Professor Guy Robinson

Guy Robinson joined UniSA in September 2008 as Director of the Centre for Rural Health and Community Development, and Dean of Research, Centre for Regional Engagement.

Previously Guy worked at Kingston University London (1994-2008), the University of Edinburgh (1979-1994) and the University of Oxford (1977-8). He was Head of the School of Geography at Kingston University London from 1994-2000, and Director of the Centre for Earth & Environmental Science Research (CEESR) from 2003-8. At Edinburgh he was a Lecturer in the School of Geography (1979-1988) and Senior Lecturer (1988-94). At Oxford he was the Radcliffe Meteorological Observer and Acting Demonstrator in the School of Geography.

He is currently the Editor of 'Land Use Policy' and the 'British Review of New Zealand Studies (BRONZS)'.

He was awarded the President's Medal by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1994, and (with Henning Bjornlund and Ahmed Al-Marsoodi) won the Royal Geographical Society's Wilfred Thesiger Award in 2009.

He has held visiting positions at the following universities: Regina (1978), Canterbury (NZ) (1984), Melbourne (1987), Queensland (1990), Newcastle (NSW) (1993), Otago (1997: William Evans Visiting Fellow), Guelph (2002), Australian Defence Force Academy (2004).

He currently holds Visiting Professorships at Kingston University London and South Bank University London.

• Rural Development
• Environmental Management
• Research Methods

Chair, Rural Geography Research Group, Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (2007- )

Member of: Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, Institute of Australian Geographers, Geographical Association, Royal Scottish Geographical Society, British Australian Studies Association (President, 2000-2002), British Association for Canadian Studies

BSc (London) 1973 (Geography)

DPhil (Oxon) 1977 (Geography)

• Rural and regional development
• Environmental management - especially issues relating to sustainable agriculture and waste management
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of geographical data
• Nationalism and identity

Selected Books:

(editor) Sustainable Rural Development (Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008)
Geographies of Agriculture (Pearson, Harlow, 2004)
Australia and New Zealand: Economy, Society and Environment (with P. Tranter and R. Loughran) (Edward Arnold, London, 2000)
Methods and Techniques in Human Geography (Wiley, Chichester & New York, 1998)
Conflict and Change in the Countryside (Wiley, Chichester and New York, 1994)
(editor) A Social Geography of Canada (Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1991) Agricultural Change (North British Publishing, Edinburgh, 1988)

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters (from 2000- )

Contemporary Agricultural and Agri-Environmental Change

2008 (with F.A. Harris and I. Griffiths) ‘A study of the motivations and influences on farners’ decisions to leave the organic farming sector in the United Kingdom’, pp. 99-112 in G.M. Robinson (ed) Sustainable Rural Systems: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities, Ashgate, Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.

2007 (1st author: with F.A. Harris, I. Griffiths and J. Shorland) ‘“Organic quitters”: The turnover of farmers in England’s organic farming sector’, pp. 154-167 in Sorensen, A. (ed) Progress in Sustainable Development (Proceedings of the 14th Colloquium of the Commission on the Sustainable Development of Rural Systems of the International Geographical Union held jointly with the Commissions on Land Use and Cover Change and Local Development, Cairns Australia, July 2006).

2006 ‘Canada’s environmental farm plans: trans-Atlantic perspectives on agri-environmental schemes’, Geographical Journal, 172 (3), 206-218.

2006 ‘Ontario’s Environmental Farm Plan: Evaluation and research agenda, Geoforum, 37 (5), 859-873.

2005 ‘Stewardship, “proper farming” and environmental gain: contrasting experiences of agri-environment schemes in Canada and the UK’, pp. 135-150 in Essex, S., Gilg. A.W., Yarwood, R, Smithers, J. and Wilson, R. (eds), Rural change and sustainability: agriculture, the environment and communities (CABI Publishing, Wallingford).

2005 ‘The uplands: a kind of national property?’, in Winchester, A. and Whyte, I.D. (eds), Society, landscape and environment in upland Britain (Society for Landscape Studies/University of Exeter Press, Exeter).

2003 ‘Environmentally-friendly farming: an investigation of policies and impacts in Ontario, Canada’, for Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, 44pp.

2003 ‘The alternative food economy: myths, realities and potential’, pp. 275-88 in Evans, N. and Walford, N.S. (eds), Innovations in rural areas: Fourth Colloque franco-britannique de Géographie rurale, University College Worcester and Kingston University, May 2002 (Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand for Rural Geography Research Group, RGS-IBG and Commission de Géographie Rurale, Comité National de Géographie; Centre d’Etudes et de Researches Appliques au Massif Central, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand).

2001 (with S. Simpson) ‘Agri-environment policies, post-productivism and sustainability: England’s Countryside Stewardship Scheme’, in Molinero, F., Baraja, E. and Alario, M. (eds), Proceedings of the Second Anglo-Spanish Symposium on Rural Geography, University of Valladolid, July 2000 (University of Valladolid, Spain), Section 3-3, pp. 1-16.

