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Research paper thumbnail of Designing and Testing a Park-Based Visitor Survey for Protected Areas In Western Australia: Report Prepared for the Western Australian Department of Environment and …

Papers by Aggie Wegner

Research paper thumbnail of The Tapestry Tourism Futures Project: Lessons learned for governance in community tourism planning

This paper focuses on the findings from an evaluation (funded by the STCRC) of the three-year Tap... more This paper focuses on the findings from an evaluation (funded by the STCRC) of the three-year Tapestry Tourism Futures Project (TTFP) in the context of governance models in community tourism planning. The TTFP was a tourism resource management project that ...

Research paper thumbnail of Designing and testing a park-based visitor survey for protected areas in Western Australia: report prepared for the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation

Protected areas in Australia and across the world are considered special places that have come to... more Protected areas in Australia and across the world are considered special places that have come to be regarded as natural and cultural assets attracting many local, national and international visitors (Worboys, Lockwood & de Lacy 2005). For management of these assets to be effective and successful, it is necessary to obtain information about who the visitors are and why they visit. This knowledge then allows managers to manage protected areas accordingly (Newsome, Moore & Dowling 2002).

Research paper thumbnail of Desert Knowledge CRC Network Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of Maintaining industry leadership in tourist guiding: the case of north Australia's Savannah Guides

Research paper thumbnail of Industry leadership in tourist guiding: a member's perspective of SGL using the organisational learning framework

Research paper thumbnail of How the use of power impacts on the relationship between protected area managers and tour operators

Research paper thumbnail of Social Capital Creation in Shorter Timeframes and its Role in Knowledge Sharing

Research paper thumbnail of Important ‘ingredients’ for successful tourism/protected area partnerships: partners' policy recommendations

The Service Industries Journal, 2010

Protected areas in Australia are of great importance to the tourism industry, conservation agenci... more Protected areas in Australia are of great importance to the tourism industry, conservation agencies, and other stakeholders. Due to an increase in limited resources and the complexity and uncertainty of the protected area/tourism planning context, these ...

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous/Aboriginal Tourism Research In Australia

Sustainable Tourism CRC, Gold Coast, 2009

... We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals and organisatio... more ... We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals and organisations for sharing their research, knowledge and time: • Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of South Australia • Alicia Boyle, Charles Darwin University • AJ Bromley, STCRC • Glenda ...

Research paper thumbnail of Relationships with Many Facets: Unpacking the Interactions Between Protected Area Managers and Commercial Tour Operators

... University Tourism and Hospitality Education – 'CAUTHE 2005: Sharing Tourism Kno... more ... University Tourism and Hospitality Education – 'CAUTHE 2005: Sharing Tourism Knowledge',Alice Springs 1 – 5 February 2005 Page 17. ... (4) Organisational guidance and training; (5) Personal commitment; and (6) Organisational power (Margerum, 2001). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Policy fuzz and fuzzy logic: researching contemporary Indigenous education and parent-school engagement in north Australia

Journal of Education …, Jan 1, 2011

"Engagement" is the second of six top priorities in Australia's most recent Indigenous education ... more "Engagement" is the second of six top priorities in Australia's most recent Indigenous education strategy to "close the gap" in schooling outcomes. Drawing on findings from a three-year ethnographic analysis of school engagement issues in the north of Australia, this article situates engagement within the history of Indigenous education policy, followed by considerations of how many of the issues faced by Indigenous families both match and can be distinguished from those experienced among poor and underemployed social groups throughout the western world. We find that Indigenous people are content with the schools' engagement efforts and with their interactions with schools, accepting that how their lives are lived are not within the provenance of the school system to amend. In its homogenisation of Indigenous issues, reification of cultural distinction and foregrounding of disengagement as an issue, Australian education policy is also about non-engagement, in that it excludes key issues from policy consideration while appearing to be inclusive. The education sector does not systematically engage with the grinding issues that Indigenous families face in their everyday worlds; and since Indigenous people do not really expect schools to know how to solve their issues, the call for engagement and its resolution is perfectly irresolvable. (Contains 11 notes.)

