Ruth Beilin
Biographic Data
| ID | 642649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth Beilin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Beilin |
| SIGNATURE | BEILIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8117-5766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 216 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
In this paper we examine and critique adaptive management (AM) practices for protected areas (PAs), in pursuit of practices that can account for more-than-human relations. Engaging with empirical research from Australian PAs, we reflect on the formation of PAs as “exceptional places” where Nature is implicitly/explicitly to be controlled. We find that AM practices harness the spatial and temporal characteristics of the PAs to deliberatively const…
How cultural heritage can support sustainable landscape development: The case of Třeboň Basin, Czech Republic
The ‘politics of scale’ and the local: How ‘hyper-localism’ and ‘temporal passivity’ affect adaptation
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: Insights From Adaptive Governance
Rawluk, A., R. Beilin, and S. Lavau. 2021. Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 26(2):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12368-260218
A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades
While Australian government agencies are increasingly emphasizing the need to “build community resilience” to bushfires, communities in many rural landscapes have a strong history of actively managing fire risk, in particular through involvement in volunteer fire brigades. This paper explores social-ecological memory, social learning, and adaptation in volunteer Country Fire Authority brigades in western Victoria, specifically in the context of p…
Communities and responsibility: Narratives of place-identity in Australian bushfire landscapes
Risk, resilience and response-able practice in Australia’s changing bushfire landscapes
This paper explores the policy concept and community enactments of ‘shared responsibility’ for disaster resilience in the context of wildfires in Victoria, Australia. Since the state-wide Black Saturday fires of 2009, we contend, first, the State’s decreasing ability to protect its citizens has shifted the responsibility for adapting to uncertainty to individuals, and second, this responsibility has been translated into compliance approaches to d…
Introducing a practice perspective on monitoring for adaptive management
Adaptive management (AM) is one of the most prominent ways ecologists contribute to ecosystem management, policy, and planning. AM treats management actions as experiments to monitor and learn from, creating a central role for ecologists in constructing the monitoring programs intended to guide learning. Yet, ecologists have found monitoring for AM challenging. They face a daunting series of dilemmas: How to produce monitoring programs that are r…
The emerging addition of resilience as a component of sustainability in urban policy
Shaping and Sharing Responsibility: Social Memory and Social Learning in the Australian Rural Bushfire Landscape
Responding to increased frequency and severity of bushfires, Australian governments called for “shared responsibility” for bushfire preparation and mitigation. This requires engagement between all sectors of community—government agencies, businesses, not-for-profit, and residents. Fire management agencies remain concerned about whether all communities in fire-prone landscapes are equally equipped to participate in sharing responsibility. A relate…
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes
Peer-reviewed
Resilience multiple – Sounding a call for responsible practice
In response to Simon and Randall, article’s focus on the ‘ontological politics of resilience multiple’, we articulate the ethics of care and possibility associated with multiple ‘ontologies of responsibility’. We argue that these inform the practices of resilience and underpin social and environmental justice in a perpetual present
Practices of freedom: Decentred governance, conflict and democratic participation, edited by Steven Griggs, Aletta Norval and Henk Wagenaar
The central concept of this edited volume is that liberal-democratic governments promote governance as a means of strengthening democracy. Good governance engages with the public, connecting govern
Stakeholder participation in building resilience to disasters in a changing climate
The resilience perspective has emerged as a plausible approach to confront the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters; and the challenges and uncertainty climate change poses through an expected rise in frequency and magnitude of hazards. Stakeholder participation is posited as pivotal for building resilience, and resilience is not passive; rather, stakeholders are actively involved in the process of building resilience. Who is involved an…
An Antipodean Apple Narrative: How Place and Time Evolved for the Market
In order to understand the social and ecological history of apple growing, we undertook historical research, drawing upon in-depth interviews with apple growers to explore local and historic knowledge as well as to obtain an understanding of contemporary growing practices and decision-making among orchardists. The research shows that all apple orchard businesses are still family owned, and most of them have a history going back at least three gen…
We Live From Mother Nature”: Neoliberal Globalization, Commodification, the “War on Drugs,” and Biodiversity in Colombia Since the 1990s
This article explores how macroeconomic and environmental policies instituted since the 1990s have altered meanings, imaginaries, and the human relationship to nature in Colombia. The Colombian nation-state is pluri-ethnic, multilingual, and megabiodiverse. In this context, indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians, and some peasant communities survive hybridization of their cultures. They have developed their own ways of seeing, understanding, and emp…
Culture-production-place and nature: The landscapes of somewhere
Gender, Agrobiodiversity, and Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation Practices in the Nepal Himalayas
