Professor Bill Boyd BSc(Hons)(St And) PhD(Glas) DSc(St And) MHE(Lead)(Macquarie) Bill is a geographer, archaeologist and landscape scientist, with special research interests in long-term environmental change, human-landscape interactions and cultural heritage management. He draws on both the geosciences and the humanities to inform his research. He teaches in the fields of environmental mapping, environmental issues and management, and cultural heritage. Working throughout Australasia and southeast Asia, Bill examines how ancient people interacted with and modified their environments, and how the landscapes of this tropical region evolved over the last several thousand years; he uses microfossil analysis, geomorphology and sedimentology to reconstruct the histories of vegetation change, physical environmental change, sea-level fluctuations and human impacts upon the environment. Bill is also an active environmental management researcher, especially working on problems of the management of environmental and cultural heritage places and landscapes. He has published extensively in the scientific literature (usually as WE Boyd), and co-authored several books, including: Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place and Communities; Maunten Paia: Volcanoes People and Environment; Mapping the Environment; Analysing Global Environmental Issues; and Living and Working in Rural Areas: A handbook for managing land use conflict issues on the NSW North Coast. Bill holds doctorates from the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, and is a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Bill is Chair of the Southern Cross University Human Research Ethics Committee and Animal Care & Ethics Committee.
Journal articles
None of us sets out to hurt people: the ethical geographer and geography curricula in higher education (with Ruth L. Healey, Susan W. Hardwick, Martin Haigh, Phil Klein, Bruce Doran, Julie Trafford, and John Bradbeer), Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2008)
This paper examines ethics in learning and teaching geography in higher education. It proposes a...
Social change in late Holocene mainland SE Asia: A response to gradual climate change or a critical climatic event?, Quaternary International (2008)
The prehistoric archaeology of the Mun River floodplain, northeast Thailand, provides evidence for a long,...
The paleohydrological context of the Iron Age floodplain sites of the Mun River Valley, Northeast Thailand (with Roger J. McGrath and Richard T. Bush), Geoarchaeology (2008)
Many Iron Age sites on the flood plain of the Mun River in northeast Thailand...
Quantitative and qualitative approaches to research in environmental management (with Peter Ashley), Australasian Journal of Environmental Management (2006)
Environmental management straddles the natural and social sciences. The problems it addresses, likewise, are capable...
How wet tropical rainforest copes with repeated volcanic destruction (with C F. Jago), Quaternary Research (2005)
The Holocene Period for the province of West New Britain, Papua New Guinea, is characterised...
Books
Living and working in rural areas: a handbook for managing land use conflict issues on the NSW North Coast (with Rob Learmonth, Rik Whitehead, and Stephen Fletcher), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2007)
Analysing global environmental issues: a skill manual (with W Laird), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2006)
Mapping the environment: a professional development manual (with Kathryn Tafts), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2004)
Heritage landscapes: understanding place and communities (with M M. Cotter and J Gardiner), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2001)
Mauten Paia: volcanoes, people and environment - the 1994 Rabaul volcanic eruptions (with Carol J. Lentfer), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2001)
Book chapters
Rigidity and a changing order . . . disorder, degeneracy and daemonic repetition: fluidity of cultural values and cultural heritage management (with M M. Cotter, J Gardiner, and G Taylor), Heritage of value, archaeology of renown: reshaping archaeological assessment and significance (2005)
As fantastic as the Atlantis: reading a prehistoric floodscape, Flood: writing across the current (2004)
FEA site, Boduna Island: further investigations (with P White, C Corneos, V Neall, and Robin Torrence), Fifty years in the feild: essays in honour and celebration of Richard Shutler Jr's archaeological career (2002)
Geological contribution to environmental management issues: case studies in the biological, hydrological and geological environments in northeast New South Wales and southeast Queensland. (with Richard T. Bush, M W. Clark, J V. Smith, and Leigh A. Sullivan), Gondwana to greenhouse: environmental geoscience- an Australian perspective (2001)
Is my teaching and learning practice in environmental education action research?, Effective change management using action research learning and action research (2001)
Book reviews
Book review: M Morris, Soil Science and archaeology: three test cases from Minoan Crete, Antiquity (2005)
Book review: J Henderson 2002, The science and archaeology of materials: an investigation of inorganic material, SAS (Society of Archaeological Sciences) Bulletin (2002)
Book Review: JA Kerle 1995, Uluru Kata Tjuta & Watarrka: Ayers Rock, the Olgas & Kings Canyon, Northern Territory, Australian Geographical Studies (1998)
Unpublished papers
Coastwise, images from the edge! (with I M. Dutton, Ros Derrett, K Luckie, Kay Dimmock, and S Knox), Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (1998)
Presentations
Aboriginal perceptions of a government consultation process: a case study of the Queensland Regional Forest Agreement process (with David J. Lloyd and Paul van Nimwegen), Proceedings of the United Nations Engaging Communities Conference (2005)
This paper examines the qualitative responses of indigenous informants, identified by the Queensland Environmental Protection...