Lesley Head

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Lesley Head is affiliated with the following schools: University of Wollongong, University of Melbourne, Monash University

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According to Wikipedia, Lesley Head is an Australian geographer specialising in human-environment relations. She is active in geographical debates about the relationship between humans and nature, using concepts and analytical methods from physical geography, archaeology and cultural geography. She retired from the University of Melbourne in 2021.

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Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens (2006) (168)
Nativeness, Invasiveness, and Nation in Australian Plants* (2004) (137)
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human–nature relations (2016) (135)
Cultural ecology: emerging human-plant geographies (2009) (131)
Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Change (2000) (121)
Cultural ecology: adaptation - retrofitting a concept? (2010) (120)
Climate change and Australia (2014) (113)
A science of loss (2016) (107)
Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape (2000) (104)
The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia (2010) (102)
Australian Backyard Gardens and the Journey of Migration* (2004) (101)
Walking practice and suburban nature-talk (2009) (99)
Landscape - a usefully ambiguous concept (1994) (93)
Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption, unbounding sustainability (2011) (87)
Changing cultures of water in eastern Australian backyard gardens (2007) (86)
Landscapes socialised by fire: post-contact changes in Aboriginal fire use in northern Australia, and implications for prehistory (1994) (75)
Sustainable Household Capability: which households are doing the work of environmental sustainability? (2012) (72)
Becoming differently modern (2012) (71)
Culture as concept and influence in environmental research and management (2005) (68)
Postcards and Frontier Mythologies: Sustaining Views of the Kimberley as Timeless (2002) (68)
The distinctive capacities of plants: re-thinking difference via invasive species (2015) (68)
Re-thinking climate change adaptation and capacities at the household scale (2016) (68)
The Boundaries of Nature Tourism (2003) (67)
Backyard:nature and culture in suburban Australia (2007) (65)
Eradicating Bodies in Invasive Plant Management (2013) (64)
A Fine-Grained Study of the Experience of Drought, Risk and Climate Change Among Australian Wheat Farming Households (2011) (63)
Hunter‐gatherer archaeology and pastoral contact: Perspectives from the northwest Northern Territory, Australia (1997) (63)
Decentring 1788: Beyond Biotic Nativeness (2012) (61)
Prehistoric aboriginal impacts on Australian vegetation: an assessment of the evidence (1989) (59)
Living with Invasive Plants in the Anthropocene: The Importance of Understanding Practice and Experience (2015) (58)
Household Sustainability: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (56)
Wheat as food, wheat as industrial substance; comparative geographies of transformation and mobility. (2010) (55)
Plant exploitation on Sahul: from colonisation to the emergence of regional specialisation during the Holocene (2009) (52)
Vegetal politics: belonging, practices and places (2014) (52)
Do cows belong in nature? The cultural basis of agriculture in Sweden and Australia (2011) (51)
Edges of Connection: reconceptualising the human role in urban biogeography (2006) (50)
A conceptual model of ecological connectivity in the Shellharbour Local Government Area, New South Wales, Australia (2008) (49)
Keeping the heart a long way from the brain: The emotional labour of climate scientists (2017) (49)
Holocene vegetation, fire and environmental history of the Discovery Bay region, south‐western Victoria (1988) (49)
Cultural ecology: the problematic human and the terms of engagement (2007) (48)
The social dimensions of invasive plants (2017) (46)
Zones of friction, zones of traction: the connected household in climate change and sustainability policy (2013) (45)
From Incremental Change to Radical Disjuncture: Rethinking Everyday Household Sustainability Practices as Survival Skills (2015) (44)
Who does the work in sustainable households? A time and gender analysis in New South Wales, Australia (2013) (41)
The Northern Myth Revisited? Aborigines, environment and agriculture in the Ord River Irrigation Scheme, Stages One and Two (1999) (41)
Environmental values, knowledge and behaviour: Contributions of an emergent literature on the role of ethnicity and migration (2019) (40)
Is the concept of human impacts past its use-by date? (2008) (38)
