Peter Cock's Publications

The Scope of Publications

This encompasses the following:

  • Analysis of the social impact of institutions (for example, Alienation, 74; Family, 80; Medicine, 86; Values, 91).
  • Assessment of social and environmental policies and management (For example, Unemployment, 81; Conservation Strategy, 86; Salinity, 88; Urban/Rural Fringe Development, 1990; Co-operative Land Management, 1992.
  • Human–Nature relations (for example, Community Planning for Ecotourism, 1997; Australian Ecotourism, 2000; Ecopsychology for sustainable development, 1996, 2002, 2003).
  • Futures thinking, (for example, Australia 2020, 83; Designing for a Sustainable Humane Future, 87; A Village Based City; 91; Ecobuilding for community development, 2003).
  • Professional issues: (for example, The Role of the Planner, 75, The Indigenisation of Sociology, 79; Environmental Education; 87).

Core Publications

Books

  • Cock PH and Pfueller SL. 2000. Australian Ecotourism: contributing to ecological and community sustainability Monash University No 54
  • Cock, PH. 1979. Alternative Australia: Communities for the Future? (Quartet Books, Melbourne/London, 292 pp.

Monographs

  • Cock PH. etal (1997) Community Planning for Ecotourism: Partnerships for Sustainable futures. Monash University. Book 1, 88p & Book 2, 40p.
  • Scott, G. and Cock, PH., 1995. Australia 2030, Ed Soft, Melbourne.

Book Chapters

  • 2003 Ecopsycholgy practice for nature carers in John Cameron (ed) Changing Places: Re-imagining Australia, Longueville books, Double Bay, N.S.W.
  • 2003 Black/white senses of country: towards an intermediate sense for Australian environmental wellbeing John Cameron (ed) Changing Places: Re-imagining Australia, Longueville books, Double Bay, N.S.W.
  • 2003 Ecobuilding for community development’ in Alan Dearling and G Meltzer (eds) Another kind of space: creating ecological dwellings and environments, Enabler publications, Dorset, U.K.
  • 2002 Partnerships for Sustainability: psychology for ecology in Schmuck, P & Schultz, W (eds) Psychology for Sustainable Development, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London. Chapter 9, pp175-197.
  • 2000 Pathways for community development in Dearling (ed) Alternative Australia, London
  • 1996 Toward an Ecopsychology for Sustainable Development in Carr, S and Schumaker, J. (ed) Psychology and the Developing World, New York: Praeger.
  • 1995 From Communal Theory to Ecospiritual Practice, in Metcalf. W, (ed) From Utopian Dreaming to Communal Reality, University of New South Wales Press.

Jourals

  • 2007 Grass Root Communities as the Heart of Green Citizenship, Greens Party journal
  • 2007 with Towns, B. Wilderness Journey into Social and Sacred Ecology Pan (in press)
  • 2006 with Sylvie Shaw “A journey into Social and Sacred Ecology’ Eingana, Vol 29, No 1
  • 1996. Pfueller SL and Cock PH. Stakes in tourism. Community Quarterly 39: 3-8.
  • 1995 “Beyond Doom and Gloom”, Cappuccino Papers, No 1, July

Conference proceedings and reports
I have given over 100 conference papers, and media interviews.