Adjunct PROFESSOR john merson
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Professorial Fellow
Room 139
Building H22: Vallentine Annexe
Phone: (+61 2) 9385 4973
Email: j.merson@unsw.edu.au |
BIOGRAPHY
Associate Professor John Merson
was the Director of the IES until January 2012 and remains Head of the Graduate Research Program in Environmental Policy and Management at UNSW.
He is one of the founding Directors of The Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute, and has been a consultant to the UNESCO, APEC, IUCN, DEST & Dept of Foreign Affairs. He was a member of the Australian Indonesia Steering Committee on Science and Technology, and the Australia Korea Forum.
He is the author of six books and a wide range of academic papers and research covering issues of Environmental and Development, Adaptive Environmental Policy & Management and Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation.
For his journalistic work he is the recipient of a United Nations Media Peace Prize.
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
ARTS2240: Environment, Sustainability and Development
POSTGRADUATE TEACHING
IEST5003: Addressing Environmental Issues
1211: PhD program in Environmental Policy and Management (Coordinator)
PhD STUDENTS UNDER JOHN'S SUPERVISION
Graduated: Ji Chen, Beatrice Pegard, Crelis Rammelt, Mario Rimini
Submitted: Nicholas Christodoulidis, Taniela Faletau, Phoenix Lawhon-Isler
Current: Peter Ampt, Alex Baumber, Alice Bergonia, Li Wang Alexander Gold, Sanjay Kalpage, Johannes Luetz, Thanh Pham, Nahid Sultana
PUBLICATIONS
Merson J & Debus R. eds (1977) Political Economy of Development, ABC Books.
Merson J. Culture and Science in China, (1981) ABC Books. (Also translated into Chinese by the Fudan University, Shanghai, and published by Fudan University Press).
Merson J. (1988) Roads to Xanadu: East and West in the Making of the Modern World
Pub ABC/ Child Aust, Wiedenfeld & Nicholson UK (1989), Hoffmann und Campe Germany (1989), The Overlook Press USA (1990).
Merson J & Chapple R. (1992) “Sacred Cows or White Elephants : Biotechnology and the Commercialisation of Research Culture”. pub in Research Culture and Market
Niches: the Commercialisation of Research in Australian Universities.
Centre for Research Policy, University of Wollongong.
Merson J & Chapple R. (1993. ) “A Marriage of Convenience: Research Culture in two Co-operative Research Centres”, Pub Centre for Research Policy, University of Wollongong.
Hill. S, March. A, Merson J, and F. Siregar (1994 ) “Science and Technology: Partnership in Development” in Expanding Horizons: Australia and Indonesia into the 21st Century
Pub. East Asia Analytical Unit, DFAT, Canberra.
Merson J (1996) “Technology Transfer: An Australian Perspective” in the Proceedings of the 4th Cross-Cultural Technology Transfer Seminar, University of Brunei, Darussalam.
Merson J & Xu C. (1996) “ITC in North Asia”. In: Proceedings of AusAid/CTIN conference Advances in Information Technology - Issues for Development in the Asia Pacific pub CTIN University of Adelaide.
Merson J, Xu C & Green D. (1997)“Two Case Studies of Cross Cultural Technology Transfer in the IT&T Industry”. In: Yamaguchi (ed) Research on Issues in Cross Cultural Technology Transfer, IIST Pub. Japan.
Merson J. (1998) “Asia’s Environmental Crisis: Innovation, Sustainable Development, and the Future of APEC”. Gurtov (ed) Asian Perspectives Pub. Oregon USA/Seoul Korea Vol 22, No 2
Merson J. (1998) “Technology, Sustainable Development and Regional Cooperation”. In: Qingrui Xu et al (eds) The Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Management of Technology, International Academic Publishers, Beijing, China.
Merson J. (2000) “Bio-prospecting or Bio-piracy: Intellectual Property Rights and Biodiversity in a Colonial and Post Colonial Context”. In: R, McLeod (ed) Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise, Osiris Vol 15 , University of Chicago Press
Merson J. (2001) Stress : The Science and Politics of a Global Crisis Pub. ABC Books, Sydney
Merson J. (2002) “Emotion, Memory and Learning” in McDonald,R. ed Fresh Thinking about Learning and Learners, Australian National Training Authority, Brisbane, QLD.
Merson J. (2004) “Climate Change and Ecosystem Stress: The Impact of increased forest fire frequency and intensity on Australian protected and World Heritage areas” in Proceeding of the 3rd IUCN World Conservation Congress pub IUCN, Geneva
Biswas, W. & Merson J. (2005) “ The Socio-technical Challenges of Safe Water Supply in Rural Bangladesh” ICFAI Journal of Environmental Economics, Vol 111, No 4 November.
Potts, T., Merson, J. & Katcka,M. (2007) “Lawson: a case study in Fostering Sustainability” in Nelson, A ed. Steering Sustainability: policy, practice and performance in a Urbanised World, Ashgate, UK .
Attwater, R & Merson, J. (2007) ‘Resilience of Agri-Industries Neighbouring the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area’ in Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Syst.Res 24, 249-252, Pub. Wiley InterScience.
Attwater, R & Merson, J. eds. (2007) Sustaining Our Social and Natural Capital, ISCE Pub, Mansfiels, MA. USA.
Rimini M. & Merson J. ‘The Other Side of the Moon: Queenstown's potential as the Capital of an innovative geotourism offer on Tasmania's West Coast’, in Global Geotourism, (proceedings of the Global Geotourism Conference), Perth 2008.
Rimini M. & Merson J. ‘Penghana: the Colonized Wilderness’, Historic Enviroment, ICOMOS Australia. 2008
Merson, et al (2009) Sustainable agri-industrial projects neighbouring the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage Area RIRDC Pub, Canberra ACT
