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ANITRA NELSON

contact: anitra.nelson@rmit.edu.au

Project Involvement

Suburban Communities

Dr Anitra Nelson is a Research Fellow at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute and is currently working with Mark Burry and others on the ACID Connected Communities Project.

In 2005, Dr Nelson is continuing research on community-based sustainability in rural and urban areas. She currently is editing a book on sustainable housing and urban planning.

In 2004 Anitra investigated the application of geo-spatial visualisation tools to enhance community participation in urban land-use and planning in the Community Spatial Scenario Simulations project. Funded by the Department of Sustainability and Environment, she organised community based workshops exploring solutions to water bore issues and developed content for, and designed the Victorian Groundwater site.

Dr Nelson came to RMIT University in 1998 to investigate the clash between ecological and monetary values in East Gippsland forests. Subsequently, she was funded by the Department of Sustainability and the Environment to facilitate community consultations for the Wombat Community Forest Management Pilot Project in 2002. In that year she also had first-hand experience living in the Environmental Living Zone in the Bend of Islands, Nillumbik Shire, in box ironbark woodlands. During 2004 she was a Board member of the Global Caucus on Community-based Forest Management.

Dr Nelson's PhD was completed at La Trobe University in 1996 and resulted in a book entitled Marx's concept of money: the god of commodities, Published by Routledge in London in 1999 as one of their Studies in the History of Economics series.

PUBLICATIONS

Forthcoming:

Nelson, A., "Environmental governance: community". In International encyclopedia of public policy: governance in a global age. (Four volumes) (Ed. P O’Hara) Routledge: Oxford/New York.

Nelson, A., "Stakeholders contest the future of Goolengook". In Proceedings of the VI Australian Forest History Society conference. Augusta. (Ed. M. Calver) Mill Press: Amsterdam [CD].

2004

Nelson, A., "Marx’s objections to credit theories of money". In Marx’s theory of money; modern appraisals. (Ed. F Moseley) pp. 65–77. Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2004

Nelson, A. & Pettit, C., "Ethical Groundwater Practices". Unpublished paper presented at the Australian Association of Environmental Education Creating Ethical Communities Now Conference 28 September - 2 October 2004.

Nelson, A. & Pettit, C., "Effective community engagement for sustainability: Wombat community forest management case study", Australian Geographer 35(3), 2004, pp. 301–315.

Nelson, A ., "Mercury Stole My Fire". In Protecting the future; stories of sustainability from RMIT University. (Eds S Holdsworth & T Caswell) pp.129–136. CSIRO Publishing: Melbourne, 2004

Addie, B. & Nelson, A., "National identity in Australian documentaries". Metro Magazine 143, 2004, pp. 76–80.

Addie, B. & Nelson, A., "Collaboration". Metro Magazine 140, 2004, pp. 12–17.

Pettit, C., Nelson, A., & Cartwright, W., "Recent advances in design and decision support systems". In Architecture and urban planning. (Eds. J Van Leeuwen & H Timmermans). Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, 2004, pp. 53–68

Nelson, A., "An intra network proposal for the regional integration of Landcare". Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 11(2), 2004, pp. 129–38.

Pettit, C.J. & Nelson, A., "Developing an interactive web based public participatory planning support system for natural resource management". Journal of Spatial Science [formerly Cartography] 49(1), 2004, pp. 61–70.

Nelson, A., Berry, M., Cartwright, W., Pettit, C., Direct governance—the challenges of public participatory planning support systems. In Proceedings of the community development, human rights and the grassroots conference. pp. 167–178. Deakin University: Geelong, 2004

Nelson, A., "Marx’s ‘Capital’". History of Economics Review 40, 2004, pp. 168–69.

2003

Nelson, A., "Community forest management and action research; emerging models and emerging paradigms". In Proceedings of the XII World Forestry Congress, Quebec City, 20–28 September 2003. Available online at FAO Forestry

Nelson, A., "The original mermaid". [Study guide.] Australian Teachers of Media, 2003. Available online at Metro Magazine

Addie, B. & Nelson, A., "Dennis K. Smith in Profile", Metro Magazine, 138, 2003, pp. 84–87.

Nelson, A., "Copying Rights and Wrongs", The (Education) Age, 19 February 2003

2002

Nelson, A., "The Wombat Forest Society: Tactics, Talks and Audits". In Dargavel J Gaughwin D & Libbis B (eds) Australia's Ever-changing Forests V: Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Australian Forest History, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (ANU), Canberra, 2002, pp. 375–95.

Nelson, A., "Black and white". [Study guide.] Australian Teachers of Media, 2002. Available online at Metro Magazine.

Nelson, A., "DIY law". [Study guide.] Australian Teachers of Media, 2002. Available online at Metro Magazine.

Nelson, A., "Small island big fight". [Study guide.] Australian Teachers of Media, 2002. Available online at Metro Magazine.

Nelson, A., "Yolgnu boy: We want to put our culture out into the world". Metro Magazine 131–32, 2002, pp. 118–25.

Nelson, A., "Sustainable Farm Forestry in the Tropics" [book review] Australian Journal of Environmental Management, 9(3), 2002, pp. 191–92.

2001

Nelson, A., "Two models of residential conservation; communal life in an Australian box ironbark forest". In International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7(3), 2001, pp. 249–72.

Nelson, A., "The theory of the money commodity". In History of Economic Review 33, 2001, pp. 44–63.

Nelson, A., "The poverty of money; Marxian insights for ecological economists". In Ecological Economics 36, 2001, pp. 499–511.

Nelson, A., "Sustainable Small-scale Forestry; Socio-economic Analysis and Policy" [book review] in Australian Journal of Environmental Management 8(2), 2001, pp. 117–18.

Berry, M., Briskman, L., Nelson, A. & Ngwenya, T., "Victorian Indigenous Homelessness Study: Report on a Series of Community Consultations", November–December 2001. [Unpublished report.] Prepared for the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria, 2001

Berry, M., Briskman, L., Nelson, A. & Ngwenya, T., "Consultations on the Victorian Indigenous Homelessness Study: Summary Report". [Unpublished report.] Prepared for the Aboriginal Housing Board of Victoria, 2001