John Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9283-2151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 161 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 656 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 161 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1909 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Development of the alcohol‐free and low‐alcohol drinks market in Great Britain from 2011 to 2022: Narrative timelines based on a documentary review of off‐trade retail magazines and market intelligenc…
How Have Alcohol Producers Changed the Alcohol Content of Their Products? A Descriptive Analysis of Reformulation in the Off‐Trade Alcohol Market in G reat B ritain, 2018–2025
What Are the Characteristics of Households That Purchase Alcohol‐Free and Low‐Alcohol Drinks in Great Britain in 2018 and 2021
Regulation of Alcohol‐Free and Low‐Alcohol Drinks: Learning From a Comparative Analysis of Eight Countries
Reducing the exceptional affordability of hand-rolling tobacco using tax escalators: A health and economic impact modelling study for England
Sustained duty increases on the least expensive tobacco products could deliver substantial public health gains and reduce health inequalities. Such measures should coincide with strong enforcement against illicit tobacco and comprehensive smoking cessation support
Associations between financial hardship and alcohol reduction attempts in the context of a cost-of-living crisis and alcohol tax reforms: A population study in Great Britain, 2023–25
Amid the cost-of-living crisis and recent alcohol duty reforms, cost has emerged as a key motive for alcohol reduction attempts among adults drinking at risky levels, particularly those facing financial and psychological vulnerability. Support for these groups is critical to ensure cost-driven attempts translate into meaningful reductions in alcohol-related harm
Have declines in the prevalence of young adult drinking in English-speaking high-income countries followed declines in youth drinking? A systematic review
Drinking practices: The variation of drinking events across intersections of sex, age and household income
The impact of Scotland's minimum unit pricing for alcohol policy on people accessing services for alcohol dependence: A difference‐in‐difference structured interview study
Do drinking occasion characteristics differ across individuals using different moderation approaches? A social practice perspective
Background: Limiting alcohol consumption is challenging as alcohol often serves as a ‘social lubricant’ in drinking practices. While individuals adopt different behavioral approaches to reduce drinking, it remains unclear how they align their drinking behaviors with moderation goals. Aim: This study utilizes a unique dataset that captures detailed information about the characteristics of drinking occasions, encompassing key theoretically-informed…
Knowing how it works for me’: A qualitative interview study of the use of personalised approaches to manage common challenges during Dry January
Model-based appraisal of the potential effects of minimum pricing for tobacco in Scotland
A minimum price implemented alongside tobacco duty rises could reduce smoking rates and improve public health, especially for those living in deprived areas where smoking rates and related harms are highest
The use of alcohol-free and low alcohol drinks in attempts to restrict alcohol consumption: Findings from a cross-sectional survey
The sale and consumption of alcohol-free and low alcohol drinks (no/lo drinks) has increased substantially in many high-income countries, including Great Britain (GB). Some people report that using no/lo drinks helped them to restrict (i.e., reduce or stop) their drinking. This study investigated the sociodemographic characteristics of people who use no/lo drinks to restrict drinking and whether consuming no/lo drinks in an attempt to restrict dr…
Temporary and sustained changes in alcoholic and alcohol-free or low-alcohol drinks sales during January? A time series analysis of seasonal patterning in Great Britain
There are short-term decreases in standard alcoholic drink sales and increases in no/lo drink sales in January but there appeared to be no substantial sustained changes
Dora Creek in the 1930s: Place imagery and identity in an Australian childhood
Labor Upsurge in the North American Automobile Transition: Towards a New Industrial and Labor Relations Stage
Many scholars have observed that the North American labor movement is experiencing a resurgence. Whilst spanning different economic sectors, the resurgence is a striking phenomenon in the auto sector across all three North American countries. After decades of union decline, concessionary bargaining, and labor laws broken by employers and pro-business governments, a new labor movement momentum has become a common feature of the post-pandemic “new …
Paying the price: Financial hardship and its association with psychological distress among different population groups in the midst of Great Britain's cost-of-living crisis
