Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd Recent documents in Bill Boyd en-us Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:25:26 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/105 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/105 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:04:05 PDT Jeremy Buultjens http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/104 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/104 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:51:45 PDT William E. Boyd http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/103 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/103 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:51:44 PDT I M. Dutton http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/102 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/102 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:51:42 PDT William E. Boyd http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/101 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/101 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:19:14 PDT I M. Dutton http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/100 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/100 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:19:13 PDT I M. Dutton http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/99 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/99 Mon, 25 May 2009 23:07:38 PDT The prehistoric archaeology of the Mun River floodplain, northeast Thailand, provides evidence for a long, rich settlement in a now marginal and resource-poor landscape. The valley was settled for over two millennia during the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages. Large settlements with encircling channels, conventionally regarded as defensive sites, are now considered to represent effective water management systems. The environment is currently seasonally arid, saline, sparsely populated and resource-poor. However, from the 4th to 2nd millennia before present, the region supported large communities, apparently in relative comfort. The geoarchaeological study of these sites and their landscape seeks reasons for this difference, and identifies past hydrological and climatic conditions as critical controls on social potential. The demise of this successful society may be explained by a collapse of what must have been a rich supporting environmental system; this in turn was probably driven by several possible environmental processes. While a regionally-significant climatic shift may have provided a critical threshold change around 1400 BP, it seems more likely that the Iron Age society had adapted gradually to long-term environmental (climatic) change, until the engineering solutions to declining water supply and supply reliability that maintained social sustainability were unable to moderate the effects of environmental change. William E. Boyd http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/98 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/98 Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:34 PDT This paper examines the qualitative responses of indigenous informants, identified by the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency, as having been consulted as part of the South East Queensland Regional Forest Agreement Process, to their consultation experience, their aspirations and reflections on outcomes. Using the informants' own words the researchers suggest that informants felt they did not have sufficient capacity to participate effectively in western-based planning systems. We conclude that, despite best intentions, there is an important lack of provision for influence or power, including any legal or administrative institutional framework. We also conclude that there are important institutional and social processes of engagement still to be developed, including ways of engaging the community more widely that has conventionally been done. Suggestions as to more effective processes for community engagement are offered to assist government agencies in achieving a meaningful consultation process with Indigenous communities. David J. Lloyd http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/97 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/97 Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:31 PDT William E. Boyd http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/96 http://works.bepress.com/bill_boyd/96 Mon, 04 May 2009 22:18:42 PDT Rob Learmonth