Resilience in the Transition Landscapes of the Peri-urban: From ‘Where’ with ‘Whom’ to ‘What’
In this paper, the peri-urban is conceptualised as a territory to analyse the tensions associated with governments pursuing various agendas in isolation from those inhabiting these spaces. Two peri-urban vignettes are drawn together and Taylor’s conception of a ‘social imaginary’ is used to recognise the conundrum for government planners, as well as to support the narratives about the social and ecological meaning of what local in-migrants are do…
Introduction: Governing for urban resilience
There is urgency afoot to acknowledge the disconnection between ecological realities and the persistence of past ways of constructing the social, as if it is in isolation from the ecological. The urban is the common ground: an endlessly burgeoning, frequently contested home to spaces, institutions and people. ‘Governing for urban resilience’ brings together research that considers the meaningfulness and possibilities inherent in conceptualising a…
Farmland abandonment: Threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review
Farmland abandonment is changing rural landscapes worldwide, but its impacts on biodiversity are still being debated in the scientific literature. While some researchers see it as a threat to biodiversity, others view it as an opportunity for habitat regeneration. We reviewed 276 published studies describing various effects of farmland abandonment on biodiversity and found that a study's geographic region, selected metrics, assessed taxa, and con…
Framing disaster resilience: The implications of the diverse conceptualisations of “bouncing back”
Purpose – To confront the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters and the challenges that climate change is posing to disaster risk management (DRM) there is an imperative to further develop DRM. The resilience approach is emerging as one way to do this, and in the last decade has been strongly introduced into the policy arena, although it is not new for DRM practitioners and researchers. Nevertheless, resilience is a highly contested issue…
Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices
Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia
Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
Gender, Agrobiodiversity, and Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation Practices in the Nepal Himalayas
Community engagement and public administration: Of silos, overlays and technologies of government
The public policy process in Australia is changing towards a more interactive, collaborative model, where governments seek to develop partnerships with civil society and private sector organisations to manage complex policy challenges. This article discusses research conducted into a project implemented by a Victorian government department that sought to involve stakeholders in addressing natural resource management issues in the agricultural sec…
Introduction: Governing for urban resilience
There is urgency afoot to acknowledge the disconnection between ecological realities and the persistence of past ways of constructing the social, as if it is in isolation from the ecological. The urban is the common ground: an endlessly burgeoning, frequently contested home to spaces, institutions and people. ‘Governing for urban resilience’ brings together research that considers the meaningfulness and possibilities inherent in conceptualising a…
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia
Stakeholder participation in building resilience to disasters in a changing climate
The resilience perspective has emerged as a plausible approach to confront the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters; and the challenges and uncertainty climate change poses through an expected rise in frequency and magnitude of hazards. Stakeholder participation is posited as pivotal for building resilience, and resilience is not passive; rather, stakeholders are actively involved in the process of building resilience. Who is involved an…
Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices
Farmers and perverse outcomes: The quest for food and energy security, emissions reduction and climate adaptation
Communities and responsibility: Narratives of place-identity in Australian bushfire landscapes
The emerging addition of resilience as a component of sustainability in urban policy
Shaping and Sharing Responsibility: Social Memory and Social Learning in the Australian Rural Bushfire Landscape
Responding to increased frequency and severity of bushfires, Australian governments called for “shared responsibility” for bushfire preparation and mitigation. This requires engagement between all sectors of community—government agencies, businesses, not-for-profit, and residents. Fire management agencies remain concerned about whether all communities in fire-prone landscapes are equally equipped to participate in sharing responsibility. A relate…
Resilience in the Transition Landscapes of the Peri-urban: From ‘Where’ with ‘Whom’ to ‘What’
In this paper, the peri-urban is conceptualised as a territory to analyse the tensions associated with governments pursuing various agendas in isolation from those inhabiting these spaces. Two peri-urban vignettes are drawn together and Taylor’s conception of a ‘social imaginary’ is used to recognise the conundrum for government planners, as well as to support the narratives about the social and ecological meaning of what local in-migrants are do…
Where's the Fire? Co-Constructing Bushfire in the Everyday Landscape
This research studied factors that residents of a fire-prone Victorian community used when deciding whether to leave their homes on a day officially declared “Catastrophic,” the highest Fire Danger Rating. Taking a social constructivist perspective, we explore how the expert view of bushfire risk, represented by Fire Danger Ratings, is interpreted within the context of local understandings of the landscape and social memory of bushfire. Residents…
Biosecurity risk and peri‐urban landholders – using a stakeholder consultative approach to build a risk communication strategy
