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Geography Program Convenor Deputy Dean of ScienceANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment ANU College of Physical Sciences Environmental policy and planning, Indigenous resource management issues, environmental education, university teaching methods Phone: +61 2 6125 4873 Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746 E-mail: richard.baker@anu.edu.au |
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Richard was from 1990 to 1993 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 ENVS1001 won a 2003 National Teaching award. In 2006 he won a national Carrick teaching award. Professional ActivitiesMy teaching at ANU includes coordinating the first year Fenner course "Resources, Environment and Society" (ENVS1001) and the "Vietnam Field School" (ENVS2017) and co-teaching the 3rd year course "Environmental Policy and Planning" (ENVS3028). 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 also worked in Viet Nam with the IUCN (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 (Allen and Unwin) and Working on Country (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-people.anu.edu.au/richard_baker/ Academic HighlightsI have supervised the following recent PhD completions Sue Feary 2007 - Chain-saw dreaming - Indigenous people and forestry Tran Ha 2007 - The Impacts of Doi Moi Process on Communities and Forest Land Management in the Nothern Mountainous Region of Vietnam 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 PublicationsLe 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 & 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, with, 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 |
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