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Learning a landscape enskilment pedagogy and a sense of place

- Wattchow, Brian, Prins, Alex

Authors: Wattchow, Brian , Prins, Alex
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Routledge companion to landscape studies Chapter 8 p. 102-111
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Description: Our goal in this chapter is to pose, and respond to, a deceptively simple question: How do learners learn a landscape? But of course it is, naturally, a deep and profound question that speaks to how humans relate to the landscapes in which they live. Crucially, the question also anticipates how teachers and learners relate to one another. In our role as outdoor educators of pre-service teachers we often find ourselves working in a range of localities using particu-lar activities such as bushwalking, sea kayaking, snorkelling and surfing. It is all too easy to treat the landscapes within which these activities occur as value-neutral venues, as simply a means to achieve personal, social and environmental educational outcomes (Wattchow and Brown 2011). These activities and the landscapes in which they are practised become ahis-torical, rather than activities and locations with long and fascinating cultural histories (Miles and Wattchow 2015). There can be a tendency to abstract learning outcomes and inoculate learners against the influence of the particularities and peculiarities of local places and the activities being undertaken. While this may be done with good intentions, like teaching for generalisable knowledge that can be applied anywhere, our concern is that the essence of doing, knowing and learning gets lost when it becomes disconnected from the land upon which it occurs

Place-responsiveness in outdoor environmental education

- Wattchow, Brian

Authors: Wattchow, Brian
Date: 2021
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education p. 101-110
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Description: This chapter discusses why place-responsiveness is an important consideration for outdoor environmental educators. Understanding the philosophical and pedagogical foundations of place provides insights into what has driven the rise of place-based education. Building upon this, the chapter looks at how outdoor educators have developed place-responsive approaches that allow them and their students to connect to outdoor landscapes. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Mount Buninyong Scenic Reserve

- Watson, Jaimie, Clark, Ian

Authors: Watson, Jaimie , Clark, Ian
Date: 2014
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: An Historical Geography of Tourism in Victoria, Australia Chapter 7 p. 135-154
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Description: This chapter provides a historical examination of Mount Buninyong, tracing its evolution from an Aboriginal cultural site into a recreational tourist attraction. It follows the example set by Clark’s (2002) study of the evolution of Lal Lal Falls as a tourism attraction and documents the development of Mount Buninyong as a tourism attraction with significant consideration of key moments such as the first accounts of European visitation in 1837, its declaration as a public reserve in 1866, and the year 1926 when a road was built to the summit. To understand the history and evolution of tourism visitation to the Mount, this chapter will explain this transition by showing the significance of the works provided by MacCannell (1976; 1999), Butler (1980) and Gunn (1994). It will demonstrate that when these theoretical models are combined they contain explanatory materials capable of comprehending the history and evolution of a natural and cultural tourism attraction. MacCannell’s studies into the development of secular attractions suggest they go through five stages including sight sacralization and/or naming, framing and elevation, enshrinement and duplication or mechanical reproduction, and finally social reproduction. Butler’s tourism area life cycle model may explain the succeeding stagnation and rejuvenation of the Mount. Gunn’s spatial model of three zones of visitor interaction should provide an understanding of the evolution and history of planning at Mount Buninyong

The being of urban resilience

- Wansler, Christine, Reeder, Lynne, Crosweller, Mark

Authors: Wansler, Christine , Reeder, Lynne , Crosweller, Mark
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: The Routledge handbook of urban resilience Chapter 5 p. 47-58
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Description: The nature of urban risk and disasters is changing. For the first time in human history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. Recent figures from the United Nations estimate that 6.3 billion people – 68 per cent of the world’s population – will be living in urban areas by 2050 (UN 2018; UN- Habitat 2017). Many of these growing cities are located on the coast or in other hazardous areas that are increasingly threatened by floods, storms, earthquakes, fires, heat or cold waves and drought (IPCC 2014). As urban corridors continue to be built in areas where hazards are commonplace, more and more people will be living with the continual threat of environ-mental upheaval and climate change. [Michael A. Burayidi.The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience]

Shallow seismic investigation of the Yangtze River Fault at Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China

- Wang, Guang-ya, You, Greg, Chen, Ming-zhu, Zhou, Guo-xing, Jian, E.

Authors: Wang, Guang-ya , You, Greg , Chen, Ming-zhu , Zhou, Guo-xing , Jian, E.
Date: 2018
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Engineering Geology and Geological Engineering for Sustainable Use of the Earth's Resources, Urbanization and Infrastructure Protection from Geohazards, Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures (Part of the Sustainable Civil Infrastuctures book series) 13 p. 192-205
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Description: Debates on the Yangtze River Fault at Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China have lasted for a long time. In order to clarify the stratigraphy, characteristics and activity of the fault, a large-scale shallow seismic investigation was conducted on the site. It involved 10 onsite field experiments, 5715 m long shallow seismic exploration and five geological drill holes, and consequent data processing and interpretation of the shallow seismic time profiles in combination with one geological profile and a satellite image. It was found that the loose Quaternary strata present good continuity in the area. Four pre-Cenozoic faults present in the bedrock (including the Yangtze River Fault), and two Quaternary faults cut the Quaternary sediments. Therefore, the existence of the Yangtze River Fault is verified, and its activity and characteristics are analyzed in this study.

