Undergraduate Convenor
Geography Program Convenor

Deputy Dean of ANU College of Science
Environmental policy and planning, Indigenous resource management issues, environmental education, university teaching methods
Phone: +61 (0)2 6125 4873
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Richard.Baker@anu.edu.au

Richard was born and bred in Canberra. From 1990 to 1993 he was the inaugural head of the People and the Environment section of the National Museum of Australia. He has taught Geography at ANU since 1994. He was awarded the ANU Vice-Chancellor's award for teaching excellence in 1996 and 2002. The introductory Fenner School course that he coordinates SRES1001 won a 2003 National Teaching award. In 2006 he won a national Carrick teaching award and in 2007 a national Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Professional Activities

My teaching at ANU includes coordinating the first year SRES course 'Resources, Environment and Society', the Vietnam Field School SRES2017 and co-teaching the third year course 'Environmental Policy and Planning'. My research focuses on community participation in resource management and environmental policy. I have worked on these issues in Australia and south-east Asia. I have worked in Vietnam with the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ), (World Conservation Union), on issues related to community participation in wetlands management. My work in Australia has focused on Indigenous communities and land management issues. This has been written up in two books: Land is Life (published in 1999 by Allen and Unwin) and Working on Country (published in 2001 by Oxford University Press.

Further personal details, links to publications, recent graduate student details and on-line articles on teaching methods are available at http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/people/baker/index.html

Academic Highlights

I have supervised the following recent PhD completions:

• Geraldine Teakle 2007 - Northern Territory cyclones: a case study of complex social-ecological systems
• Kirsten Maclean 2007 -Negotiating environmental knowledge - community attitudes to NRM in Australia
• Karen Fisher 2006 - Social politics of water management in the Philippines
• Diana James 2006 - Kinship with Country

Selected Publications

Le Heron, R., Baker, R. and McEwen. L. Co-learning: Re-linking Research and Teaching in Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education. Oxford: March Vol.30, Iss. 1: 77-88

Measham, T. and R. Baker 2005 Combining People, Place and Learning. Page 91-103 in Keen, M, Brown, V. and Dyball, R. (eds) 2005. Social Learning in Environmental Management: Towards a sustainable future. London: James and James/Earthscan.

Baker, R.M. 2003 Yanyuwa classical burning regimes, Indigenous science and cross-cultural communication, pages 198-204 in Australia burning: fire ecology, policy and management issues CSIRO publishing, Collingwood Victoria ISBN 0 643 0 06926 7

Robinson, C, Liddle, L. and Baker, R.M 2003 Journeys through an Australian Sacred landscape, Museum International, 218: 74-77

Baker, R.M., Davies J. and Young, E. (eds) 2001. Working on Country: Contemporary Indigenous Management of Australia's Lands and Coastal Regions, Oxford Uni Press

Baker, R.M. 1999. Land is Life: From Bush to Town - the story of the Yanyuwa people. Allen and Unwin, Sydney