R Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 52160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2842-4441 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Search for climate leadership goes wanting: Climate Changers, Johan Gabrielsson, director, Mark Forstmann, writer and producer, Tim Flannery, presenter, Totem Films, 2023
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The Vortex: An Environmental History of the Modern World
Entering the Arid Zone: Australian Development Diplomacy and Unesco, 1945–1960
Atendimento Ao Paciente Traumatizado Pronto Atendimento
O presente estudo tem como objetivo geral analisar as práticas atuais no atendimento de pacientes traumatizados em pronto atendimento. Para alcançar esse objetivo, a pesquisa busca responder aos seguintes objetivos específicos: identificar os protocolos mais eficazes para a triagem e avaliação inicial de pacientes traumatizados, analisar as técnicas de comunicação empregadas para garantir que o suporte emocional do paciente seja adequado e invest…
Propagandists for the Soil’: Gender, Erosion and the Murray Valley in the Mid-Twentieth Century
This article studies the contributions of a trio of settler Australian women to a wider conversation about soil and water conservation in the Australian Alps in the mid-twentieth century. The women discussed here began their interventions during the war years and continued their efforts into the immediate postwar decade. Their education and labour as well as, to varying degrees, their family's affluence and esteem, and wartime afforded these wome…
"Ruth Morgan on "Health, Hearth, and Empire: Climate, Race, and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia
In this interview, Ruth Morgan discusses her article, “Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia,” which was first published by Environment and History in 2021
Cities in a Sunburnt Country: Water and the Making of Urban Australia
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable
Sustainable Academia: The Responsibilities of Academic Historians in a Climate-Impacted World
Environmental degradation is the most serious challenge of the twenty-first century. To date, academic historians, among many others, have failed to fully confront the climate and biodiversity crises, often engaging in disavowal of the problems and our contribution to them in the course of our historical work. This article discusses mitigation efforts underway among other professional bodies, higher education institutions and academic disciplines…
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania
Lithuania's electricity sector has one of the EU's highest dependency rates, with about seventy percent of consumed electricity being generated abroad. This high rate was accentuated by the fact that until 2015 the dependency was on a sole country, namely the Russian Federation. With virtually no primary energy resources of its own, Lithuania progressed from a pro-nuclear to a renewable national energy strategy in just one decade. Based on the re…
Special Issue on Indigenous knowledge for water-related climate adaptation
Of the many manifestations of climate change, changes in the hydrological cycle are the most all-encompassing impacts that the world’s population faces and will increasingly face in the future. Ant
From history of science to history of knowledge
This overview presents some of the main approaches to histories of colonial science in Australasia as well as suggesting future areas of research. Given the plurality of knowledge systems in the colonial period, the authors argue that a framework defined by history of knowledge, rather than history of science, better reflects the realities of colonial Australasia and opens up opportunities for fresh and innovative scholarship. A history of knowle…
Historicising sulfur mining, lime extraction and geotourism in Indonesia and Australia
Health, Hearth and Empire: Climate, Race and Reproduction in British India and Western Australia
In the wake of the Indian Uprising in 1857, British sanitary campaigner and statistician Florence Nightingale renewed her efforts to reform Britain's military forces at home and in India. With the Uprising following so soon after the Crimean War (1854-56), where poor sanitary conditions had also taken an enormous toll, in 1859 Nightingale pressed the British Parliament to establish a Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India, wh…
Gender, environment and history: New methods and approaches in environmental history
We are far from the first, and expect we will not be the last, to wonder at the paucity of research on women, gender and sexuality in (Anglophone) environmental history. To borrow from Virginia Scharff, who was writing in 1999, environmental history still has a 'sex secret'. For all the insights of feminist scholarship, science studies, queer studies, women's history, gender history and histories of sexuality that have accumulated since then, man…
Fluid Terrains: Approaches in Environmental History
Focusing on a particular environment, the urban wetland, this article demonstrates and examines two different approaches that are emerging in Australian environmental history, and are beginning to play prominent roles in shaping the field. The first engages with postcolonial studies, and the second with more-than-human or multispecies scholarship, perspectives that respond in part to wider environmental and cultural concerns that call for more di…
From history of science to history of knowledge? Themes and perspectives in colonial Australasia
This overview article presents some of the main approaches to histories of colonial science in Australasia as well as suggesting future areas of research. Given the plurality of knowledge systems in the colonial period, we argue that a framework defined by history of knowledge, rather than history of science, better reflects the realities of colonial Australasia and opens up opportunities for fresh and innovative scholarship. A ‘history of knowle…
Fueling the Colonial Future
