Geoff Cockfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 287408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Cockfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Cockfield |
| SIGNATURE | COCKFIELD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0776-3313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension
Farm advisors are recognised as playing an increasingly central role in facilitating interactions between scientists and farmers to improve local implementation of sustainable soil management practices and agricultural innovations more broadly. However, there has been limited scrutiny of what farm advisors do when faced with conflicting interpretations among actors over techniques or approaches for facilitating agricultural innovation. This artic…
Exploring domains of contemporary Australian agrarianism
The idealisation of rural work, people, and communities is remarkably persistent in Western countries. With the diminishing role of agriculture in national economies and changing values, this agrarian sentiment could be expected to lose currency. Yet, agrarian tropes and narratives remain evident in popular culture, political discourse, and public policy. Flinn and Johnson, in the 1970s, pioneered empirical studies of agrarianism based on a regio…
Nuanced assessment of livelihood resilience through the intersectional lens of gender and ethnicity
The Formation of the Queensland Liberal National Party
In Australia, two‐and‐a‐half party systems are common with the Liberal and National parties, usually needing to collaborate to form governments. In Queensland, the 2008 merger of two of these state parties to create the Liberal National Party (LNP) created instead a two‐party system. This review examines the forces for the merger and prospects for the continuation of the LNP, the likelihood of change as a result of the Queensland merger in the re…
Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in Redd
Assessing the financial contribution and carbon emission pattern of provisioning ecosystem services in Siwalik forests in Nepal
An assessment of the policies and practices of selective logging and timber utilisation
Financial returns from collaborative investment models of Eucalyptus agroforestry plantations in Lao PDR
Global demand for forest products is increasing and plantation forests are supplying a growing proportion of wood to industry. Plantation expansion has however slowed and the location and management of plantations to meet future timber needs is uncertain. In South East Asia, population pressure and land tenure arrangements will challenge broad scale plantation establishment. Companies and government are looking to plantation models that integrate…
Financial returns for different actors in a teak timber value chain in Paklay District, Lao PDR
Comparing the financial returns from acacia plantations with different plantation densities and rotation ages in Vietnam
The financial benefits of forest certification
Analysing foregone costs of communities and carbon benefits in small scale community based forestry practice in Nepal
Identifying and measuring agrarian sentiment in regional Australia
From “Unstable” to “Stable” Minority Government
In contrast to some other jurisdictions, in Australia, governments relying on minor parties and independents to enact policies and especially to hold power, are readily characterised by oppositions and commentators as unstable, even chaotic and an undesirable deviation from the stability of majority parliaments. The almost unremarked exception is the Liberals' long and frequent reliance on the National Party and its predecessors to form governmen…
Dynamics of carbon and biodiversity under Redd+ regime
Rural and Regional Policy
The rural policy environment has many of the conditions that might suggest a tendency towards punctuated equilibrium. The Commonwealth has little direct power over rural space and industries, there has been a long tradition of state support for agriculture and decision‐making has generally been kept within a tight policy community, dominated by rural interests. In our review of the PAP data and policy history, we find instead an underlying moveme…
The evolution of rural policy
In common with other countries in the developed world, Australia and New Zealand developed an array of institutions and programs from the 1950s to the 1970s to support their agricultural sectors. From the mid-1980s they dismantled these, very rapidly in the case of New Zealand, to leave farmers and rural regions largely to market forces. This article explores the transition in Australia and New Zealand from agricultural policy based on ‘protected…
Signs of Countrymindedness
Some political scientists have argued that ‘countrymindedness’, a set of tenets about the importance of agriculture and rural life, is of decreasing political and social importance. There has been little empirical research to test this, so the authors conducted an exploratory survey of attitudes to rural industries and people. The results reveal that there are some differences in attitudes according to age, location, country of birth and voting i…
The perception of Nepal’s Tharu community in regard to climate change and its impacts on their livelihoods
The Tharu people of Nepal have a longstanding knowledge of their locality and its patterns of weather and agriculture. The impact of climate change severely affects their livelihoods. The aim of this study is to document the perceptions of the Tharu community of Kanchanpur District in Nepal in regard to climate change and its impacts. We have generated primary data by household survey, focus group discussion, key informant interview, and field ob…
Back from the Brink? The National Party after the 2010 Federal Election
Despite increasing its share of votes and House of Representatives seats in the 2010 Federal Election, The National Party remains constrained by geography, identity, and Coalition with the Liberals. To illustrate these contentions, four aspects of the Nationals' position are analysed: where the Nationals hold seats; which ones have been lost and to which party over the last 36 years; the Coalition constraints on the Nationals' 2010 Election campa…
An analysis of Australia’s carbon pollution reduction scheme