In the first quarter of 2023, around one in eight adults in Great Britain reported finding it difficult to manage financially and one in fifteen reported having been in rent or mortgage arrears in the past 12 months, with higher rates of financial hardship among disadvantaged groups. However, disadvantage did not appear to compound the psychological impact of financial hardship: people experiencing financial hardship were substantially more likel…
Expected and actual responses to minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol of people drinking at harmful levels in Scotland
Background This paper considers the extent to which people drinking at harmful levels responded to minimum unit pricing (MUP) in Scotland in the way they, family members and those providing services anticipated they would. It examines data taken from a larger evaluation of the impact of MUP on people who are drinking at harmful levels.Methods Qualitative interview data, (utilizing interviews and focus groups, with individuals, treatment services,…
Characteristics of consumers of alcohol‐free and low‐alcohol drinks in Great Britain: A cross‐sectional study
Where do high‐risk drinking occasions occur more often? A cross‐sectional, cross‐country study
Trends in purchasing cross‐border, illicit and home‐brewed alcohol: A population study in Great Britain , 2020–2023
Geographies of alcohol and generation: Examining the decline in youth drinking in England through a spatial lens
How is alcohol consumption and heavy episodic drinking spread across different types of drinking occasion in Great Britain: An event-level latent class analysis
Alcohol consumption varies substantially across and within fifteen types of drinking occasion in Great Britain. Heavy drinking is common in most occasion types. However, moderate drinking is also common in occasion types often characterised as heavy drinking practices. Mixed-trade drinking occasions are particularly likely to involve heavy drinking
Trends in alcohol expenditure among risky drinkers: A population study in England, 2014–2023
In England, the average amount adult risky drinkers reported spending on alcohol each week has fluctuated since 2014, with a notable decrease around the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and a subsequent rise since restrictions were lifted and since the cost-of-living crisis has led to high rates of inflation. Except for current smokers, this pattern appears to have been driven predominantly by changes in the price paid per unit rather than …
Understanding changes in the locations of drinking occasions in Great Britain: An age‐period‐cohort analysis of repeat cross‐sectional market research data, 2001–2019
Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: Gaps in the research agenda
Diversity and change in Australia’s rangelands: A post–productivist transition with a difference
Australia’s rangelands are experiencing a post–productivist transition at a tempo comparable to Western Europe’s, but in contexts that ensure marked divergence in impulses, actors, processes and outcomes. In Australia’s most marginal lands, a flimsy mode of pastoral occupance is being displaced by renewed indigenous occupance, conservation and tourism, with significant changes in land ownership, property rights, investment sources and power relat…
Enhancing the use of science in environmental policy-making and regulation
Cape York Peninsula, Australia: A frontier region undergoing a multifunctional transition with indigenous engagement
Re-scaling collective bargaining: Union responses to restructuring in the North American auto industry
Geography’s Emerging Cross‐Disciplinary Links: Process, Causes, Outcomes and Challenges
In Australian universities the discipline of Geography has been the pace‐setter in forging cross‐disciplinary links to create multidisciplinary departments and schools, well ahead of other disciplines in humanities, social sciences and sciences, and also to a greater extent than in comparable overseas university systems. Details on all cross‐disciplinary links and on immediate outcomes have been obtained by surveys of all heads of departments/sch…
Speech Synthesis by Rule
Intelligible English has been synthesized in part “by rule”, with a system consisting of a computer programme and an electronic analogue synthesizer. Methods for the synthesis of the various phonetic classes and their transitions are described
Rural transitions in the Nambucca Valley: Socio-demographic change in a disadvantaged rural locale
The Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia
Arguably, rural land markets in Australia are currently in a high state of flux, with a panoply of competing interests seeking to capitalize on both the traditional and a range of newly emergent values anchored in land. Amenity-led migration is, we argue, an important strand of this renewed interest in rural lands, albeit one that is highly spatially selective. Employing a predictive and synoptic model of migration attractiveness across southeast…
Industrial Reorganization, Capital Restructuring and Locational Change: An Analysis of the Canadian Automobile Industry in the 1960s
There were significant changes in the locational structure of the Canadian automotive industry in the 1960s. It is clear that these changes cannot be fully understood and explained by reference only to changes in the geographical distribution of location factors. The changes were instigated by the reorganization and rationalization of production which occurred in the wake of a major crisis of accumulation which developed in the industry in the la…
