Carol Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queensland University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9887-175X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 241 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Holistic grazing management as a scalable niche? A systems perspective on transitions to increased sustainability in beef cattle grazing
Extensive cattle properties have become focal points for examining climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This is largely due to their dual role as sites that both release and potentially sequester carbon, depending on management activities. Many global regions have extensive cattle production systems, including the US, South America and Australia. In this qualitative social science research, the Australian beef cattle grazing indus…
Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Data Analysis: Epistemological Incongruences and the Future of the Human Experience
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has inspired scholarship that seeks to make sense of the impacts of AI technology on a wide range of human activity, including social scientific research. The power of AI to synthesise literature, compile information, and generate content is well recognised, yet its performance on some core dimensions of inductive/abductive research, including qualitative data analysis, is less documented and underst…
Digital technology and on-farm responses to climate shocks: Exploring the Relations Between Producer Agency and the Security of Food Production
Recent research into climate shocks and what this means for the on-farm production of food revealed mixed and unanticipated results. Whilst the research was triggered by a series of catastrophic, climate related disruptions, Australian beef producers interviewed for the study downplayed the immediate and direct impacts of climate shocks. When considering the changing nature of production under shifting climatic conditions, producers offered a com…
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities: Introduction to the Symposium
Critical factors of digital AgTech adoption on Australian farms: From digital to data divide
As global agricultural production methods and supply chains have become more digitised, farmers around the world are adopting digital agricultural technologies (AgTech) such as drones, IoT, remote sensors, blockchain and satellite imagery to inform on-farm decision-making. Yet, on the backdrop of a persistent digital divide between rural and urban communities, many Australian farmers are not taking up digital AgTech. It has been argued that these…
Towards systemic solutions to food waste: Creative destabilisation and escaping food waste lock-in
Rural Data Divides: Critical Factors of Digital Agtech Adoption on Australian Farms
This paper details a qualitative investigation of human factors relating to adoption of digital agricultural technologies on Australian farms. We employed an ‘ecosystems’ approach to undertake a case study of a cotton farm’s transition to digital farming. Interviews and participant observation were conducted across the farm’s supply chain to understand how the experiences, perceptions, and activities of different stakeholders constituted a commun…
Entitlements, Capabilities, and Crisis in the United Kingdom
This paper examines whether Amartya Sen’s entitlements and capabilities concepts can be transferred in their application from low-income countries to high-income countries, specifically Cumbria, Northern England. Originally used to understand the causes of famine, these concepts have previously been used in several different geographical contexts to broadly understand poverty and inequality but almost entirely in low-income countries. This paper …
The “Prevention Paradox”: Food waste prevention and the quandary of systemic surplus production
Framing sustainability: Alternative standards schemes for sustainable palm oil and South-South trade
The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis
Food justice or food sovereignty? Understanding the rise of urban food movements in the USA
On food security and alternative food networks: Understanding and performing food security in the context of urban bias
Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway
Supermarkets and private standards: Unintended consequences of the audit ritual
A toothless chihuahua? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, neoliberalism and supermarket power in Australia
During the Senate Inquiry into ‘milk price wars’ in 2011, Senator Nick Xenophon accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of being ‘less effective than a toothless Chihuahua’. This follows the ACCC’s lack of action regarding the reported abuse of market power of Australia’s supermarket duopoly, where an extensive inquiry into the competitiveness of retail prices in 2008 found grocery retailing to be ‘workably competitive’ …
Retailer-driven agricultural restructuring—Australia, the UK and Norway in comparison
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change
Supermarkets and Agro-industrial Foods: The Strategic Manufacturing of Consumer Trust
There is increasing evidence of a weakened platform of consumer trust in mass produced food products. The resistance shown by consumers to the agro-industrial paradigm is evident in an emergent phase of reflexive consumerism, public reactions to an overly-concentrated retail sector and the rise of alternative food networks such as farmers' markets and organic box schemes. Supermarkets are responding strategically by aiming to manufacture new trus…
Genuine Community Engagement in Remote Dryland Regions: Natural Resource Management in Lake Eyre Basin
