Stewart Lockie

Coal mining and the resource community cycle : a longitudinal assessment of the social impacts of the Coppabella coal mine (2009)

Lockie, Stewart., Ivanova, Galina., Franettovich, Maree., Petkova-Timmer, Vanessa.

Two social impact assessment (SIA) studies of Central Queensland's Coppabella coal mine were undertaken in 2002–2003 and 2006–2007. As ex post studies of actual change, these provide a reference...

Coal mining and the resource community cycle : a longitudinal assessment of the social impacts of the Coppabella coal mine (2009)

Lockie, Stewart., Ivanova, Galina., Franettovich, Maree., Petkova-Timmer, Vanessa.

Two social impact assessment (SIA) studies of Central Queensland's Coppabella coal mine were undertaken in 2002–2003 and 2006–2007. As ex post studies of actual change, these provide a reference...

Mining developments and social impacts on communities: Bowen Basin case studies (2009)

Petkova, Vanessa, Lockie, Stewart, Rolfe, John, Ivanova, Galina, ...

Mining activities in Australia tend to be cyclical, with boom and bust times impacting upon associated communities. However, little information exists to classify key impacts or to identify how they...

Intimate partner abuse of women in a Central Queensland mining region (2009)

Heather Nancarrow, Stewart Lockie, Sanjay Sharma

Perceptions about the mining industry and the rapid growth of mining communities in Australia has led to concerns that these communities are prone to higher rates of intimate partner violence than...

Housing stress and location choices in Bowen Basin mining communities : a case study of Moranbah (2009)

Akbar, Delwar., Lockie, Stewart., Ivanova, Galina.

One of the consequences of mining expansion in the Bowen Basin region of Central Queensland in Australia has been a substantial increase in demand for housing, with subsequent impacts on housing and...

Assessing the social impacts of extensive resource use activities (2009)

Lockie, Stewart., Rockloff, Susan., Helbers, Danielle., Gorospe-Lockie, Maharlina., Lawrence, Karen.

Extensive forms of resource use are rarely subject to detailed environmental and social assessment. This paper outlines a potential methodology for assessment of the social impacts of extensive...

Contrasting Paths of Corporate Greening in Antipodean Agriculture: Organics and Green Production (2008)

Kristen Lyons, David Burch, Geoffrey Lawrence, Stewart Lockie

Over the last few decades, and throughout the world, the corporate sector has sought to establish its environmental credentials by integrating environmental and social justice issues into its...

Collaboration to develop healthy communities promoting population health and community sustainability / (2008)

Burke, Karena., Ronan, Kevin., Lockie, Stewart., Douglas, James., Happell, Brenda., Taylor, Sandra.

CQU Healthy Communities is a new initiative at Central Queensland University which aims to draw together researchers and research centres from across the University, in collaboration with community...

Conversion or co-option? : The implications of “mainstreaming” for producer and consumer agency within fair trade networks (2008)

Lockie, Stewart.

This chapter examines the implications of market expansion and multinational involvement in the production and retailing of fair trade certified products. It reviews debates concerning the potential...

Democratisation versus engagement? Social and economic impact assessment and community participation in the coal mining industry of the Bowen Basin, Australia / (2008)

Lockie, Stewart., Franettovich, Maree., Sharma, Sanjay.

A review of economic impact assessment (EcIA), social impact assessment (SIA), and community participation practice in the rapidly growing coal industry of Australia’s Bowen Basin suggests...

Conversion or co-option? : The implications of “mainstreaming” for producer and consumer agency within fair trade networks (2008)

Lockie, Stewart.

This chapter examines the implications of market expansion and multinational involvement in the production and retailing of fair trade certified products. It reviews debates concerning the potential...

Democratisation versus engagement? Social and economic impact assessment and community participation in the coal mining industry of the Bowen Basin, Australia / (2008)

Lockie, Stewart., Franettovich, Maree., Sharma, Sanjay.

A review of economic impact assessment (EcIA), social impact assessment (SIA), and community participation practice in the rapidly growing coal industry of Australia’s Bowen Basin suggests...

