Dr. David Lloyd PhD(SCU) MSc(Monash) Dr. David Lloyd is the Executive Officer of the Bundjalung Cultural Mapping project and coordinates the Universities East Timor Projects. He came to Southern Cross University after ten years as a senior manager with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, where he also ran the education component of the Ocean Rescue 2000 Program for the Federal Department of Environment. David has extensive community development experience, in areas ranging from remote aboriginal communities to the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, East Timor, Tonga, Tuvalu, New Guinea and Fiji. From 1998 to 2000 David was the Project Manager involved in developing and implementing a ‘Representative Areas’ program aimed at protecting the full range of habitats found within the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area. The process includes using physical and biological factors to determine representative units, assessing levels of protection, values and threats and developing management options using the zoning planning process. In this capacity he has run an extensive number of training courses for the Authority’s external services group for natural resource managers from a variety of SE Asian countries. David also assisted in the coordination of a UN workshop on ‘Biological and Social Indicators of the Health of Coral Reef Systems’. David is currently Senior lecturer in Protected Area Management, Cultural Heritage, Resource Assessment techniques and Coastal Management. He has a strong research interest in the incorporation of local/indigenous knowledge into Natural Area Management. David wrote and produced a “Saltwater People” for SBS, a documentary depicting the relationship of coastal Indigenous communities with their environment. David has a weekly science and environment segments on ABC Radio. David has an ongoing role in natural area management projects in a number of Pacific nations working on ‘capacity building projects’ in Tonga (assisting in the development of the Fangu’ata Lagoon management plan which was developed with village level input) and developing management strategies for the Fisheries Department. David is currently working on research and training projects in East and West Timor, and PNG. In particular he is working on community based projects to provide “value adding” for coffee in East Timor and curriculum development for the East Timor Coffee Academy.
Journal articles
Mind mapping as an interactive tool for engaging complex geographical issues (with William E. Boyd and Kristin A. den Exter), New Zealand Geographer (2010)
Students and communities engaging with complex geographical issues require tools to assist them structure and...
Letting Indigenous people talk about their country: a case study of cross-cultural (mis)communication in an environmental management planning process (with P van Nimwegan and William E. Boyd), Geographical Research (2005)
This paper presents a case study, based on the experiences of two senior Aboriginal traditional...
Identifying training needs to improve Indigenous communities representatives input into environmental resources management consultative processes: A case study of the Bundjalung nation (with Fiona Norrie), Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2004)
Despite increased engagement of Indigenous representatives as participants on consultative panels charged with processes of...
Books
North coast planners Aboriginal site awareness workshop manual (with William E. Boyd), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2009)
Ocean Rescue 2000 award scheme (with Sirial Giffney and Jan Oliver), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (1994)
The history of the Kiewa Valley (with Esther Temple), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (1989)
Conservation of roadsides and roadside vegetation (with Christian Grieves), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (1984)
Popular press
Reports
Prospects for integrated timber–forage–livestock agroforestry systems for economic diversification in West Timor farming communities (with Paul van Nimwegen and Jerome K. Vanclay), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (2009)
West Timor is in the poorest and least developed province of Indonesia, where 80% of...
Community involvement in the management of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, World natural heritage and the local community: case studies from Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand (1999)
A new approach to community involvement in the management of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, North Queensland, Australia, The World Bank/WBI's CBNRM Initiative (1998)
Attitudes of the Tongan community to the environment and natural area management: results from a quantitative survey of 150 households, AusAID-Tongan Environment Management and Planning Project (TEMPP). (1998)
Conference publications
Engaging complex geographical issues: An evaluation of mind mapping as an interactive learning tool (with William E. Boyd and Kristin Den Exter), Positioning Geography: Strategic Issues in Geographical Education (2010)
Conventional Western education relies, largely, on linear approaches in communicating and interpreting issues. For students...
Concerns with the use of internet research and GIS in recording and managing traditional knowledge (with E Watson, Greg O. Luker, and William E. Boyd), Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences Conference (2006)
The language of community engagement in a regional and indigenous context (with Lynne De Weaver), Proceedings of the United Nations Engaging Communities Conference (2005)
Do the processes of community engagement employed by federal and state agencies genuinely engage the...
Aboriginal perceptions of a government consultation process: a case study of the Queensland Regional Forest Agreement process (with P Nimwegen and William E. Boyd), Proceedings of the United Nations Engaging Communities Conference (2005)
This paper examines the qualitative responses of indigenous informants, identified by the Queensland Environmental Protection...
Identifying training needs to improve Indigenous community representatives input into environmental resource management consultative processes: a case study of the Bundjalung Nation (Presentation) (with Fiona Norrie), Proceedings of Effective Sustainability Education Conference: What Works? Why? Where Next? Linking Research and Practice (2004)
Despite increased engagement of Indigenous representatives as participants on consultative panels charged with processes of...
Film
Saltwater people, School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (1996)
This film explores the cultural and spiritual connections to the land and sea of five...
Voices from the Cape: Aboriginal people sharing their views on the sea country of eastern Cape York Peninsula, School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (1995)
Marine protected areas: special places (with Grant Dowling), School of Environmental Science and Management Papers (1994)
This documentary examines the special values and importance of marine protected areas through a series...