List of Titles

Thinking with a landscape : engaging with environmental issues through outdoor education

- Jukes, Scott

Authors: Jukes, Scott
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Learning to confront ecological precarity : engaging with more-than-human worlds Chapter 6 p. 85-111
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Description: In this chapter, I propose the possibility of thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept, inspired by posthumanist theory. I enact this concept in the Australian Alps, concentrating on the contentious environmental dilemma involving introduced horses and their management in this bio-geographical location. The topic of horses is of pedagogical relevance for place-responsive outdoor environmental educators as both a location-specific problem and an example of a troubling issue. The chapter has two objectives for employing posthumanist thinking. Firstly, it experiments with the alternative methodological possibilities that posthumanist theory affords for OEE, including new ways of conducting educational research. Secondly, it explores how thinking with a landscape as a pedagogical concept may help open ways of considering the dilemma that horses pose. The pedagogical concept is enacted through some empirical events which sketch human-horse encounters from the Australian Alps. These sketches depict some of the pedagogical conversations and discursive pathways that encounters can provoke. Such encounters and conversations are ways of constructing knowledge of the landscape, covering multiple species, perspectives and discursive opportunities. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Through the eyes of children with disabilities : recognising children’s agency in their play in inclusive playspaces

- Burke, Jenene, Stafford, Lisa

Authors: Burke, Jenene , Stafford, Lisa
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Routledge International Handbook of Children’s Rights and Disability Chapter 31 p. 555-576
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Description: This chapter shares poignant visual and spatial insights into the agency of play in purpose-built, inclusive playspaces by children with disabilities. The insights were gathered from a post-occupancy playspace study conducted in three eastern Australian states. The authors facilitated opportunities for ten children with disabilities to claim their fundamental rights to express and communicate their views about their experiences of participating in play. Each child directed the researchers through their playspace and filmed their play experiences. The social model of childhood disability provided the lens through which the researchers interrogated the data. Attention was given to children’s opinions, actions, and play cultures, enabling them to be recognised as experts in their own worlds. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Angharad E. Beckett and Anne- Marie Callus; individual chapters, the contributors.

Tourism and islandscapes : cultural realignment, social-ecological resilience and change

- Cheer, Joseph, Cole, Stroma, Reeves, Keir, Kato, Kumi

Authors: Cheer, Joseph , Cole, Stroma , Reeves, Keir , Kato, Kumi
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Islandscapes and Tourism: An Anthology Chapter 2 p. 23-35
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Description: If, as according to Robin,'islands are idealised ecological worlds, the Edens of a fallen planet' (2015: online), the rationale underpinning tourism expansion should acknowledge MacLeod's (2013) notion of 'cultural realignment' that calls for optimal and resilient encounters. This chapter acts as a bridge toward the development of emergent themes that describe how island peoples adapt and respond in localised cultural islandscapes as a consequence of tourism expansion. The links between cultural alignment and social-ecological resilience are clear and the principal and overarching question posed asks: To what extent are islandscapes resilient to rapidly changing utilities, significances and ways of life wrought by tourism expansion? The vulnerability-resilience duality remains firmly entrenched in the discourse on islands where tourism has become prominent, and although tourism provides some resiliency, overall, islandscapes remain subject to externally driven fast and slow change that exercises an overwhelming influence. Islander agency will likely remain subject to the fluctuations in the demands of the tourism supply chain. Therefore, tourism as a standalone focus of islands is a high-risk proposition, especially in contexts where externally driven change is likely to intensify. ©CAB International 2023.

