Brian Finlayson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3759059 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Brian Finlayson |
| PRENOMES | Brian |
| SOBRENOME | Finlayson |
| ASSINATURA | FINLAYSON B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8708-3475 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt
An integrated assessment of China's South-North Water Transfer Project
China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) is a vast and still expanding network of infrastructure and institutions that moves water from the Yangtze River and its tributaries to cities in North China. This article aims to assess the SNWTP's impacts by beginning to answer seven questions about the project: How is the management of the SNWTP evolving? What are the problems to be resolved when managing SNWTP water within jurisdictions? What…
G J (Geoff) Missen
Beyond contradiction
Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China
Governmentality and the conduct of water
Governmentality is a way of thinking about dispersed practices of governing, including attempts to render space governable. China's South–North Water Transfer ( SNWT ) project, the world's largest interbasin water transfer project, is a programme of government that attempts to render the distribution of water across space more governable and administrable. This article analyses English and Chinese academic, media and government documents through …
Middle Holocene coastal environment and the rise of the Liangzhu City complex on the Yangtze delta, China
The large prehistoric city of Liangzhu and its associated earthen dike emerged on the Yangtze delta-coast after two millennia of occupation in this area by scattered communities. Details of its development have been widely discussed in the literature. Our results reveal that the city was selectively built at the head of an embayment backed by hills, with close access to food, freshwater and timber, and with protection from coastal hazards. Radioc…
Constructing Water Shortages on a Huge River
Shanghai is located on the world's third largest river (by volume). Yet it faces the risk of shortages of drinking water. Many decisions and environmental characteristics have contributed to this threat. First, Shanghai has become dependent on water brought into the municipality by rivers. Second, it has become increasingly reliant on water from the Changjiang (Yangzi River), principally in order to control the levels of pollution in the water th…
Whither (or Wither?) Geography
There has been a long-running trend in academic Geography in Australia for the names of university departments that teach Geography to move away from simple titles like ‘Department of Geography’ to take on names like ‘Department of Geography and Environmental Studies’ (this surely is a tautology). Further, many have split the single unit covering all of Geography into separate departments of Physical and Human Geography, or into administrative an…
The Importance of the Journal's Reviewers
In a public letter prominent geographer and editor, Nigel Thrift (2011), observes the growing problem of the reluctance of academics to review submissions for publication in journals. Thrift guesses at three explanations for this reluctance: the proliferation of journals, competing requests from research bodies to review funding applications, and the burden of workload in universities more generally. Thrift's note refers us to an editorial in Env…
Silcrete quarries and artefact distribution in the Central Queensland Highlands, Eastern Australia
A geoarchaeological study of silcrete in the Central Queensland Highlands highlights the importance of geological context in understanding the procurement, use and transport of artefacts. This study shows, by focusing on a newly discovered silcrete quarry, that silcrete formed beneath basalt by silicification of stream sediments and underlying sandstone. Silcrete outcrops are largely restricted to cliffs where the base of the basalt is exposed, n…
Geographical Research
Geographical ResearchVolume 50, Issue 4 p. 343-344 EditorialFree Access Geographical Research: Retrospect and Prospect First published: 21 November 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00784.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of a…
Migration of Neolithic settlements in the Dongting Lake area of the middle Yangtze River basin, China
The vast Dongting Lake in the middle Yangtze River basin, China, was occupied by Chinese Neolithic settlements starting 10 000 years ago, and rice cultivation there is probably the earliest in the world. The numerous Neolithic settlements identified by previous archaeological surveys represent the five major Neolithic cultural stages, i.e. the Pengtoushan (9000–7900 cal. yr BP), Zaoshixiaceng (7900–6800 cal. yr BP), Daxi (6800–5500 cal. yr BP), Q…
Whither Australia
Supply of water for cities and for food production will not be a major factor limiting the growth of Australia's population in coming decades. The water needed to sustain the population of Australia can be divided into two kinds. Direct water requirements are those that meet the immediate needs of the people - potable water supply and waste removal. Indirect water requirements refer to the water needed to sustain the economy and the standard of l…
The Yellow River in transition
On sealing a lakebed
Pricing China's irrigation water
Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification
Although now over 100 years old, the classification of climate originally formulated by Wladimir Köppen and modified by his collaborators and successors, is still in widespread use. It is widely used in teaching school and undergraduate courses on climate. It is also still in regular use by researchers across a range of disciplines as a basis for climatic regionalisation of variables and for assessing the output of global climate models. Here we …
Lake Nuga Nuga