Investigation of the causes of mass fish kills in the Menindee Region NSW over the summer of 2018–2019 (2019) (38)
The Holocene Prehistory of a coastal wetland system: Discovery Bay, Southeastern Australia (1987) (37)
Local engagements with urban bushland: moving beyond bounded practice for urban biodiversity management. (2009) (37)
Contingencies of the Anthropocene: Lessons from the ‘Neolithic’ (2014) (36)
Australia’s mass fish kills as a crisis of modern water: Understanding hydrosocial change in the Murray-Darling Basin (2020) (36)
A meta-ethnography to synthesise household cultural research for climate change response (2016) (35)
Ingrained: A Human Bio-geography of Wheat (2012) (35)
Retrofitting the Suburban Garden: morphologies and some elements of sustainability potential of two Australian residential suburbs compared (2009) (35)
Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of household sustainability (2011) (33)
Environment as artefact: a geographic perspective on the Holocene occupation of Southwestern Victoria (1983) (32)
Diversifying Ethnicity in Australia's Population and Environment Debates (2013) (30)
Holocene palaeoecology of the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, based on stick-nest rat (Leporillus spp.) middens: a preliminary overview (1996) (29)
Living with trees – Perspectives from the suburbs (2005) (29)
Holocene variability in semi-arid vegetation: new evidence from Leporillus middens from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia (2001) (28)
Unearthing prehistoric cultural landscapes: a view from Australia (1993) (28)
The Anthropoceneans: The Anthropoceneans (2015) (27)
Changing ecological concerns in rock-art subject matter of north Australia's Keep River region (2003) (27)
Minimum ages for pecked rock markings from Jinmium, north western Australia. (2000) (27)
Rethinking the prehistory of hunter-gatherers, fire and vegetation change in northern Australia (1996) (26)
Disruption of cultural burning promotes shrub encroachment and unprecedented wildfires (2022) (26)
Archaeobotany of fruit seed processing in a monsoon savanna environment: evidence from the Keep River region, Northern Territory, Australia (2005) (26)
Restored Nature, Familiar Culture: Contesting Visions for Preferred Environments in Australian Cities (2010) (25)
Integrating remote sensing and spatial analysis techniques to compare aboriginal and pastoral fire patterns in the East Kimberley, Australia (1993) (25)
Palaeoecological contributions to Australian prehistory (1986) (25)
Governing invasive plants: Policy and practice in managing the Gamba grass (Andropogon gayanus) – Bushfire nexus in northern Australia (2015) (23)
Experimenting with agricultural diversity: Migrant knowledge as a resource for climate change adaptation (2018) (22)
Rethinking ethnobotany? A methodological reflection on human-plant research (2017) (21)
Conceptualising the human in cultural landscapes and resilience thinking (2012) (20)
Using palaeoecology to date Aboriginal fishtraps at Lake Condah, Victoria (1989) (20)
Country and garden (2002) (20)
Aborigines and Pastoralism in North-Western Australia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Multiple Use of the Rangelands. (1994) (19)
Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia (1994) (19)
Landscape and Culture (2004) (19)
Late Quaternary landscape evolution in the Keep River region, northwestern Australia (2005) (18)
Nature, networks and desire: changing cultures of water in Australia (2008) (18)
Planning for Natural Hazards — How Can We Mitigate the Impacts? (2005) (17)
Recognising knowledge transfers in ‘unskilled’ and ‘low‐skilled’ international migration: Insights from Pacific Island seasonal workers in rural Australia (2018) (17)
Becoming differently modern: Geographic contributions to a generative climate politics (2012) (17)
Transformative change requires resisting a new normal (2020) (17)
Culture, nature and landscape in the Australian region (2008) (17)
Renovating the landscape and packaging the Penguin: Culture and nature on Summerland Peninsula, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia (2000) (17)
Gifts, sustainable consumption and giving up green anxieties at Christmas (2013) (16)
Looking beyond installation: Why households struggle to make the most of solar hot water systems (2015) (16)
Ancestral Landscapes of the Pueblo World (2009) (16)
Women in Australian prehistory (1990) (16)
Exploring migrants’ knowledge and skill in seasonal farm work: more than labouring bodies (2020) (16)
Geographical Fire Research in Australia: Review and Prospects (2014) (15)
Entangled invasive lives: indigenous invasive plant management in northern australia (2015) (13)