As its record in California, southern India, and elsewhere suggests, of the many biotic exchanges of the long nineteenth century, the case of the Australian blue gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus) is one that especially transcends bilateral, spatial, or imperial framing. The blue gum instead invites more material and temporal perspectives to its spread: since its reputation accrued over time in diverse colonial settings, its adoption was contingent o…
The Continent Without a Cryohistory: Deep Time and Water Scarcity in Arid Settler Australia
Australia is a continent seemingly without a cryohistory. But take a closer look. Its cryohistory differs dramatically from that of the northern hemisphere—a contrast that long baffled Victorian geologists seeking evidence of glaciation in the Great South Land. Just as historians have sought to redress the image of a static Arctic through a new attention to its cryohistory, so too historians of Australia have sought to recover a continent that is…
Southern skies: Australian atmospheric research and global climate change
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of Australian climate scientists in advancing the state of knowledge about the causes and mechanisms of climatic change and variability in the Southern Hemisphere during the 1970 and 1980s. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses the methods and insights of environmental history and the history of science to analyse archival and published data pertaining to research on atmospheric pollut…
Prophecy and Prediction: Forecasting Drought and Famine in British India and the Australian Colonies
In British India and the Australian colonies, drought and famine, as well as other hazards, were challenges facing local and metropolitan meteorologists. In this article, I examine the colonial and environmental contexts that animated the studies of both Indian and Australian scientists and the meteorological futures they sought to realise. Colonial scientists in India and Australia were eager to develop means of seasonal weather prediction that …
Doing environmental history in urgent times
The human/nature relationship is at the heart of one of the most urgent crises of our time: climate change. What does this mean for environmental historians, trained as we are to examine the culture/nature relationship, its changing temporal expressions, to challenge the binary which underpins the discipline of history itself? This article is framed as a conversation between three environmental historians as we respond to key questions about envi…
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
An Intimate History of Drought
How seven farming and grazing families experienced and responded to drought is the focus of Slow Catastrophes. From the 1890s to the 1950s, Jones traces their intimate stories of drought and then s
Greek Fiction
The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report — Environment, Context and Conclusion
For five years from 1976 to 1980 the archaeology and environment of a block of landscape centred around Shaugh Moor on south-west Dartmoor were analysed prior to the destruction of some of the evidence by china clay working. The investigations began in 1976 with a survey of the field monuments and the initiation of soil, vegetation, small mammal and phosphate studies in addition to the search for peat deposits of sufficient antiquity. From 1977 t…
The Meare Heath Trackway: Excavation of a Bronze Age structure in the Somerset Levels
The prehistoric structure described in this paper is only one of a large series of wooden roads and trackways that run into and across the Somerset Levels. The Levels themselves consist of a number of wide expanses of moorland separated by ‘islands’ of rock and sand, the whole covering a region in Somerset of about 200 square miles. In the northern part of the Levels, the peats of the valley of the River Brue have for long been subjected to hand-…
The selection and sampling of timber from archaeological sites for identification and tree-ring analysis
Fluid Terrains: Approaches in Environmental History
Focusing on a particular environment, the urban wetland, this article demonstrates and examines two different approaches that are emerging in Australian environmental history, and are beginning to play prominent roles in shaping the field. The first engages with postcolonial studies, and the second with more-than-human or multispecies scholarship, perspectives that respond in part to wider environmental and cultural concerns that call for more di…
Oceanic Histories: A Roundtable
Searching for energy independence, finding renewables? Energy security perceptions and renewable energy policy in Lithuania
Lithuania's electricity sector has one of the EU's highest dependency rates, with about seventy percent of consumed electricity being generated abroad. This high rate was accentuated by the fact that until 2015 the dependency was on a sole country, namely the Russian Federation. With virtually no primary energy resources of its own, Lithuania progressed from a pro-nuclear to a renewable national energy strategy in just one decade. Based on the re…
Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management
In the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear progression of ideas, from the primitive and magical giving way to modern religions and then to rati…
An Alternative Statistical Approach to the Calibration of Floating Tree‐ring Chronologies: Two Sequences From the Somerset Levels
Doing environmental history in urgent times
The human/nature relationship is at the heart of one of the most urgent crises of our time: climate change. What does this mean for environmental historians, trained as we are to examine the culture/nature relationship, its changing temporal expressions, to challenge the binary which underpins the discipline of history itself? This article is framed as a conversation between three environmental historians as we respond to key questions about envi…
Water Flourishing in the Anthropocene
What does it entail to foreground water flourishing as a stance toward the Anthropocene? During an exercise at the Anthropocene Campus Melbourne, about twenty participants individually drew images of 'water flourishing' leading, with only one or two exceptions of Edenic representations, to a wall of images depicting no humans. That small experience reproduced a larger cultural and environmental management configuration: people-less water flourish…