Lake Nuga Nuga is a levee-dammed lake in the dry sub-humid tropics of the Fitzroy Basin in Central Queensland, Australia, that has expanded significantly since it was first mapped in 1866. 210Pb dating of a sediment core from the lake indicates that the rate of sedimentation has been constant for the past 67 years at 3 mm yr−1 despite widespread clearing and land use intensification in the catchment during that time. Pollen analysis confirms this…
The Darling
The Dendroecological Potential of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Dehnhardt (River Red Gum) from the Barmah Forest, Victoria, Australia
The study of tree rings has been used for over 100 years to inform climatic and geomorphological reconstructions. In mainland Australia, no tree species are currently recognised as providing reliable sources for such studies over extensive areas. Eucalyptus camaldulensis is a widely growing species with a growth pattern that is closely linked to high levels of available moisture, such as that associated with floods. The species therefore has the …
The Eppalock Soil Conservation Project, Victoria, Australia
The Eppalock Soil Conservation Project (ESCP) is a celebrated ‘whole‐of‐catchment’ management project implemented upstream of Lake Eppalock reservoir in Victoria, Australia. In 1959, a Victorian Parliamentary Public Works Committee (PPWC) found that the enlarged reservoir would be endangered by sedimentation as a result of severe erosion in the catchment. One of the main objectives of the ESCP was therefore to minimise the amount of sediment ente…
The Oral Tradition, Environmental Change and River Basin Management
River basin management activities are often carried out in the context of real or perceived environmental change. Views of environmental change provided by the oral tradition are compared with histories of change reconstructed from the historical documentary record for the Nogoa River, Queensland, and the Avon River, Victoria. Quite different perspectives on the nature and causes of river channel change are provided by the two types of sources. R…
Maximising Response Rates in Mail Surveys
Many studies in geography and other disciplines require data to be collected from human subjects. Survey techniques are routinely employed but as expense and time impose powerful constraints there is much interest in methods of making the data collection process as efficient as possible, particularly when the numbers of subjects involved are large. The surveys described here were conducted to collect data for a study of residential water use in M…
The analysis of stream suspended loads as a geomorphological teaching exercise
The sampling and analysis of suspended solids in streams can be used as a teaching exercise, which can be carried out using simple techniques and relatively cheap equipment. Examples of practical exercises involving both field and laboratory work are described
Governmentality and the conduct of water
Governmentality is a way of thinking about dispersed practices of governing, including attempts to render space governable. China's South–North Water Transfer ( SNWT ) project, the world's largest interbasin water transfer project, is a programme of government that attempts to render the distribution of water across space more governable and administrable. This article analyses English and Chinese academic, media and government documents through …
Silcrete quarries and artefact distribution in the Central Queensland Highlands, Eastern Australia
A geoarchaeological study of silcrete in the Central Queensland Highlands highlights the importance of geological context in understanding the procurement, use and transport of artefacts. This study shows, by focusing on a newly discovered silcrete quarry, that silcrete formed beneath basalt by silicification of stream sediments and underlying sandstone. Silcrete outcrops are largely restricted to cliffs where the base of the basalt is exposed, n…
Beyond contradiction
Whither (or Wither?) Geography
There has been a long-running trend in academic Geography in Australia for the names of university departments that teach Geography to move away from simple titles like ‘Department of Geography’ to take on names like ‘Department of Geography and Environmental Studies’ (this surely is a tautology). Further, many have split the single unit covering all of Geography into separate departments of Physical and Human Geography, or into administrative an…
Pricing China's irrigation water
An integrated assessment of China's South-North Water Transfer Project
China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) is a vast and still expanding network of infrastructure and institutions that moves water from the Yangtze River and its tributaries to cities in North China. This article aims to assess the SNWTP's impacts by beginning to answer seven questions about the project: How is the management of the SNWTP evolving? What are the problems to be resolved when managing SNWTP water within jurisdictions? What…
On sealing a lakebed
Constructing Water Shortages on a Huge River
Shanghai is located on the world's third largest river (by volume). Yet it faces the risk of shortages of drinking water. Many decisions and environmental characteristics have contributed to this threat. First, Shanghai has become dependent on water brought into the municipality by rivers. Second, it has become increasingly reliant on water from the Changjiang (Yangzi River), principally in order to control the levels of pollution in the water th…
Migration of Neolithic settlements in the Dongting Lake area of the middle Yangtze River basin, China
The vast Dongting Lake in the middle Yangtze River basin, China, was occupied by Chinese Neolithic settlements starting 10 000 years ago, and rice cultivation there is probably the earliest in the world. The numerous Neolithic settlements identified by previous archaeological surveys represent the five major Neolithic cultural stages, i.e. the Pengtoushan (9000–7900 cal. yr BP), Zaoshixiaceng (7900–6800 cal. yr BP), Daxi (6800–5500 cal. yr BP), Q…
