Select Publications
Books
2011, Landscape, Place and Culture Linkages between Australia and India, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
,2004, Art and wellbeing, Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney, Australia
,Book Chapters
2017, 'Art and the Bomb: exposing the legacy of British nuclear testing through atomic survivor stories', in Building Sustainability with the Arts
,2013, 'Scarce Water and the Australian Progress Trap: a commentary', in Badyopadhay DN; Francis R (ed.), Remapping the Future: History, Culture and Environment in Australia and India, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne
,2012, 'Conclusions', in Merson J; Cooney R; Brown P (ed.), Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 316 - 323
,2012, 'Introduction', in Merson J; Cooney R; Brown P (ed.), Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp. 2 - 11
,2011, 'Preface', in Landscape, Place and Culture: linkages between Australia and India
,2010, 'Ethics, Ownership, Authorship', in Verbatim Theatre: staging memory and community
,2010, 'Minefields and Minskirts: Oral History, Womens Voices, and Staging the Vietnam War', in Verbatim Theatre: staging memory and community
,2010, 'The Future of Verbatim Theatre: Truthfulness in a New Era', in Brown P (ed.), Verbatim: Staging Memory and Community, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, Sydney, pp. 18 - 21
,2008, 'Knowledge, Power and Cultural Policy: social understanding through community cultural development', in Making Money Making Meaning: Directions for the Arts and Cultural Industries in the Creative Age, Cambridge Scholars
,2006, 'Maralinga: Theatre from a Place of War', in Unstable Ground: Performance and the Politics of Place, PIE Peter Lang, Brusseles, pp. 205 - 226
,2006, 'The storyteller enters the marketplace: the first decade (and a half) of Urban Theatre Projects', in History of Urban Theatre Projects
,2002, 'The ratbag of Botany: Activism and community participation around industrial sites in south-eastern Sydney', in McPhillips K (ed.), LOCAL HEROES: Australian Crusades from the Environmental Frontline, Pluto Press, Sydney, Australia, pp. 110 - 128
,2001, 'Introduction', in Aftershocks – the playscript with Introduction, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, Australia, pp. 7 - 28
,Edited Books
Merson J; Brown PF; Cooney R, (eds.), 2012, Conservation in a Crowded World: Case studies from the Asia-Pacific, UNSW Press, Sydney
Brown PF, (ed.), 2010, Verbatim: staging memory and community
Journal articles
2024, 'Collaboratively crafting learning standards for tertiary education for environment and sustainability', International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 25, pp. 338 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-11-2022-0363
,2018, 'Life Lifted Into the Sky', Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts
,2018, 'Rebellious art: pushing back against the nuclear state', Unlikely: journal for creative arts, http://unlikely.net.au/issue-05/rebellious-art
,2018, 'Romancing the atom: a nuclear opera in the park', Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts Special Issue Reimagining Maralinga
,2018, 'Staging the Bomb', Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts Special Issue Reimagining Maralinga
,2018, 'Why reimagine Maralinga?', Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, pp. 3 [Online] - 3 [Online]
,2014, 'Distributed leadership: Building capacity for interdisciplinary climate change teaching at four universities', International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 15, pp. 98 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-10-2012-0091
,2014, 'Ecological knowledge in community theater', CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2584
,2014, 'Implementing sustainable water and sanitation projects in rural, developing communities', Waterlines, 33, pp. 71 - 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.3362/1756-3488.2014.008
,2014, 'Environmental ethics: Potent foundational knowledge or inert scholarship?', Metascience, 23, pp. 131 - 136, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-013-9817-z
,2013, 'Using communities of practice to enhance interdisciplinary teaching: Lessons from four Australian institutions', Higher Education Research and Development, 33, pp. 341 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2013.832168
,2011, 'Critical evaluation of planning frameworks for rural water and sanitation development projects', Development in Practice, 21, pp. 168 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2011.543269
,2009, 'A commentary on decision-making and organisational legitimacy in the Risk Society', Journal of Environmental Management, 90, pp. 1655 - 1662
,2009, 'Managing the intractable: Communicative structures for management of hexachlorobenzene and other Scheduled Wastes', Journal of Environmental Management, Online, pp. 1 - 10
,2009, 'Our battle with hexachlorobenzene: Citizen perspectives on toxic waste in Botany', Journal of Environmental Management, Online, pp. 1 - 8
,2009, 'Technoaesthetics and the nuclear uncanny', Metascience, 18, pp. 223 - 232
,2009, 'Theatre, ecological sanity, and finding Baz Kershaw', Performance Paradigm, 2009
,2009, 'Toxic Waste in our Midst: towards an interdisciplinary analysis', Journal of Environmental Management, Online, pp. 1 - 8
,2008, 'Toxic Risk and Governance: the case of hexachlorobenzene', Journal of Environmental Management, pp. 1 - 2
,2007, 'Nature Moves Centre Stage: Eco-Centrism in Community Theatre', About Performance, 7, pp. 99 - 116
,2006, 'British Nuclear Testing in Australia: Performing the Maralinga Experiment through Verbatim Theatre', Journal and Proceedings of Royal Society of New South Wales, 139 pts1&2, pp. 39 - 50
,1995, 'Welcome Friends: Let's Proceed', Social Studies of Science, 25, pp. 185 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030631295025001009
,1995, 'Aftershocks: local stories, national culture', Meanjin, pp. 449 - 460
,1995, 'Review of Doyle T and Kellow A, Environmental Politics and Policy Making in Australia', Environmental Defender, September 1995
,1994, 'How should we approach the history of Australian science?', Science of Pacific Island Peoples Volume 4
,1991, 'Aftershocks: Verbatim theatre about the 1989 Newcastle earthquake', Oral History Association Of Australia Journal
,1987, 'Making "Coal Town"', Meanjin
,1979, 'Field and geochemical characteristics of the coolac ophiolite suite and its possible origin in a marginal sea', Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 26, pp. 45 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167617908729066
,1979, 'A sheeted dyke complex within the Coolac Ophiolite, southeastern New South Wales', Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 26, pp. 411 - 417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167617908729107
,Conference Papers
2013, 'Arts and the deep nuclear future: a prospectus', University of Wollongong, presented at Arts and Ecology Conference, Wollongong, University of Wollongong, 12 May 2013 - 13 May 2013
,2005, 'Culture and Sustainability: The role of the arts in social change for environmental protection', in Looking for Forests Seeing Trees: A Continent at Risk, Sydney NSW, presented at Looking for Forests Seeing Trees: A Continent at Risk, Sydney NSW, 27 August 2005
,1999, 'Our Affair with Hexachlorobenzene: a case study in Australian chemicals management', in The Environment: Risks and Opportunities Third annual international public policy and social science conference, Oxford UK, presented at The Environment: Risks and Opportunities Third annual international public policy and social science conference, Oxford UK, 28 June 1999
,1996, 'Environmental education for engineers:explaining the relationship between professional, contextural and citizenship objectives', in 8th Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference and Convention, University of New South Wales, presented at 8th Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference and Convention, University of New South Wales, 15 December 1996 - 18 December 1996
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