CRSI Honours Theses List
Honours theses completed in the Department of Human Geography (1970-2004)
Please note: copies of these Honours theses are held in the Department of Human Geography Office (E7A602). If you wish to gain access to any of these theses, please contact the Head of Department or, if you are an honours or postgraduate student, contact your supervisor.
Adams,
Penny (1998) "Landscapes in Conflict: Reviewing Approaches to
Conflicts between Indigenous and Non-indigenous People over Land".
Key words: cultural
geography Aborigines conflict resolution reconciliation land claims native
title
Atichian, Nicole
(1994) "Environmental Mediation and the Sydney Harbour Tunnel".
Key words: environmental
decision-making mediation community empowerment Sydney
Bain, Phillip
L. (1978) "Common Land in New South Wales".
Key words: commons
history land uses NSW
Baker, Peter G.
(1970) "A Preliminary Industrial Impact Study of Decentralised Industry
in Selected New South Wales Country Towns".
Key words: industrial
geography decentralisation spatial analysis semantic differential scaling
NSW
Beardow, Margaret
(1981) "Regional Growth Policies and Structural Change".
Key words: economic
geography growth pole theory restructuring regional planning Hunter Valley
Best, Louisa K.
(1999) "A GIS Approach for Predicting Invertebrate Distribution in
Arid Australia".
Key words: geographical
information systems land management NSW
Bilous, Susannah (2004) "Burning boundaries: the implications of boundaries for fire management cooperation in Sydney".
Bolam, Andrew
(1989)"Bathurst-Orange Revisited: Decentralisation and Structural
Change".
Key words: decentralisation
regional planning manufacturing restructuring Bathurst-Orange
Boyce, Ann
(1976) "The Impact of Office Organisations on Regional Growth Centres".
Key words: economic
geography office location regional planning decentralisation Bathurst-Orange
Brennan, W.T.
(1977) "Government and Urban Growth in South Eastern New South Wales".
Key words: political
geography government urban development NSW
Brown, Talone
(1996)"Change Detection utilising Aerial Photography and GIS: Tree
Loss on the Central Coast 1975-1994".
Key words: geographical
information systems aerial photography land management tree loss
Bruce, Melissa
(2001) "The geography of crime versus the geography of fear: a woman's
perspective".
Key words: social geography
crime women Sydney
Carter, Graham
(1972) "Aspects of Perception: Recent Fringe Arrivals".
Key words: intra-urban
migration perception of residential environment Sydney
Chandler, Jane
(2000) "Interpretation at the Jenolan Caves Reserve."
Key words: heritage
management
Clark, Lindie
(1984) "Restructuring in the Australian Whitegoods Industry, 1973-1983".
Key words: economic
geography restructuring globalisation manufacturing industry white goods
Codrington, Stephen
(1976) "The Impact of New South Wales Milk Zone Legislation in the
Dairying Industry with Particular Reference to Mumbulla Shire".
Key words: economic
geography agriculture government regulation milk industry NSW
Cole, Robert
(1986) "Technology and Corporate Strategies: a Study of ATMs as an
Innovation Diffusion Process".
Key words: economic
geography innovation diffusion theory organisational strategies banking
industry
Colquhoun, Gary
(1977), "Lithgow: a Case Study of a Region in Decline".
Key words: regional
economic development decentralisation manufacturing coal mining NSW
Conroy, Joan (2003) "A geography of the Gay Games".
Cook, Richard
(1996) "Competition and Greenhouse Policy: the Reorganisation of
the NSW Electricity Industry".
Key words: economic
geography regulation electricity greenhouse policy resource management
Cooper, Megan (2003) "The guiding fictions of tourism: Aboriginal people and tourism in Coober Pedy, SA".
Crabtree, Louise
(1999) "Sustainability as Seen From a Vegetable Garden".
Key words: sustainability
urban agriculture community gardens networks inner Sydney
Crawshaw, B.W.
(1972) "Home Units and Houses: the Demographic, Socio-economic and
Sociological Differences between their occupiers - a Study of Lane Cove,
New South Wales".
Key words: social geography
residential choice neighbourhood Sydney
Croft, Alise
(1996) "Suburbs, Women and Transport: a Case Study of the Bankstown
Local Government Area".