The authors review the decision‐making since the Labour Government came into office (November 2007). The Australian Government’s ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’ White Paper (15 December 2008) proposes that an Australian Emissions Trading Scheme (AETS) be implemented in mid‐2010. Acknowledging that the scheme is comprehensive, the paper finds that in many cases, Australia will take a softer approach to climate change through the AETS than the …
Rural Adjustment Schemes
The Commonwealth government has offered support to farmers in the form of structural or business adjustment‐type schemes since the Loan (Farmers Debt Adjustment) Acts of 1935–1971. Since 1971, a series of more comprehensive rural reconstruction/adjustment schemes with a range of objectives from debt alleviation to encouraging some exits from agricultural industries, has been in place. While having little direct impact on the structure of these in…
Signs of Countrymindedness
Some political scientists have argued that ‘countrymindedness’, a set of tenets about the importance of agriculture and rural life, is of decreasing political and social importance. There has been little empirical research to test this, so the authors conducted an exploratory survey of attitudes to rural industries and people. The results reveal that there are some differences in attitudes according to age, location, country of birth and voting i…
Dynamics of carbon and biodiversity under Redd+ regime
Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in Redd
Comparing the financial returns from acacia plantations with different plantation densities and rotation ages in Vietnam
Identifying and measuring agrarian sentiment in regional Australia
Rural Adjustment Schemes
The Commonwealth government has offered support to farmers in the form of structural or business adjustment‐type schemes since the Loan (Farmers Debt Adjustment) Acts of 1935–1971. Since 1971, a series of more comprehensive rural reconstruction/adjustment schemes with a range of objectives from debt alleviation to encouraging some exits from agricultural industries, has been in place. While having little direct impact on the structure of these in…
Rural and Regional Policy
The rural policy environment has many of the conditions that might suggest a tendency towards punctuated equilibrium. The Commonwealth has little direct power over rural space and industries, there has been a long tradition of state support for agriculture and decision‐making has generally been kept within a tight policy community, dominated by rural interests. In our review of the PAP data and policy history, we find instead an underlying moveme…
Nuanced assessment of livelihood resilience through the intersectional lens of gender and ethnicity
Financial returns for different actors in a teak timber value chain in Paklay District, Lao PDR
Analysing foregone costs of communities and carbon benefits in small scale community based forestry practice in Nepal
Assessing the financial contribution and carbon emission pattern of provisioning ecosystem services in Siwalik forests in Nepal
The financial benefits of forest certification
The evolution of rural policy
In common with other countries in the developed world, Australia and New Zealand developed an array of institutions and programs from the 1950s to the 1970s to support their agricultural sectors. From the mid-1980s they dismantled these, very rapidly in the case of New Zealand, to leave farmers and rural regions largely to market forces. This article explores the transition in Australia and New Zealand from agricultural policy based on ‘protected…
Exploring domains of contemporary Australian agrarianism
The idealisation of rural work, people, and communities is remarkably persistent in Western countries. With the diminishing role of agriculture in national economies and changing values, this agrarian sentiment could be expected to lose currency. Yet, agrarian tropes and narratives remain evident in popular culture, political discourse, and public policy. Flinn and Johnson, in the 1970s, pioneered empirical studies of agrarianism based on a regio…
An assessment of the policies and practices of selective logging and timber utilisation
Financial returns from collaborative investment models of Eucalyptus agroforestry plantations in Lao PDR
Global demand for forest products is increasing and plantation forests are supplying a growing proportion of wood to industry. Plantation expansion has however slowed and the location and management of plantations to meet future timber needs is uncertain. In South East Asia, population pressure and land tenure arrangements will challenge broad scale plantation establishment. Companies and government are looking to plantation models that integrate…
Back from the Brink? The National Party after the 2010 Federal Election
Despite increasing its share of votes and House of Representatives seats in the 2010 Federal Election, The National Party remains constrained by geography, identity, and Coalition with the Liberals. To illustrate these contentions, four aspects of the Nationals' position are analysed: where the Nationals hold seats; which ones have been lost and to which party over the last 36 years; the Coalition constraints on the Nationals' 2010 Election campa…
Rural Adjustment Schemes
The Commonwealth government has offered support to farmers in the form of structural or business adjustment‐type schemes since the Loan (Farmers Debt Adjustment) Acts of 1935–1971. Since 1971, a series of more comprehensive rural reconstruction/adjustment schemes with a range of objectives from debt alleviation to encouraging some exits from agricultural industries, has been in place. While having little direct impact on the structure of these in…
An analysis of Australia’s carbon pollution reduction scheme
The authors review the decision‐making since the Labour Government came into office (November 2007). The Australian Government’s ‘Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’ White Paper (15 December 2008) proposes that an Australian Emissions Trading Scheme (AETS) be implemented in mid‐2010. Acknowledging that the scheme is comprehensive, the paper finds that in many cases, Australia will take a softer approach to climate change through the AETS than the …