This article presents a straightforward and highly participatory methodology for addressing government agencies' concerns with effective communication strategies for biosecurity when stakeholders are diverse and there is uncertainty about their levels of knowledge. The case study was among peri-urban landholders in an area where serious animal disease infestation has occurred within the last 10 years. Initially we engaged stakeholders in a consul…
Culture-production-place and nature: The landscapes of somewhere
Ordering the Wild”: How Adaptive Management Is Used to Maintain Nature Like a Postcard
In this paper we examine and critique adaptive management (AM) practices for protected areas (PAs), in pursuit of practices that can account for more-than-human relations. Engaging with empirical research from Australian PAs, we reflect on the formation of PAs as “exceptional places” where Nature is implicitly/explicitly to be controlled. We find that AM practices harness the spatial and temporal characteristics of the PAs to deliberatively const…
Transition Landscapes and Social Networks: Examining On-Gound Community Resilience and its Implications for Policy Settings in Multiscalar Systems
Beilin, R., N. T. Reichelt, B. J. King, A. Long, and S. Cam. 2013. Transition landscapes and social networks: examining on-ground community resilience and its implications for policy settings in multiscalar systems. Ecology and Society 18(2): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05360-180230
Resilience multiple – Sounding a call for responsible practice
In response to Simon and Randall, article’s focus on the ‘ontological politics of resilience multiple’, we articulate the ethics of care and possibility associated with multiple ‘ontologies of responsibility’. We argue that these inform the practices of resilience and underpin social and environmental justice in a perpetual present
The ‘politics of scale’ and the local: How ‘hyper-localism’ and ‘temporal passivity’ affect adaptation
A Culture of Burning: Social-Ecological Memory, Social Learning and Adaptation in Australian Volunteer Fire Brigades
While Australian government agencies are increasingly emphasizing the need to “build community resilience” to bushfires, communities in many rural landscapes have a strong history of actively managing fire risk, in particular through involvement in volunteer fire brigades. This paper explores social-ecological memory, social learning, and adaptation in volunteer Country Fire Authority brigades in western Victoria, specifically in the context of p…
Risk, resilience and response-able practice in Australia’s changing bushfire landscapes
This paper explores the policy concept and community enactments of ‘shared responsibility’ for disaster resilience in the context of wildfires in Victoria, Australia. Since the state-wide Black Saturday fires of 2009, we contend, first, the State’s decreasing ability to protect its citizens has shifted the responsibility for adapting to uncertainty to individuals, and second, this responsibility has been translated into compliance approaches to d…
Cultivating the Global Garden
Research Article| October 01 1999 Cultivating the Global Garden Ruth Beilin Ruth Beilin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 761–779. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-4-761 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ruth Beilin; Cultivating the Global Garden. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1999; 98 (4): 761–779. doi: https:/…
The construction of woman in Landcare: Does it make a difference
Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: Insights From Adaptive Governance
Rawluk, A., R. Beilin, and S. Lavau. 2021. Enacting shared responsibility in biosecurity governance: insights from adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 26(2):18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12368-260218
Interruption, interrogation, integration and interaction as process: How PNS informs interdisciplinary curriculum design
The construction of woman in Landcare: Does it make a difference
Inside Out: Exploring the connection between women’s life stories and landscape
Cultivating the Global Garden
Research Article| October 01 1999 Cultivating the Global Garden Ruth Beilin Ruth Beilin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1999) 98 (4): 761–779. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-98-4-761 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ruth Beilin; Cultivating the Global Garden. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1999; 98 (4): 761–779. doi: https:/…
Underlying it All: Faceless Landscapes and Commodified Views
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRuth BeilinDr. Ruth Beilin is Senior Lecturer and Landscape Sociologist in the School of Resource Management, Institute of Land and Food Resources, University of Melbourne. Her research includes policy and planning issues relating to the management of the rural and urban fringe landscapes. She co-coordinates the faculty social science research network and is particularly interested in alternative researc…
Photo‐elicitation and the agricultural landscape: ‘Seeing’ and ‘Telling’ About Farming, Community and Place
This paper explores a photo‐elicitation study with farmers in the steeply degraded hill country of south‐eastern Australia. The photographers are the participating family farmers in the study. Their efforts to explain and to change their farming practice are linked to their relationship to the landscape, to the local Landcare conservation groups and to the imperatives of contemporary production systems. Their use of their landscape images is deli…
Community engagement and public administration: Of silos, overlays and technologies of government
The public policy process in Australia is changing towards a more interactive, collaborative model, where governments seek to develop partnerships with civil society and private sector organisations to manage complex policy challenges. This article discusses research conducted into a project implemented by a Victorian government department that sought to involve stakeholders in addressing natural resource management issues in the agricultural sec…
Sites of Integration in a Contested Landscape
