in contrasting policy contexts. • MFA in China has been developed under the guidance of strong policy implementation. • In Australia a neo-liberal regime emphasizes decisions by individual farmers. • Clustering techniques highlight a multifunctional transition in two study areas. • Farm-based tourism and pro-environmental actions are integral to this transition
Climate change loss and damage from droughts
Climate change loss and damage (L&D) due to both sudden and slow-onset events are a growing concern for vulnerable countries. Over the last decade, agricultural communities in Fiji have suffered a range of serious L&D from severe drought events. Through a grounded theoretical lens, qualitative research was used to gain in-depth insights into L&D from droughts in the Fijian sugar industry. In-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 68) were conducte…
Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions
The tourism industry is complex and deeply embedded into the social, environmental, and cultural fabric of social-ecological systems. Tourism presents an additional rural development pathway for regions to diversify their economies and strengthen resilience at both micro (individual/business) and macro (community/regional) scales. In an Australian context, expansion of the tourism industry is an important strategy for rural development, particula…
The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal
Out-migration from small-scale agricultural holdings in Nepal’s middle hills is resulting in forest succession on abandoned land. Such early landscape transitions are often guided by policy to maintain a productivist path. However, farming households in rural Nepal are themselves transitioning from their dependence and attachment to the land. The walk and talk methodology was selected to follow up socioecological surveys with farmers in the middl…
Multifunctional agriculture in a peri-urban fringe
Recent Five-Year Plans and No. 1 Central Documents have emphasised the need for Chinese agriculture to play multiple functions to enhance rural development, alleviate rural poverty and increase agricultural productivity. The concept of Chinese agriculture as multifunctional is explored, linking it to specific policy aims, with three key historical phases of the development of multifunctional agriculture (MFA) recognised. MFA has progressed rapidl…
The 'drive and talk' as ethnographic method
Anthropologists have long embraced the value of the 'walk and talk' ethnographic method, which is an interactive means of generating research insights in situ - on site. In this article, we propose that there is room for an expanded appreciation of the 'drive and talk' method. While driving and talking with their interlocutors, researchers can elicit information prompted by features in the landscape and the environment that might be otherwise for…
Integrating local perceptions with scientific evidence to understand climate change variability in northern Ghana
The Influence of Land Use and Location on Landholder Attitudes Towards Feral Cat (Felis catus) Management in South-eastern Australia
Problematizing Indigeneity in sub-Saharan Africa
Applying complex adaptive systems and risk society theory to understand energy transitions
What should we conserve? Farmer narratives on biodiversity values in the McLaren Vale, South Australia
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo’s environmental migration research
Monitoring to Learn, Learning to Monitor
Indigenous community-based monitoring has been a central feature in many international attempts to improve monitoring of and local adaptation to environmental change. Despite offering much promise, Indigenous community-based monitoring has been underutilised in natural resource management in Australia, particularly within the remote, semi-arid rangelands. This paper discusses contextual social and environmental factors that may help to explain th…
Socio-ecological lessons for the Anthropocene
Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems
Navigating the Roles of the Social Learning Researcher
Climate change adaptation is now a core theme of Australian geographical research. Climatic risks to socio-ecosystems are unbounded and highly uncertain and as a result require learning-based approaches to generate appropriate adaptation responses. Geographical research can effectively integrate knowledge developed through the mutual learning of researchers and stakeholders within a place to help guide adaptation planning. The roles of the geogra…
Organising for socio-ecological resilience
The importance of farmer education in South Australia
Defining Spaces of Resilience within the Neoliberal Paradigm
Migration and climate change
A Philosophy of Diversity for Sustainable Agricultural Development
Agricultural modernisation has provided food, fibre, wealth and opportunity for many people. However, it is only a relatively recent experiment in resource use in human ecological history. It is an experiment that requires an enormous supporting infrastructure of research and development, and ongoing expensive inputs. Even then, modern agricultural systems are subject to biodiversity loss, soil degradation and substantial productivity risks. More…
Education for all in a global era? The social justice of Australian secondary school education in a risk society
The article examines the importance of effective secondary education for all children as Australian society embraces globalization. In a global era, where societal development will rely on the knowledge and skills of the workforce, an effective education will become even more important for socio-economic engagement and equality. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are the most vulnerable to globalization as they are less likely to achieve aca…
A Constructivist Approach to Climate Change Teaching and Learning
