Richard Hindmarsh
Currently my main research project is: 'Rethinking the public inquiry on science, technology & environmental change', supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant DP170101440 (2017-2019) sole chief investigator.
My latest paper which cannot be uploaded here due to 'Energy Policy' copyright conditions is -- Hindmarsh, R. & Alidoust, S. 2019. Rethinking Australian CSG transitions in participatory contexts of local social conflict, community engagement, and shifts towards cleaner energy. Energy Policy 132: 272-282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.05.035
My latest book -- Hindmarsh, R. & Priestley, R. eds. 2016. The Fukushima Effect: A New Geopolitical Terrain (2016) Routledge NY -- is at the forefront of critical reflection on the world's worst nuclear disaster. It builds on 'Hindmarsh, R. ed. 2013 Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political, and Environmental Issues. Routledge NY.
Key research fields are environmental politics and policy and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies, not to be confused with the less political Science and Technology Studies, and the eclectic Social Studies of Science movement
My key topics include the regulation of the environmental release of GMOs, wind and nuclear energy, community engagement, and rethinking the public inquiry on science, technology and environmental impact/change.
As a Professor of Environmental Politics at the interface of STS, I am also a senior member of Griffith University's Centre for Governance and Public Policy, and have been visiting professor/academic to the Universities of Vienna, Canterbury (NZ), Lancaster and Manchester, and the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan). I have produced 8 books (incl. one monograph), 3 special journal issues, and have published in many good journals, including 'Nature'. I am a member of the International Consultative Group of the (US) Council for Responsible Genetics.
Phone: +61 (0)7 3735 7517
Address: Professor Richard Hindmarsh
School of Environment and Science
Griffith University
Nathan, Brisbane, Australia, 4111
My latest paper which cannot be uploaded here due to 'Energy Policy' copyright conditions is -- Hindmarsh, R. & Alidoust, S. 2019. Rethinking Australian CSG transitions in participatory contexts of local social conflict, community engagement, and shifts towards cleaner energy. Energy Policy 132: 272-282, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.05.035
My latest book -- Hindmarsh, R. & Priestley, R. eds. 2016. The Fukushima Effect: A New Geopolitical Terrain (2016) Routledge NY -- is at the forefront of critical reflection on the world's worst nuclear disaster. It builds on 'Hindmarsh, R. ed. 2013 Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political, and Environmental Issues. Routledge NY.
Key research fields are environmental politics and policy and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies, not to be confused with the less political Science and Technology Studies, and the eclectic Social Studies of Science movement
My key topics include the regulation of the environmental release of GMOs, wind and nuclear energy, community engagement, and rethinking the public inquiry on science, technology and environmental impact/change.
As a Professor of Environmental Politics at the interface of STS, I am also a senior member of Griffith University's Centre for Governance and Public Policy, and have been visiting professor/academic to the Universities of Vienna, Canterbury (NZ), Lancaster and Manchester, and the International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan). I have produced 8 books (incl. one monograph), 3 special journal issues, and have published in many good journals, including 'Nature'. I am a member of the International Consultative Group of the (US) Council for Responsible Genetics.
Phone: +61 (0)7 3735 7517
Address: Professor Richard Hindmarsh
School of Environment and Science
Griffith University
Nathan, Brisbane, Australia, 4111
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BOOKS by Richard Hindmarsh
meltdown, The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly
perspectives on the international effect of the disaster.
Grounded in the field of science, technology and society
studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the
Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US examine the extent and
scope of the Fukushima effect as found in a new
geopolitical terrain created in the disaster’s wake. In
focusing on ‘nuclear nations’ and emergent nuclear and
non-nuclear nations, national histories, debates and policy
responses around nuclear power development and the
many associated issues are revealed and critically discussed.
This volume, edited by political scientist Richard Hindmarsh,
from Griffith University, and science historian Rebecca
Priestley, from Victoria University of Wellington, will add
significantly to the ongoing international debate on the
Fukushima disaster and will interest academics, policymakers,
energy pundits, public interest organizations,
citizens and students.
meltdown, The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly
perspectives on the international effect of the disaster.
Grounded in the field of science, technology and society
studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the
Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US examine the extent and
scope of the Fukushima effect as found in a new
geopolitical terrain created in the disaster’s wake. In
focusing on ‘nuclear nations’ and emergent nuclear and
non-nuclear nations, national histories, debates and policy
responses around nuclear power development and the
many associated issues are revealed and critically discussed.
This volume, edited by political scientist Richard Hindmarsh,
from Griffith University, and science historian Rebecca
Priestley, from Victoria University of Wellington, will add
significantly to the ongoing international debate on the
Fukushima disaster and will interest academics, policymakers,
energy pundits, public interest organizations,
citizens and students.
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KEY PAPERS I: MOST RECENT by Richard Hindmarsh
Summing up, we reflect first on the potential of digital surveillance to curb environmental activism with its aim to protect the environment and move towards strong sustainability and green economies; and second, on the
potential of environmental activism to resist or manage surveillance.
