Prof David Newsome
Murdoch University
Presentation: A handful of sand, what looks like dead scrub and what? No elephants!
From David’s Linked-In profile:
“Summary: Environmental scientist with expertise in wildlife tourism, geotourism and biophysical impacts of natural area tourism; advisory role, predominantly to the State government, but also to the Queensland government and IUCN on ecotourism.
Positions, Qualifications, Experience: Associate Professor in Environmental Science and Ecotourism and member, Nature Based Tourism Research Group, School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University. Positions: Member of the Conservation Commission of Western Australia, member of the Commission’s National Park Management Planning Committee, Member Queensland Government Horse Trails Scientific Advisory Committee, Member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Honorary Advisory Committee Member Hong Kong Geopark Guide System, Advisor Geoheritage Institute of Iran, Advisor at the ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity Regional Training on Ecotourism Workshop for Protected Area Managers in Malaysia in 2009.
Publications: More than 90 publications on soils and geomorphology, natural resource management and natural area tourism in journals, books and reports including Catena, Journal of Arid Environments, Australian Journal of Earth Science, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management Perspectives, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Ecotourism, Tourism in Marine Environments, Australian Geographer and Landscape and Urban Planning. Author of best-selling book Natural Area Tourism: Ecology, Impacts and Management author of the book Wildlife Tourism and co-editor of the first suite of books describing geotourism as a specialist form of natural area tourism. A list of recent publications follows.”