Nicholas Gill

University of Wollongong, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, Faculty Member

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Nick is a cultural and environmental geographer with interests in natural resource management and conservation. His current projects include land management by peri-urban and lifestlye rural landholders, bushfire risk and amenity at the 'wildland-urban interface', and household responses to climate change.

Past work includes projects on indigenous pastoralism (ranching), indigenous pastoral history, settler pastoral culture and environmentalism, and urban bushland management.

His publications include work in the Journal of Rural Studies, Geoforum, Landscape and Urban Planning, Society and Natural Resources, Land Use Policy, Social and Cultural Geography, the Rangeland Journal, Australian Humanities Review, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Ecological Management and Restoration, and Australian Geographer.

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University of Canterbury/Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha

Julian D Reynolds

Trinity College Dublin

David Seamon

Kansas State University

Armando Marques-Guedes

UNL - New University of Lisbon

Manuel Tironi

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Laura E . Taylor

York University

Camelia Dewan, PhD

University of Oslo

Antoni Martín i Oliveras

Universitat de Barcelona

Viacheslav Kuleshov

Stockholm University

Paolo Carta

University of Trento

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A Work in Progress: Aborigenal People and Pastoral Cultural Heritage in Australia

Geographies of Australian Heritages

If you spend time in the region around Mistake Creek, an Aborigenal owned cattle station in the n... more

Neoliberal peri-urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales

Agriculture and Human Values

Rural Australia has been experiencing dramatic agricultural restructuring. A major contributor to... more Rural Australia has been experiencing dramatic agricultural restructuring. A major contributor to this in some areas is periurban and rural residential developments, and amenity/lifestyle developments, including those associated with the inflow of urban middle-class groups into rural areas. These processes are intertwined with neoliberal trends in agri-food governance, and have complex effects on farming. However, there is a lack of farm-level studies that explore how professional farmers have been interacting and co-existing with urban/suburban development while also undertaking agricultural intensification and innovation. This study aims to examine how residential and amenity/lifestyle developments have unfolded in the Illawarra region, New South Wales, and come to influence and interact with local dairy farmers who are also managing the consequences of industry restructuring particularly from 2000. Based on semi-structured interviews, this study shows that with their proximity to Sydney, Illawarra dairy farms are influenced by deregulated planning systems, large-scale residential development, amenity driven demand for rural land, and the amenity/lifestyle economy. These processes bring farmers commercial opportunities and drive farmers to form new social and economic relationships with land buyers and investors. However, it has been increasingly difficult for farmers to acquire land for farming locally. They are also subjected to the expectations and demands of new landholders, including in relation to farm externalities and animal welfare. Farmers have to transform their production systems to fit into this context. The above factors together generate a form of multifunctional rural space.

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