Maxine Newlands
Biographic Data
| ID | 6713153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxine Newlands |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxine |
| FAMILY NAME | Newlands |
| SIGNATURE | NEWLANDS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1947-5802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Geo narratives
Geo-narratives reveal how extractive impacts are experienced at community scale. • Participatory mapping informs inclusive and context-sensitive governance approaches. • Local knowledge exposes gaps in technocratic environmental regulation and underlying policy incoherence. • Spatial narratives reveal regulatory blind spots and uneven enforcement, compounded by the near-absence of state infrastructure and services. • Geo-narratives strengthen evi…
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media
Australian climate policy has been stifled by a network of free-market and extractive industry-advocating actors, yet there is little empirical evidence to show how these actors and information flows behave in online communication spaces during Australian environmental conflicts. Focusing on the UNESCO 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation for the Great Barrier Reef for 6 weeks, this mixed-methods study of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube uses social netw…
Valuing ecosystem services in complex coastal settings
What gets measured gets managed is an axiom common to the business world that also applies to the management of environmental assets and processes. But what is the most adequate way to measure ecosystem value to optimise ecosystem management? In this paper, we unpack three valuation frameworks often applied in understanding ecosystem services and their benefits: 1) the Ecosystem Services framework, operationalised by the United Nations System of …
Restoration heralds’ new management challenges for coral reefs
Regulatory implications of coral reef restoration and adaptation under a changing climate
Coral Battleground? Re-examining the ‘Save the Reef’ campaign in 1960s Australia
Today’s campaigns to protect the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have parallels with historical campaigns. With hindsight, we can more clearly see the way environmental discourses are socially constructed as well as their outcomes. This is potentially insightful for contemporary environmentalists. Beginning in 1967, the Save the Reef campaign had a thoughtful media strategy and sought to socially construct the GBR as a precious ecosystem that was at ris…
Talanoa and Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action
Western journalism educators can learn from Pacific island communicationpractices to improve ways of sharing knowledge across the tropics. Often Western journalists reporting on events in the tropics do so through a lens of parachute journalism. This paper analyses current Western journalism and communication practices in the Pacific and draws on concepts relevant to general communication such as talanoa and Habermas’s ‘Theory of Communicative Ac…
New media and political participation
[Extract] New media practices aided through social media have made a lot of academics and theorists hot under the collar. Media and political theorists across the globe are attempting to decipher how Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have come to matter to new networks of political engagement. From Google's marketing staff to David Graeber's 99 per cent slogan that framed the Occupy movement, to protests around the world, we find that recent events…
Regulatory implications of coral reef restoration and adaptation under a changing climate
Coral Battleground? Re-examining the ‘Save the Reef’ campaign in 1960s Australia
Today’s campaigns to protect the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have parallels with historical campaigns. With hindsight, we can more clearly see the way environmental discourses are socially constructed as well as their outcomes. This is potentially insightful for contemporary environmentalists. Beginning in 1967, the Save the Reef campaign had a thoughtful media strategy and sought to socially construct the GBR as a precious ecosystem that was at ris…
New media and political participation
[Extract] New media practices aided through social media have made a lot of academics and theorists hot under the collar. Media and political theorists across the globe are attempting to decipher how Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have come to matter to new networks of political engagement. From Google's marketing staff to David Graeber's 99 per cent slogan that framed the Occupy movement, to protests around the world, we find that recent events…
Coral Battleground? Re-examining the ‘Save the Reef’ campaign in 1960s Australia
Today’s campaigns to protect the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have parallels with historical campaigns. With hindsight, we can more clearly see the way environmental discourses are socially constructed as well as their outcomes. This is potentially insightful for contemporary environmentalists. Beginning in 1967, the Save the Reef campaign had a thoughtful media strategy and sought to socially construct the GBR as a precious ecosystem that was at ris…
Talanoa and Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action
Western journalism educators can learn from Pacific island communicationpractices to improve ways of sharing knowledge across the tropics. Often Western journalists reporting on events in the tropics do so through a lens of parachute journalism. This paper analyses current Western journalism and communication practices in the Pacific and draws on concepts relevant to general communication such as talanoa and Habermas’s ‘Theory of Communicative Ac…
Regulatory implications of coral reef restoration and adaptation under a changing climate
Restoration heralds’ new management challenges for coral reefs
Valuing ecosystem services in complex coastal settings
What gets measured gets managed is an axiom common to the business world that also applies to the management of environmental assets and processes. But what is the most adequate way to measure ecosystem value to optimise ecosystem management? In this paper, we unpack three valuation frameworks often applied in understanding ecosystem services and their benefits: 1) the Ecosystem Services framework, operationalised by the United Nations System of …
Fuelling the climate and science ‘denial machine’ on social media
Australian climate policy has been stifled by a network of free-market and extractive industry-advocating actors, yet there is little empirical evidence to show how these actors and information flows behave in online communication spaces during Australian environmental conflicts. Focusing on the UNESCO 2021 ‘in danger’ recommendation for the Great Barrier Reef for 6 weeks, this mixed-methods study of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube uses social netw…
Geo narratives
Geo-narratives reveal how extractive impacts are experienced at community scale. • Participatory mapping informs inclusive and context-sensitive governance approaches. • Local knowledge exposes gaps in technocratic environmental regulation and underlying policy incoherence. • Spatial narratives reveal regulatory blind spots and uneven enforcement, compounded by the near-absence of state infrastructure and services. • Geo-narratives strengthen evi…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Reef (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (3 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Environmental resource management (3 works) · Fishery (3 works)