Emeritus Professor John Holmes
Emeritus Professor
School of the Environment
+61 7 336 53752
Alternative contact: john.beryl.holmes@gmail.com
Researcher biography
John Holmes was Professor of Geography from 1971 to 1995. In retirement, he continues with an active research and consultancy programme touching on: land tenures and property rights regimes in Australia’s rangelands; future resource directions in the tropical savannas, including contested futures for Cape York Peninsula; redirections in rural land ownership, land use and land markets tied to the multifunctional rural transition, evidenced by the emergence of consumption and protection values, contesting the former dominance of production values; and flux within the discipline of human geography. He is Chair of the Wildlife Land Fund which manages three properties for conservation values. Contact email: john.beryl.holmes@gmail.com
Book Chapter
Holmes, J., Bell, M. and Charles-Edwards, E. (2006). Growth, stability or decline? The variable population dynamics of Queensland's communities: 1971-2001. Queensland Geographical Perspectives. (pp. 5-29) edited by Iraphne R. W. Childs and Brian J. Hudson. Milton, Brisbane: The Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, Inc..
Journal Articles
Holmes, John (2021). Economic and socio-spatial diversification in Wollongong’s metropolitan evolution: Divergent suburbanising trajectories of Dapto and Thirroul. Geographical Research, 59 (4), 564-583. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12483
Holmes, John (2020). Traditional titleholders and Adani Mine approvals. Geographical Research, 58 (4) 1745-5871.12437, 422-423. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12437
Holmes, John (2019). Dysfunctional path dependence in mid-century butterfat dairy farming on eastern Australia's subtropical coastlands: case studies at Moruya and Copmanhurst. Geographical Research, 57 (3) 1745-5871.12333, 312-330. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12333
Holmes, John and Argent, Neil (2016). Rural transitions in the Nambucca Valley: socio-demographic change in a disadvantaged rural locale. Journal of Rural Studies, 48, 129-142. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.06.009
Holmes, John (2016). Whither geography? A response to Finlayson's concerns. Geographical Research, 54 (1), 103-106. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12154
Holmes, John (2015). Review of Nature's Gifts: The Australian Lectures of Henry George on the Ownership of Land and Other Natural Resources. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 61 (3), 453-454.
Holmes, John (2014). Explorations in Australian legal geography: the evolution of lease tenures as policy instruments. Geographical Research, 52 (4), 411-429. doi: 10.1111/1745-5871.12083
Argent, Neil, Tonts, Matthew, Jones, Roy and Holmes, John (2014). The Amenity Principle, Internal Migration, and Rural Development in Australia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104 (2), 305-318. doi: 10.1080/00045608.2013.873320
Argent, Neil, Tonts, Matthew, Jones, Roy and Holmes, John (2013). A creativity-led rural renaissance? Amenity-led migration, the creative turn and the uneven development of rural Australia. Applied Geography, 44, 88-98. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.07.018
Holmes, John (2013). The biggest estate on earth: How Aborigines made Australia. Geographical Research, 51 (1), 107-109. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2013.00764.x
Holmes, John (2012). Cape York Peninsula, Australia: A frontier region undergoing a multifunctional transition with indigenous engagement. Journal of Rural Studies, 28 (3), 252-265. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.01.004
Holmes, John (2011). Land tenures as policy instruments: transitions on Cape York Peninsula. Geographical Research, 49 (2), 217-233. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2011.00692.x
Holmes, John (2011). Contesting the future of Cape York Peninsula. Australian Geographer, 42 (1), 53-68. doi: 10.1080/00049182.2011.546319
Holmes, John (2010). Divergent regional trajectories in Australia's tropical savannas: Indicators of a multifunctional rural transition. Geographical Research, 48 (4), 342-358. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2009.00630.x
Holmes, J (2010). Russia's Northern Regions on the Edge: Communities, Industries and Populations from Murmansk to Magadan. Geographical Research, 48 (3), 336-337. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2010.00653.x
Holmes, John (2010). The multifunctional transition in Australia's tropical savannas: The emergence of consumption, protection and Indigenous values. Geographical Research, 48 (3), 265-280. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2009.00629.x
Holmes, John (2009). Fifty years of disciplinary flux within human geography: Changing sociocognitive subdisciplines and subcultures. Australian Geographer, 40 (4), 387-407. doi: 10.1080/00049180903312620
Holmes, John (2008). Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: Interpreting regional dynamics in landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods. Landscape research, 33 (2), 211-223. doi: 10.1080/01426390801912089
Holmes, John and Hartig, Kate (2007). Metropolitan colonisation and the reinvention of place: Class polarisation along the Cessnock-Pokolbin fault-line. Geographical Research, 45 (1), 54-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2007.00404.x
Holmes, John (2006). Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: Gaps in the research agenda. Journal of Rural Studies, 22 (2), 142-160. doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.08.006
Holmes, J. H. (2002). Geography's emerging cross-disciplinary links: Process, causes, outcomes and challenges. Australian Geographical Studies, 40 (1), 2-20. doi: 10.1111/1467-8470.00157
Holmes, J (2002). Diversity and change in Australia's rangelands: a post-productivist transition with a difference?. Transactions of The Institute of British Geographers, 27 (3), 362-384. doi: 10.1111/1475-5661.00059
Holmes, J. H. and Skinner, J. L. (1986). Population: Queensland. Queensland Geographical Journal, 1, 321-340.
Holmes, J. H. (1986). The urban system: Queensland. Queensland Geographical Journal, 1, 248-271.
Holmes, J. H. (1986). Underlying themes in the geography of Queensland. Queensland Geographical Journal, 1, 1-16.
Holmes, J. H. (1986). Queensland: a geographical interpretation. Queensland Geographical Journal, 1
Holmes, J. H. (1985). Policy issues concerning rural settlement in Australia's pastoral zone. Australian Geographical Studies, 23 (1), 3-27. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8470.1985.tb00475.x
Holmes J.H. (1984). Australian Higher-Order Nodal Regions. Australian Geographer, 16 (2), 104-119. doi: 10.1080/00049188408702862
Holmes, J. H. (1984). Nucleated rural settlement as a response to isolation: the large cattle station (Northern Australia). Northern Australia, 209-231.
HOLMES, J. H. (1973). POPULATION CONCENTRATION AND DISPERSION IN AUSTRALIAN STATES: A MACROGEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS. Australian Geographical Studies, 11 (2), 150-170. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8470.1973.tb00148.x
Conference Paper
Holmes, John (2008). Impulses towards a multifunctional transition in rural Australia: Interpreting regional dynamics in landscapes, lifestyles and livelihoods. doi: 10.1080/01426390801912089