Ben Cooke

• Kirkpatrick, J., Fielder, L. Davison, A. Pearce, L. & Cooke, B. (in press) The role of government in a partial transition from public to private in the expanding Australian protected area system. Conservation and Society.
• Davison, A., Pearce, L., Cooke, B., Kirkpatrick, J. (in press). From activism to “not-quite-government”: the role of government and non-government actors in the expansion of the Australian protected area system since 1990. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.

• Fitzsimons, J. & Cooke, B. (2021). Key questions for conservation tenders as a means for delivering biodiversity benefits on private land. Ecological Management & Restoration. 22 (2), 110-114.

• Cooke, B. (2020). The politics of urban greening: an introduction. Australian Geographer 51 (2), 137-153.
• Cooke, B, Landau-Ward, A. & Rickards, L. (2020). Urban greening, property and more-than-human commoning. Australian Geographer 51 (2), 169-188.
• J Ford, J Ison, L McKenzie, F Cannizzo, LR Mayhew, N Osborne, Cooke, B. (2020). What ongoing staff can do to support precariously employed colleagues. The Australian Universities' Review. 62 (1), 57-62.
• Cooke, B. & Lane, R. (2020). Making Ecologies on Private Land: Conservation Practice in Rural-Amenity Landscapes. Palgrave McMillian.

• Moon, K., Adams, VM., Cooke, B. (2019). Shared personal reflections on the need to broaden the scope of conservation social science. People and Nature 1 (4), 426-434.

Peer-reviewed book chapters:

• Maller, C., Mumaw, L. and Cooke, B. (2019). Health and social benefits of living with ‘wild’ nature. In: (Eds) Pettorelli, N., du Toit, J.T. and Durant, S. Rewilding. Cambridge University Press.
  

• Jellinek, S, Wilson, KA, Hagger, V, Mumaw, L, Cooke, B, Guerrero, AM, Erickson, TE, Zamin, T, Waryszak, P, Standish, R. (2018). Integrating diverse social and ecological motivations to achieve landscape restoration. Journal of Applied Ecology.
• Clements, H., Selinske, M., Archibald, H., Cooke, B., Fitzsimons, J., Groce, J., Torabi, N and Hardy, M., (2018). Fairness and transparency is required for the inclusion of Private Protected Areas in publically accessible conservation databases. Land. 7 (3), 96.
• Cooke, B. and Lane, R. (2018). Plant-human commoning: Navigating enclosure, neoliberal conservation, and plant mobility in exurban landscapes. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. [Online First]
• Cooke, B. and Corbo-Perkins, G. (2018). The creative adoption and co-option of market-based instruments for conservation on private land. Land Use Policy. 70, 172-181
• Prado, J., Puszka, H., Forman, A., Cooke, B. and Fitzsimons, J.A. (2018). Trends and values of 'Land for Wildlife' programs in private land conservation. Ecological Management and Restoration. 19 (2), 136-146.

Reports and other publications:

• Cooke, B. and King, T. (2018). Just and fair urban greening? Chain Reaction: The National Magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia.
• Cooke, B. (2018). Book Review: Green gentrification: urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice Kenneth A. Gould and Tammy L. Lewis Abingdon, Routledge, 2017. Australian Journal of Environmental Education.

• Bosomworth, K., Cooke, B. and Coffey, B. (2017). Uncertain landscapes and regional futures: considering the implications for place, participation and NRM policy under climate change. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies. 23 (3), 344-357.
• Selinske, M., Cooke, B., Torabi, N., Hardy, M., Knight, A. & Bekessy, S. (2017). Locating financial incentives amongst diverse motivations for long-term private land conservation. Ecology and Society. 22(2), 7.

Peer-reviewed book chapters:

• Cooke, B. (2017). The co-presence of past and future in the environmental management practices of rural-amenity migrants. In: (Eds) Head, L., Saltzman, K., Setten, G. & Stenseke, M. Nature, Time and Environmental Management: Scandinavian and Australian perspectives on peoples and landscapes. Routledge.

Reports and other publications:

• Cooke, B. and Moon, K. (2017). Re-engaging with the ethic of environmental stewardship to guide conservation funding for private land. The Power to Persuade.

• Cooke, B., West, S. & Boonstra, W.J. (2016). Dwelling in the biosphere: exploring an embodied human–environment connection in resilience thinking. Sustainability Science. 11(5), 831-843.
• Torabi, N., Cooke, B. & Bekessy, S. (2016). The role of social networks and trusted peers in promoting biodiverse carbon plantings. Australian Geographer. 47(2), 139-156.

Peer-reviewed book chapters:

• Cooke, B. and Coffey, B. (2016). Why ‘green cities’ need to become a deeply lived experience. The Conversation.
• Cooke, B. (2016). What next? Landholder perceptions of private land conservation at the conclusion of an EcoTender contract. Report for The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.

• Cooke, B. and Lane, R. (2015a). How do amenity migrants learn to be environmental stewards of rural landscapes? Landscape and Urban Planning. 134, 43-52.
• Cooke, B. and Lane, R. (2015b). Re-thinking rural-amenity ecologies for environmental management in the Anthropocene. Geoforum. 65. 232-242.
• Cooke, B. and Moon, K. (2015). Aligning public good environmental stewardship with the landscape-scale: adapting MBIs for private land conservation policy. Ecological Economics, 114, 152-158.

• Policy Roadmap for the Australian Land Conservation Alliance (ALCA)
  Benjamin Cooke, Lilian Pearce, Oli Moraes
  Contract Research - ALCA (14,800)
  2021-2022

• Phillip Island Nature Parks Research Project Evaluating interactions of beachgoers and their dogs with local wildlife
  Contract Research ($9.000)
  Benjamin Cooke, Cecily Maller, Helen Corney, Tyler King
  2019-2021

• Owning nature: mapping the contested country of private protected areas.
  ARC Discovery Project ($338,000)
  Aidan Davison, Benjamin Cooke, Lilian Pearce, Jamie Kirkpatrick, Florence Damiens
  2018-2022
• Strategies towards integrating urban Edible City Solutions for socially resilient and sustainably productive cities in Europe (EdiCitNet) (administered by Technische Universitaet Berlin)
  Horizon 2020 European Commission. ($50,000)
  Ferne Edwards, Lauren Rickards, Jago Dodson, Benjamin Cooke
  2018-2023
• Examining the role of market-based instruments in the delivery of private land conservation
  Contract Research - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) ($8,000)
  Benjamin Cooke
  2018

• RMIT Enabling Capability Fund: Redefining community engagement with urban biodiversity: new research and assessment methods.
  RMIT ECP funded: ($6,200) 
  Benjamin Cooke, Laura Mumaw
  2017