Histories for an Uncertain Future: Environmental History and Climate Change
In the wake of a decade of crippling droughts, cyclones, floods and fires, and warnings that as a result of anthropogenic climate change such events will be more frequent and intense in the future, historical research into Australian weather and climate is growing. The focus of these studies ranges from the quotidian to the extreme and from the lay to the scientific, offering insights into the experience, measurement, interpretation and predictio…
Gender, environment and history: New methods and approaches in environmental history
We are far from the first, and expect we will not be the last, to wonder at the paucity of research on women, gender and sexuality in (Anglophone) environmental history. To borrow from Virginia Scharff, who was writing in 1999, environmental history still has a 'sex secret'. For all the insights of feminist scholarship, science studies, queer studies, women's history, gender history and histories of sexuality that have accumulated since then, man…
Making and unmaking bodies: Embodying knowledge and place in environmental history
The Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger', despaired Sir David Attenborough when he returned after some 60 years to the reef in 2015. The Earth's largest living structure and home to the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing significant challenges that threaten its existence as we know it
Climate, weather, and water in history
This essay integrates the largely separate trajectories of climate and water histories, their distinct historiographies, and their different methods and expertise. Informed by the human‐nature insights of environmental history and historical geography, this paper identifies four intersections between histories of climate and water: first, conceptualizations of the climate and hydrological systems; second, adaptations to climate and hydrological v…
Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir
Cosmopolitan Conservationists: Greening Modern Sydney
Peggy James traces the interconnected lives of eight ‘cosmopolitan conservationists’ in Sydney from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. The book opens with a vivid description of Sydney at th
Diagnosing the Dry: Historical Case Notes from Southwest Western Australia, 1945-2007
Long regarded for its reliable winter rainfall, the Southwest region of Western Australia was beset by unexpected dry conditions in the early 1970s whose persistence was baffling. The gradual growth of scientific interest in the region's rainfall, as this article contends, was strongly influenced by political, social, and economic concerns about the challenges posed by drought and climate change. The experience of rainfall decline coincided with …
Reconciling tree-ring sampling with conservation
A recent article (Lawler, 1980) mentioned a common misunderstanding in archaeological circles which this note attempts to correct: 'The (Runnymede) piles selected will be subjected to destructive testing (i.e. dendrochronology) to gain information concerning growth patterns, habitat and tree-felling patterns...' In fact, dendrochronology is not a destructive dating method in the sense of radiocarbon analysis, where the wood sample is burnt up and…
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The selection and sampling of timber from archaeological sites for identification and tree-ring analysis
The Meare Heath Trackway: Excavation of a Bronze Age structure in the Somerset Levels
The prehistoric structure described in this paper is only one of a large series of wooden roads and trackways that run into and across the Somerset Levels. The Levels themselves consist of a number of wide expanses of moorland separated by ‘islands’ of rock and sand, the whole covering a region in Somerset of about 200 square miles. In the northern part of the Levels, the peats of the valley of the River Brue have for long been subjected to hand-…
Appendice n° 5. Analyse des charbons de bois et déterminations spécifiques
Hillam Jennifer, Morgan Ruth A. Appendice n° 5. Analyse des charbons de bois et déterminations spécifiques. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 78, n°10-12, 1981. Études et Travaux. p. 406
Reconciling tree-ring sampling with conservation
A recent article (Lawler, 1980) mentioned a common misunderstanding in archaeological circles which this note attempts to correct: 'The (Runnymede) piles selected will be subjected to destructive testing (i.e. dendrochronology) to gain information concerning growth patterns, habitat and tree-felling patterns...' In fact, dendrochronology is not a destructive dating method in the sense of radiocarbon analysis, where the wood sample is burnt up and…
The Shaugh Moor Project: Fourth Report — Environment, Context and Conclusion
For five years from 1976 to 1980 the archaeology and environment of a block of landscape centred around Shaugh Moor on south-west Dartmoor were analysed prior to the destruction of some of the evidence by china clay working. The investigations began in 1976 with a survey of the field monuments and the initiation of soil, vegetation, small mammal and phosphate studies in addition to the search for peat deposits of sufficient antiquity. From 1977 t…
An Alternative Statistical Approach to the Calibration of Floating Tree‐ring Chronologies: Two Sequences From the Somerset Levels
Short review and book note
R. Leuze, Kaiser Verlag, Theologie und religionsgeschichte: Der Weg Otto Pfleiderers, München, 1980, pp.448. N.p. P. J. Nel, The structure and ethos of the Wisdom admonitions in Proverbs: (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 158). W. de Gruyter. Berlin, New York, 1982. p. xii + 142. DM.74.00
Survey of hospital doctors' attitudes and knowledge of oral conditions in older patients