Research paper thumbnail of The Tapestry tourism futures project: Lessons learned for governance in community tourism planning

Research paper thumbnail of THE COSTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION IN REMOTE AREA TOURISM

Research paper thumbnail of The challenge of perspectives

Research paper thumbnail of Ensuring success for protected area partnerships

Research paper thumbnail of Unearthing Assumptions of Engaged Research About (Indigenous) Engagement Within School Communities

157 Unearthing Assumptions of Engaged Research About (Indigenous) Engagement Within School Commun... more 157 Unearthing Assumptions of Engaged Research About (Indigenous) Engagement Within School Communities Aggie Wegner, Tess Lea, Catherine Holmes, Eva McRae Williams, Richard Chenhall, Helen Thompson, Johanna Karam Abstract This paper explores engagement ...

Research paper thumbnail of Parent-school Engagement: Exploring the Concept of'invisible'Indigenous Parents in Three North Australian School Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Dealing with complexity in tourism settings: the applicability of the'Resilient Futures Process' to the management of tourism resources

... Helen Allison Murdoch University Pascal Tremblay Charles Darwin University ABSTRACT ... socia... more ... Helen Allison Murdoch University Pascal Tremblay Charles Darwin University ABSTRACT ... social and economic aspects of regional development with a good understanding of cross-sectoral linkages (Dowling 2003; Farrell and Twining-Ward, 2005). Also, the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Advancing conceptual understanding of partnerships between protected area agencies and the tourism industry: a postdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approach

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2009

This paper reviews a range of theoretical approaches to partnerships working between protected ar... more This paper reviews a range of theoretical approaches to partnerships working between protected area agencies and the tourism industry. While partnerships are a hallmark of contemporary thinking about protected area management, research to date leaves considerable scope for development, application and testing of theory. The paper draws eight theoretical approaches from the literature with potential application to a study of the contributors to partnership success. It progresses a postdisciplinary approach to ...

Research paper thumbnail of Designing and Testing a Park-Based Visitor Survey for Protected Areas In Western Australia: Report Prepared for the Western Australian Department of Environment and …

Research paper thumbnail of The Tapestry Tourism Futures Project: Lessons learned for governance in community tourism planning

This paper focuses on the findings from an evaluation (funded by the STCRC) of the three-year Tap... more This paper focuses on the findings from an evaluation (funded by the STCRC) of the three-year Tapestry Tourism Futures Project (TTFP) in the context of governance models in community tourism planning. The TTFP was a tourism resource management project that ...

Research paper thumbnail of Designing and testing a park-based visitor survey for protected areas in Western Australia: report prepared for the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation

Protected areas in Australia and across the world are considered special places that have come to... more Protected areas in Australia and across the world are considered special places that have come to be regarded as natural and cultural assets attracting many local, national and international visitors (Worboys, Lockwood & de Lacy 2005). For management of these assets to be effective and successful, it is necessary to obtain information about who the visitors are and why they visit. This knowledge then allows managers to manage protected areas accordingly (Newsome, Moore & Dowling 2002).

Research paper thumbnail of Desert Knowledge CRC Network Analysis

Research paper thumbnail of Maintaining industry leadership in tourist guiding: the case of north Australia's Savannah Guides

Research paper thumbnail of Industry leadership in tourist guiding: a member's perspective of SGL using the organisational learning framework

Research paper thumbnail of How the use of power impacts on the relationship between protected area managers and tour operators

Research paper thumbnail of Social Capital Creation in Shorter Timeframes and its Role in Knowledge Sharing

Research paper thumbnail of Important ‘ingredients’ for successful tourism/protected area partnerships: partners' policy recommendations

The Service Industries Journal, 2010

Protected areas in Australia are of great importance to the tourism industry, conservation agenci... more Protected areas in Australia are of great importance to the tourism industry, conservation agencies, and other stakeholders. Due to an increase in limited resources and the complexity and uncertainty of the protected area/tourism planning context, these ...

Research paper thumbnail of Indigenous/Aboriginal Tourism Research In Australia

Sustainable Tourism CRC, Gold Coast, 2009

... We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals and organisatio... more ... We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals and organisations for sharing their research, knowledge and time: • Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, University of South Australia • Alicia Boyle, Charles Darwin University • AJ Bromley, STCRC • Glenda ...

