Marjorie Sullivan, BSc (USyd), MSc (UNSW), PhD (ANU)
Visiting Fellow, Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program

Email: heh[at]bigpond.net.au

Biographical Statement

Marjorie is a physical geographer who has worked on arid, tropical, coastal and cold-climate landforms and catchment hydrology. Her main research interests are human impact on landscapes, both current and prehistoric, and a range of environmental, natural resource management and development issues including the links between poverty and environment. An ongoing interest in climate change stems from being a member of the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, looking at small island states. She has worked as an academic in Australia and PNG, in land management and on customary land resources and landuse in the Pacific and Asia, and as an adviser to AusAID.

Research Interests

Human impact on landscapes, Quaternary to present; landforming processes in tropical, arid and coastal areas; environmental management; environmental issues in development; links between poverty and environment; development activity designs.

Key Publications

• (with M. Keen) Aiding the Environment: Greening Development through Organisational Change in Aid Agencies. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 25: 628-649, 2005.
• Poverty Reduction and Environment, Development Bulletin 55:12-15, 2001.
• (IPCC contributor) In R.T. Watson, M.C. Zinyowera and R.H. Moss (eds) Climate Change 1995 Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific Technical Analyses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
• (IPCC contributor) Coastal Zones and Small Islands. In Working Group II Second Assessment Report. The Hague: National Institute of Coastal and Marine Management. 1995.
• (with M. Mulrennan, P. Jull and Island Coordinating Council) MaSTS, Towards a Marine Strategy for Torres Strait. Darwin: North Australian Research Unit. 1993.
• (with P. Hughes) Aboriginal Landscape. In J.S. Russell and R.F. Isbell (eds) Australian Soils: The Human Impact. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press. pp. 117-133, 1986.

Career Highlights

Formerly Cultural Resources Manager, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Southeast Region; Professor of Geography, UPNG; in-house Environment Adviser, AusAID; and environmental management consultant.