It is now broadly acknowledged that climate change due to an enhanced Greenhouse Effect is underway and such change will have major implications for our societies and environments. This paper outlines a pedagogical approach devised to encourage learning and critical thinking about climate change. A constructivist approach to teaching and learning is applied to stimulate analysis of potential impacts of climate change on systems familiar to second…
Migration and climate change
Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions
The tourism industry is complex and deeply embedded into the social, environmental, and cultural fabric of social-ecological systems. Tourism presents an additional rural development pathway for regions to diversify their economies and strengthen resilience at both micro (individual/business) and macro (community/regional) scales. In an Australian context, expansion of the tourism industry is an important strategy for rural development, particula…
Applying complex adaptive systems and risk society theory to understand energy transitions
Multifunctional agriculture in a peri-urban fringe
Recent Five-Year Plans and No. 1 Central Documents have emphasised the need for Chinese agriculture to play multiple functions to enhance rural development, alleviate rural poverty and increase agricultural productivity. The concept of Chinese agriculture as multifunctional is explored, linking it to specific policy aims, with three key historical phases of the development of multifunctional agriculture (MFA) recognised. MFA has progressed rapidl…
What should we conserve? Farmer narratives on biodiversity values in the McLaren Vale, South Australia
The 'drive and talk' as ethnographic method
Anthropologists have long embraced the value of the 'walk and talk' ethnographic method, which is an interactive means of generating research insights in situ - on site. In this article, we propose that there is room for an expanded appreciation of the 'drive and talk' method. While driving and talking with their interlocutors, researchers can elicit information prompted by features in the landscape and the environment that might be otherwise for…
The importance of farmer education in South Australia
Education for all in a global era? The social justice of Australian secondary school education in a risk society
The article examines the importance of effective secondary education for all children as Australian society embraces globalization. In a global era, where societal development will rely on the knowledge and skills of the workforce, an effective education will become even more important for socio-economic engagement and equality. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are the most vulnerable to globalization as they are less likely to achieve aca…
Problematizing Indigeneity in sub-Saharan Africa
Socio-ecological lessons for the Anthropocene
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo’s environmental migration research
Monitoring to Learn, Learning to Monitor
Indigenous community-based monitoring has been a central feature in many international attempts to improve monitoring of and local adaptation to environmental change. Despite offering much promise, Indigenous community-based monitoring has been underutilised in natural resource management in Australia, particularly within the remote, semi-arid rangelands. This paper discusses contextual social and environmental factors that may help to explain th…
Navigating the Roles of the Social Learning Researcher
Climate change adaptation is now a core theme of Australian geographical research. Climatic risks to socio-ecosystems are unbounded and highly uncertain and as a result require learning-based approaches to generate appropriate adaptation responses. Geographical research can effectively integrate knowledge developed through the mutual learning of researchers and stakeholders within a place to help guide adaptation planning. The roles of the geogra…
Defining Spaces of Resilience within the Neoliberal Paradigm
A Constructivist Approach to Climate Change Teaching and Learning
It is now broadly acknowledged that climate change due to an enhanced Greenhouse Effect is underway and such change will have major implications for our societies and environments. This paper outlines a pedagogical approach devised to encourage learning and critical thinking about climate change. A constructivist approach to teaching and learning is applied to stimulate analysis of potential impacts of climate change on systems familiar to second…
Climate change loss and damage from droughts
Climate change loss and damage (L&D) due to both sudden and slow-onset events are a growing concern for vulnerable countries. Over the last decade, agricultural communities in Fiji have suffered a range of serious L&D from severe drought events. Through a grounded theoretical lens, qualitative research was used to gain in-depth insights into L&D from droughts in the Fijian sugar industry. In-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 68) were conducte…
A Philosophy of Diversity for Sustainable Agricultural Development
Agricultural modernisation has provided food, fibre, wealth and opportunity for many people. However, it is only a relatively recent experiment in resource use in human ecological history. It is an experiment that requires an enormous supporting infrastructure of research and development, and ongoing expensive inputs. Even then, modern agricultural systems are subject to biodiversity loss, soil degradation and substantial productivity risks. More…
Education for all in a global era? The social justice of Australian secondary school education in a risk society
The article examines the importance of effective secondary education for all children as Australian society embraces globalization. In a global era, where societal development will rely on the knowledge and skills of the workforce, an effective education will become even more important for socio-economic engagement and equality. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are the most vulnerable to globalization as they are less likely to achieve aca…
A Constructivist Approach to Climate Change Teaching and Learning