Key words: social geography
women and transport motor vehicles outer suburbs
Croft, Nathan
J. (1999) "Heritage Notions, Perceptions and Representations:
a Study of Adaptive Reuse in George Street North, The Rocks, Sydney".
Key words: cultural
geography built heritage heritage reuse conservation Sydney
Davison, Stephanie
(2000) "Family decisions: how many children do we want?".
Key words: population
geography family size fertility
Deeming, Simon
M. (1994) "Theorising a Metropolitan Business Agglomeration:
an Enquiry into the Restructuring and Spatial Dynamics of Sydney's
Advertising Services Industry".
Key words: economic
geography flexible specialisation agglomeration networks advertising Sydney
Dunstan, Kathryn (2003) "Constructing conflict in natural world heritage sites using the lens of geographical scale".
Durney, Andria (1999)
"Actively Aboriginal: Mythology as Action Research".
Key words: cultural
geography oral history mythology indigenous people Aborigines action research
Eggleton, Kylie
(1998) "Rivers as resource; rivers as sanctuary: Aboriginal issues
in river management".
Key words: river management
indigenous people Aborigines Barwon-Darling river system NSW
El Khoury, Ann
(1998) "The Geopolitical Economy of Guns and Butter: Rationalisation
and the Global-Local Restructuring of Defence Industries".
Key words: political
geography globalisation restructuring arms industry
Ellis, Elisabeth
(1998) "Reaching Out/ Reaching In/ Reaching Across: Identity and
the Spatial Politics of Disablement and Enablement".
Key words: social geography
cultural geography disability politics of space Australia
Emblem, Jeni
(1997) "International Treaties on the Environment and their Effect
on Australian National and Regional Sovereignty: Biodiversity - a
Case Study".
Key words: political
geography international environmental treaties biological diversity
Fox, Paul
(1992) "The Location of Universities in Sydney: Present Patterns,
Observations and Alternatives for the Future".
Key words: economic
geography location theory universities Sydney
Gee, Pam (1997)
"Constructing Place: Kooragang Island, Newcastle NSW".
Key words: cultural
geography Kooragang Island Newcastle
George, John (2004) "Interpreting the cultural landscape of Parramatta Park".
Gibbs, Leah
(1999) "Gold Country: Colonialism and Mining in the Eastern Goldfields,
Western Australia".
Key words: resource
management mining indigenous people Aborigines decolonising deep colonising
Greenwood, Verity
(2001) "Weathering storms on the Stygian Ferry: the economic, social
and cultural impacts of globalisation on the Australian funeral industry".
Key words: economic
geography cultural geography funeral industry
Harwood, Alison
(1997) "Putting Protest in its Place: Power Protest and Participation:
Gulf Aboriginal People and the Century Mine Proposal".
Key words: resource
management mining & indigenous people Aborigines protest
Hayes, Anna-Lisa
(1994) "Aborigines, tourism and Central Australia: national visions
disarticulated from local realities".
Key words: cultural
geography tourism indigenous people Aborigines central Australia
Henderson, Craig
G. (1983) "Foreign Banking in Australia".
Key words: economic
geography international financial centres banking Australia
Hillman, Michael
(2000) "The use of scientific information in environmental decision-making:
a case study of environmental flows on the Lachlan River, NSW".
Key words: environmental
management rivers
Hirst, Philip
(1977) "The Role of Local Government in the Heavy Mineral Sands Industry
along the Central Coast of New South Wales".
Key words: resource
management political geography local government sand mining NSW
Hodge, Stephen
(1992) "The University of Western Sydney; a University in Western
Sydney or a University for Western Sydney?".
Key words: cultural
geography universities outer suburbs Western Sydney
Hueneke, Klaus
(1971) "Evaluation of Natural Landscapes for Recreational Conservation
and Amenity Preservation: Geographical Studies in the Sydney Region".
Key words: recreational
geography resource management bushland Sydney
Hughes, Janet
(1976) "Flooding in the Lower Hawkesbury Valley, NSW, with Particular
Reference to Flood Perception and Adjustment".