Collaboration to develop healthy communities promoting population health and community sustainability / (2008)

Burke, Karena., Ronan, Kevin., Lockie, Stewart., Douglas, James., Happell, Brenda., Taylor, Sandra.

CQU Healthy Communities is a new initiative at Central Queensland University which aims to draw together researchers and research centres from across the University, in collaboration with community...

Roll-out neoliberalism and hybrid practices of regulation in Australian agri-environmental governance (2007)

Lockie, Stewart.

In the last 15 years, agri-environmental programmes in Australia have been underpinned by a neoliberal regime of governing which seeks to foster participation and ‘bottom-up’ change at the...

Deliberation and actor-networks : the ‘‘practical’’ implications of social theory for the assessment of large dams and other interventions (2007)

Lockie, Stewart.

This article reviews the potential contribution of deliberative theory and actor network theory to the practice of social impact assessment (SIA). With reference to a case study of the World...

Lessons from the social and economic impacts of the mining boom in the Bowen Basin 2004-2006 (2007)

Miles, Robert., Lockie, Stewart., Ivanova, Galina.

The coal industry boom in Central Queensland’s Bowen Basin has generated a number of positive economic and social impacts including increased employment, income and expenditure levels. The spike in...

Assessing social and economic impacts associated with changes in the coal mining industry in the Bowen Basin, Queensland, Australia (2007)

Ivanova, Galina., Lockie, Stewart., Timmer, Vanessa.

Purpose: The coal mining industry makes a key contribution to the Queensland economy, and is the underlying driver of employment and economic conditions in many local and regional communities. This...

Democratization of coastal zone decision-making for Indigenous Australians insights from stakeholder analysis (2006)

Rockloff, Susan., Lockie, Stewart.

Community participation has become something of an orthodoxy within natural resource management. In the absence of an explicit strategy for democratization and capacity-building the notion of...

Capturing the sustainability agenda organic foods and media discourses on food scares, environment, genetic engineering and health (2006)

Lockie, Stewart.

This paper undertakes a content analysis of newspaper articles from Australia, the UK and the US concerned with a variety of issues relevant to sustainable food and agriculture during the period 1999...

Assessing the social and economic impacts of coal mining on two different communities in Central Queensland, Australia (2006)

Lockie, Stewart., Merritt, John., Ivanova, Galina.

The broad aim of the project was to assist coal mining companies develop effective processes for engaging with their communities and developing impact assessment and planning processes that can be...

Reconfiguring rural resource governance the legacy of neoliberalism in Australia (2006)

Lockie, Stewart., Lawrence, Geoffrey., Cheshire, Lynda.

Rural resource management in Australia has focused primarily on fostering conditions for the ‘development’ of natural resources and, to the extent that it has addressed social and environmental...

Neoliberalism, standardisation and the problem of space competing rationalities of governance in fair trade and mainstream agri-environmental networks (2006)

Lockie, Stewart., Goodman, Michael.

Neoliberal political ideologies have been criticised for their blanket prescription of market reform as the solution to almost any social or environmental problem. This chapter thus examines the...

Understanding the market for organic food (2006)

Lockie, Stewart., Halpin, Darren., Pearson, David.

In this chapter, we examine the organic marketplace in terms of the changing dynamics of supply and demand; what currently is known about those who consume organic foods; what strategies have been...

Going organic : mobilizing networks for environmentally responsible food production (2006)

Lockie, Stewart., Lyons, Kristen., Lawrence, Geoffrey., Halpin, Darren.

At the same time that organic food and agriculture has emerged as the most highly visible alternative to industrialised systems of food provision, it remains an industry based on numerous untested...

Democratization of coastal zone decision-making for Indigenous Australians insights from stakeholder analysis (2006)

Rockloff, Susan., Lockie, Stewart.

Community participation has become something of an orthodoxy within natural resource management. In the absence of an explicit strategy for democratization and capacity-building the notion of...

