Sonia Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3707715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonia Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonia |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4195-4559 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pesticide Supply Chains From China to Australia
Following recent calls to deepen understanding of the Global Pesticide Complex, this article delves into the China‐to‐Australia supply chain of a single herbicide—paraquat. First released in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, acutely toxic paraquat is now primarily produced in China. It is widely used in Australian broadacre farming, where, in response to the growth of no‐till cultivation and rising herbicide resistance, it is used as a ‘double kno…
Social norms enable rural collective action
Reaping what we sow
In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, we explore the implic…
Grower attitudes and practices toward area-wide management of cropping weeds in Australia
The mobility of weeds, use of biological controls and spread of herbicide resistance mean that weed management is a landscape-scale problem. Area-wide management (AWM) presents one approach for land managers, industry and government representatives to collaborate to manage weeds across public and private properties. Such an approach has been successfully used for other landscape-scale problems, such as managing animal and insect pests. This study…
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
Obnoxious Plants and Pestiferous Growths
The militaristic metaphors common in public discourses about invasive species have been criticised for promoting combative management approaches and constraining policy responses. But are they really to blame for entrenching a command-and-control approach to managing weeds in Australia? Since 2000, almost every state and territory has introduced new biosecurity legislation encouraging ‘shared responsibility’. Yet, this term remains noticeably abs…
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review
Three ways social identity shapes climate change adaptation
Adaptation to climate change is inescapably influenced by processes of social identity-how people perceive themselves, others, and their place in the world around them. Yet there is sparse evidence into the specific ways in which identity processes shape adaptation planning and responses. This paper proposes three key ways to understand the relationship between identity formation and adaptation processes: (a) how social identities change in respo…
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
The resident and visitor gaze
Can Development Programs Shape Cooperation
Coordinating invasive plant management among conservation and rural stakeholders
Does the End Justify the Means? A Media Analysis of Invasive Pig and Fox Management
Growing numbers of researchers and animal rights advocates are concerned about the welfare of invasive nonhuman animals, and new government policies echo these concerns. Past survey research, however, shows that the general public defines invasive animal welfare differently than scientists and animal rights advocates. There is little social research that investigates how differing views on the acceptability of invasive animal controls are reconci…
Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation
Advancing values-based approaches to climate change adaptation
(En)visioning place‐based adaptation to sea‐level rise
Sustainable climate change adaptation requires an understanding of people's place attachments, so that potential impacts and trade‐offs are illuminated when making adaptation decisions. Methods are needed that elucidate these important, but often intangible, place attachments at risk. A study was undertaken to explore place attachment, and how these person–place bonds might be impacted by flooding and sea‐level rise. It engaged with a small town …
Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Local residents, businesspeople, and policymakers engaged in climate change adaptation often think differently of the time available for action. Their understandings of time, and their practices that invoke time, form the complex and sometimes conflicting temporalities of adaptation to environmental change. They link the conditions of the past to those of the present and the future in a variety of ways, and their contemporary practices rest on su…
The relevance of a coproductive capacity framework to climate change adaptation
Bowen, K. J., F. P. Miller, V. Dany, and S. Graham. 2015. The relevance of a coproductive capacity framework to climate change adaptation: investigating the health and water sectors in Cambodia. Ecology and Society 20(1): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06864-200113
Local values for fairer adaptation to sea-level rise
A new perspective on the trust power nexus from rural Australia
Time stories
The social values at risk from sea-level rise
The Effects of Climate and Socio-Demographics on Direct Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Australia
Household CO2 emissions are a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and consequently climate warming. Despite this, there has been little consideration of how household CO2 emissions may be affected by changes in climate. The aim of the present study has been to investigate the way climate, as well as socio-demographic characteristics, may affect household CO2 emissions produced from energy use. A national online survey was c…