The Yellow River in transition
Lake Nuga Nuga
Lake Nuga Nuga is a levee-dammed lake in the dry sub-humid tropics of the Fitzroy Basin in Central Queensland, Australia, that has expanded significantly since it was first mapped in 1866. 210Pb dating of a sediment core from the lake indicates that the rate of sedimentation has been constant for the past 67 years at 3 mm yr−1 despite widespread clearing and land use intensification in the catchment during that time. Pollen analysis confirms this…
The Oral Tradition, Environmental Change and River Basin Management
River basin management activities are often carried out in the context of real or perceived environmental change. Views of environmental change provided by the oral tradition are compared with histories of change reconstructed from the historical documentary record for the Nogoa River, Queensland, and the Avon River, Victoria. Quite different perspectives on the nature and causes of river channel change are provided by the two types of sources. R…
The analysis of stream suspended loads as a geomorphological teaching exercise
The sampling and analysis of suspended solids in streams can be used as a teaching exercise, which can be carried out using simple techniques and relatively cheap equipment. Examples of practical exercises involving both field and laboratory work are described
Climate-driven early agricultural origins and development in the Nile Delta, Egypt
The Dendroecological Potential of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Dehnhardt (River Red Gum) from the Barmah Forest, Victoria, Australia
The study of tree rings has been used for over 100 years to inform climatic and geomorphological reconstructions. In mainland Australia, no tree species are currently recognised as providing reliable sources for such studies over extensive areas. Eucalyptus camaldulensis is a widely growing species with a growth pattern that is closely linked to high levels of available moisture, such as that associated with floods. The species therefore has the …
The Eppalock Soil Conservation Project, Victoria, Australia
The Eppalock Soil Conservation Project (ESCP) is a celebrated ‘whole‐of‐catchment’ management project implemented upstream of Lake Eppalock reservoir in Victoria, Australia. In 1959, a Victorian Parliamentary Public Works Committee (PPWC) found that the enlarged reservoir would be endangered by sedimentation as a result of severe erosion in the catchment. One of the main objectives of the ESCP was therefore to minimise the amount of sediment ente…
Electrical conductivity
The electrical conductivity of a water sample is proportional to its total dissolved solids content. Since conductivity can be measured easily and quickly by commercially available meters it is admirably suited to geomorphological field work on the dissolved solids content of natural waters. The technique lends itself to exercises involving work in the field, the classroom and the laboratory and it therefore allows integration of these three appr…
The analysis of stream suspended loads as a geomorphological teaching exercise
The sampling and analysis of suspended solids in streams can be used as a teaching exercise, which can be carried out using simple techniques and relatively cheap equipment. Examples of practical exercises involving both field and laboratory work are described
Maximising Response Rates in Mail Surveys
Many studies in geography and other disciplines require data to be collected from human subjects. Survey techniques are routinely employed but as expense and time impose powerful constraints there is much interest in methods of making the data collection process as efficient as possible, particularly when the numbers of subjects involved are large. The surveys described here were conducted to collect data for a study of residential water use in M…
The Oral Tradition, Environmental Change and River Basin Management
River basin management activities are often carried out in the context of real or perceived environmental change. Views of environmental change provided by the oral tradition are compared with histories of change reconstructed from the historical documentary record for the Nogoa River, Queensland, and the Avon River, Victoria. Quite different perspectives on the nature and causes of river channel change are provided by the two types of sources. R…
The Eppalock Soil Conservation Project, Victoria, Australia
The Eppalock Soil Conservation Project (ESCP) is a celebrated ‘whole‐of‐catchment’ management project implemented upstream of Lake Eppalock reservoir in Victoria, Australia. In 1959, a Victorian Parliamentary Public Works Committee (PPWC) found that the enlarged reservoir would be endangered by sedimentation as a result of severe erosion in the catchment. One of the main objectives of the ESCP was therefore to minimise the amount of sediment ente…
The Dendroecological Potential of Eucalyptus Camaldulensis Dehnhardt (River Red Gum) from the Barmah Forest, Victoria, Australia
The study of tree rings has been used for over 100 years to inform climatic and geomorphological reconstructions. In mainland Australia, no tree species are currently recognised as providing reliable sources for such studies over extensive areas. Eucalyptus camaldulensis is a widely growing species with a growth pattern that is closely linked to high levels of available moisture, such as that associated with floods. The species therefore has the …
The Darling
Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification
Although now over 100 years old, the classification of climate originally formulated by Wladimir Köppen and modified by his collaborators and successors, is still in widespread use. It is widely used in teaching school and undergraduate courses on climate. It is also still in regular use by researchers across a range of disciplines as a basis for climatic regionalisation of variables and for assessing the output of global climate models. Here we …