In recent decades we have witnessed a diversification of rural communities, where the agricultural sector has had to increasingly compete with other interests and demands on rural land. Land management agencies have recognised that in order to resolve sustainability dilemmas, it is important to bring the diverse stakeholders together to negotiate the sustainable use of land and natural resources. Such collaborative approaches can only be effectiv…
Biosecurity risk and peri‐urban landholders – using a stakeholder consultative approach to build a risk communication strategy
This article presents a straightforward and highly participatory methodology for addressing government agencies' concerns with effective communication strategies for biosecurity when stakeholders are diverse and there is uncertainty about their levels of knowledge. The case study was among peri-urban landholders in an area where serious animal disease infestation has occurred within the last 10 years. Initially we engaged stakeholders in a consul…
Paige West, Conservation is our Government Now: The Politics of Ecology in Papua New Guinea
Interruption, interrogation, integration and interaction as process: How PNS informs interdisciplinary curriculum design
Farmers and perverse outcomes: The quest for food and energy security, emissions reduction and climate adaptation
Where's the Fire? Co-Constructing Bushfire in the Everyday Landscape
This research studied factors that residents of a fire-prone Victorian community used when deciding whether to leave their homes on a day officially declared “Catastrophic,” the highest Fire Danger Rating. Taking a social constructivist perspective, we explore how the expert view of bushfire risk, represented by Fire Danger Ratings, is interpreted within the context of local understandings of the landscape and social memory of bushfire. Residents…
Transition Landscapes and Social Networks: Examining On-Gound Community Resilience and its Implications for Policy Settings in Multiscalar Systems
Beilin, R., N. T. Reichelt, B. J. King, A. Long, and S. Cam. 2013. Transition landscapes and social networks: examining on-ground community resilience and its implications for policy settings in multiscalar systems. Ecology and Society 18(2): 30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05360-180230
Farmland abandonment: Threat or opportunity for biodiversity conservation? A global review
Farmland abandonment is changing rural landscapes worldwide, but its impacts on biodiversity are still being debated in the scientific literature. While some researchers see it as a threat to biodiversity, others view it as an opportunity for habitat regeneration. We reviewed 276 published studies describing various effects of farmland abandonment on biodiversity and found that a study's geographic region, selected metrics, assessed taxa, and con…
Framing disaster resilience: The implications of the diverse conceptualisations of “bouncing back”
Purpose – To confront the increasingly devastating impacts of disasters and the challenges that climate change is posing to disaster risk management (DRM) there is an imperative to further develop DRM. The resilience approach is emerging as one way to do this, and in the last decade has been strongly introduced into the policy arena, although it is not new for DRM practitioners and researchers. Nevertheless, resilience is a highly contested issue…
Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices
Analysing how drivers of agricultural land abandonment affect biodiversity and cultural landscapes using case studies from Scandinavia, Iberia and Oceania
Making the landscape “home”: Narratives of bushfire and place in Australia
We Live From Mother Nature”: Neoliberal Globalization, Commodification, the “War on Drugs,” and Biodiversity in Colombia Since the 1990s
This article explores how macroeconomic and environmental policies instituted since the 1990s have altered meanings, imaginaries, and the human relationship to nature in Colombia. The Colombian nation-state is pluri-ethnic, multilingual, and megabiodiverse. In this context, indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians, and some peasant communities survive hybridization of their cultures. They have developed their own ways of seeing, understanding, and emp…
Culture-production-place and nature: The landscapes of somewhere
Gender, Agrobiodiversity, and Climate Change: A Study of Adaptation Practices in the Nepal Himalayas
Resilience in the Transition Landscapes of the Peri-urban: From ‘Where’ with ‘Whom’ to ‘What’
In this paper, the peri-urban is conceptualised as a territory to analyse the tensions associated with governments pursuing various agendas in isolation from those inhabiting these spaces. Two peri-urban vignettes are drawn together and Taylor’s conception of a ‘social imaginary’ is used to recognise the conundrum for government planners, as well as to support the narratives about the social and ecological meaning of what local in-migrants are do…
Introduction: Governing for urban resilience
There is urgency afoot to acknowledge the disconnection between ecological realities and the persistence of past ways of constructing the social, as if it is in isolation from the ecological. The urban is the common ground: an endlessly burgeoning, frequently contested home to spaces, institutions and people. ‘Governing for urban resilience’ brings together research that considers the meaningfulness and possibilities inherent in conceptualising a…
Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes
Peer-reviewed
Resilience multiple – Sounding a call for responsible practice
In response to Simon and Randall, article’s focus on the ‘ontological politics of resilience multiple’, we articulate the ethics of care and possibility associated with multiple ‘ontologies of responsibility’. We argue that these inform the practices of resilience and underpin social and environmental justice in a perpetual present
Political science (29 works) · Sociology (28 works) · Geography (25 works) · Environmental resource management (22 works) · Ecology (15 works) · Economics (15 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (13 works) · Business (11 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Psychology (11 works)