Intra-urban migrant lifelines: A spatial view
The term intra-urban migrant lifeline refers to the sequence of residential movements made by a household within a single urban area. This study examines spatial aspects of lifelines and the relationship between such aspects and the spatial structure of the city. Spatial aspects are defined in terms of distance, directional, and sectoral biases. A variety of techniques for identifying such biases are critically discussed. The approach applied is …
Search Behavior in an Intra-Urban Migration Context: A Spatial Perspective
This paper examines spatial search behavior related to intra-urban migration. Its approach is to draw upon related studies to derive expectations with regard to search patterns, and to test these through empirical analysis. This involves identifying and measuring distance, directional, and sectoral spatial biases, for which an algorithm is presented that employs a map transformation and standard ellipse analysis
Persistent poverty and children’s development in the early years of childhood
Reducing child poverty has been a policy of successive United Kingdom (UK) governments. However, the reduction of persistent poverty has only recently featured on the policy agenda. This article uses longitudinal data on early childhood to examine developmental contexts and outcomes of persistently poor children and to establish contexts that may promote resilience. Results show that persistently poor children have more disadvantageous developmen…
The Multifunctional Transition in Australia's Tropical Savannas: The Emergence of Consumption, Protection and Indigenous Values
As elsewhere in affluent, western nations, the direction, complexity and pace of rural change in Australia can be conceptualised as a multifunctional transition in which a variable mix of consumption and protection values has emerged, contesting the former dominance of production values, and leading to greater complexity and heterogeneity in rural occupance at all scales. This transition has been explored in accessible, high-amenity landscapes dr…
Shift Work, Childcare and Domestic Work: Divisions of labour in Canadian paper mill communities
The growing prevalence of shift work and non-standard working hours is \nchallenging many taken-for-granted notions about family and household life. This paper \nexamines how rotating shift-schedules shape household strategies with regard to \nchildcare and unpaid domestic work. In 1993-1994 we conducted in-depth interviews \nwith 90 predominantly male newsprint mill-workers and their spouses living in three \ncommunities located in different reg…
The Break-up of an International Labour Union: Uneven Development in the North American Auto Industry and the Schism in the UAW
In 1985, after being represented by the United Automobile Workers union (UAW) for almost half a century, Canadian autoworkers split from the International Union to form their own independent union, the CAW. To date, most interpretations have attributed the split to political, cultural, and ideological differences between the US and Canadian sections of the union. Through an analysis of restructuring and collective bargaining in the North American…
Explorations in Australian Legal Geography: The Evolution of Lease Tenures as Policy Instruments
In their programmatic statement towards an Australian perspective on legal geography, Bartel et al. acknowledge that 'it is perhaps in the institution of property and the regulation of land use that law has its most obvious overlap with geography ... in a settler society such as Australia'. Given this statement, it is surprising that the seven co-authors fail to acknowledge the formidable contributions already made by Australian geographers withi…
Contesting the Future of Cape York Peninsula
Entrenched contests about the future of Cape York Peninsula's lands, waters and people have for long received national prominence. In the federal arena, this has climaxed with the campaign to overturn the State's declarations on wild rivers. Initially pursued as a means of influencing decisions on the determination of the government in a finely balanced federal parliament, it has been retained as an early test of the survivability of the minority…
Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: Interpreting regional dynamics in landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods
The direction, complexity and pace of rural change in affluent, western societies can be conceptualised as a multifunctional transition, in which a variable mix of consumption and protection values has emerged, contesting the former dominance of production values, and leading to greater complexity and heterogeneity in rural occupance at all scales. Australia's generous supply of land and sparse investment in agriculture have facilitated local tra…
In Search of Competitive Efficiency: Labour Process Flexibility in Canadian Newsprint Mills
