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Sharron Pfueller

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Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Fields of interest

  • Multistakeholder partnerships in environmental governance
  • Community participation in environmental assessment, monitoring and natural area management
  • Tourism and sustainability
  • Community environmentaleducation

    • Research

    Multistakeholder partnerships in environmental governance.

    Participation of a range of stakeholders in all aspects of environmental management is increasingly important in achieving environmental sustainability. The processes for facilitating this are diverse and contested.

    One project involves developing sustainability indicators for biosphere reserves

    Tourism and sustainability

    Tourism is one of the fastest growing industries and in many natural areas is regarded as a means of providing income for communities and having lower environmental impacts than many other land uses. One project aimed to explore a range of partnerships between natural resource managers, communities and the tourism industry to understand how these can be best managed to yield environmental, social and economic sustainability. It was conducted in collaboration with researchers in the Faculty of Business and Economics, Murdoch University and the University of Tasmania

    Community values for the Murray River Reserves

    Communities value natural locations in different ways: from recreational, tourism, economic or natural resource perspectives. These perspectives are based on many factors including familiarity with the area, its intrinsic appeal, available facilities and desired recreational activities of that community. This collaborative project with Victoria and Latrobe Universities aimed to provide insight into these values with respect to sites for conservation, camping, tourism and recreation along the Victorian bank of the Murray River. It has provided strategic knowledge to Parks Victoria and other government bodies on which to base decisions for future management of tourism and of natural areas.

    Selected recent publications:

    • Pfueller, S.L, Zhu, X., Whitelaw, P., Winter, C. 2009. Spatial mapping of community values for tourism planning and conservation in the Murray River reserves, Victoria, Australia. Technical Report. The Gold Coast, Queensland: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre.
    • Laing, J., Wegner, A., Moore, S.A., Weiler, B., Pfueller, S., Lee, D., Macbeth, J., Croy G. and Lockwood, M. 2008. Developing Effective Partnerships for Facilitating Sustainable Protected Area Tourism: A Literature Review. Technical Report. The Gold Coast, Queensland: Sustainable Tourism Cooperative Research Centre.
    • Pfueller, S.L. 2008, The Role of Bioregionalism in Bookmark Biosphere Reserve, Australia, Environmental Conservation, 35 (2), 173-186.
    • Laing, J., Wegner, A., Moore, S., Weiler, B., Pfueller, S.L. Lee, D., Macbeth, M., Croy, G. and Lockwood, M. 2008. Understanding partnerships for protected area tourism. Learning from the literature. CRC for Sustainable Tourism.
    • Arcari, P. J, Tapper, N. J, Pfueller, S. L, 2007, Regional variability in relationships between climate and dengue/DHF in Indonesia, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 28 (3), 251-272
    • Pfueller, S. L, 2001, The nature of health: embodying mythology, PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature, vol 1, pp. 35-41
    • Arcari, P. J, Tapper, N. J, Pfueller, S. L, 2005, The Relationships between Dengue/Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and Climate in Indonesia, Annals of Meteorologie 41, 17th Intl Congress of Biometeorology, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main 2005, pp. 324-327
    • Loughnan, M., Tapper, N. J, Pfueller, S. L, 2005, Seasonal Variation in hospital admissions for Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) in Melbourne 1993 - 2003, Annals of Meteorologie 41, 17th Intl Congress of Biometeorology, Deutscher Wetterdienst, Offenbach am Main, pp. 421-424
    • Pfueller SL and Cock PH. 2000. Ecotourism: approaches to sustainability through Australian best practice, Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science.
    • Pfueller SL, Innes-Wardell I, Skondras H, Marshall D, Kruger T. 1997. An evaluation of Saltwatch - a school and community action research environmental project. Australian Journal of Environmental Education 13: 61 - 68.
    • Monash Ecotourism Team. 1997. (In alphabetical order: Staff: P Cock, S Pfueller; Students: A Cook, A Curlewis, R Guevara, T Plumridge). Community ecotourism planning: partnerships for sustainable futures. Monash Publications in Geography and Environmental Science.
    • Curlewis AB, Cook AJ, Guevara JR, Plumridge T, Pfueller S, Cock PH. 1996. Community research and planning for ecotourism in Halls Gap and the Grampians/Gariwerd region. In Ecotourism and Nature-based tourism: taking the next steps. The Ecotourism Association of Australia. Proceedings of the National Conference pp. 103-108.
    • Guevara J, Cook A, Curlewis A, Plumridge T, Cock P, Pfueller S. 1996. Co-learning in community ecotourism planning. Windows on the World. 28th International Conference of the Community Development Society.
    • Pfueller SL. 1995. Community and water quality - initiatives in Gippsland. Australian Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 8: 26 - 32.
    • Pfueller SL, Hooper MA, Harvey DHP. (Editors). 1993. Proceedings of the Conference Greenhouse and the Energy Regions.

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