Resource Management and Geography - Theses
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ItemEstablishment of grassland forbs in modified urban environments( 1998-04)The use of nature-like plantings to ameliorate degraded public landscapes in Europe and North America is extensive. There is a growing trend towards the use of ecological urban landscape design in Australia. Meadow landscape may have broad applications in the treatment of degraded landscapes in Australia. An examination of suitable establishment and management techniques for flowering grasslands was undertaken at Fawkner Memorial Park. This site contains large areas of severely disturbed and degraded soils, due to past burial practices. Trials on the establishment of forbs via direct seeding and plug planting were undertaken. The management of bulb species by mowing was examined through foliage removal treatments post anthesis. The management of grass biomass through herbicides was also examined. (For complete abstract open document)
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ItemSquatters, merchants and mariners: an historical geography of Gipps' Land 1841-1851( 1975)This thesis is a study of some of the processes which created a new geography in a particular region of Australia. Though localised in space it has a wider relevance for the study of its time, for this regional settlement was not an isolated, unique expansion but part of a nation-wide and world-wide movement. And though localised in time, it has a wider relevance for the study of this particular region because the patterns established in these few years set a framework which endures in many respects to the present. The study presents a reconstruction of the geography of a region for the first decade of its settlement, its pioneering phase, by tracing the establishment, growth and change in themes which created the regional character. By looking at the region as an open system, the influence of external forces is studied to see what effect these had on regional development.
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ItemGrazing the high country: an historical and political geography of high country grazing in Victoria, 1835 to 1935( 1980)Someone once said that if there is one lesson man can draw from history it is that man learns nothing from history. In my experience this observation often relates to the commonly held belief that history has little to contribute to the day to day "nuts and bolts" functioning of society. The thinking goes if history cannot supply the answers to practical problems then what is it worth? Such is the view of the pragmatist. Consequently some people will regard this thesis as being interesting in a purely antiquarian sense. If, however, one has a somewhat broader perspective and can see beyond the immediate problems of each day to underlying trends and inherent philosophies, then one will appreciate what this thesis has to offer. For, while it does not provide immediate solutions to existing land use conflicts associated with high country grazing, it does shed light on their origins and development, and hence their basic character.