Trajectories in wetland condition : setting limits of acceptable change

- Newall, Peter, Fisk, Greg

Authors: Newall, Peter , Fisk, Greg
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management Chapter 13 p. 335-355
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Description: Limits of acceptable change (LAC) are an important component of Ramsar wetland descriptions, allowing management authorities to assess for changes in ecological character, commence notifications of change, and initiate management requirements. A major difficulty in the determination of LAC lies in the separation of adverse, human-induced change from natural variability. Another difficulty in deriving LAC is the often-encountered paucity of monitoring data at Ramsar sites. This chapter provides a practical solution to these difficulties through the use of a 3-level process to derive LAC, based on the availability of, and confidence in, relevant data. This chapter also discusses problems associated with environmental trajectories impacting the ecological character of Ramsar wetlands and provides management options ranging from defending current ecological character, through building resilience and developing new LAC, to accepting inevitable losses. Trajectories are categorised on the basis of magnitude and gradient of change, and management considerations are present for each category. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

VFR travel : opportunities, trends, and issues

- Zentveld, Elisa

Authors: Zentveld, Elisa
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Routledge Handbook of Trends and Issues in Global Tourism Supply and Demand Chapter 34 p. 433-442
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Description: When considering trends and issues in global tourism, it is critical to consider the area of Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) travel. Too often, VFR travel is overlooked in strategic discussions about tourism, perhaps because VFR travel is regarded as a segment of tourism that cannot be influenced, or perhaps because it is seen as being of negligible benefit to the core tourism industries in a destination. In other words, VFR travel is an area of tourism that is often taken for granted. This chapter aims to explain why VFR travel should not be taken for granted, and in what ways it is critically important in relation to tourism issues and trends. This chapter addresses four key matters. Firstly, it outlines in what ways VFR travel is highly relevant; especially in the years moving forward from the COVID-19 pandemic that consumed the world. Secondly, it explains the way in which VFR travel data are tracked and interpreted and how that influences VFR travel in scholarship as well as in practice. The chapter also discusses the definition of VFR and how misunderstanding of the definition in both scholarly circles and in tourism industries has limited the development and adoption of VFR travel. Fourthly, the chapter highlights the major trends and issues and outline what this may mean for scholarship and tourism industries. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Alastair M. Morrison and Dimitrios Buhalis.

Victims with disabilities in rural areas

- Camilleri, Marg

Authors: Camilleri, Marg
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Rural victims of crime: representations, realities and responses Chapter 7 p. 83-96
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Description: Crime victims with disabilities residing in rural areas have been a largely neglected group in the literature to date. Apart from the consistent voices of people with disabilities, advocates and a comparatively small cohort of researchers, the experiences and prevalence of victimisation of disabled people have been relegated to the periphery of victimisation discourse until a comparatively recent shift in focus. As an emerging area of enquiry, the representation of the victimisation and access to justice needs of disabled people when viewed from the perspective of location is often generalised and urban-centric, largely ignoring the nuanced experiences of disabled people in rural locations. The overarching aims of this chapter are three-fold: (i) to shed light on the nuanced experiences of people with disability as crime victims within the context of rurality; (ii) to argue that rurality and the justice system be considered as intersectional dimensions, which further limit how victims of crime with disabilities experience the justice system; and (iii) to consider how the justice system itself responds differentially to people with disabilities by questioning capacity and credibility, and preferencing specific forms of communication over others and as such, rendered some victims with disabilities as easy targets.

Victims’ Participatory Rights

- Camilleri, Marg, Harkness, Alistair

Authors: Camilleri, Marg , Harkness, Alistair
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 12 p. 269-296
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Description: Victims of crime are key to holding perpetrators to account. Despite being instigators of reports, victim/survivors of sexual assault have long felt alienated from the court process and criminal justice system more broadly. This chapter draws on contemporary literature to consider the contested terrain of “participatory rights” for victim/survivors. Highlighted are a range of reforms implemented since 1994 which elevate the voices and acknowledge the experiences of victim/survivors. Despite the reforms, victim/survivors continue to feel alienated and, in particular, the voices of victim/survivors with cognitive impairment and complex communication needs are sometimes ignored at the point of first report. Considered here are the barriers to effective reform implementation and proposed reforms for continuous advocacy and legal representation. This chapter supports calls for legal representation to continue through to the conclusion of trial proceedings.