Remote dryland regions are characterised by sparse populations and socially marginalised voices which pose particular challenges to natural resource management. This paper considers the issue of how to achieve community engagement in regions with these characteristics. In doing so, the paper contributes to an expanding international research agenda focusing on the distinct characteristics of arid and semi-arid regions under the heading of ‘drylan…
Adaptation and change in Queensland’s rangelands: Cell grazing as an emerging ideology of pastoral-ecology
Membership-based organizations of the poor: Concepts, experience and policy
Membership Based Organizations of the Poor
Multifunctional agriculture in policy and practice? A comparative analysis of Norway and Australia
Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change
Multifunctional agriculture in policy and practice? A comparative analysis of Norway and Australia
Food justice or food sovereignty? Understanding the rise of urban food movements in the USA
Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway
Framing sustainability: Alternative standards schemes for sustainable palm oil and South-South trade
Supermarkets and Agro-industrial Foods: The Strategic Manufacturing of Consumer Trust
There is increasing evidence of a weakened platform of consumer trust in mass produced food products. The resistance shown by consumers to the agro-industrial paradigm is evident in an emergent phase of reflexive consumerism, public reactions to an overly-concentrated retail sector and the rise of alternative food networks such as farmers' markets and organic box schemes. Supermarkets are responding strategically by aiming to manufacture new trus…
The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis
Supermarkets and private standards: Unintended consequences of the audit ritual
Retailer-driven agricultural restructuring—Australia, the UK and Norway in comparison
The “Prevention Paradox”: Food waste prevention and the quandary of systemic surplus production
A toothless chihuahua? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, neoliberalism and supermarket power in Australia
During the Senate Inquiry into ‘milk price wars’ in 2011, Senator Nick Xenophon accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of being ‘less effective than a toothless Chihuahua’. This follows the ACCC’s lack of action regarding the reported abuse of market power of Australia’s supermarket duopoly, where an extensive inquiry into the competitiveness of retail prices in 2008 found grocery retailing to be ‘workably competitive’ …
Adaptation and change in Queensland’s rangelands: Cell grazing as an emerging ideology of pastoral-ecology
Beef Production and the Environment: Is it really ‘Hard to be Green When You are in the Red’
The statement, ‘it is hard to be green when you are in the red’ is commonly used by primary producers to explain the necessity of placing a greater emphasis on financial survival rather than longerterm environmental sustainability. The subject of environmental sustainability on pastoral properties was explored during face-to-face interviews with cattle graziers in the Fitzroy Basin area of Central Queensland. Findings from the study suggest that …
Digital technology and on-farm responses to climate shocks: Exploring the Relations Between Producer Agency and the Security of Food Production
Recent research into climate shocks and what this means for the on-farm production of food revealed mixed and unanticipated results. Whilst the research was triggered by a series of catastrophic, climate related disruptions, Australian beef producers interviewed for the study downplayed the immediate and direct impacts of climate shocks. When considering the changing nature of production under shifting climatic conditions, producers offered a com…
On food security and alternative food networks: Understanding and performing food security in the context of urban bias
Towards systemic solutions to food waste: Creative destabilisation and escaping food waste lock-in
Genuine Community Engagement in Remote Dryland Regions: Natural Resource Management in Lake Eyre Basin
Remote dryland regions are characterised by sparse populations and socially marginalised voices which pose particular challenges to natural resource management. This paper considers the issue of how to achieve community engagement in regions with these characteristics. In doing so, the paper contributes to an expanding international research agenda focusing on the distinct characteristics of arid and semi-arid regions under the heading of ‘drylan…
Artificial Intelligence and Qualitative Data Analysis: Epistemological Incongruences and the Future of the Human Experience
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has inspired scholarship that seeks to make sense of the impacts of AI technology on a wide range of human activity, including social scientific research. The power of AI to synthesise literature, compile information, and generate content is well recognised, yet its performance on some core dimensions of inductive/abductive research, including qualitative data analysis, is less documented and underst…
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities: Introduction to the Symposium
Beef Production and the Environment: Is it really ‘Hard to be Green When You are in the Red’
The statement, ‘it is hard to be green when you are in the red’ is commonly used by primary producers to explain the necessity of placing a greater emphasis on financial survival rather than longerterm environmental sustainability. The subject of environmental sustainability on pastoral properties was explored during face-to-face interviews with cattle graziers in the Fitzroy Basin area of Central Queensland. Findings from the study suggest that …
Membership-based organizations of the poor: Concepts, experience and policy
Membership Based Organizations of the Poor
Multifunctional agriculture in policy and practice? A comparative analysis of Norway and Australia