This paper focuses on the strategies for production and work reorganization pursued in the Canadian newsprint industry during the 1990s. Many newsprint mill managers view new pulping technologies and increased labour process flexibility as the important keys to success in their never‐ending quest to remain competitive in the U.S. market. These strategies are discussed in the context of two underlying themes: the nature of the particular competiti…
Divergent Regional Trajectories in Australia's Tropical Savannas: Indicators of a Multifunctional Rural Transition
As elsewhere in affluent, western nations, Australia's tropical savanna zone is experiencing a complex transition towards multifunctional occupance in which emerging consumption, protection and Indigenous values are contesting the former dominance of production values, tied to extensive pastoral occupance and agricultural development projects. This transition is contributing to increased complexity and diversity within and between regions. Diverg…
Industrial Restructuring in a Period of Crisis: An Analysis of the Canadian Automobile Industry, 1973–83
The recent crisis in the North American economy is rooted in the disintegration of a particular model of capital accumulation known as Fordism. Using the empirical context of the auto industry in Canada the paper analyses the development and subsequent breakdown of Fordism and the forms taken by the restructuring which has occurred in response to the crisis
Population Concentration and Dispersion in Australian States: A Macrogeographic Analysis
Manufacturing resiliency: Economic restructuring and automotive manufacturing in the Great Lakes region
Through a case study of the Great Lakes region automotive industry spanning the USA–Canada international border, this article critically reassesses the concept of regional resiliency and the sustainability of the recent resurgence of American manufacturing. We argue that regional resiliency needs to be reframed around regional integration into global production networks and the restructuring of workplace governance especially with regard to the s…
An Analysis of Equity in Redistribution to the Retired and Children over Recent Decades in the OECD and UK
In The Pinch, David Willetts (2010: xv) attracted attention by asking whether 'the boomers have been guilty of a monumental failure to protect the interest of future generations'. This was just the latest contribution to a long running concern of social policy analysts about horizontal equity and generational fairness. Using OECD data from 1980-2007, in the first part of this paper we show that there is no evidence that social expenditure has bee…
Production and Waste of Mineral Resources and Their Bearing On Conservation
The study of the problem of conservation with reference to mineral wealth is easily separable into two divisions, considering under one the mineral resources as they exist to-day, and under the other a study of the production, consumption and waste of these resources and the prevention of this waste.The former of these is discussed in another paper in this volume by the Director of the Geological Survey.In discussing the latter in the following p…
An Experiment Concerning the Recognition of Voices
A subjective experiment is described which confirms that characteristics of the spectral envelope of speech, notably formant positions, contribute to our ability to recognise a speaker's voice. Speakers with similar accent and rate of speaking were selected and their larynx frequency characteristics were eliminated in a vocoder system with fixed voicing frequency. A direct subjective comparison of resulting voice samples showed that the speakers'…
The United Nations in the Congo
stake in the Congo is the United Nations role as midwife for the peaceful revolutions of our times which has emerged during the past decade as the best hope for international order. This role is enduring its severest test, and it may be undone by the fury of the passions involved and the sheer weight of a task undertaken in unpropitious circumstances. It is a pragmatic role varying according to circumstances and so resisting definition. In essenc…
Indonesian Independence and the United Nations
The distribution of dairying in coastal New South Wales
The Impact on the Commonwealth of the Emergence of Africa
When Africa emerged with unexpected haste as an independent political force in the world, the Commonwealth was still adjusting itself to revolutionary transformations in Asia. There was no doubt that it had entered on a new phase, but the phase was hard to define. Because the nature of the Commonwealth is implicit, there is always considerable diversity of view on its significance even among its own citizens. There is always a time lag as well. M…
Speech Synthesis by Rule
Intelligible English has been synthesized in part “by rule”, with a system consisting of a computer programme and an electronic analogue synthesizer. Methods for the synthesis of the various phonetic classes and their transitions are described
The Suburbanization of Cessnock Coalfield Towns: 1954–1964
The Arctic Frontier
This book is about the North as a frontier, and about Canada's relations with the world beyond that frontier. It is about the Arctic community of which Canada is one of the major members. Canadians have long been aware of the significance of their Atlantic and Pacific frontiers and of the implications of their Southern frontier.