Capturing the sustainability agenda organic foods and media discourses on food scares, environment, genetic engineering and health (2006)

Lockie, Stewart.

This paper undertakes a content analysis of newspaper articles from Australia, the UK and the US concerned with a variety of issues relevant to sustainable food and agriculture during the period 1999...

Networks of agri-environmental action temporality, spatiality and identity within agricultural environments (2006)

Lockie, Stewart.

Engineering new networks between state agencies, farmers and other actors is central to contemporary agri-environmental policy. This paper examines relationships between network membership, identity...

Factors Underlying Support or Opposition to Biotechnology Amongst Australian food Consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation (2005)

Lockie, Stewart, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen, Grice, Janet

Despite current findings that consumers, on average, have negative attitudes to biotechnologies such as cloning and genetic engineering, considerable variability can be found in the direction and...

Factors Underlying Support or Opposition to Biotechnology Amongst Australian food Consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation (2005)

Lockie, Stewart, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen, Grice, Janet

Despite current findings that consumers, on average, have negative attitudes to biotechnologies such as cloning and genetic engineering, considerable variability can be found in the direction and...

Factors Underlying Support or Opposition to Biotechnology Amongst Australian food Consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation (2005)

Lockie, Stewart, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen, Grice, Janet

Despite current findings that consumers, on average, have negative attitudes to biotechnologies such as cloning and genetic engineering, considerable variability can be found in the direction and...

Governing consumption : mobilising 'the consumer' within genetically modified and organic food networks (2005)

Lockie, Stewart., Salem, Nell.

The history of food production, distribution and regulation is replete with attempts to influence and control the consumption behaviour of others. Examples range from direct state intervention in...

Interpreting the Australian-Phillipines food trade in the context of debates on food security (2005)

Lockie, Stewart.

Since 1992, the Australian government has implemented a number of strategies designed to capitalize on the ostensibly natural market provided to Australian food exporters by the rapidly growing...

Social and economic issues associated with the Bowen Basin coal industry : community engagement to reduce conflict over mine operations (2005)

Ivanova, Galina., Lockie, Stewart.

A major project is being undertaken in the Bowen Basin coal mining region of Queensland, Australia, to assess how economic and social impacts of mining should be assessed and negotiated with regional...

Factors underlying support or opposition to biotechnology among Australian food consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation (2005)

Lockie, Stewart., Lawrence, Geoffrey., Lyons, Kristen., Grice, Janet.

Despite current findings that consumers, on average, have negative attitudes to biotechnologies such as cloning and genetic engineering, considerable variability can be found in the direction and...

The 'conventionalisation' thesis reconsidered : structural and ideological transformation of Australian organic agriculture (2005)

Lockie, Stewart., Halpin, Darren

Contemporary narratives on organic food and agriculture are almost inevitably tales of extraordinary growth (see Michelson 2001a). In the UK, for example, Smith and Marsden (2003) report a ninefold...

Factors Underlying Support or Opposition to Biotechnology Amongst Australian food Consumers and implications for retailer-led food regulation (2005)

Lockie, Stewart, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen, Grice, Janet

Despite current findings that consumers, on average, have negative attitudes to biotechnologies such as cloning and genetic engineering, considerable variability can be found in the direction and...

Choosing Organics: a Path Analysis of Factors Underlying the Selection of Organic Food Among Australian Consumers (2004)

Stewart Lockie, Kristen Lyons, Geoffrey Lawrence, Janet Grice

This article provided, for the first time in Australia, a path analysis of attitudinal, motivational, demographic and behavioural factors influencing food choice among Australian consumers. It is an...

Choosing Organics: a Path Analysis of Factors Underlying the Selection of Organic Food Among Australian Consumers (2004)

Stewart Lockie, Kristen Lyons, Geoffrey Lawrence, Janet Grice

This article provided, for the first time in Australia, a path analysis of attitudinal, motivational, demographic and behavioural factors influencing food choice among Australian consumers. It is an...