Victorian bluestone : a proposed global heritage stone province from Australia

- Walter, Susan

Authors: Walter, Susan
Date: 2020
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Geological Society Special Publication p. 7-31
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Description: Victorian Bluestone is proposed as a Global Heritage Stone Province from Australia. Numerous heritage stones occur within this province and of these Malmsbury Bluestone is suggested as a Global Heritage Stone Resource. Bluestone, an iconic basalt dimension stone from Victoria, is used domestically and internationally with a recognized heritage value. Sources are located in urban and country areas of Victoria some of which are still utilized for dimension stone. In many instances bluestone has superior technical characteristics, including durability, that surpass high-quality commercial sandstones, despite an architectural preference for lighter-coloured stones. These characteristics are matched by the diversity of significant uses for domestic, commercial and infrastructure purposes especially in Victoria. Notable examples include the Spotswood Pumping Station, Malmsbury Viaduct, the Graving Dock (Williamstown), Malmsbury Reservoir, St Patrick's Cathedral (Melbourne), Kyneton Railway Station and Ararat Gaol. If the bluestone used in pavements and drains is also considered, Victorian Bluestone could be described as Australia's most prominent infrastructure heritage stone. Bluestone use in Melbourne dates from the 1840s, in the other states of Australia and in New Zealand from 1873, with international interest from Asia between 1860 and 1880. The stone continues to be utilized widely around Australia and is also exported. © 2018 The Author(s).

A Visualisation tool for experiential learning in Environmental Science: Using football fields, agricultural fields and waterways to illustrate the implication of different water allocation decisions

- Wallis, Anne, Graymore, Michelle, Matthews, Ty, Byrne, Susan

Authors: Wallis, Anne , Graymore, Michelle , Matthews, Ty , Byrne, Susan
Date: 2012
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Biology Education for Social and Sustainable Development Chapter 8 p. 73-86
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Description: Environmental education challenges educators to provide students with activities that cover complex societal issues, enhance critical thinking and to promote interdisciplinary and holistic learning. A further challenge is to convey this information so that it provides a solid foundation for participatory decision making. For example, effective management of water resources requires consideration of the social, economic and environmental consequences of various water allocation decisions together with an understanding of the possible conflicts that arise from these decisions, particular under scenarios of limited water supply. Well designed visualisation tools can enhance teaching and understanding of difficult concepts. For example, they can be designed to allow students to participate in hypothetical decision making and to visualise the potential implications of their decisions under a range of scenarios. A review of the published literature revealed that several visualisation tools have been developed for use in science education, but few provide the option for students to participate in integrated environmental decision making. This paper presents a visualisation tool, called WINDSCREEN, that has been introduced into environmental science classes to enhance student learning. The tool focuses on water resources and requires students to think about how they would allocate available water supplies for social, economic and environmental uses. An overview of the challenges associated with water allocation decisions, together with the role that visualisation tools can play in environmental education are also discussed.

Ghosts on the Goldfields : Ballarat as a haunted city

- Waldron, David, Waldron, Sharn

Authors: Waldron, David , Waldron, Sharn
Date: 2019
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Supernatural cities : Enchantment, anxiety and spectrality Chapter 11 p. 229-248
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Description: The history of Ballarat, situated at the heart of the goldfields of central Victoria, Australia, is closely tied to the colonial experience. As the site of the Eureka Stockade rebellion, its history is linked to the foundation myths of Australian democracy. It boasts both the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E), situated on one of the suspected sites of the rebels' stockade, and Australia's premier open air museum, the theme park of Sovereign Hill, which re-enacts life on the goldfields of the 1950s and 1860s. In Ballarat itself many of the businesses utilise symbols of the goldfields in their advertising and trademarks, as do many of the street names, festivals and public events. The Victorian architectural heritage is highly prized and showcased to the thousands of visiting tourists on Sturt and Lydiard Streets, and particularly those who come each year for Ballarat's Heritage Weekend festival held in May. Yet there is a dark side to this history. The prosperity of the gold was built on the land of the Wathawurrung Aborigines who were displaced and marginalised, and suffered under the weight of colonial occupation and environmental devastation. Likewise, despite the prominence of stories surrounding those who became wealty on the goldfields of central Victoria, many who came to Ballarat during the Victorian era found themselves displaced and living in extremen poverty, facing disease, hunger and vulnerability to crime, prostitution and dangerous working conditions. It is these stories from the underbelly of Ballarat's heritage that form the fodder of a thriving dark tourist industry, expressed in popular ghost tours and supplemented by a rich heritage of ghost stories in folklore and popular culture. In the tension between these two discordant narratives Ballarat has become, in popular imagination, a haunted city.

Playing the ghost : ghost hoaxing and supernaturalism in nineteenth-century Victoria

- Waldron, David

Authors: Waldron, David
Date: 2016
Type: Text , Book chapter
Relation: Goldfields and the gothic : A hidden heritage & folklore p. 19-30
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Description: Ghosts have long been a popular subject in central Victoria. Even in the late Goldfields era, belief in ghosts, ghost stories and hauntings were popular subjects for entertainment and attracted significant attention in the printed press and public gatherings and lectures. In a sense Ballarat was a 'haunted' city from very early in its coloniel history. With such a demand and popular interest in ghosts, Ballarat also became a hot bed of spiritualism and ghost hoaxing. This paper examines the history and context of ghost hoaxing in nineteenth-century colonial Victoria with a focus on Ballarat and the central Victorian region.

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