A Canadian's commonwealth: Realism out of rhetoric
The Anglo‐Canadian neurosis: A mood of exasperation
English Madrigal Verse: 1588–1632 (Third Edition): 1588–1632
Problems in Location Sampling
In geographical and related research uncertainty and error have arisen in the selection, application, and interpretation of designs in plane sampling largely through a failure to differentiate between area sampling and location sampling procedures. A survey of some commonly used area sampling designs indicates the frequency and extent of this error. Location sampling has remained a poorly understood technique through its confusion with area sampl…
External Commuting: The Maitland Experience
South-West Pacific: A Geography of Australia, New Zealand and Their Pacific Island Neighbourhoods
The Theory of Plane Sampling and Its Applications in Geographic Research
John H. Holmes, The Theory of Plane Sampling and Its Applications in Geographic Research, Economic Geography, Vol. 46, Supplement: Proceedings. International Geographical Union. Commission on Quantitative Methods (Jun., 1970), pp. 379-392
Intra-urban migrant lifelines: A spatial view
The term intra-urban migrant lifeline refers to the sequence of residential movements made by a household within a single urban area. This study examines spatial aspects of lifelines and the relationship between such aspects and the spatial structure of the city. Spatial aspects are defined in terms of distance, directional, and sectoral biases. A variety of techniques for identifying such biases are critically discussed. The approach applied is …
External Commuting as a Prelude to Suburbanization
External commuting capitalizes upon existing investment in areas with a deficit in local employment. The Newcastle, New South Wales, commutershed has long included an expanding zone of external commuting in former mining towns well in advance of suburban spread. For displaced miners, and for other autochthonous commuters, strong constraints on residential mobility raise travel tolerance levels beyond those acceptable to suburbanites and other all…
Search Behavior in an Intra-Urban Migration Context: A Spatial Perspective
This paper examines spatial search behavior related to intra-urban migration. Its approach is to draw upon related studies to derive expectations with regard to search patterns, and to test these through empirical analysis. This involves identifying and measuring distance, directional, and sectoral spatial biases, for which an algorithm is presented that employs a map transformation and standard ellipse analysis
Linkages between External Commuting and Out-Migration: Evidence from Middle-Eastern Pennsylvania
While a voluminous literature now exists concerning various aspects of external commuting, there has been little attempt at a systematic examination of the role of external commuting as a substitute for out-migration in job deficit areas.1 Yapa, Polese, and Wolpert [13] have recently analyzed the interdependencies of commuting, migration, and job site relocation, and have developed a simple four-region model to specify the nature of assumed inter…
Population Concentration and Dispersion in Australian States: A Macrogeographic Analysis
Tamworth: An emerging regional capital
Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions
Telephone traffic dispersion and nodal regionalisation in the Australian states
Telephone traffic is shown to be a reliable indicator of functional ties, with morning peak calls concentratedalong hierarchical pathways andevening peak calls more sensitive to population and distance. Traffic dispersion incident to each centre is systematically related to the size of the centre and to the size and spacing of interacting centres. Metropolitan orientation has a powerful effect on traffic dispersion in all situations and, in the m…
Industrial Reorganization, Capital Restructuring and Locational Change: An Analysis of the Canadian Automobile Industry in the 1960s
There were significant changes in the locational structure of the Canadian automotive industry in the 1960s. It is clear that these changes cannot be fully understood and explained by reference only to changes in the geographical distribution of location factors. The changes were instigated by the reorganization and rationalization of production which occurred in the wake of a major crisis of accumulation which developed in the industry in the la…
Political science (61 works) · Geography (60 works) · Sociology (60 works) · Economics (56 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (45 works) · Medicine (43 works) · Psychology (42 works) · Business (35 works) · Environmental health (32 works) · Computer Science (28 works)