STAFF PROFILE
David Mercer
Position:
Honorary Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
Phone:
+61399253466
Email:
dave.mercer@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
10 PhD Completions
- Mercer, D.,Mayfield, P. (2015). City of the spectacle: White Night Melbourne and the politics of public space In: Australian Geographer, 46, 507 - 534
- Bond, T.,Mercer, D. (2014). Subdivision policy and planning for bushfire defence: a natural hazard mitigation strategy for residential peri-urban regions in Victoria, Australia In: Geographical Research, 52, 6 - 22
- Zainuddin, Z.,Mercer, D. (2014). Domestic residential garden food production in Melbourne, Australia: a fine-grained analysis and pilot study In: Australian Geographer, 45, 465 - 484
- Edwards, F.,Mercer, D. (2013). Food waste in Australia: the freegan response In: The Sociological Review, 60, 174 - 191
- Mercer, D. (2013). Biodiversity and tourism In: The Routledge Handbook of Tourism and the Environment, Routledge, New York, United States
- Mulligan, M.,Ahmed, I.,Shaw, J.,Mercer, D.,Nadarajah, Y. (2012). Lessons for long term social recovery following the 2004 tsunami: Community, livelihoods, tourism and housing In: Environmental Hazards: human and policy dimensions, 11, 38 - 51
- Whittaker, J.,Handmer, J.,Mercer, D. (2012). Vulnerability to bushfires in rural Australia: a case study from East Gippsland, Victoria In: Journal of Rural Studies, 28, 161 - 173
- Mercer, D. (2012). Catastrophic bushfire, politics and the public interest In: Environmental Policy Failure. The Australian Story, Tilde Publishing, Prahran, Victoria
- Buxton, M.,Haynes, R.,Mercer, D.,Butt, A. (2011). Vulnerability to bushfire risk at Melbourne's urban fringe: The failure of regulatory land use planning In: Geographical Research, 49, 1 - 12
- Buxton, M.,Mercer, D. (2011). Planning for disaster mitigation: Reconstruction following the 2009 bushfires in Victoria, Australia In: Managing Urban Disaster Recovery: Policy, Planning, Concepts and Cases, Crisis Response Press, Crowthorne, United Kingdom
- Production landscapes & social justice: water resource management & environmental conservation in the Murray-Darling Basin. Funded by: CSIRO Flagship Collaborative Research Program Clusters Grant Pre-2014 from (2008 to 2011)
- Victorian Our Water Our Future Postgraduate Scholarships: Enhancing social learning for sustainability in water management and conservation in Victoria. Funded by: Victorian Our Water Our Future Postgraduate Scholarships from (2006 to 2009)
- Re-imagining the Australian suburb - Ecological Sustainability and Urban Development. Funded by: ARC Linkage Project 2005 Round 1 from (2005 to 2009)
- Re-imagining the Australian Suburb: local governance and community building. Funded by: ARC Linkage Projects 2004 Round 2 from (2004 to 2009)
- Change and Continuity in Peri Urban Australia: Scenarios and Strategies for Sustainability. Funded by: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation Grant Pre-2014 from (2004 to 2008)
Australian environment policy. Natural resource management. Sustainable cities. Social impact assessment