The perception of Nepal’s Tharu community in regard to climate change and its impacts on their livelihoods
The Tharu people of Nepal have a longstanding knowledge of their locality and its patterns of weather and agriculture. The impact of climate change severely affects their livelihoods. The aim of this study is to document the perceptions of the Tharu community of Kanchanpur District in Nepal in regard to climate change and its impacts. We have generated primary data by household survey, focus group discussion, key informant interview, and field ob…
Back from the Brink? The National Party after the 2010 Federal Election
Despite increasing its share of votes and House of Representatives seats in the 2010 Federal Election, The National Party remains constrained by geography, identity, and Coalition with the Liberals. To illustrate these contentions, four aspects of the Nationals' position are analysed: where the Nationals hold seats; which ones have been lost and to which party over the last 36 years; the Coalition constraints on the Nationals' 2010 Election campa…
The evolution of rural policy
In common with other countries in the developed world, Australia and New Zealand developed an array of institutions and programs from the 1950s to the 1970s to support their agricultural sectors. From the mid-1980s they dismantled these, very rapidly in the case of New Zealand, to leave farmers and rural regions largely to market forces. This article explores the transition in Australia and New Zealand from agricultural policy based on ‘protected…
Signs of Countrymindedness
Some political scientists have argued that ‘countrymindedness’, a set of tenets about the importance of agriculture and rural life, is of decreasing political and social importance. There has been little empirical research to test this, so the authors conducted an exploratory survey of attitudes to rural industries and people. The results reveal that there are some differences in attitudes according to age, location, country of birth and voting i…
Rural and Regional Policy
The rural policy environment has many of the conditions that might suggest a tendency towards punctuated equilibrium. The Commonwealth has little direct power over rural space and industries, there has been a long tradition of state support for agriculture and decision‐making has generally been kept within a tight policy community, dominated by rural interests. In our review of the PAP data and policy history, we find instead an underlying moveme…
Dynamics of carbon and biodiversity under Redd+ regime
From “Unstable” to “Stable” Minority Government
In contrast to some other jurisdictions, in Australia, governments relying on minor parties and independents to enact policies and especially to hold power, are readily characterised by oppositions and commentators as unstable, even chaotic and an undesirable deviation from the stability of majority parliaments. The almost unremarked exception is the Liberals' long and frequent reliance on the National Party and its predecessors to form governmen…
Identifying and measuring agrarian sentiment in regional Australia
Comparing the financial returns from acacia plantations with different plantation densities and rotation ages in Vietnam
The financial benefits of forest certification
Analysing foregone costs of communities and carbon benefits in small scale community based forestry practice in Nepal
Financial returns for different actors in a teak timber value chain in Paklay District, Lao PDR
Financial returns from collaborative investment models of Eucalyptus agroforestry plantations in Lao PDR
Global demand for forest products is increasing and plantation forests are supplying a growing proportion of wood to industry. Plantation expansion has however slowed and the location and management of plantations to meet future timber needs is uncertain. In South East Asia, population pressure and land tenure arrangements will challenge broad scale plantation establishment. Companies and government are looking to plantation models that integrate…
The Formation of the Queensland Liberal National Party
In Australia, two‐and‐a‐half party systems are common with the Liberal and National parties, usually needing to collaborate to form governments. In Queensland, the 2008 merger of two of these state parties to create the Liberal National Party (LNP) created instead a two‐party system. This review examines the forces for the merger and prospects for the continuation of the LNP, the likelihood of change as a result of the Queensland merger in the re…
Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in Redd
Assessing the financial contribution and carbon emission pattern of provisioning ecosystem services in Siwalik forests in Nepal
An assessment of the policies and practices of selective logging and timber utilisation
Nuanced assessment of livelihood resilience through the intersectional lens of gender and ethnicity
Frame alignment processes for locally useful agricultural soil research and extension
Farm advisors are recognised as playing an increasingly central role in facilitating interactions between scientists and farmers to improve local implementation of sustainable soil management practices and agricultural innovations more broadly. However, there has been limited scrutiny of what farm advisors do when faced with conflicting interpretations among actors over techniques or approaches for facilitating agricultural innovation. This artic…
Exploring domains of contemporary Australian agrarianism
The idealisation of rural work, people, and communities is remarkably persistent in Western countries. With the diminishing role of agriculture in national economies and changing values, this agrarian sentiment could be expected to lose currency. Yet, agrarian tropes and narratives remain evident in popular culture, political discourse, and public policy. Flinn and Johnson, in the 1970s, pioneered empirical studies of agrarianism based on a regio…
Economics (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Agriculture (10 works) · Business (10 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Forest Management and Policy (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Agroforestry (7 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (7 works)