Stomatal parameters and atmospheric change since 7500 years before present: evidence from Eremophila deserti (Myoporaceae) leaves from the Flinders Ranges region, South Australia (2000) (13)
'We all la one land': pastoral excisions and Aboriginal resource use (1991) (11)
Palaeo-ecology of the Gap and Coturaundee Ranges, western New South Wales, using stick-nest rat (Leporillus spp.) (Muridae) middens (2000) (11)
Introduction: Applied Natures—cultural engagements with Australian environmental management (2006) (11)
The Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Stick-Nest Rat Middens in Australia (1999) (10)
Meganesian Barbecue: Reply to George Seddon (1995) (10)
Pollen Analysis of Sediments from the Bridgewater Caves Archaeological Site, Southwestern Victoria (1985) (9)
Thesis Abstract: Environment as Artefact : A palaeoecological contribution to the prehistory of southwestern Victoria (1985) (8)
Risky representations: The 'seduction of wholeness' and the public face of Australian archaeology (1998) (8)
Everyday weather-ways: Negotiating the temporalities of home and work in Melbourne, Australia (2020) (8)
Shifting settler-colonial discourses of environmentalism: Representations of indigeneity and migration in Australian conservation (2018) (8)
Exploring the prehistory of hunter-gatherer attachments to place: An example from the Keep River area, Northern Territory, Australia (2003) (7)
Both Ends of the Candle?: Discerning Human Impact on the Vegetation (1994) (7)
Conversations with Lesley Head aboutHope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Reconceptualising Human-Nature Relations (2018) (7)
Irrigator relations with water in the Sunraysia region, northwestern Victoria (2018) (7)
Time, temporality and environmental change (2020) (7)
Nature, culture and time: contested landscapes among environmental managers in Skane, southern Sweden (2012) (6)
Administrative Law: Context and Critique (2005) (6)
Yam landscapes: The biogeography and social life of Australian 'Dioscorea' (2012) (6)
The state of geography in Australian universities (2021) (6)
Cultivating Engagements: Ethnic Minority Migrants, Agriculture, and Environment in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia (2019) (5)
Gardeners' talk: a linguistic study of relationships between environmental attitudes, beliefs and practices (2008) (5)
Grief, Loss and the Cultural Politics of Climate Change (2016) (5)
Headlines and Songlines (1996) (4)
Traditional Aboriginal Plant Resources in the Kalumburu Area: Aspects in Ethno-economics [Book Review] (1989) (4)
The politics of evaporation and the making of atmospheric territory in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (2021) (4)
Nature and culture in the backyard (2004) (4)
Archaeology and Native Title in Australia: National and Local Perspectives. (2000) (4)
Geographical scale in understanding human landscapes (2008) (4)
Different histories: A common inheritance for Papua New Guinea and Australia? (2004) (4)
Conservation and Aboriginal land rights: when green is not black. by Lesley Head (1990) (4)
Fighting Environmental Racism (1992) (4)
Living in a weedy future: Insights from the garden (2014) (4)
Archaeological Research in the Keep River Region, Northern Territory (1999) (3)
Further discussion of Phyllocladus and its pollen in Victoria during the Holocene (1985) (3)
Australia’s rich talk about saving the environment; the poor bear the burden of doing it (2012) (3)
Why stop at response? (2017) (3)
Wild articulations: environmentalism and indigeneity in Northern Australia (2018) (3)
Cultures of Nature (2017) (3)
Women, men and water in Australian backyards (2006) (2)
Beyond Green: Human–environment geographies for the ‘new’ century (2022) (2)
Bringing Together Landless Farmers and Unused Farmland: The Sunraysia Burundian Garden and Food Next Door Initiative (2018) (2)
Guest Editorial: Geographical Fire Research in Australia – Review and Prospects (2014) (2)
Living with, living without weeds: bridging theory and practice (2013) (1)
Earthly indifference and human difference. Book review symposium - Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet by Nigel Clark (2012) (1)
Making Sense of Nature: Representation, Politics and Democracy (2014) (1)
Holding on and letting go: nature, temporality and environmental management (2016) (1)
Exploring human-plant entanglements: the case of Australian dioscorea yams (2013) (1)
Barriers to and enablers of sustainable practices: insights from ethnic minority migrants (2021) (1)
Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management (2022) (1)
Spotlight On ... The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing (2012) (1)