The study was designed to assess the views and knowledge of hospital doctors in general and geriatric medicine on oral health in older people. Eighty two doctors in general and geriatric medicine at two hospitals were shown 12 colour slides of oral mucosal conditions and asked to give a diagnosis for each slide and complete a questionnaire. Completed questionnaires with the answers to the coloured slides were returned completed by 70 doctors. The…
Property of Spirits: Hereditary and Global Value of Sea Turtles in Fiji
This paper considers sea turtles as a form of spiritual and social property among Fijians. It emphasizes the ways clan groups with rights to turtles respond to regional and global forces affecting their area. For Fijians, turtles are both a subsistence food and a prestige food associated with hierarchical obligations among the chiefs and clans. Customarily, rights to catch and consume turtles derive from hereditary relations and mediations with a…
Children's experience of the Children Act 1989
This article sets out the views and experience of children and young people on selected major aspects of their lives which are governed by provisions in the Children Act 1989. It draws on extensive statutory consultations with children in care, receiving children's social care services, or otherwise living away from home, carried out over the past eight years by the Children's Rights Director for England. Two key themes from children are featured…
Dry Horizons: The Responses of Western Australian Water Managers to the Enhanced Greenhouse Effect in the Late 1980s
In late 2010, ‘drought-breaking’ rains in southeastern Australia led the Victorian government to relax its restrictions on suburban water use. But are such ad hoc approaches to water management sustainable in the long-term? In this article, the responses of Western Australian water managers to predictions of a drier future for the southwest of WA in the late 1980s are presented as a ‘pragmatic precedents’ to guide decision-makers in the twenty-fi…
Diagnosing the Dry: Historical Case Notes from Southwest Western Australia, 1945-2007
Long regarded for its reliable winter rainfall, the Southwest region of Western Australia was beset by unexpected dry conditions in the early 1970s whose persistence was baffling. The gradual growth of scientific interest in the region's rainfall, as this article contends, was strongly influenced by political, social, and economic concerns about the challenges posed by drought and climate change. The experience of rainfall decline coincided with …
Greek Fiction
Histories for an Uncertain Future: Environmental History and Climate Change
In the wake of a decade of crippling droughts, cyclones, floods and fires, and warnings that as a result of anthropogenic climate change such events will be more frequent and intense in the future, historical research into Australian weather and climate is growing. The focus of these studies ranges from the quotidian to the extreme and from the lay to the scientific, offering insights into the experience, measurement, interpretation and predictio…
Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management
In the context of the global water crisis, we seek an understanding of the histories of water management, their fashioning, and their legacy today. We juxtapose temporally diverse narratives to explore the premodern imaginings that have shaped our inheritance of hydrological thought. Rather than conceptualize their historical influence as a linear progression of ideas, from the primitive and magical giving way to modern religions and then to rati…
Gardens of Fire: An Investigative Memoir
Cosmopolitan Conservationists: Greening Modern Sydney
Peggy James traces the interconnected lives of eight ‘cosmopolitan conservationists’ in Sydney from the early twentieth century to the 1960s. The book opens with a vivid description of Sydney at th
AHS Classics: Rural History and Environmental History
Studying rural history and environmental history in Australian Historical Studies reveals a shared effort to challenge the colonial narrative of the settlement of rural Australia that continues to hold sway in popular representations of the national past. Rather than finding distinct spheres of urban and rural Australia, it reveals instead the processes by which these areas have been mutually constitutive, whether through cultural representations…
Dry continent dreaming: Australian visions of using Antarctic icebergs for water supplies
This article traces the little-studied development of Australian interest in iceberg utilisation from the 1960s to the early 1990s. Fostered by Cold War global anxieties about water availability, iceberg utilisation offered a means to overcome hydrological limits to growth. Drawing on Patrick McCray's characterisation of the 'visioneer', this article examines the arguments that Australian scientists raised in support of iceberg utilisation during…
Making and unmaking bodies: Embodying knowledge and place in environmental history
The Great Barrier Reef is in grave danger', despaired Sir David Attenborough when he returned after some 60 years to the reef in 2015. The Earth's largest living structure and home to the world's largest coral reef system, the Great Barrier Reef is experiencing significant challenges that threaten its existence as we know it
Climate, weather, and water in history
This essay integrates the largely separate trajectories of climate and water histories, their distinct historiographies, and their different methods and expertise. Informed by the human‐nature insights of environmental history and historical geography, this paper identifies four intersections between histories of climate and water: first, conceptualizations of the climate and hydrological systems; second, adaptations to climate and hydrological v…
River Dreams: The People and Landscape of the Cooks River
River Dreams: The People and Landscape of the Cooks River." Australian Historical Studies, 49(4), pp. 553–554
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Vol. 46 No. 2
Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences
An Intimate History of Drought
How seven farming and grazing families experienced and responded to drought is the focus of Slow Catastrophes. From the 1890s to the 1950s, Jones traces their intimate stories of drought and then s
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