Key words: natural
hazards flood perception floodplain management NSW
Irvine, Rebecca (1992)
"An Experiment in Measuring the Value of Alternative Landuses: a
Case Study on the Balmain Peninsula".
Key words: behavioural
geography landuse evaluation contingent valuation urban environment
Jay, Murray (2004) "Visitor impacts and the need for a Plan of Management at Bents Basin SCA, Greendale, NSW".
Johnson, Niall
P.A.S (1990) "Residential Environmental Quality: a Reappraisal based
on the Sydney Experience".
Key words: behavioural/social
geography neighbourhood quality urban environment Sydney
Jordan, Claudia
(2000) "Social Issues in Environmental Management: How Might Public
Participation Contribute to better Outcomes?".
Key words: urban environmental
management decision-making public participation social impact
Kealy, Venessa
(1996) "Imagined Spaces: Interpreting Perceptions of Place and Regulation
of Spaces through the Processes of Normalisation and Reconciliation at
Weipa".
Key words: cultural
geography company town mining & indigenous people Aborigines reconciliation
Kearnes, Matthew
(1997) "Music Videos and the Construction of Symbolic Geographies".
Key words: cultural
geography music industry media global market
Keating, Michael E.
(1976) "Hobby Farms in New South Wales: a Study in the Mudgee Area".
Key words: hobby farms
rural development recreation NSW
Kennedy, Danny
(1994) "Development is not Sustainability: A Case Study of the Kutubu
Petroleum Development Project, Papua New Guinea".
Key words: sustainable
development mining & indigenous people oil industry Papua New Guinea
Kerr, James (2003) "The clustering of ethnic small businesses: Korean retailers in Eastwood".
Lane, Rodney
(1994) "The Plight of the Independent Retailer: Retail Structural
Change and its Implications for Small Store Survival".
Key words: economic
geography retailing restructuring small businesses Sydney
Larsen, Lynn
(1973) "Race and Spatial Form: with Special Reference to the Assimilation
and Dispersal of Aborigines in the Sydney Area".
Key words: urban geography
ethnic and racial minorities Aborigines Sydney
Lawrence, Rebecca (2002) "Governing Warlpiri subjects: indigenous Employment and training programs in the Central Australian mining industry".
Lee, John (1989)
"Childhood Accidents in Sydney - Towards a Better Understanding".
Key words: medical
geography accidents children Sydney
Lee, Yoke Yen
(Pam) (1997) "Green is Good: Environmental Management in Singapore".
Key words: urban environmental
management government regulation Singapore
Leech, Bret
(1989) "The Sydney Airport Problem".
Key words: environmental
decision-making public policy location of airports
Lissenden, Richard
(1988) "Technological Change and Corporate Restructuring from EFTPOS
in Sydney's Retailing Industry".
Key words: economic
geography retailing restructuring technological change information industry
Lyth, Anna
(1989) "Local Labour Markets and Local Policy, the Case of Penrith".
Key words: urban economic
geography restructuring local government local labour markets
Macdonell, Kieran
(1998) "The Importance of Culture for Sustainable River Management:
a Case Study on the Snowy River".
Key words: cultural
geography river management environmental management community action
Mackenzie, Ihian
D. (1972) "The Optimal Location of Warehouses: an Application
of the Location - Allocation Model".
Key words: economic
geography location theory warehousing
Mann, Peter (1987)
"The Parramatta Stadium Development: a Case Study in Urban Conflict".
Key words: conflict
theory community action groups Parramatta Stadium
Mansfield, Andrew (2000)
"Retail gentrification: the case of Broadway and Norton Street, Leichhardt".
Key words: gentrification
retailing inner-city suburbs
Martin, Tamsin
(1997) "Sydney's Solid Waste: the Re-use of Materials Salvaged
from Landfill".
Key words: environmental
management urban waste management recycling Sydney Canberra
Mason, Chloe
(1971) "A Medical-Geographic Study of the Social Environment of Psychogeriatric
Patients".
Key words: medical
geography social geography elderly psychiatric care Sydney
Metcalf, Simone
(1989) "Retirement Migration: A Case Study of Bateman's Bay
and Narooma".
Key words: behavioural
geography elderly migration NSW
Mills, Chris J.
(1980) "Financial Institutions and Change in Peninsular Balmain".