Keywords: the public inquiry; political technology; GM crops;
agbiotechnology; public participation, legitimacy, policy effectiveness
or new environmental management at the local level, this paper introduces “place-change planning”. This concept is applied to recent calls by Australian water scientists and policy-makers “to liberate the knowledge, skills and individual leadership and collaboration of all stakeholders to reflect a more decentralised,disaggregated and localised water world”. Local community stakeholders appear the
most neglected stakeholder currently in such water management, despite increasing international recognition of their importance for constructive change in transitional sustainability contexts. As such, place-change policy design focuses on the importance of collaborative participatory approaches for better understanding of the
underlying rationalities, and, by association, of better liberating the social knowledges, of place-based local communities for better policy input to realise new visions of sustainable water management, and beyond.
Keywords: place-change; planning; social knowledges; community engagement; water and environmental management
meltdown, The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly
perspectives on the international effect of the disaster.
Grounded in the field of science, technology and society
studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the
Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US examine the extent and
scope of the Fukushima effect as found in a new
geopolitical terrain created in the disaster’s wake. In
focusing on ‘nuclear nations’ and emergent nuclear and
non-nuclear nations, national histories, debates and policy
responses around nuclear power development and the
many associated issues are revealed and critically discussed.
This volume, edited by political scientist Richard Hindmarsh,
from Griffith University, and science historian Rebecca
Priestley, from Victoria University of Wellington, will add
significantly to the ongoing international debate on the
Fukushima disaster and will interest academics, policymakers,
energy pundits, public interest organizations,
citizens and students.
meltdown, The Fukushima Effect offers a range of scholarly
perspectives on the international effect of the disaster.
Grounded in the field of science, technology and society
studies, a leading cast of international scholars from the
Asia-Pacific, Europe and the US examine the extent and
scope of the Fukushima effect as found in a new
geopolitical terrain created in the disaster’s wake. In
focusing on ‘nuclear nations’ and emergent nuclear and
non-nuclear nations, national histories, debates and policy
responses around nuclear power development and the
many associated issues are revealed and critically discussed.
This volume, edited by political scientist Richard Hindmarsh,
from Griffith University, and science historian Rebecca
Priestley, from Victoria University of Wellington, will add
significantly to the ongoing international debate on the
Fukushima disaster and will interest academics, policymakers,
energy pundits, public interest organizations,
citizens and students.
(20% Discount Available - enter the code FLR40 at
checkout*)
20% Discount Available
Summing up, we reflect first on the potential of digital surveillance to curb environmental activism with its aim to protect the environment and move towards strong sustainability and green economies; and second, on the
potential of environmental activism to resist or manage surveillance.
Keywords: the public inquiry; political technology; GM crops;
agbiotechnology; public participation, legitimacy, policy effectiveness
or new environmental management at the local level, this paper introduces “place-change planning”. This concept is applied to recent calls by Australian water scientists and policy-makers “to liberate the knowledge, skills and individual leadership and collaboration of all stakeholders to reflect a more decentralised,disaggregated and localised water world”. Local community stakeholders appear the
most neglected stakeholder currently in such water management, despite increasing international recognition of their importance for constructive change in transitional sustainability contexts. As such, place-change policy design focuses on the importance of collaborative participatory approaches for better understanding of the
underlying rationalities, and, by association, of better liberating the social knowledges, of place-based local communities for better policy input to realise new visions of sustainable water management, and beyond.
Keywords: place-change; planning; social knowledges; community engagement; water and environmental management
behavioural rationalities (the underlying beliefs, attitudes and perceptions) that inform the qualifications and place-protective actions about wind farm location of local stakeholders at the forefront of wind farm contestation: landscape guardian groups. The conclusion is that current policy responses with regard to community engagement, which encourage a largely inform-consult participatory engagement approach, are inadequate. A more promising approach is the collaborative approach, which can also facilitate social mapping of local community qualifications and boundaries about wind farm location alongside technical mapping of wind resources. This is needed to identify the most socially, economically and technically viable locations to locate wind farms to ensure effective renewable energy transitions.
Keywords Wind farms . Community engagement . Australia . Policy learning
by inadequate community involvement in state government approval processes for wind farms. In seeking to redress that democratic deficit, in 2006, the prior federal government proposed a strong participatory National Code for Wind Farms. State governments rejected the proposal as a constraint to wind power and claimed adequate community engagement. In overviewing the debate, we find in favour of the prior federal government’s position, refer to European participatory policy lessons, and find the National Code heavily
featuring ‘deliberative speak’ in an approach suggesting placation of communities instead of its purported one of consensus-building. That informs some tentative suggestions of how to better engender a more socially viable and constructive approach for wind farm, and
more broadly, renewable, energy transitions in Australia.
KEY WORDS: Wind farms, community engagement, Australia, deliberative speak