Adaptation and change in Queensland’s rangelands: Cell grazing as an emerging ideology of pastoral-ecology
Supermarkets and Agro-industrial Foods: The Strategic Manufacturing of Consumer Trust
There is increasing evidence of a weakened platform of consumer trust in mass produced food products. The resistance shown by consumers to the agro-industrial paradigm is evident in an emergent phase of reflexive consumerism, public reactions to an overly-concentrated retail sector and the rise of alternative food networks such as farmers' markets and organic box schemes. Supermarkets are responding strategically by aiming to manufacture new trus…
Genuine Community Engagement in Remote Dryland Regions: Natural Resource Management in Lake Eyre Basin
Remote dryland regions are characterised by sparse populations and socially marginalised voices which pose particular challenges to natural resource management. This paper considers the issue of how to achieve community engagement in regions with these characteristics. In doing so, the paper contributes to an expanding international research agenda focusing on the distinct characteristics of arid and semi-arid regions under the heading of ‘drylan…
A toothless chihuahua? The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, neoliberalism and supermarket power in Australia
During the Senate Inquiry into ‘milk price wars’ in 2011, Senator Nick Xenophon accused the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) of being ‘less effective than a toothless Chihuahua’. This follows the ACCC’s lack of action regarding the reported abuse of market power of Australia’s supermarket duopoly, where an extensive inquiry into the competitiveness of retail prices in 2008 found grocery retailing to be ‘workably competitive’ …
Retailer-driven agricultural restructuring—Australia, the UK and Norway in comparison
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Food security in Australia in an era of neoliberalism, productivism and climate change
Supermarkets and private standards: Unintended consequences of the audit ritual
Food justice or food sovereignty? Understanding the rise of urban food movements in the USA
On food security and alternative food networks: Understanding and performing food security in the context of urban bias
Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway
The new corporate enclosures: Plantation forestry, carbon markets and the limits of financialised solutions to the climate crisis
Framing sustainability: Alternative standards schemes for sustainable palm oil and South-South trade
Entitlements, Capabilities, and Crisis in the United Kingdom
This paper examines whether Amartya Sen’s entitlements and capabilities concepts can be transferred in their application from low-income countries to high-income countries, specifically Cumbria, Northern England. Originally used to understand the causes of famine, these concepts have previously been used in several different geographical contexts to broadly understand poverty and inequality but almost entirely in low-income countries. This paper …
The “Prevention Paradox”: Food waste prevention and the quandary of systemic surplus production
Rural Data Divides: Critical Factors of Digital Agtech Adoption on Australian Farms
This paper details a qualitative investigation of human factors relating to adoption of digital agricultural technologies on Australian farms. We employed an ‘ecosystems’ approach to undertake a case study of a cotton farm’s transition to digital farming. Interviews and participant observation were conducted across the farm’s supply chain to understand how the experiences, perceptions, and activities of different stakeholders constituted a commun…
Critical factors of digital AgTech adoption on Australian farms: From digital to data divide
As global agricultural production methods and supply chains have become more digitised, farmers around the world are adopting digital agricultural technologies (AgTech) such as drones, IoT, remote sensors, blockchain and satellite imagery to inform on-farm decision-making. Yet, on the backdrop of a persistent digital divide between rural and urban communities, many Australian farmers are not taking up digital AgTech. It has been argued that these…
Towards systemic solutions to food waste: Creative destabilisation and escaping food waste lock-in
Digital technology and on-farm responses to climate shocks: Exploring the Relations Between Producer Agency and the Security of Food Production
Recent research into climate shocks and what this means for the on-farm production of food revealed mixed and unanticipated results. Whilst the research was triggered by a series of catastrophic, climate related disruptions, Australian beef producers interviewed for the study downplayed the immediate and direct impacts of climate shocks. When considering the changing nature of production under shifting climatic conditions, producers offered a com…
Food system shocks and food insecurity vulnerabilities: Introduction to the Symposium
Holistic grazing management as a scalable niche? A systems perspective on transitions to increased sustainability in beef cattle grazing
Extensive cattle properties have become focal points for examining climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies. This is largely due to their dual role as sites that both release and potentially sequester carbon, depending on management activities. Many global regions have extensive cattle production systems, including the US, South America and Australia. In this qualitative social science research, the Australian beef cattle grazing indus…
Economics (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Business (14 works) · Agriculture (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Food security (8 works) · Sustainability (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works)