Key words: urban geography
gentrification financial institutions inner Sydney
Moore, Brendan
(2000) "Breast cancer and experiences of the mammography service
provided by Breast Screen NSW Western".
Key words: medical
geography screening services
Moore, Stephanie (2002) "Places and horizons: Aboriginals and pastoralist perspectives and experiences of place and race in the western division of NSW".
Morone, Christopher
R. (1976) "Botany Bay Port Development: an Analysis of reaction
to a proposed major development".
Key words: land use
conflict community action groups port facilities Botany Bay Sydney
Mountford, Helene
(2001) "Your call has been placed in a queue: new work at and locations
of call centres in Sydney".
Key words: economic
geography call centres new work location
Murney, Anthony
P (1977) "Peripheral Settlement: an Examination of two New South
Wales Shires - 1952-1977".
Key words: urban geography
settlement patterns peripheral settlement Lithgow Orange
Myers, Lucy
(1993) "Child Immunisation: Uptake and Attitudes in three areas of
New South Wales".
Key words: medical
geography immunisation NSW
Nadolny, Andrew
J. (1995) "The Cultural Perceptions of Old-Growth Forests: How
Natural Really?".
Key words: cultural
geography perceptions resource management Australia
Neuhold, Rhonda
(1994) "Flexible Specialisation in an Australian Peripheral Region:
a Study of the Hunter Valley".
Key words: economic
geography flexible specialisation location decisions Hunter Valley
New Than T.
(1976) "The Significance of Urban Growth to Development with Particular
Reference to some South East Asian Countries".
Key words: urbanisation
development South East Asia
Noon, Gerard
(1984) "Technology and Structural Change in the Australian Consumer
Electronics Industry: a Geographical perspective".
Key words: economic
geography restructuring product cycle theory electronics industry Australia
Nugent, Ellis
(1977), "Wholesaling and Urban Structure".
Key words: economic
geography restructuring wholesaling location theory hardware industry
O'Dwyer, Bronwen
(1995) "Homelessness, Schizophrenia and Gender: a Comparison of Housing
Histories among Homeless Schizophrenic Men and Women and Homeless non-schizophrenic
Women in Sydney's Inner City Refuges".
Key words: medical
geography mental health residential mobility patterns gender Sydney
O'Neill, Phillip
(1975) "The Impact of a Large Firm on a Regional Labour Market".
Key words: economic
geography regional development local labour markets multiplier analysis
Pagan, Rebecca
(1999), "Homecomings".
Key words: cultural
geography place home return migration Australia
Panagopoulos,
Vivian (1997) "The Case of Popular Music in Inner Sydney".
Key words: cultural
geography gender popular music inner Sydney
Parry, Bronwyn
(1993) "The Economic, Political and Cultural Geography of Toxic Exposure".
Key words: medical
geography toxic exposure environmental management tick dips northern NSW
Picker, Jane (2002) "A study into the geography of alternative healthcare in Sydney".
Prendergast, John
J. (1975) "Areal Differentials in Educational Opportunity within
the Sydney Metropolitan Area".
Key words: social geography
social differences education Sydney
Power, Emma (2003) "Nature-culture and the suburban garden".
Pugh, Ann,
(1978) "Recreation on Inland Rivers of New South Wales: Problems
of Access to a Recreational Resource".
Key words: recreational
geography resource management rivers NSW
Rein, Frances
C. (1976) "Suburbanisation and the Evolution of Resort Land on
the New South Wales Central Coast".
Key words: recreational
geography resort landuse suburbanisation Gosford- Wyong
Richardson, Bronwyn
J. (1972) "A Procedure for Assessing Air Pollution Potential
and its Application to the Evaluation of Airport Location".
Key words: air pollution
location of airports Richmond
Ricketts, Janine
(1976) "Office Employment and Decentralization - a Study in
Gosford-Wyong".
Key words: economic
geography office location decentralisation regional planning Gosford-Wyong
Salier, Matthew
(1997) "The Community, Total Catchment Management and SOJI -
the way forward for urban catchment management".
Key words: suburban
environmental management Total Catchment Management Berowra Creek
Salmond, Amanda
(1996) "Prospects for Indigenous Self Determination: the case of
the Torres Strait Protected Zone".
