John Holmes (geographer) explained

John H. Holmes is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Queensland.^{[1] [2]}

John Holmes has contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica and has edited Queensland: A Geographical Interpretation and coedited Settlement Systems in Sparsely Populated Regions.^[3] Professor Holmes has also chaired the Australian Academy of Science National Committee of Geography and acted as Australian delegate at various international meetings. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

Selected publications

• (1965) The suburbanization of the Cessnock coalfields. Australian Geographical Studies 111 (2), 105–128.
• (1967) Problems in location sampling. Annals: Association of American Geographers, 57 (4), 757-780.
• (1977) Population (pp. 331–353) and The urban system (pp. 412–431). In D.N. Jeans (ed) Australia: A Geography. Sydney, Sydney U.P. (Revised in Australia: A Geography. Vol. 2 Society and Space, (1987), 24-48 and 49–74.
• (1985) Policy issues concerning rural settlement in Australia's pastoral zone, Australian Geographical Studies, 23, 3-27.
• (1990) Ricardo revisited: submarginal land and non-viable cattle enterprises in the Northern Territory Gulf District. Journal of Rural Studies, 6 (1), 45–65.
• (1996) Changing resource values in Australia's tropical savannas: priorities in institutional reform. In: A. Ash, ed. The Future of Tropical Savannas: An Australian Perspective, Melbourne: C.S.I.R.O. 28–43.
• (2000) Pastoral lease tenures as policy instruments: 1847 to 1997. In S. Dovers, ed. Environmental History and Policy: Still Settling Australia, Melbourne: Oxford U.P. 212–242.
• (2002) Diversity and change in Australia's rangelands: a post-productivist transition with a difference? Transactions: Institute of British Geographers 27, 362–384.
• (With K. Hartig and M. Bell) (2002) Locational disadvantage and household locational decisions: changing contexts and responses in the Cessnock district, 1964–1999. Australian Geographical Studies, 40, 300–322.
• (2006) Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: gaps in the research agenda. Journal of Rural Studies, 22, 142–160.
• (2009) Fifty years of disciplinary flux within human geography; changing sociocognitive subdisciplines and subcultures. Australian Geographer 40, 387–408.
• (2010) Divergent regional trajectories in Australia's tropical savannas: indicators of a multifunctional transition. "Geographical Research" 48, 342–358.
• (2012) Cape York Peninsula, Australia: sa frontier region undergoing a multifunctional transition with indigenous engagement. "Journal of Rural Studies" 28, 252–265.

Selected consultancy reports

• (2001) Third-party rights on pastoral leases in South Australia. Report to Pastoral Board Secretariat, S. A. Department of Environment, Heritage and Aboriginal Affairs pp. 44.
• (2003) Incentives for pastoral lessees to enter into Indigenous land use agreements (ILUAs). Report to Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement: South Australia, pp. 65.
• (2005) (with M. Bell and E. Charles-Edwards) Population dynamics in rural and remote Queensland. Report to Queensland Office of Economic Research, Department of Premier and Cabinet, pp. 87.

References

1. http://www.internationallandcareconference2006.com.au/ProgramInformation.htm International Landcare Conference 2006
2. http://www.une.edu.au/geography/iag-rsg/members.php#John%20Holmes Institute of Australian Geographers
3. Web site: Biographical Information . 2014 . Encyclopædia Britannica .