It is now broadly acknowledged that climate change due to an enhanced Greenhouse Effect is underway and such change will have major implications for our societies and environments. This paper outlines a pedagogical approach devised to encourage learning and critical thinking about climate change. A constructivist approach to teaching and learning is applied to stimulate analysis of potential impacts of climate change on systems familiar to second…
Migration and climate change
Defining Spaces of Resilience within the Neoliberal Paradigm
Organising for socio-ecological resilience
The importance of farmer education in South Australia
Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems
Navigating the Roles of the Social Learning Researcher
Climate change adaptation is now a core theme of Australian geographical research. Climatic risks to socio-ecosystems are unbounded and highly uncertain and as a result require learning-based approaches to generate appropriate adaptation responses. Geographical research can effectively integrate knowledge developed through the mutual learning of researchers and stakeholders within a place to help guide adaptation planning. The roles of the geogra…
Monitoring to Learn, Learning to Monitor
Indigenous community-based monitoring has been a central feature in many international attempts to improve monitoring of and local adaptation to environmental change. Despite offering much promise, Indigenous community-based monitoring has been underutilised in natural resource management in Australia, particularly within the remote, semi-arid rangelands. This paper discusses contextual social and environmental factors that may help to explain th…
Socio-ecological lessons for the Anthropocene
The evolution and impacts of Graeme Hugo’s environmental migration research
What should we conserve? Farmer narratives on biodiversity values in the McLaren Vale, South Australia
Integrating local perceptions with scientific evidence to understand climate change variability in northern Ghana
The Influence of Land Use and Location on Landholder Attitudes Towards Feral Cat (Felis catus) Management in South-eastern Australia
Problematizing Indigeneity in sub-Saharan Africa
Applying complex adaptive systems and risk society theory to understand energy transitions
The 'drive and talk' as ethnographic method
Anthropologists have long embraced the value of the 'walk and talk' ethnographic method, which is an interactive means of generating research insights in situ - on site. In this article, we propose that there is room for an expanded appreciation of the 'drive and talk' method. While driving and talking with their interlocutors, researchers can elicit information prompted by features in the landscape and the environment that might be otherwise for…
The Succession of Farmers’ Perceptions of Transitioning Landscapes – A Case Study of Agroforestry in the Middle Hills of Nepal
Out-migration from small-scale agricultural holdings in Nepal’s middle hills is resulting in forest succession on abandoned land. Such early landscape transitions are often guided by policy to maintain a productivist path. However, farming households in rural Nepal are themselves transitioning from their dependence and attachment to the land. The walk and talk methodology was selected to follow up socioecological surveys with farmers in the middl…
Multifunctional agriculture in a peri-urban fringe
Recent Five-Year Plans and No. 1 Central Documents have emphasised the need for Chinese agriculture to play multiple functions to enhance rural development, alleviate rural poverty and increase agricultural productivity. The concept of Chinese agriculture as multifunctional is explored, linking it to specific policy aims, with three key historical phases of the development of multifunctional agriculture (MFA) recognised. MFA has progressed rapidl…
Regenerative tourism in Australian wine regions
The tourism industry is complex and deeply embedded into the social, environmental, and cultural fabric of social-ecological systems. Tourism presents an additional rural development pathway for regions to diversify their economies and strengthen resilience at both micro (individual/business) and macro (community/regional) scales. In an Australian context, expansion of the tourism industry is an important strategy for rural development, particula…
Multifunctional agriculture
Peri-urban multifunctional agriculture (MFA) is examined in contrasting policy contexts. • MFA in China has been developed under the guidance of strong policy implementation. • In Australia a neo-liberal regime emphasizes decisions by individual farmers. • Clustering techniques highlight a multifunctional transition in two study areas. • Farm-based tourism and pro-environmental actions are integral to this transition
Climate change loss and damage from droughts
Climate change loss and damage (L&D) due to both sudden and slow-onset events are a growing concern for vulnerable countries. Over the last decade, agricultural communities in Fiji have suffered a range of serious L&D from severe drought events. Through a grounded theoretical lens, qualitative research was used to gain in-depth insights into L&D from droughts in the Fijian sugar industry. In-depth semi-structured interviews (n = 68) were conducte…
Regenerative Supermarkets for a New Era of Socio-Ecological Risk
Supermarkets increasingly dominate food systems. They are the primary influence on food supply chains that are failing to enable sustainable outcomes or deliver affordable food during acute or prolonged crises. In Australia, the dominant food retail model neither fully accounts for risk, thereby contributing to rising food insecurity, nor ensures socially or ecologically sustainable farming systems. The limitations of food systems dominated by mo…
Geography (22 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Environmental resource management (15 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Climate change (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works)