Wetlands and future change—Implications and opportunities with the Ramsar Convention

- Gell, Peter, Davidson, Nick, Finlayson, C., Herb, Andy, McInnes, Rob, Pittock, Jamie, Pritchard, Dave

Authors: Gell, Peter , Davidson, Nick , Finlayson, C. , Herb, Andy , McInnes, Rob , Pittock, Jamie , Pritchard, Dave
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management Chapter 20 p. 555-561
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Description: In the face of global-scale decline in the extent and state of the world’s wetlands, the Ramsar Convention has mobilised most of the world’s nations to support the conservation and wise use of wetlands. Whilst wetlands continue to be lost and their condition overall continues to decline, the Convention has played a significant part in assisting nations to mitigate pressures and preserve values and ecological assets. The pressures on wetlands will continue, and the Convention could continue its valuable contribution by increasing the awareness of the value of, and risks to wetlands, assisting Contracting Parties to plan for and accommodate change in wetland state, including that driven by climate change, recognising wetlands as socio-ecological systems, and refining the practice of wetland restoration. There remains much opportunity to extend the technical and management capacity that can be catalysed by the Convention to all nations to address the conservation and wise use of wetlands across the globe. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

What’s happening to the world’s wetlands?

- Davidson, Nick, Finlayson, C., McInnes, Rob, Rostron, Chris, Simpson, Matthew, Gell, Peter

Authors: Davidson, Nick , Finlayson, C. , McInnes, Rob , Rostron, Chris , Simpson, Matthew , Gell, Peter
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Ramsar Wetlands: Values, Assessment, Management Chapter 9 p. 219-235
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Description: Wetlands worldwide are in trouble. Their area and condition have been, and are, in continuing decline. Through drainage and conversion to other land uses, the area of natural wetlands is decreasing, although the extent of losses is uncertain: since 1700 AD loss is likely to be less than 87% but more than 21%-36%. Although more wetlands are currently reported to be in good than poor ecological character state, more are deteriorating than improving in state, and deterioration is becoming increasingly widespread. There continue to be challenges in making quantitative assessments of wetland state and trends in state, including in defining baseline and reference conditions. Longer-term palaeoecological records can help separate change from variation, and inform establishing appropriate baselines for wetland assessment and management. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Working towards a sustainable, responsive, inclusive, and diverse global education future

- Weuffen, Sara, Burke, Jenene, Goriss-Hunter, Anitra, Plunkett, Margaret, Emmett, Susan

Authors: Weuffen, Sara , Burke, Jenene , Goriss-Hunter, Anitra , Plunkett, Margaret , Emmett, Susan
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Inclusion, equity, diversity, and social justice in education: a critical exploration of the sustainable development goals Chapter 19 p. 277-286
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Description: In this chapter, we synthesise the interwoven narrative presented in this edited collection that interrogates discourses and policies of inclusive education, foregrounds the lived realities of diverse cohorts, and offers new ways of thinking and acting through a process of capacity building. Through thematic analysis, we analyse emergent themes pertaining to diversity and inclusion to illuminate the divergence between rhetoric and practice where the provision of quality education is concerned. Ultimately, we question whether the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 of quality education for all is being actualised in the twenty-first century and offer provocations on the possibilities of actualising a sustainable, responsive, inclusive, and diverse education future globally.

“Lost conversations” : the negotiations and violations of emotion cultures embedded in migrant journeys

- Lahiri-Roy, Reshmi

Authors: Lahiri-Roy, Reshmi
Date: 2023
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Routledge Handbook of South Asian Migrations Chapter 17 p. 224-233
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Description: This chapter contributes to the understanding of ongoing emotional costs linked with migration which have often been undermined and overlooked. Delving into emotional loss/es impacting immigrant women it aims to fill a lacuna in the discussion of emotional rules for migrant women of South Asian origin. Using autoethnography, I articulate my description and management of emotions as a South Asian diasporic woman of colour. Reflecting upon my “violations” of prescribed “emotion cultures” in spaces of ritualised enactments of family ties, I mourn “lost conversations” with now deceased parents, while simultaneously reliving the loss of my childhood caregiver/nanny. Consequently, I wonder if I said “violations” may lead to these conversations becoming eternally discomfiting encrusted “co-presences” within my life’s emotional spaces. © 2024 selection and editorial matter, Ajaya K. Sahoo; individual chapters, the contributors.

