Eleanor Robson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Robson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Robson |
| SIGNATURE | ROBSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6966-5463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Are local governments pursuing deeper systems change through sustainability governance? Analysis of seven Australian case studies
Local governments (LGs) play a critical role in sustainability governance in Australia, yet few recent studies holistically examine whether and how LGs pursue deeper systemic change to address planetary challenges. This article addresses this gap through interviews with seven Australian LG case studies and three LG associations, analysed using Scoones et al.’s (2020) transformations framework outlining three major schools of thought: systemic, st…
Planetary health values and their implications for sustainability governance: Case study in the City of Blue Mountains, Australia
Planetary health asserts that human health is contingent on the health of ecosystems. While the field has grown significantly since 2015, no known research has tested the expediency of planetary health as an applied values framework in local sustainability governance. This article seeks to address this gap by answering: how useful is planetary health for understanding the way citizens value nature and how nature shapes their health and wellbeing?…
Amélie Thekla Luise Kuhrt, F.B.A. (1944–2023)
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Implementing local planetary health: Case study of Blue Mountains, Australia
Planetary health is a concept that emerged from public health and is of central interest for geographers. Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) launched its planetary health initiative in 2020, which is a first instance of it being adopted by an Australian local government as a sustainability policy framework. This article presents an initial case study arguing for and testing how to gain empirical insights from developing local planetary health ini…
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Le cunéiforme, de la tablette d’argile au téléphone portable: Une histoire des technologies de l’enseignement de l’antiquité à nos jours
Cuneiform is supposedly one of the most complex scripts of Antiquity, and yet it endured for over 3000 years in its heartland of southern Iraq. At its most widespread, in the later second millennium BC, communities across the Middle East—from western Iran to Cyprus, via Egypt and Anatolia—wrote to each other, and for themselves, in cuneiform script. In these lectures, I suggest that cuneiform was not as hard to learn as we moderns have thought. I…
Tell Khaiber: An Administrative Centre of the Sealand Period
Excavations at Tell Khaiber in southern Iraq by the Ur Region Archaeological Project have revealed a substantial building (hereafter the Public Building) dating to the mid-second millennium b.c . The results are significant for the light they shed on Babylonian provincial administration, particularly of food production, for revealing a previously unknown type of fortified monumental building, and for producing a dated archive, in context, of the …
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it
Untouchable or Unrepeatable? The Upper End of the Old Babylonian Metrological Systems for Capacity and Area
This article re-examines the cuneiform evidence for the upper end of the Old Babylonian metrological systems for capacity and area. We demonstrate that the reading 1(šar 2 ) gal šu nu-tag “one large šar 2 that the hand cannot touch” is not supported by that evidence, and show instead that the phrase's final sign is not tag but gi 4 “return” or “repeat”. We then consider several likely interpretations of this reading, arguing that the size of the …
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture
"The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore,…
The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics
Mesopotamian Medicine and Religion: Current Debates, New Perspectives
The study of Mesopotamian medicine, while unprecedentedly productive, is stuck in a historiographical rut that cognate disciplines left some years ago. I review the current state of the field from a peripheral vantage point and use case studies from Sumerian literature and Neo-Assyrian royal letters to exemplify alternative approaches that do not sacrifice philological rigour for anthropological attention to socio-intellectual context
Inscribed in Clay: Provenance Study of the Amarna Letters and Other Ancient near Eastern Texts . By Yuval Goren, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na'aman, Michal Artzy, Frank Asaro, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Vladim…
The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. By Jean-Jacques Glassner, Zainab Bahrani, and Marc van de Mieroop
Quelques Textes Scolaires Paléo-babyloniens Rédigés par des Femmes
A New Look at the Sargonic Mathematical Corpus
We present a previously unpublished mathematical tablet from the Sargonic period which includes the earliest known example of a (partial) worked solution to a mathematical problem. The calculation errors and explicit methodological statements in the procedure provide convincing evidence for sexagesimalisation as early as the Sargonic period, in support of Powell (1976) and Whiting (1984). After re-evaluation of hitherto overlooked examples we fin…
Satisfaction, subversion, and the reluctant reader: Some thoughts on writing accessible history of ancient mathematics
Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination . N. M. Swerdlow
Three Old Babylonian Methods for Dealing with "Pythagorean" Triangles
Two Vagabonds in Languedoc
Implementing local planetary health: Case study of Blue Mountains, Australia
Planetary health is a concept that emerged from public health and is of central interest for geographers. Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) launched its planetary health initiative in 2020, which is a first instance of it being adopted by an Australian local government as a sustainability policy framework. This article presents an initial case study arguing for and testing how to gain empirical insights from developing local planetary health ini…
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it
Mesopotamian Medicine and Religion: Current Debates, New Perspectives
The study of Mesopotamian medicine, while unprecedentedly productive, is stuck in a historiographical rut that cognate disciplines left some years ago. I review the current state of the field from a peripheral vantage point and use case studies from Sumerian literature and Neo-Assyrian royal letters to exemplify alternative approaches that do not sacrifice philological rigour for anthropological attention to socio-intellectual context
