CRSI Postgraduate Theses List
PhD and Masters theses completed in the Department of Human Geography (1970-2004)
Please note: copies of 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.
Abayasekara,
Geetha (1999 PhD) "Environmental Ideology and Urban Planning: The
Discourse and Practice of 'Environmental Protection' in the Urban Planning
Process of Sydney's Metropolitan Growth".
Key Words: environmental planning metropolitan growth nature developmentalism
Sydney
Agnes,
Pierre L. (1997 PhD) "Global-Localisation in the Organisation of Wholesale
Financial Services: Sydney as an International Financial Services City".
Key words: economic geography restructuring globalisation localisation
financial services
Allan,
Jean (1991 MA Hons) "Recreational Activities on the Northern Shores
of Sydney Harbour 1850-1950".
Key words: recreational geography leisure tourism Sydney
Aplin,
Graeme J. (1975 PhD) "Order Neighbour Analysis of Urban Activities".
Key words: spatial analysis order neighbour analysis
Atkins
Alan S. (1971 MEc) "An Input-Output Model of the Newcastle Region".
Key words: economic geography regional development input-output model
Newcastle
Baczkowski,
D.M. (1986 PhD) "Sexually Transmitted Diseases in New South Wales
and in the Sydney Metropolitan Area: an Epidemiological Study".
Key words: medical geography epidemiology sexually transmitted disease
Badcock,
B.A. (1976 PhD) "The Spatial Structure of Metropolitan Sydney".
Key words: urban geography spatial organisation suburbanisation planning
Sydney
Bandler,
Hans (1979 MSc) "Environmental Implications of Water Supply Structures".
Key words: environmental impacts water resources dams Sydney
Banerjee,
Nandini (2001 PhD) "Evaluating policy options for mitigating emissions
from thermal power plants in Calcutta region, India.".
Key words: climate change, environmental impacts, sustainable energy,
india
Batten, Paul (2004 PhD) "Mapping landscapes: philosophies, perspectives and information frameworks"
Bennett,
G. H. (MA) "Residential and Industrial Location, Labour and Employment
and Metropolitan Growth: Blacktown, a Case Study".
Key words: urban geography suburbanisation industrial location outer suburbs
Western Sydney
Blunden
M. Hazel (2001 PhD) "The Neo-liberal city of Sydney".
Key words: urban geography, regulation theory, global city, social polarisation,
Sydney
Boniecki,
George J. (1976 MSc) "Some Aspects of Australia's Energy Situation".
Key words: economic geography resource management energy resources Australia
Braaf,
Rochelle (1999 PhD) "Challenging Climate Impact Assessment: Vulnerability,
Positionality and Power."
Key Words: climate change environmental and social impact assessment Aboriginal
health
Brace,
John R. (1974 MSc) "Navigation and Oceanic Pollution".
Key words: marine pollution environmental impact of shipping impact assessment
Button,
Brian J. (1982 PhD) "The Adequacy of Water Resources for Irrigation
in the Lower Namoi Valley".
Key words: land management water resources irrigation NSW
Codrington,
Stephen (1983 PhD) "The Impact of Government Statutory Marketing Authorities
on the Viability of the Liquid Milk Industry in the Bega Valley 1975-76
to 1980-81".
Key words: economic geography agriculture milk industry government regulation
NSW
Cook, Nicole (2006 PhD) "Conflict and consensus in redevelopment of deindustrialised property in Sydney."
Cooper, Richard (2004 PhD) "Toward an ecological management infor-management system (EMIS) for urban ecosystems".
Crabtree, Louise (2006 PhD) "Messy humans, dirty economies and leaky houses: citizenship, sustainable livelihoods and housing in Australia."
Cripps,
Emily J. (1998 MSc Hons) "Local Government Liability Arising from
Climate Change".
Key words: local government planning climate change flood negligence Nyngan
NSW Tasmania
Dabor,
Ibrahim S. (1975 MA) "Growth Centres in Urban and Regional Development:
a Case Study of Bathurst-Orange (New South Wales)".
Key words: regional planning regional development strategies decentralisation
Bathurst-Orange
Daines,
D.R. (1982 PhD) "The Designation and Acquisition of Land for Public
Purposes".
Key words: public land land acquisitions land management
Davey,
Colin (1982 PhD) "Urban Recreation: Cognition and Behaviour in Sydney,
Australia: a Transactional and Structural Model for Activity and Location
Choice".
Key words: recreational geography behavioural geography locational choice
Sydney
Doohan, Kim (PhD) "Cross cultural negotiations, resource development and indigenous rights in the Kimberley".
Eckstein,
Gary (1996 PhD) "For Only a Moment: an Investigation into the Medical
Geography of Serious Injury in the State of New South Wales, Australia".
Key words: medical geography injuries NSW
Edwards,
Michael J. (1997 PhD) "Threats in the Greenhouse: Climate Change and
Security in the Southwest Pacific".
Key words: political geography climate change regional security Pacific
islands
Galli, Daniel (2006 PhD) "A new approach for modeling an ideal economic system."
Gollner,
Anna V. (1994 PhD) "Suburbanisation, Sustainability and Climatic Change
Policy".
Key words: urban planning climate change journey-to-work local labour
markets Western Sydney
Gorman-Murray, Andrew (PhD) "Home moving and home making by queer Australians" .
Heys, Greg
(1990 M Urb Stud) "Regional Planning and Development in the Hunter Region
of NSW - 1978 to 1988: a Case Study of its Regional Policy Process".