Lake Nuga Nuga
Lake Nuga Nuga is a levee-dammed lake in the dry sub-humid tropics of the Fitzroy Basin in Central Queensland, Australia, that has expanded significantly since it was first mapped in 1866. 210Pb dating of a sediment core from the lake indicates that the rate of sedimentation has been constant for the past 67 years at 3 mm yr−1 despite widespread clearing and land use intensification in the catchment during that time. Pollen analysis confirms this…
The Yellow River in transition
On sealing a lakebed
Pricing China's irrigation water
Migration of Neolithic settlements in the Dongting Lake area of the middle Yangtze River basin, China
The vast Dongting Lake in the middle Yangtze River basin, China, was occupied by Chinese Neolithic settlements starting 10 000 years ago, and rice cultivation there is probably the earliest in the world. The numerous Neolithic settlements identified by previous archaeological surveys represent the five major Neolithic cultural stages, i.e. the Pengtoushan (9000–7900 cal. yr BP), Zaoshixiaceng (7900–6800 cal. yr BP), Daxi (6800–5500 cal. yr BP), Q…
Whither Australia
Supply of water for cities and for food production will not be a major factor limiting the growth of Australia's population in coming decades. The water needed to sustain the population of Australia can be divided into two kinds. Direct water requirements are those that meet the immediate needs of the people - potable water supply and waste removal. Indirect water requirements refer to the water needed to sustain the economy and the standard of l…
Geographical Research
Geographical ResearchVolume 50, Issue 4 p. 343-344 EditorialFree Access Geographical Research: Retrospect and Prospect First published: 21 November 2012 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00784.xAboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of a…
The Importance of the Journal's Reviewers
In a public letter prominent geographer and editor, Nigel Thrift (2011), observes the growing problem of the reluctance of academics to review submissions for publication in journals. Thrift guesses at three explanations for this reluctance: the proliferation of journals, competing requests from research bodies to review funding applications, and the burden of workload in universities more generally. Thrift's note refers us to an editorial in Env…
Silcrete quarries and artefact distribution in the Central Queensland Highlands, Eastern Australia
A geoarchaeological study of silcrete in the Central Queensland Highlands highlights the importance of geological context in understanding the procurement, use and transport of artefacts. This study shows, by focusing on a newly discovered silcrete quarry, that silcrete formed beneath basalt by silicification of stream sediments and underlying sandstone. Silcrete outcrops are largely restricted to cliffs where the base of the basalt is exposed, n…
Middle Holocene coastal environment and the rise of the Liangzhu City complex on the Yangtze delta, China
The large prehistoric city of Liangzhu and its associated earthen dike emerged on the Yangtze delta-coast after two millennia of occupation in this area by scattered communities. Details of its development have been widely discussed in the literature. Our results reveal that the city was selectively built at the head of an embayment backed by hills, with close access to food, freshwater and timber, and with protection from coastal hazards. Radioc…
Constructing Water Shortages on a Huge River
Shanghai is located on the world's third largest river (by volume). Yet it faces the risk of shortages of drinking water. Many decisions and environmental characteristics have contributed to this threat. First, Shanghai has become dependent on water brought into the municipality by rivers. Second, it has become increasingly reliant on water from the Changjiang (Yangzi River), principally in order to control the levels of pollution in the water th…
Whither (or Wither?) Geography
There has been a long-running trend in academic Geography in Australia for the names of university departments that teach Geography to move away from simple titles like ‘Department of Geography’ to take on names like ‘Department of Geography and Environmental Studies’ (this surely is a tautology). Further, many have split the single unit covering all of Geography into separate departments of Physical and Human Geography, or into administrative an…
Pollen evidence to interpret the history of rice farming at the Hemudu site on the Ningshao coast, eastern China
Governmentality and the conduct of water
Governmentality is a way of thinking about dispersed practices of governing, including attempts to render space governable. China's South–North Water Transfer ( SNWT ) project, the world's largest interbasin water transfer project, is a programme of government that attempts to render the distribution of water across space more governable and administrable. This article analyses English and Chinese academic, media and government documents through …
Beyond contradiction
An integrated assessment of China's South-North Water Transfer Project
China's South-North Water Transfer Project (SNWTP) is a vast and still expanding network of infrastructure and institutions that moves water from the Yangtze River and its tributaries to cities in North China. This article aims to assess the SNWTP's impacts by beginning to answer seven questions about the project: How is the management of the SNWTP evolving? What are the problems to be resolved when managing SNWTP water within jurisdictions? What…
G J (Geoff) Missen
Geography (18 obras) · Environmental Science (13 obras) · Archaeology (8 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · China (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Water resource management (7 obras) · Ecology (6 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 obras)