Beverley Clarke

Senior Lecturer
Coastal Management; Environmental Impact Assessment

Contact Details Office: Room 304, Social Sciences North Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: beverley.clarke@flinders.edu.au Phone: (08) 8201 2760 (in Australia); (618) 8201 2760 (outside Australia) Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)

Qualifications

BA (Flinders), MA (Adelaide) Environmental Studies, PhD (Adelaide) Awarded 2003

Position Held

Lecturer

Current Teaching

• ENVS 3708 Coastal Studies
• ENVS 3722/8011 Environmental Impact Assessment
• ENVS 7003/8012 Coastal Management
• ENVS 7004 Environmental Management
• ENVS 8001 Managing Environments
  

Current Scholarly Activities

• Chair, Awards and Research Grants Committee, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc.
• Council Member, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia Inc.
• Member, Coastal Estuarine and Marine Advisory Committee, Adelaide and Mt Lofty Natural Resource Management Board
  

Grants

• 2005 Clarke, B., Compas, E., Beer, A. and Cutler, C. Flinders Social Monitoring and Policy Futures Research Development Grant, 'Urban growth and marine protected areas: understanding the tensions in establishing a new conservation zone' $5,158
• 2005 Clarke, B., Compas, E., Beer, A. and Cutler, C. Flinders Research Grant, 'The impact of urban growth on the establishment and implementation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in South Australia' $8,000
• 2005 Clarke, B., Pearce, M., Bass, D. and Keane, R. Flinders University Teaching and Learning Innovations Grant, 'Virtual Field Trip' $8,996
• 2004 Vehicles on Beaches Research Project (social study), Zadoroznyj, M. and Clarke, B. Funded by City of Onkaparinga $10,000

Research Areas

• Integrated Coastal Management
• Australian Coastal Policy Development
• Community participation in environmental management
• Development of performance indicators for participation
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Natural Resource Management Policy
• Natural Resource Management Program evaluation

Selected Publications

• 2007 Compas, E., Clarke, B., Cutler, C. and Daish, K. (2007) Murky waters: Media reporting of marine protected areas in South Australia, Marine Policy, Vol 31, pp. 691-697, available online at www.sciencedirect.com
• 2007 Harvey, N. and Clarke, B. Policy Implications for Australian Coastal Communities Affected by Sea-level Rise, Just Policy, no. 46, pp. 52-59.
• 2006 Clarke, B. 'Australia’s Coastcare Program (1995-2002): its purpose, components and outcomes', Geographical Research, 44(3).
• 2005 Clarke, B., Compas, E., Beer, A. and Cutler, C. 'Investigating the effectiveness of an MPA in an area of rapid urban expansion: some preliminary observations', South Australian Geographical Journal, 104: 51-58.
• 2004 Clarke, B. 'More than a sum of its parts, a reflection of the national Coastcare program under NHT I, 1995-2002', Proceedings of the Australian National Coastal Conference, Coast to Coast, Hobart, TYasmania, 20-23 April.
• 2004 Clarke, B., Pearce, M.W. and Gannaway, D. 'Using collaborative learning to develop transferable skills. Research & Development in Higher Education'. Paper presented at the Annual Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference held in Sarawak, Malaysia, 4-7 July.
• 2002 Clarke, B. Coastcare: A shining model of community participation or government cost cutting device? Proceedings of the Australian National Coastal Conference, Coast to Coast, Tweed Heads, November 4-8.
• 2002 Harvey, N., Clarke, B. and von Baumgarten, P. ‘Coastal management training needs in Australia’, Ocean and Coastal Management, 45: 1-18.
• 2002 Clarke, B. ‘Towards measuring the success of Coastcare: Australia’s community-based coastal management program’. Holland, P., Stephenson F., and Wearing A (eds)., ‘2001, Geography - A Spatial Odyssey’. Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Jan-Feb 2001. ISSN 1174-7250: 150-156.
• 2001 Harvey, N., Clarke, B., and Carvalho, P. ‘The role of the Australian Coastcare program in community-based coastal-management: a case study from South Australia’, Ocean and Coastal Management, 44 (3-4), 161-181.
• 2000 Harvey, N., Clarke, B. and Carvalho, P. ‘Capacity building and human resource use through Coastcare as an Australian government-based coastal management tool’. Proceedings of the Pacific Islands Climate Change Conference "Linking Science and Policy: Improving the Understanding and Responding to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise", Rarotonga, Cook Islands. 3-7 April, 2000. ISBN 0-9579264-0-5: 21-25.
• 1998 Carvalho, P. and Clarke, B. ‘Ecological sustainability of South Australian coastal aquaculture management policies’. Coastal Management 26, 281-290.
• 1996 Clarke, B. Rural needs assessment - principles and tools for rural research. Proceedings of the evaluation and outcomes: making a difference in the bush, 3rd Biennial Australian rural & remote health scientific conference, Toowoomba, Queensland, pp 4/36-47.
  
  
  Last updated 15/02/07