More than human, more than nature (2016) (1)
Have we changed our cultures of urban water (2012) (1)
The conversation we need to have about carbon (2013) (1)
BIOMES and Plant Functional Types for Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia (1998) (1)
Design of meteorological and environmental monitor (MEM) (2000) (0)
Driving cars: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Laundry: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Book reviews: Geographies of Australian heritages. Loving a sunburnt country? and Surface collection (2009) (0)
Australian Prehistoric Geographies (2003) (0)
Comment: Community resilience, natural hazards and climate change (2020) (0)
Having a baby: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Production of knowledge and its policy implications (2017) (0)
Antoinette Lyndall (Toni) O;Neill, 1945–1999 (2000) (0)
“Winga Is Trying to Get in”: Local Observations of Climate Change in the Tiwi Islands (2023) (0)
References: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Index: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Screens: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Identity, heritage and tourism (2017) (0)
Fullagar, Richard L. K. (2020) (0)
The question of naturalness: environmental change in ecology and palaeoecology : change (2017) (0)
Evolving nature—culture relationships (2018) (0)
Toilets: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Solar hot water giving you cold showers? Eight tips to warm you up (2015) (0)
Earthly indifference and human difference (2012) (0)
Book Reviews : Social construction of the past: representation as power. Edited by G. C. Bond and A. Gilliam. London: Routledge. 1994. xviii + 238 pp. £40.00 cloth. ISBN 0 415 09045 8 (1996) (0)
Water: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Assembling Birrarung Wilam: a case study of Indigenous public artwork in the city (2020) (0)
Humanized landscapes: a place for people? (2017) (0)
Spaghetti bolognese: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
NATIVENESS, INVASIVENESS, AND NATION IN (2016) (0)
Living with weeds (2016) (0)
Abbreviations: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
The refrigerator: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing The teleconference and its implications for geographical knowledge-sharing (2012) (0)
Death: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Governing the ungovernable? 1 (2016) (0)
Environmental issues and household sustainability in Australia (2013) (0)
Flying: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Beyond fortress and sprawl : Retrofitting cities, suburbs and households (2016) (0)
Suburban gardens as landscapes of the city edge: perspectives from Australia (2006) (0)
Exploring migrants’ knowledge and skill in seasonal farm work: more than labouring bodies (2019) (0)
Plastic bags: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Journeys Between Nature and Culture (2000) (0)
Furniture: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Acknowledgements: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Clothes: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia [Book Review] (1994) (0)
Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners [Book Review] (2010) (0)
Conclusion: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Traditional Aboriginal Plant Resources in the Kalumburu Area: Aspects in Ethno-Economics by I.M. Crawford (1989) (0)
Warmth: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
The social construction of nature and landscape (2017) (0)
Book Review: Dynamic world: land-cover and land-use change (2003) (0)
Transformed landscapes: human impacts and the palaeoecological record (2017) (0)
The (Aboriginal) face of the (Australian) earth (2006) (0)
Solar hot water: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Copyright: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Introduction: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Retirement: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
The garden: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Contingent constructions: cultural landscapes and environmental change (2017) (0)
The everyday and the uncanny (2020) (0)
Contents: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Rethinking agriculture, rethinking Anthropocene (2016) (0)
Mobile phones: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
Christmas: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)
The spectre of catastrophe (2016) (0)
The undergraduate as informed layperson: Issues in teaching prehistory to geography students (1994) (0)
Tables: Challenges and Dilemmas in Everyday Life (2013) (0)

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