Research paper thumbnail of Relationships with Many Facets: Unpacking the Interactions Between Protected Area Managers and Commercial Tour Operators

... University Tourism and Hospitality Education – 'CAUTHE 2005: Sharing Tourism Kno... more ... University Tourism and Hospitality Education – 'CAUTHE 2005: Sharing Tourism Knowledge',Alice Springs 1 – 5 February 2005 Page 17. ... (4) Organisational guidance and training; (5) Personal commitment; and (6) Organisational power (Margerum, 2001). ...

Research paper thumbnail of Policy fuzz and fuzzy logic: researching contemporary Indigenous education and parent-school engagement in north Australia

Journal of Education …, Jan 1, 2011

"Engagement" is the second of six top priorities in Australia's most recent Indigenous education ... more "Engagement" is the second of six top priorities in Australia's most recent Indigenous education strategy to "close the gap" in schooling outcomes. Drawing on findings from a three-year ethnographic analysis of school engagement issues in the north of Australia, this article situates engagement within the history of Indigenous education policy, followed by considerations of how many of the issues faced by Indigenous families both match and can be distinguished from those experienced among poor and underemployed social groups throughout the western world. We find that Indigenous people are content with the schools' engagement efforts and with their interactions with schools, accepting that how their lives are lived are not within the provenance of the school system to amend. In its homogenisation of Indigenous issues, reification of cultural distinction and foregrounding of disengagement as an issue, Australian education policy is also about non-engagement, in that it excludes key issues from policy consideration while appearing to be inclusive. The education sector does not systematically engage with the grinding issues that Indigenous families face in their everyday worlds; and since Indigenous people do not really expect schools to know how to solve their issues, the call for engagement and its resolution is perfectly irresolvable. (Contains 11 notes.)

Research paper thumbnail of The Tapestry tourism futures project: Lessons learned for governance in community tourism planning

Research paper thumbnail of THE COSTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION IN REMOTE AREA TOURISM

Research paper thumbnail of The challenge of perspectives

Research paper thumbnail of Ensuring success for protected area partnerships

Research paper thumbnail of Unearthing Assumptions of Engaged Research About (Indigenous) Engagement Within School Communities

157 Unearthing Assumptions of Engaged Research About (Indigenous) Engagement Within School Commun... more 157 Unearthing Assumptions of Engaged Research About (Indigenous) Engagement Within School Communities Aggie Wegner, Tess Lea, Catherine Holmes, Eva McRae Williams, Richard Chenhall, Helen Thompson, Johanna Karam Abstract This paper explores engagement ...

Research paper thumbnail of Parent-school Engagement: Exploring the Concept of'invisible'Indigenous Parents in Three North Australian School Communities

Research paper thumbnail of Dealing with complexity in tourism settings: the applicability of the'Resilient Futures Process' to the management of tourism resources

... Helen Allison Murdoch University Pascal Tremblay Charles Darwin University ABSTRACT ... socia... more ... Helen Allison Murdoch University Pascal Tremblay Charles Darwin University ABSTRACT ... social and economic aspects of regional development with a good understanding of cross-sectoral linkages (Dowling 2003; Farrell and Twining-Ward, 2005). Also, the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Advancing conceptual understanding of partnerships between protected area agencies and the tourism industry: a postdisciplinary and multi-theoretical approach

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2009

This paper reviews a range of theoretical approaches to partnerships working between protected ar... more This paper reviews a range of theoretical approaches to partnerships working between protected area agencies and the tourism industry. While partnerships are a hallmark of contemporary thinking about protected area management, research to date leaves considerable scope for development, application and testing of theory. The paper draws eight theoretical approaches from the literature with potential application to a study of the contributors to partnership success. It progresses a postdisciplinary approach to ...

Research paper thumbnail of THE COSTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION IN REMOTE AREA TOURISM

Research paper thumbnail of Parent-school engagement: Exploring the concept of ‘invisible’ Indigenous parents in three north Australian communities Darwin: The Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University