John H. Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Queensland.[1][2]

John Holmes has contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica and has edited Queensland: A Geographical Interpretation and coedited Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions.[3] Professor Holmes has also chaired the Australian Academy of Science National Committee of Geography and acted as Australian delegate at various international meetings. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.[1]

Selected publications

  • (1965) The suburbanization of the Cessnock coalfields. Australian Geographical Studies 111 (2), 105–128.
  • (1967) Problems in location sampling. Annals: Association of American Geographers, 57 (4), 757-780.
  • (1977) Population (pp. 331–353) and The urban system (pp. 412–431). In D.N. Jeans (ed) Australia: A Geography. Sydney, Sydney U.P. (Revised in Australia: A Geography. Vol. 2 Society and Space, (1987), 24-48 and 49–74.
  • (1985) Policy issues concerning rural settlement in Australia's pastoral zone, Australian Geographical Studies, 23, 3-27.
  • (1990) Ricardo revisited: submarginal land and non-viable cattle enterprises in the Northern Territory Gulf District. Journal of Rural Studies, 6 (1), 45–65.
  • (1996) Changing resource values in Australia's tropical savannas: priorities in institutional reform. In: A. Ash, ed. The Future of Tropical Savannas: An Australian Perspective, Melbourne: C.S.I.R.O. 28–43.
  • (2000) Pastoral lease tenures as policy instruments: 1847 to 1997. In S. Dovers, ed. Environmental History and Policy: Still Settling Australia, Melbourne: Oxford U.P. 212–242.
  • (2002) Diversity and change in Australia's rangelands: a post-productivist transition with a difference? Transactions: Institute of British Geographers 27, 362–384.
  • (With K. Hartig and M. Bell) (2002) Locational disadvantage and household locational decisions: changing contexts and responses in the Cessnock district, 1964–1999. Australian Geographical Studies, 40, 300–322.
  • (2006) Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: gaps in the research agenda. Journal of Rural Studies, 22, 142–160.
  • (2009) Fifty years of disciplinary flux within human geography; changing sociocognitive subdisciplines and subcultures. Australian Geographer 40, 387–408.
  • (2010) Divergent regional trajectories in Australia's tropical savannas: indicators of a multifunctional transition. "Geographical Research" 48, 342–358.
  • (2012) Cape York Peninsula, Australia: sa frontier region undergoing a multifunctional transition with indigenous engagement. "Journal of Rural Studies" 28, 252–265.

Selected consultancy reports

  • (2001) Third-party rights on pastoral leases in South Australia. Report to Pastoral Board Secretariat, S. A. Department of Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs pp. 44.
  • (2003) Incentives for pastoral lessees to enter into Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs). Report to Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement: South Australia, pp. 65.
  • (2005) (with M. Bell and E. Charles-Edwards) Population dynamics in rural and remote Queensland. Report to Queensland Office of Economic Research, Department of Premier and Cabinet, pp. 87.

References

  1. 1 2 International Landcare Conference 2006 Archived 30 August 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Institute of Australian Geographers
  3. ↑ "Biographical Information". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2014.
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