Green-changing
A research-based collaboration with a rural community engaged with the risks and opportunities involved in renewable energy production. Natimuk Township, within the Victorian wheat and sheep belt, is atypical in its renewal by tree-change migrants attracted by the nearby rock climbing destination of Mt Arapiles. The collaboration aimed at crafting broad agreement on what constituted a more sustainable future via a scenario analysis and feasibilit…
Nurturing Relationships
First- and second-generation migrants represent about 40 per cent of the Australian population. With such a large and also diverse immigrant population, urban landscapes are significantly shaped by the gardens created by migrants. Two groups of Vietnamese and Greek migrants, in the inner suburb of Marrickville South in Sydney, were interviewed to examine the relationship between migration history and garden-making practices. Garden composition wa…
Time stories
Local values for fairer adaptation to sea-level rise
Nurturing Relationships
First- and second-generation migrants represent about 40 per cent of the Australian population. With such a large and also diverse immigrant population, urban landscapes are significantly shaped by the gardens created by migrants. Two groups of Vietnamese and Greek migrants, in the inner suburb of Marrickville South in Sydney, were interviewed to examine the relationship between migration history and garden-making practices. Garden composition wa…
Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation
The social values at risk from sea-level rise
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
Advancing values-based approaches to climate change adaptation
Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Local residents, businesspeople, and policymakers engaged in climate change adaptation often think differently of the time available for action. Their understandings of time, and their practices that invoke time, form the complex and sometimes conflicting temporalities of adaptation to environmental change. They link the conditions of the past to those of the present and the future in a variety of ways, and their contemporary practices rest on su…
A new perspective on the trust power nexus from rural Australia
Obnoxious Plants and Pestiferous Growths
The militaristic metaphors common in public discourses about invasive species have been criticised for promoting combative management approaches and constraining policy responses. But are they really to blame for entrenching a command-and-control approach to managing weeds in Australia? Since 2000, almost every state and territory has introduced new biosecurity legislation encouraging ‘shared responsibility’. Yet, this term remains noticeably abs…
(En)visioning place‐based adaptation to sea‐level rise
Sustainable climate change adaptation requires an understanding of people's place attachments, so that potential impacts and trade‐offs are illuminated when making adaptation decisions. Methods are needed that elucidate these important, but often intangible, place attachments at risk. A study was undertaken to explore place attachment, and how these person–place bonds might be impacted by flooding and sea‐level rise. It engaged with a small town …
Can Development Programs Shape Cooperation
Green-changing
A research-based collaboration with a rural community engaged with the risks and opportunities involved in renewable energy production. Natimuk Township, within the Victorian wheat and sheep belt, is atypical in its renewal by tree-change migrants attracted by the nearby rock climbing destination of Mt Arapiles. The collaboration aimed at crafting broad agreement on what constituted a more sustainable future via a scenario analysis and feasibilit…
Nurturing Relationships
First- and second-generation migrants represent about 40 per cent of the Australian population. With such a large and also diverse immigrant population, urban landscapes are significantly shaped by the gardens created by migrants. Two groups of Vietnamese and Greek migrants, in the inner suburb of Marrickville South in Sydney, were interviewed to examine the relationship between migration history and garden-making practices. Garden composition wa…
Green-changing
A research-based collaboration with a rural community engaged with the risks and opportunities involved in renewable energy production. Natimuk Township, within the Victorian wheat and sheep belt, is atypical in its renewal by tree-change migrants attracted by the nearby rock climbing destination of Mt Arapiles. The collaboration aimed at crafting broad agreement on what constituted a more sustainable future via a scenario analysis and feasibilit…
The social values at risk from sea-level rise
The Effects of Climate and Socio-Demographics on Direct Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Australia
Household CO2 emissions are a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and consequently climate warming. Despite this, there has been little consideration of how household CO2 emissions may be affected by changes in climate. The aim of the present study has been to investigate the way climate, as well as socio-demographic characteristics, may affect household CO2 emissions produced from energy use. A national online survey was c…
Local values for fairer adaptation to sea-level rise
A new perspective on the trust power nexus from rural Australia
Time stories
Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Local residents, businesspeople, and policymakers engaged in climate change adaptation often think differently of the time available for action. Their understandings of time, and their practices that invoke time, form the complex and sometimes conflicting temporalities of adaptation to environmental change. They link the conditions of the past to those of the present and the future in a variety of ways, and their contemporary practices rest on su…
The relevance of a coproductive capacity framework to climate change adaptation
Bowen, K. J., F. P. Miller, V. Dany, and S. Graham. 2015. The relevance of a coproductive capacity framework to climate change adaptation: investigating the health and water sectors in Cambodia. Ecology and Society 20(1): 13. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06864-200113
(En)visioning place‐based adaptation to sea‐level rise
Sustainable climate change adaptation requires an understanding of people's place attachments, so that potential impacts and trade‐offs are illuminated when making adaptation decisions. Methods are needed that elucidate these important, but often intangible, place attachments at risk. A study was undertaken to explore place attachment, and how these person–place bonds might be impacted by flooding and sea‐level rise. It engaged with a small town …
Advancing values-based approaches to climate change adaptation
Does the End Justify the Means? A Media Analysis of Invasive Pig and Fox Management
Growing numbers of researchers and animal rights advocates are concerned about the welfare of invasive nonhuman animals, and new government policies echo these concerns. Past survey research, however, shows that the general public defines invasive animal welfare differently than scientists and animal rights advocates. There is little social research that investigates how differing views on the acceptability of invasive animal controls are reconci…
Local values and fairness in climate change adaptation
Coordinating invasive plant management among conservation and rural stakeholders
Can Development Programs Shape Cooperation
Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review
Three ways social identity shapes climate change adaptation
Adaptation to climate change is inescapably influenced by processes of social identity-how people perceive themselves, others, and their place in the world around them. Yet there is sparse evidence into the specific ways in which identity processes shape adaptation planning and responses. This paper proposes three key ways to understand the relationship between identity formation and adaptation processes: (a) how social identities change in respo…
Creating leadership collectives for sustainability transformations
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-00909-y
The resident and visitor gaze
An interdisciplinary framework for navigating social–climatic tipping points
To effectively navigate out of the climate crisis, a new interdisciplinary approach is needed to guide and facilitate research that integrates diverse understandings of how transitions evolve in intertwined social–environmental systems. The concept of tipping points, frequently used in the natural sciences and increasingly in the social sciences, can help elucidate processes underlying major social–environmental transitions. We develop the notion…
Obnoxious Plants and Pestiferous Growths
The militaristic metaphors common in public discourses about invasive species have been criticised for promoting combative management approaches and constraining policy responses. But are they really to blame for entrenching a command-and-control approach to managing weeds in Australia? Since 2000, almost every state and territory has introduced new biosecurity legislation encouraging ‘shared responsibility’. Yet, this term remains noticeably abs…
Grower attitudes and practices toward area-wide management of cropping weeds in Australia
The mobility of weeds, use of biological controls and spread of herbicide resistance mean that weed management is a landscape-scale problem. Area-wide management (AWM) presents one approach for land managers, industry and government representatives to collaborate to manage weeds across public and private properties. Such an approach has been successfully used for other landscape-scale problems, such as managing animal and insect pests. This study…
Social norms enable rural collective action
Reaping what we sow
In many transdisciplinary research settings, a lack of attention to the values underpinning project aims can inhibit stakeholder engagement and ultimately slow or undermine project outcomes. As a research collective (The Careoperative), we have developed a set of four shared values through a facilitated visioning process, as central to the way we work together: care, reflexivity, inclusivity, and collectivity. In this paper, we explore the implic…
Pesticide Supply Chains From China to Australia
Following recent calls to deepen understanding of the Global Pesticide Complex, this article delves into the China‐to‐Australia supply chain of a single herbicide—paraquat. First released in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, acutely toxic paraquat is now primarily produced in China. It is widely used in Australian broadacre farming, where, in response to the growth of no‐till cultivation and rising herbicide resistance, it is used as a ‘double kno…
Ecology (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Geography (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Climate change (10 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Economics (8 works) · Adaptation (eye (7 works)