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Biography I joined the University of Glasgow as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in
February 2007. Prior to that I held a short post in the Department of
Geography, University of Sheffield. I completed my PhD in 2006 at the
Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National
University, and my first degree at Macquarie University, with a triple
major in Human Geography, Resource and Environmental Management,
and Aboriginal Studies.
From 1st June 2010 I am based in the School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Research interests My research focuses on the cultures and politics of nature. In particular, I
am interested in the following themes:
1. cultural geographies of nature, especially water;
2. environmental governance;
3. politics of environmental knowledge production; and
4. multi-disciplinary research methodologies. Current research 1. ‘Environmental knowledge production and water governance’
This project investigates the extent to which diverse systems of
environmental knowledge are acknowledged and accommodated in
water governance in Tanzania. It analyses the role of northern
discourses in southern environmental governance, and the practical and
political implications of environmental knowledge production in the
context of environmental change. This project is funded by a Royal
Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers Small Research
Grant.
Writing in progress: 'Environmental knowledge production and water
governance in the global south'. Presented at: RGS-IBG Annual
conference, Manchester, August 2009; Nordic Environmental Social
Sciences conference, London, June 2009; Departmental seminars,
University of Stirling, March 2009 & University of Leicester, February
2009.
2. ‘Valuing Water’ This research examines current approaches to
valuing water within natural resource management, the values that
people attribute to water, and the gap that exists between the two. It
draws on research in the Lake Eyre Basin, central Australia, and brings
together cultural research methods and institutional analysis. The
research contributes to recent society-nature discourse, and engages
with an interdisciplinary literature of human interactions with nature.
Writing in progress: 'Boats, bottles and bores: water and theories of
materiality and postcolonialism'. Presented at: 'After Empire? Rethinking
the Post in the Postcolonial', Leeds, September 2008; RGS-IBG Annual
Conference, London, August 2008. Recent publications Gibbs, L.M. 2010. "A beautiful soaking rain": environmental value and
water beyond Eurocentrism. Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space, v.28 (2), 363-378. doi:10.1068/d9207 >> Gibbs, L.M. 2010. Book review "Troubled Waters: confronting the water
crisis in Australia's cities" by Patrick Troy (Ed.). Urban Studies, v.47 (1), 222-224. doi:10.1177/00420980100470011105 >> Gibbs, L.M. 2009. Book review "Resurrecting the Granary of Rome:
environmental history and French colonial expansion in North Africa" by
Diana K. Davis. Land Degradation & Development, v.20 (3), 347-348. doi:10.1002/ldr.890 >> Gibbs, L.M. 2009. Just add water: colonisation, water governance and
the Australian inland. Environment and Planning A, v.41 (12),
2964-2983. doi:10.1068/a41214 >> Gibbs, L.M. 2009. Water places: cultural, social and more-than-human
geographies of nature. Scottish Geographical Journal, v.125 (3-4,
Special Issue: Glasgow Geography Centenary), 361-369. doi:10.1080/14702540903364393 >> Stringer, L.C., Twyman, C. and Gibbs, L.M. 2008. Learning from the
South: common challenges and solutions for small-scale farming.
Geographical Journal, v.174 (3), 235-250. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2008.00298 >> Gibbs, L.M. 2006. Valuing Water: variability and the Lake Eyre Basin,
central Australia. Australian Geographer, v.37 (1), 73-85. doi:10.1080/00049180500511988 >> Gibbs, L.M. 2003. Decolonising, multiplicities and mining in the Eastern
Goldfields, Western Australia. Australian Geographical Studies, v.41
(1), 17-28. doi:10.1111/1467-8470.00189 >> Recent research grants Gibbs, L.M. 2008-2009 Environmental knowledge production and water
governance in the global south, £2978 (RGS-IBG Small Research
Grant). Current postgraduate students
Flavia Velásquez-Forte (PhD candidate)
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