Overview
- Contemporary publication in an important and emerging topic at a key time
- Includes material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the field and crossing the academic-professional- practitioner interface
- First synthesis of a post-modern strategic military geography and a forward-looking volume that includes human, biophysical and epistemological materials
Part of the book series: Advances in Military Geosciences (AMG)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Drawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia. Here, leading experts demonstrate that geography retains its relevance in clarifying the scale and dynamics of defense activities in assessments of the international, regional, national, and site impacts of changes in physical, cyber and human geographies. The cases presented show Australia contributing to a growing strategic and military geography.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ms. Jane Holloway is a Senior Systems Scientist in the Australian Department of Defence with a background in systems agriculture, wool industry, new and emerging Defence technologies with both operational and strategic impacts.  She co-leads a group leading the consideration of environmental and climate change and Defence preparedness. She has worked to bring strategic military geography change into Defence and published a seminal chapter on the concept.  She seeks to ensure that strategy occurs in a geography-aware way.
Mr. Richard Thackway is a consulting research scientist implementing ecological frameworks and information systems to improve natural resource decision making. He is the Managing Director of VAST transformations an innovative start-up company. In his contributions to design and implementation of Australia's National Reserve System and National System of Representative Marine Protected Areas and the Indigenous Protected Areas his work stands out. His frameworks are used in Australia's 2011 State of the Environment and the 2013 State of the Forests Reports and he his experience with Australian and state and territory governments, scientists, academics, Defence and regional non-government groups is outstanding.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography
Editors: Stuart Pearson, Jane L. Holloway, Richard Thackway
Series Title: Advances in Military Geosciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73408-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73407-1Published: 19 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10372-9Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73408-8Published: 08 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2522-8315
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8323
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 249
Topics: Physical Geography, Military and Defence Studies, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Human Geography, History of Military