Key words: regional planning regional development agencies Hunter Valley
NSW
Hillman, Michael (2005 PhD) "Environmental justice: a trans-disciplinary framework for stream rehabilitation".
Hudson,
L.M. (1981 PhD) "Image: a Theoretical and Operational Framework: a
Study of Shopping Centre Images".
Key words: behavioural geography image retail shopping centres multi-dimensional
scaling
Hudson,
Philipa (1986 PhD) "Processes of Adaptation in a Changing Rural Environment:
a Comparison of Four Rural Communities in New England, NSW".
Key words: social geography rural geography migration rural communities
Jackson,
Sue (1998 PhD) "Geographies of Coexistence: Native Title, Cultural
Difference and the Decolonisation of Planning in North Australia".
Key words: cultural geography planning decolonisation indigenous people
Aborigines N. Australia
Johnson,
Hilrett (1979 MA) "Home Improvement Activities in the Sydney Metropolitan
Area: Growth and Factors Influencing the Spatial Distribution of the Market".
Key words: urban geography social geography housing Sydney
Kauter,
John (1980 MA Hons) "Regional Growth and Development in the Goulburn-Southern
Highlands Area, New South Wales".
Key words: economic geography regional development decentralisation NSW
Langton, Marcia (2005 PhD) "An Aboriginal ontology of being and place: the performance of Aboriginal property relations in the Princes Charlotte Bay area of eastern Cape Your Peninsula, Australia".
McGrath-Champ,
Susan (1993 PhD) "Labour Management and Restructuring in the New South
Wales Coal Industry, 1987-1991".
Key words: industrial geography restructuring industrial relations coal
mining labour NSW
McLeay,
Colin R. (1998 PhD) "The Circuit of Popular Music: Production, Consumption,
Globalisation".
Key words: cultural geography economic geography popular music globalisation
Australia
Méheux, Kirstie (PhD 2007) "An evaluation of participatory damage assessment policy and practice in Fiji."
Mountford, Helene (MA Hons) "Mature-aged employment after retrenchment".
Murphy,
Peter A. (1974 PhD) "Decision-making, Interaction and Distance in
the Market for Resort Land in New South Wales".
Key words: urban residential development resort land use decision-making
NSW
O'Neill,
Phillip (1986 MA Hons) "National Economic Change and the Labour Process
in a Non-metropolitan Area - Dubbo, New South Wales".
Key words: economic geography restructuring local labour markets regional
development Dubbo
O'Neill,
Phillip (1994 PhD), "Capital Regulation and Region: Restructuring
and Internationalisation in the Hunter Valley, NSW".
Key words: economic geography regional industrial restructuring globalisation
Hunter Valley
Orrock,
Martin S. (1980 MA) "Employment and Industrial Location in Warringah
Shire, Sydney".
Key words: industrial geography location theory journey-to-work outer
suburban Sydney
Prout, Sarah (PhD) "Gone walkabout? Reconceptualising spatial mobility in the Murchison Gascoyne region of WA".
Ranck,
Stephen R. (1977 MA Hons) "Recent Rural-Urban Migration to Dili, Portuguese
Timor: a Focus on the use of Households, Kinship and Social Networks by
Timorese Migrants".
Key words: social geography rural-urban migration social network theory
East Timor
Searle,
Glen H. (1978 PhD) "Factors Affecting Government Location Decisions,
with regard to the New South Wales Decentralisation Programme".
Key words: economic geography decentralisation industrial location public
policy NSW
Sharp, Scott (2002 PhD)"A geography of the fold"
Sherval, Meg (2007 PhD) "Globalisation and concept of remotness in the gold mining industry".
Stein,
Clara (1981 MA) "Australian Malaysian Relations".
Key words: social geography development tourism aid foreign policy
Suchet,
Sandra (1999 PhD) "Situated Engagement: a critique of Wildlife Management
and Post Colonial Discourse."
Key Words: environmental management wildlife Southern Africa Canada post-colonial
discourse
Taylor,
Joy H. (1978 MA) "Some Regional Employment Implications of Structural
Change, a Case Study of Wangaratta".
Key words: economic geography industrial restructuring regional labour
markets textile industry
Thomas,
David L. (1974 MA) "The Relationship Between the Intensity of Rural
Land Use and Distance within a Sector of the Rural-Urban Fringe of Sydney".
Key words: urban geography land use rural-urban fringe outer suburban
Sydney
Thorburn,
Lyndall (2000 PhD) "Global-local interactions and innovation in high-tech
industry: a study of dedicated biotechnology companies in Australia".
Key words: economic geography, biotechnology, globalisation, high technology
industry
Tonkin,
Liza (1997 PhD) "Re-thinking the Geography of Power: Generating Multiple
Narratives of Power and Restructuring Politics'.
Key words: industrial restructuring steel industry Steel Plan local empowerment
community action
Tuckson,
Michael (1997 MA Hons) "Village Water Supply in Thailand".
Key words: rural water supply water resources Thailand
White,
Graham S. (1989 M Geoscience) "The Changing Nature of Planned Regional
Shopping Centres in Sydney in the 1980s".
Key words: economic geography retailing regional shopping centres Roselands
Carlingford Court
Wilkenfeld,
George (1989 PhD) "The Electrification of the Sydney Energy System
1881-1986".
Key words: resource management urban electricity system Sydney
Wilson,
Warwick R. (1986 MA Hons) "The Socio-spatial Adjustment and Settlement
of Vietnamese Refugees in Sydney".
Key words: social geography refugee migration Vietnamese migration Sydney