A process-oriented framework for regulating artificial intelligence systems

- Stranieri, Andrew, Sun, Zhaohao

Authors: Stranieri, Andrew , Sun, Zhaohao
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Handbook of Research on Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Business Analytics p. 96-112
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Description: Intelligent business analytics is an emerging technology that has become a mainstream market adopted broadly across industries, organizations, and geographic regions. Intelligent business analytics is a current focus for research and development across academia and industries and must be examined and considered thoroughly so businesses can apply the technology appropriately. The Handbook of Research on Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Business Analytics examines the technologies and applications of intelligent business analytics and discusses the foundations of intelligent analytics such as intelligent mining, intelligent statistical modeling, and machine learning. Covering topics such as augmented analytics and artificial intelligence systems, this major reference work is ideal for scholars, engineers, professors, practitioners, researchers, industry professionals, academicians, and students. Intelligent business analytics is an emerging technology that has become a mainstream market adopted broadly across industries, organizations, and geographic regions. Intelligent business analytics is a current focus for research and development across academia and industries and must be examined and considered thoroughly so businesses can apply the technology appropriately. The Handbook of Research on Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Business Analytics examines the technologies and applications of intelligent business analytics and discusses the foundations of intelligent analytics such as intelligent mining, intelligent statistical modeling, and machine learning. Covering topics such as augmented analytics and artificial intelligence systems, this major reference work is ideal for scholars, engineers, professors, practitioners, researchers, industry professionals, academicians, and students.

Analysis of applying blockchain technology to hospitality operation

- Verma, Anshul, Verma, Pradeepika, Farhaoui, Yousef, Lv, Zhihan

Authors: Verma, Anshul , Verma, Pradeepika , Farhaoui, Yousef , Lv, Zhihan
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Emerging Real-World Applications of Internet of Things Chapter 6 p.
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Description: Blockchain was first conceptualised in 2008 and drew attention from the general public since the introduction of one of its applications, cryptocurrency, in 2014. Blockchain consists of several revolutionary characteristics and has already been applied in different industries. Therefore, it is also deemed as a computer technology that has the potential to change the traditional business model. The hospitality industry is one of the significant economic supports to New Zealand; this industry could take advantage of the implementation of blockchain technology. Moreover, applying blockchain technology in various industries is a new arena in the existing research. The results of qualitative research indicate that blockchain technology could benefit the hospitality industry by building a more trustable reputation system, smoothening operation flow, reducing operation cost, enhancing customer experiences, enhancing food safety, and providing convenient payment methods without the necessity of intermediaries. This chapter is focused on investigating how the implementation of blockchain technology benefits the hospitality industry, together with its potential drawbacks.

Australian TVET teacher training : once flourishing but now neglected

- Smith, Erica

Authors: Smith, Erica
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Technical and Vocational Teacher Education and Training in International and Development Co-Operation: models, approaches and trends Chapter 26 p. 435-451
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Description: This chapter describes the system of TVET teacher qualifications in Australia. A brief overview of the TVET system (known in Australia as VET, rather than TVET) is followed by a description of the VET teaching workforce, which is predominantly made up of mature people with significant prior industry experience. The chapter explains the current pedagogical qualifications available, which comprise two qualifications offered within the VET sector, at lower levels, and a small number of university-level qualifications. The content of qualifications at each of these levels is described. The chapter explains that the qualification levels of VET teachers have dropped considerably since the year 2000, such that only 10% of Australian VET teachers now have pedagogical qualifications at university level. The challenges created by such a situation are described, together with possible explanations of how this has come about. Implications for other countries are drawn out. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

COVID-19 and national sport events : a case study of the sport event logistics for the 2021 Australian Road Nationals Cycling Championships

