Dr Leah Gibbs' research focuses on the cultures and politics of nature. In particular, Dr Gibbs is interested in the following themes; 1. cultural geographies of nature, especially water; 2. environmental governance; 3. politics of environmental knowledge production; 4. multi-disciplinary research methodologies.
Articles
A beautiful soaking rain: environmental value and water beyond Eurocentrism, Faculty of Science - Papers (2010)
Current approaches to valuing nature within environmental and natural resource management are based on and...
Just add water: colonisation, water governance, and the Australian inland, Environment and Planning A: international journal of urban and regional research (2009)
Water has played a key role in the development of the Australian inland and the...
Water places: cultural, social and more-than-human geographies of nature, Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
Cultural, social and more-than-human approaches to nature research are largely held apart in the discipline...
Learning from the South: common challenges and solutions for small-scale farming (with L C Stringer and C Twyman), Faculty of Science - Papers (2008)
Small-scale farmers all over the world face a number of common biophysical and socio-economic challenges....
Valuing Water: variability and the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia, Australian Geographer (2006)
'Environmental values' form an increasingly important component of natural resource management, but use of the...
Book Reviews
Book review: "Troubled waters: confronting the water crisis in Australia's cities" by Patrick Troy (Ed.), Faculty of Science - Papers (2010)
Troubled Waters is a collection of essays edited by Patrick Troy, Emeritus Professor and Visiting...
Book review: "Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: environmental history and French Colonial expansion in North Africa" by Diana K. Davis, Faculty of Science - Papers (2009)
In this rigorously researched book, Davis argues that French colonisation of the Maghreb (the three...