Dr Kathryn Williams
Position: |
Senior Lecturer, Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management |
Location: |
Burnley Campus |
Address: |
LFR, Burnley Campus, The University of Melbourne, 3010 |
Phone: |
+61-3- 9250 6824 |
Fax: |
+61-3- 9250 6885 |
Email: |
kjhw@unimelb.edu.au |
Research
- Social and psychological aspects of land and resource management
- Landscape experience and assessment
Recent funded projects and consultancies
- Social acceptability of forest management options: Landscape level analysis (ARC Linkage grant with Industry Partners Forestry Tasmania, Tasmanian Forest Practices Authority and Tourism Tasmania)
- Community attitudes towards plantation forestry – CRC Forestry funded project
Recent Publications
Refereed Papers
Bishop, I.D., Ford, R., Loiterton, D. and Williams, K. (2005) Studying the acceptability of forest management practices using visual simulation of forest regrowth in Visualization in Landscape and Environmental Planning. I. D. Bishop and E. Lange (eds). London, SPON. pp 112-119
Williams, K.J.H. (2004). Infrastructure change and visitor experience at 12 Apostles, Port Campbell National Park (Victoria, Australia). International Federation of Parks and Recreation Administration Bulletin (refereed section), pp. 8-9.
Ford, R.M., Williams, K.J.H, Flanagan, A.K. & Webb, T. (2004). Measuring beliefs about clearfelling. In M.J.Mowlaei, A. Rose and J. Lamborn (eds). Proceedings of the 7 th Annual Environmental Research Conference: Environmental Sustainability through Multidisciplinary Integration. 1-4 December 2003, The Cumberland, Marysville, Victoria, Australia, pp. 153-163.
Wang, H., Williams, K.J.H & Beilin, R. (2004). Landholders’ assessment of the quality of riparian areas in South Gippsland. In M.J.Mowlaei, A. Rose and J. Lamborn (eds). Proceedings of the 7 th Annual Environmental Research Conference: Environmental Sustainability through Multidisciplinary Integration. 1-4 December 2003, The Cumberland, Marysville, Victoria, Australia, pp. 390-399.
Hamer, J. Williams, K.J.H & Beilin, R. (2004). Attachment to landscape: A case study of the Box-Ironbark landscapes of central Victoria. In M.J.Mowlaei, A. Rose and J. Lamborn (eds). Proceedings of the 7 th Annual Environmental Research Conference: Environmental Sustainability through Multidisciplinary Integration. 1-4 December 2003, The Cumberland, Marysville, Victoria, Australia, pp. 183-192.
Williams, K.J.H., Nettle, R. & Petheram, J. (2003). Public response to plantation forestry on farms. Australian Forestry, 66 (2), pp.93-99.
Williams, K.J.H. (2003). The biodiversity we want to maintain and the reasons we want to maintain it. In J. Crosthwaite, Q. Farmer-Bowers & C. Hollier (eds.), Land use Change – YES! – But will biodiversity be OK?Proceedings of a conference at Attwood, Victoria, August 2002. Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne (CD ROM)
Williams, K.J.H (2002). Exploring resident preference for street trees in Melbourne, Australia. Journal of Arboriculture, 28(4), pp. 161-170.
Williams, K.J.H (2002). Beliefs about natural forest systems. Australian Forestry, 65 (2), pp. 81-86.
Williams, K.J.H. & Cary, J.W. (2002) Landscape preference, ecological quality and biodiversity protection. Environment and Behavior, 34 (2), 258-275.
Williams, K.J.H., Cary, J.W & Webb, T. (2001). Social research priorities for forest management. TasForests, 13 (2), 303-307.
Williams, K.J.H. & Harvey, D.H.P. (2001). Transcendent experience in forest environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 21 (3), pp. 249-260.
Williams, K.J.H. & Cary, J.W. (2001). Perception of native grassland in south eastern Australia. Ecological Restoration and Management, 2 (2), pp.139-144.
Meeting abstracts
Ford, R. M., Williams, K J.H., Bishop, I. D., Webb, T. (2005). Information effects on social acceptance of alternatives to clearfelling, Proceedings of the 22 nd Biennial Conference of the Institute of Foresters of Australia.
Williams K J.H, Ford R. M., Bishop I. D., Webb T. (2005) Understanding the acceptability of forest management options. Proceedings of the 22nd Biennial Conference of the Institute of Foresters of Australia.
Williams, K., Ford, R, Bishop, I. Loiterton, D., Hickey, J. Webb, T. (2004). Using computer visualisations to examine social response to land management. 33 rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Australasian Social Psychologists, Auckland, New Zealand.
Technical reports
Williams K J.H, Ford R. M., Bishop I. D., Webb T. (2005) Social acceptability of Forest Management Systems: Project Overview. Parkville: University of Melbourne.
Webb, H. & Williams, K. (2002). Social carrying capacity at the 12 Apostles, Port Campbell National Park. Parkville: University of Melbourne.
Williams, K.J.H., Cary, J.W. & Webb, T. (2001). Social assessment of forest management systems. A report prepared for Forestry Tasmania. Canberra: Bureau of Rural Sciences.
Teaching
- Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management
- Social Research Methods
- Landscape Management
Other professional interests
- Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Natural Resource Management
Links
Potential Projects
1st Year Honours
- Landscape assessment projects: grassy ecosystems; low water use landscapes
Masters and PhD areas
- Exploration of community views on plantation and native forestry