- Thomson, Alana, Kaufmann, Kipp, Archer, Verity, Halabi, Abdel, Ambrosy, Josh

Authors: Thomson, Alana , Kaufmann, Kipp , Archer, Verity , Halabi, Abdel , Ambrosy, Josh
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Routledge Handbook of Sport and COVID-19 Chapter 32 p. 341-351
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Description: This chapter is focused on sport events hosted at a national level. In meeting this aim, the chapter explores the impact of COVID-19 on a national sport event held in Australia as the major case study. The authors conducted a detailed analysis on a national road cycling event held in Ballarat in the state of Victoria. The city of Ballarat hosted the 2021 Australian Road Nationals Cycling Championships, with this national event providing a series of COVID-19-related logistical and event management challenges that are documented and dissected in the chapter. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Stephen Frawley and Nico Schulenkorf; individual chapters, the contributors.

Creating care-full communities after COVID : supporting care as a strategy for wellbeing in teacher education

- McDonough, Sharon, Lemon, Narelle

Authors: McDonough, Sharon , Lemon, Narelle
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Reconstructing Care in Teacher Education after COVID-19: Caring Enough to Change Chapter 16 p. 179-188
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Description: This chapter situates teachers as providers and supporters of care during times of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, positing that teachers too require care to support their wellbeing and their work. Drawing on survey data collected from teachers in Australia during a period of remote learning, the authors identify the kinds of care that are both enacted and required during this time. The authors then interrogate notions of care and consider these in light of both individual and systemic actions and ways of being. They explore the ways that care is a multifaceted concept that involves care of self, care of others, and care for community, arguing that creating caring communities requires systemic and communal engagement versus an individual orientation and responsibility towards care. They close by presenting care as a strategy for individual and communal wellbeing in teacher education. © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Melanie Shoffner and Angela W. Webb; individual chapters, the contributors.

Curriculum and democracy : building understandings of democracy through early childhood practice

- McLachlan, Claire

Authors: McLachlan, Claire
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: International Encyclopedia of Education: Fourth Edition p. 424-433
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Description: The topic of curriculum and democracy, when related to the idea of young children is a fascinating one. Although notions of democracy can be readily related to older children, particularly those in secondary education, ideas around democracy and younger children have been focused on children's rights, rather than children's participation in democratic processes. This article examines the place of democracy in early childhood curricula, along with the underpinning philosophical bases underpinning curricula choices in relation to democracy. It will then identify some recent research around how the issues related to involving children in democracy have been investigated in early childhood services. The potential for teaching democracy in early childhood settings is critically evaluated in relation to selected curriculum documents and curriculum approaches. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Deep reinforcement-based conversational ai agent in healthcare system

- Kulkarni, Pradnya, Stranieri, Andrew, Mahableshwarkar, Ameya, Kulkarni, Mrunalini

Authors: Kulkarni, Pradnya , Stranieri, Andrew , Mahableshwarkar, Ameya , Kulkarni, Mrunalini
Date: 2022
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Studies in Computational Intelligence p. 233-249
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Description: Conversational AI is a sub-domain of artificial intelligence that deals with speech-based or text-based AI agents that have the capability to simulate and automate conversations and verbal interactions. A Goal Oriented Conversational Agent (GOCA) is a conversational AI agent that attempts to solve a specific problem for the users as per their inputs. The development of Reinforcement Learning algorithms has opened up new opportunities in research related to conversational AI, due to the striking similarity the algorithm bears to the way a conversation takes place. This chapter aims to describe a novel, hybrid conversational AI architecture using Deep Reinforcement Learning that can give state-of-the-art results on the tasks of Intent Classification, Entity Recognition, Dialog Management, State Tracking, Information Retrieval and Natural Language Response Generation. The architecture also consists of external AI modules, focused on carrying out intelligent tasks pertaining to the healthcare sector. The AI tasks that the conversational agent is capable of performing are—Text-based Question Answering, Text Summarization and Visual Question Answering. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

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