Staff profile

Dr Brian Furze

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

Room 4225, Building 4, Albury-Wodonga

 

Qualifications

PhD (Monash), M.Lit. (UNE), BA R (MIHE).

Area of study

Australian Studies
Sociology

Brief profile

Brian Furze is a rural and natural resource sociologist who has specialised in community based conservation and participatory rural/regional development in Australia and the Asian region. His field experience is in India, Nepal, Indonesia, China and Australia, where he has been involved in project feasibility assessment, development, management and evaluation in a variety of natural resource, catchment management, protected area and forestry projects. His expertise lies in community-focused sustainable rural and regional development. He teaches in Sociology and International Development at the Albury/Wodonga and Melbourne campuses.

Research interests

International Aid and Development

- Community-based approaches to sustainability, especially in rural areas of Australia and Asia

- Community-focused natural resource management – international experience

- Community-focused protected area management – international experience

- Conservation and development in Mountain regions of Asia, Europe and Australia

- Sustainability and food security – Australia and the Asian region

Teaching units

  • SOC1SAC - Introduction to sociology.
  • SOC2/3RUS - Rural sociology.
  • SOC2/3SOE - Nature, conservation and society.
  • OC2RST - Reading unit in social theory.
  • DST5DAE - Development and the environment

Recent publications

Books and Significant Research Monographs

  • Furze, B. Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J (eds) (2011) Sociology for Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne 2nd edition
  • Furze, B. Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J (eds) (2008) Sociology for Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Lindberg, K, Furze, B and Black, R. (2000) Ecotourism and other forest services in the Asia-Pacific region. The International Ecotourism Society (released as an e-book)

Book Chapters

  • Furze, B (2011) A sociological compass, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds  Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B  How sociologists do research, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds  Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B (2011) Socialisation, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B (2011) Class and stratification, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B (2011) Population, urbanisation and rurality, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B (2011) Social movements and social change, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B (2011) Globalisation and development, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B (2011) Environmental sustainability, in Furze, B, Savy, P, Brym, R and Lie, J eds  Sociology in Today’s World Cengage, Melbourne
  • Furze, B. (2007) Landscapes and Landscape Quality Objectives in Australia Landscape Quality Objectives: from theory to practice (5th meeting of the workshops of the Council of Europe for the implementation of the European Landscape Convention.  Council of Europe, Strasbourg pp 349-356
  • Furze, B., Reid, M. (2007) Building Social Capital and Enhancing Biodiversity: the role of the small and lifestyle farm sector in north-east Victoria, Australia.  In G. Tsobanoglou (ed) Social Capital and Social Transformations in the Age of Glocalisation Pazisi, Athens (in Greek) pp 399-424.
  • Furze, B (2004) Bringing people in?  Locally-focused conservation and development as a natural resource management orthodoxy in Australia.  In Liu Lidi, Chen Hong and Hou Minyue (eds) Cultural Pluralism and Civil Society in the Pacific Region in the era of Globalisation.  Shanghai Shiji Chuban Jituan, Shanghai

Refereed articles and conference proceedings

  • Reid, M. Coulston, L. Furze, B., Parker, D. and Grey, P. (2009) Blackberry control is more than science: understanding community engagement in pest Management in Weed Society of Victoria, ‘Plants Behaving Badly: in agriculture and in the environment’ pp. 77-81, Geelong, Victoria.
  • Furze, B., Boyle, D. and Reid, M. (2008) Providing Flexibility in Land Management Policy: the case of the community weed model in Victoria Partnerships for Social Inclusion Conference OECD and University of Melbourne.
  • Furze, B. (2007) Landscapes and Landscape Quality Objectives in Australia Meeting of the European Landscape Convention, Council of Europe Girona, Spain, September.
  • Furze, B. (2005) Natural Resource Use and Rural Community Change:  a story from northeast Victoria, Australia.  RURALIA Conference Architecture and rural landscape in the social and economic development of mountain areas, Val Borbera, Italy Presented September 2005 and published  February 2006.
  • Hillman, T., Crase, L., Furze, B., Ananda, J. and Mayberry, D. (2005) ‘Multidisciplinary Approaches to Natural Resource Management’.  Hydrobiologia.  552/1 pp 99-108.
  • Furze, B., Reid, M. (2004)  Building Social Capital and Enhancing Biodiversity: the role of the small and lifestyle farm sector in north-east Victoria, Australia International Sociology Society Working Group 26 Conference ‘Social Capital and Social Transformations in the Age of Glocalisation’  Molyvos, Greece, June.
  • Reid, M., Hollier, C., Francis, J. and Furze, B. (2003)  Linking Geographical Information Systems and Social Research:  investigating the small farm sector  APEN 2003 Forum (Extending extension: beyond traditional boundaries, methods and ways of thinking)  Hobart, November.
  • Furze, B. (2003)  Bringing people in? Locally-focused conservation and development as a natural resource management orthodoxy in Australia’  Forum on civil society and cultural pluralism in the Asia-Pacific region, East China Normal University Shanghai, November

Consultancies and commissioned reports

  • Furze, B and Straham, W An assessment of the Western Ghats World Heritage Nomination, UNESCO and IUCN, Gland
  • Furze, B and Fisher, RJ (2009)  Evolving Institutions within LLS Landscapes in Haryana and Orissa, India Report for IUCN’s LLS Programme, Bangkok. September
  • Furze, B and Fisher, RJ (2009)  Institutional Issues in LLS Landscapes in Haryana and Orissa, India Report for IUCN’s LLS Programme, Bangkok Crase, L, Furze, B and Ananda, J (2008) A Social and Economic Assessment to Assist in the Development of the Tuppal Creek Management Plan
  • Furze, B. and Crase, L. (2006) Lake Hume Land and On-Water Management Plan: establishing the social/community and economic context Goulburn-Murray Water, Wodonga.
  • Furze, B. and Singh, TP (2001) The Potential of Ecotourism for Sustainable Development in Uttaranchal, Briefing paper prepared for the Department of Tourism, Government of Uttaranchal, India.