Participatory tools for coastal zone management use of stakeholder analysis and social mapping in Australia / (2004)

Rockloff, Susan., Lockie, Stewart.

This paper presents research currently being conducted in Central Queensland, Australia to understand conflicts between coastal zone resource users and the associated sociocultural and political...

Choosing organics : a path analysis of factors underlying the selection of organic food among Australian consumers (2004)

Lockie, Stewart., Grice, Janet., Lyons, Kristen., Lawrence, Geoffrey.

Path analysis of attitudinal, motivational, demographic and behavioural factors influencing food choice among Australian consumers who had consumed at least some organic food in the preceding 12...

Collective agency, non-human causality and environmental social movements a case study of the Australian 'landcare movement' / (2004)

Lockie, Stewart.

This article explores the implications for social movement theory of recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) that explicitly rejects dualisms between society and nature, structure...

Food sovereignty, food security and the environment: Australian consumer attitudes to organics and genetic engineering (2003)

Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen, Lockie, Stewart

The Fifth Conference on Organic Agriculture, held in Havana in May 2003, featured the progress Cuba has made in research, extension, and education in organic and ecological agriculture. The...

Food sovereignty, food security and the environment: Australian consumer attitudes to organics and genetic engineering (2003)

Lawrence, Geoffrey, Lyons, Kristen, Lockie, Stewart

The Fifth Conference on Organic Agriculture, held in Havana in May 2003, featured the progress Cuba has made in research, extension, and education in organic and ecological agriculture. The...

"Banana wars" : the food security implications of the Australia-Philippines agricultural trade dispute (2003)

Lockie, Stewart.

Since 2000 Australia and the Philippines have been engaged in an acrimonious dispute over agricultural trade. Ostensibly, this dispute is about Australia's use of strict phytosanitary standards to...

Conditions for building social capital and community well-being through plantation forestry (2003)

Lockie, Stewart.

Falling commodity prices, dying towns, escalating suicide rates, decreasing access to services, and environmental degradation all form part of a well-known story of life in contemporary rural...

Eating 'Green': Motivations Behind Organic Food Consumption in Australia (2002)

Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Mummery, Kerry, Henry Buller

Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the...

Eating 'Green': Motivations Behind Organic Food Consumption in Australia (2002)

Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Mummery, Kerry

Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the...

Eating 'Green': Motivations Behind Organic Food Consumption in Australia (2002)

Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Mummery, Kerry

Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the...

Eating 'Green': Motivations behind organic food consumption in Australia (2002)

Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Mummery, Kerry

Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical-free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the...

'Capacity for change' : testing a model for the inclusion of social indicators in Australia's National Land and Water Resources Audit (2002)

Lockie, Stewart., Lawrence, Geoffrey., Dale, Allan., Taylor, Bruce.

The complexity of relationships between social change and natural resource management has generated interest in the identification of indicators that might provide more streamlined means for...

Eating 'Green': Motivations Behind Organic Food Consumption in Australia (2002)

Lockie, Stewart, Lyons, Kristen, Lawrence, Geoffrey, Mummery, Kerry

Central to the development of green lifestyles is the consumption of foods that by dint of their status as chemical free, locally produced and/or free of genetically modified ingredients, reduce the...

Consuming Green: the Symbolic Construction of Organic Foods (2001)

Lyons, Kristen, Lockie, Stewart, Lawrence, Geoffrey

One of the key features of the recent dramatic growth in the organic food industries is the extent to which this is demand driven, suggesting the need to focus analytical attention more closely on...

Sociocultural dynamics and the development of the landcare movement in Australia (1996)

Lockie, Stewart.

Typescript. "June 1996" Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-339) Discusses the sociological effects and impact of the National Landcare Program on agriculture and farming practice in...

Assessing the social impacts of extensive resource use activities

Stewart Lockie, Susan Rockloff, Danielle Helbers, Maharlina Gorospe-Lockie, Karen Lawrence

Extensive forms of resource use are rarely subject to detailed environmental and social assessment. This paper outlines a potential methodology for assessment of the social impacts of extensive...