Key words: resource
management indigenous people economic development Torres Strait Islands
Savage, Elizabeth
(1993) "Water Quality and Human Health with Reference to the Chemical
Constituents Sodium, Nitrogen, Iron and Fluoride in Australian Drinking
Water".
Key words: medical
geography human health water quality
Scott, Beverley
(1987) "Outwork and Restructuring in the Australian Clothing Industry:
A Geographical Perspective".
Key words: economic
geography restructuring clothing industry outworkers Sydney
Sharpe, Scott (1995)
"Geography of the Birthing Moment: Space and Social Practice at the
RHW Birth Centre".
Key words: cultural
geography birthing centres embodied geographies space and social practice
Shepherd, Nigel
K. (1993) "Profound Transformations: A Study of Urban Permaculture
in Sydney".
Key words: permaculture
humane social change sustainability Sydney
Slack, Benjamin W.
(1999) "The Economic Geography of Sydney's Web Page Design Industry".
Key words: economic
geography information service industry flexible specialisation Sydney
Sloane, Belinda
(2001) "Experiences of disability, ageing and emotional health in
institutional (home) places".
Key words: social geography
nursing homes disabilities
Smith, Karl
(1995) "A Locality Divided: Community Responses to the M2 Motorway".
Key words: political
geography community action groups motorways local politics northern Sydney
Smith, Natalie (2002) "Infinite cartographies of the possible".
Snook, Stephen
A. (1975) "Social Impacts of Urban Expressways on Residential
Environments - a Case Study in Leichhardt".
Key words: urban transport
motorways local impact inner Sydney
Sparkes, Ashley
M. (1973) "Demographic Indicators of Spatial Variations in Mental
Health: a study in Manly-Warringah".
Key words: medical
geography mental health planning for services Sydney
Spinks, Harriet (2002) "Freeing the slaves of fashion: the regulation of outworking in the Australian clothing industry".
Steel, Janet
(1996) "Values, Ethics and Wilderness Protection: the Quaid Road
as a Case Study".
Key words: environmental
management wilderness environmental impact assessment ethics
Suchet, Sandra
(1994) "Rekindling Culture Through Resources: Aboriginal resource
management strategies and aspirations at Weipa".
Key words: resource
management indigenous people cultural identity Aborigines Weipa
Symonds, Douglas
(1998) "Tuberculosis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues".
Key words: medical
geography public health tuberculosis Sydney Health Areas
Tagg, Simon (2003) "Application of health impact assessment: an evaluation of two case studies".
Thompson, Susan
M. (1978) "Land and Water in the Upper Kangaroo and Shoalhaven
Valleys - a study in Resource use Conflict".
Key words: resource
management landuse conflict national parks recreation Shoalhaven
Tonkin, Liza
(1992) "Have Community Action Groups Changed the Structure of the
Katoomba/Leura Tourism Industry? A Study of Restructuring, Politics and
Space".
Key words: political
geography restructuring tourism community action groups social movements
Van Leeuwen, Marina
(2000) "The social and emotional health implications of permanent
park living".
Key words: social geography
caravan parks
Veitch, Craig (1988)
"Spatial Aspects of Childhood Asthma in the Cessnock Local Government
Area - New South Wales".
Key words: medical
geography asthma Cessnock
Verdich, Paul
(1975), "Optimal Location of Community Health Care Facilities: a
Theoretical Approach".
Key words: social geography
community health location of health facilities Western Sydney
Walsoe, Anna M.
(1972) "Some Regional Aspects of "Livability": a Comparison
of Blacktown and Wagga Wagga".
Key words: social geography
decentralisation city-country differences Wagga Wagga Blacktown
Webb, Melissa
(1999) "The Place of the Suburban in the Rural: A Cultural Geography
of East Bowral".
Key words: cultural
geography suburbanisation rural geography Southern Highlands NSW
Worley, Elizabeth
(2000) "The public attitude towards genetically modified food: a
study of local difference".
Key words: genetically
modified food comparative attitudes
Wright, Barry
(1975) "Geographical Dimensions of Diphtheria in New South Wales".
Key words: medical
geography diphtheria NSW