Rural Development and Sustainability Issues

2008 ‘Rural transformations in Western Europe: an overview’, pp. 39-57 in Singh, A.L. and Fazal, S. (eds) Rural environmental management (B R Publishing Corp., Delhi).

2007 ‘The emergence of a new Australian wine tourism region’, pp. 223-243 in Bryant, C.R. and Grillotti Di Giacomo, M.G. (eds) Quality Agriculture: Historical Heritage and Environmental Resources for the Integrated Development of Territories (Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Italy, 4-9 July 2005, FAO, IGU, AGeI, GEOCOAGRI, Roma Tre: Brigati, Genova).

2005 (first author, with A.D. Read) ‘Recycling behaviour in a London Borough: results from large-scale household surveys’, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 45, 70-83.

2005 (first author, with R.M. Taylor) ‘Recycling in Berrylands, Hook and Tolworth: Results from a Household Survey’, for the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

2003 ‘Evaluating the changing context of rural service provision in England’, European Research in Regional Science, 12: 9-22 (edited by G. Higgs, in issue on ‘Rural Services and Social Exclusion’) (Pion, for The Regional Science Association, London).

2003 ‘Editor’s introduction: Desire - Australian aspirations’, Australian Studies, 18 (2), 1-6.

2002 ‘Guest Editorial: Sustainable development - From Rio to Johannesburg’, Geography, 87, 185-8.

2002 ‘Nature, society and sustainability’, pp. 35-57 in Bowler, I.R., Bryant, C.R. and Cocklin, C. (eds) The Sustainability of Rural Systems: Geographical interpretations (Kluwer Academic Publishers GeoJournal Library, for the International Geographical Union, Dordrecht).

2002 (first author, with P. Tranter) ‘“Comings and goings”: international migration and the “Asianisation” of Australia’, Australian Studies, 17 (2), 211-36.

2002 ‘Treaty and Tribunal: redressing longstanding grievances in Aotearoa/New Zealand’, The Round Table, 367, 613-24.

2001 (with S.Jones and A.D. Read) Recycling Roadshow: Investigations into recycling of household waste in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 96pp.

2000 (with A.D. Read) Interim Report: Recycling Roadshow: Investigations into recycling of household waste in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, 50pp.

2000 (with A.D. Read) Report to Waste to Energy Foundation (on waste recycling), 30pp.
2000 ‘Theory and practice in community-based environmental management in Atlantic Canada’, pp. 111-123 in Millward, H., Beesley, K., Ilbery, B.W. and Harrington, L. (eds), Agricultural and environmental sustainability in the new countryside (Rural Research Centre, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia).

Nationalism and identity in the former republic of Yugoslavia

2008 ‘“Apocalyptic countryside”: Post-Dayton Hercegovina’, pp. 67-78 in Diry, J-P (ed) Les étrangers dans les campagnes (CERAMAC/Press Universitaires Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand).

2008 Report to the EU for Tempus programme ‘Upgrading and developing GIS in accordance with strategic reforms in higher education in Bosnia-Herzegovina’, pp. 27.

2007 (with S. Engelstoft and A.Pobric) ‘Bosnian nationalism and the rebuilding of Sarajevo’, pp. 218-233 in Neill, W.J.V. and Schwedler, H-U. (eds), Migration and cultural inclusion in the European city (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke and New York, 2007).

2006 (first author, with A Pobric) ‘Nationalism and identity in post-Dayton Accords Bosnia-Herzegovina’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Social Geografie, 97 (3), 237-252.

2004 (with A.Pobric and S. Engelstoft) ‘Débaptiser les rues de Sarajevo et l’identité bosniaque’, pp. 325-30 in Richard, Y. and Sanguin, A-L. (eds), L’Europe de l’est quinze ans après la chute du mur: des pays baltes à l’ex-Yugoslavie (L’Harmattan, Paris).

2001 (first author, with S. Engelstoft and A. Pobric), ‘Remaking Sarajevo: Bosnian nationalism since the Dayton Accords’, Political Geography, 20, 957-980.

2001 ‘Remaking Sarajevo’, pp. 105-126 in Simko, D. and Haumann, H. (eds), Peace perspectives for Southeast Europe (Academia Press, Basel University, Switzerland.

Geographical Methodology/Thought

In press Three commissioned entries in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (published by Elsevier):
‘Statistics Overview’ – 8,000 words
‘Time Series’ – 4000 words
‘James Wreford Watson’ - 1000 words.

2007 ‘John Terence (Terry) Coppock’, Geographers Biobibliographic Studies, 26, 6-26.

2004 ‘New Zealand Studies’, published on the Web site of the Subject Network for Languages and Area Studies, University of Southampton.

2000 ‘What method for this place? Geographical techniques and peripheral societies’, pp. 107-16 in Leontidou, L. (ed) Launching Greek geography on the Eastern European Union border: the papers of the First International Geography Symposium of the Aegean (Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Lesvos).