Satisfaction, subversion, and the reluctant reader: Some thoughts on writing accessible history of ancient mathematics
Three Old Babylonian Methods for Dealing with "Pythagorean" Triangles
Two Vagabonds in Languedoc
Three Old Babylonian Methods for Dealing with "Pythagorean" Triangles
Ancient Astronomy and Celestial Divination . N. M. Swerdlow
Satisfaction, subversion, and the reluctant reader: Some thoughts on writing accessible history of ancient mathematics
A New Look at the Sargonic Mathematical Corpus
We present a previously unpublished mathematical tablet from the Sargonic period which includes the earliest known example of a (partial) worked solution to a mathematical problem. The calculation errors and explicit methodological statements in the procedure provide convincing evidence for sexagesimalisation as early as the Sargonic period, in support of Powell (1976) and Whiting (1984). After re-evaluation of hitherto overlooked examples we fin…
Quelques Textes Scolaires Paléo-babyloniens Rédigés par des Femmes
The Invention of Cuneiform: Writing in Sumer. By Jean-Jacques Glassner, Zainab Bahrani, and Marc van de Mieroop
Inscribed in Clay: Provenance Study of the Amarna Letters and Other Ancient near Eastern Texts . By Yuval Goren, Israel Finkelstein, Nadav Na'aman, Michal Artzy, Frank Asaro, Shlomo Bunimovitz, Vladim…
The Oxford handbook of the history of mathematics
Mesopotamian Medicine and Religion: Current Debates, New Perspectives
The study of Mesopotamian medicine, while unprecedentedly productive, is stuck in a historiographical rut that cognate disciplines left some years ago. I review the current state of the field from a peripheral vantage point and use case studies from Sumerian literature and Neo-Assyrian royal letters to exemplify alternative approaches that do not sacrifice philological rigour for anthropological attention to socio-intellectual context
Untouchable or Unrepeatable? The Upper End of the Old Babylonian Metrological Systems for Capacity and Area
This article re-examines the cuneiform evidence for the upper end of the Old Babylonian metrological systems for capacity and area. We demonstrate that the reading 1(šar 2 ) gal šu nu-tag “one large šar 2 that the hand cannot touch” is not supported by that evidence, and show instead that the phrase's final sign is not tag but gi 4 “return” or “repeat”. We then consider several likely interpretations of this reading, arguing that the size of the …
The Oxford handbook of cuneiform culture
"The cuneiform script, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia, was witness to one of the world's oldest literate cultures. For over three millennia, it was the vehicle of communication from (at its greatest extent) Iran to the Mediterranean, Anatolia to Egypt. The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture examines the Ancient Middle East through the lens of cuneiform writing. The contributors, a mix of scholars from across the disciplines, explore,…
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
This Handbook explores the history of mathematics under a series of themes which raise new questions about what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practice it
Tell Khaiber: An Administrative Centre of the Sealand Period
Excavations at Tell Khaiber in southern Iraq by the Ur Region Archaeological Project have revealed a substantial building (hereafter the Public Building) dating to the mid-second millennium b.c . The results are significant for the light they shed on Babylonian provincial administration, particularly of food production, for revealing a previously unknown type of fortified monumental building, and for producing a dated archive, in context, of the …
Le cunéiforme, de la tablette d’argile au téléphone portable: Une histoire des technologies de l’enseignement de l’antiquité à nos jours
Cuneiform is supposedly one of the most complex scripts of Antiquity, and yet it endured for over 3000 years in its heartland of southern Iraq. At its most widespread, in the later second millennium BC, communities across the Middle East—from western Iran to Cyprus, via Egypt and Anatolia—wrote to each other, and for themselves, in cuneiform script. In these lectures, I suggest that cuneiform was not as hard to learn as we moderns have thought. I…
Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History
Implementing local planetary health: Case study of Blue Mountains, Australia
Planetary health is a concept that emerged from public health and is of central interest for geographers. Blue Mountains City Council (BMCC) launched its planetary health initiative in 2020, which is a first instance of it being adopted by an Australian local government as a sustainability policy framework. This article presents an initial case study arguing for and testing how to gain empirical insights from developing local planetary health ini…
Amélie Thekla Luise Kuhrt, F.B.A. (1944–2023)
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Planetary health values and their implications for sustainability governance: Case study in the City of Blue Mountains, Australia
Planetary health asserts that human health is contingent on the health of ecosystems. While the field has grown significantly since 2015, no known research has tested the expediency of planetary health as an applied values framework in local sustainability governance. This article seeks to address this gap by answering: how useful is planetary health for understanding the way citizens value nature and how nature shapes their health and wellbeing?…
Are local governments pursuing deeper systems change through sustainability governance? Analysis of seven Australian case studies
Local governments (LGs) play a critical role in sustainability governance in Australia, yet few recent studies holistically examine whether and how LGs pursue deeper systemic change to address planetary challenges. This article addresses this gap through interviews with seven Australian LG case studies and three LG associations, analysed using Scoones et al.’s (2020) transformations framework outlining three major schools of thought: systemic, st…
History (12 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (10 works) · Ancient Near East History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Mathematics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Cuneiform (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (5 works)