Prof Raymond Ison - Researcher Profile

Biography

Raymond works in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University as a Professor.

Qualifications

PHD PHILOSOPHY

Institution: University of Queensland

Year awarded: 1982

BSC AGR

Institution: University of Sydney

Year awarded: 1975

Publications

Books

Ison, R., 2010, Systems Practice: How to Act in a Climate-Change World, Springer, London, UK.

Ison, R.L., Blackmore, C.P., Morris, D., 2006, Book2: Starting off Systematically in Environmental Decision Making, Open University Worldwide, Untied Kingdom.

Book Chapters

Hubert, B., Ison, R.L., sriskandarajah, N., Blackmore, C.P., Cerf, M., Avelange, I., Barbier, M., Steyaert, P., 2012, Learning in European agricultural and rural networks: building a systemic research agenda, in Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: the New Dynamic, eds Ika Darnhofer, David Gibbon and Benoit Dedieu, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 179-200.

Ison, R.L., 2012, Systems practice: making the systems in farming systems research effective, in Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: the New Dynamic, eds Ika Darnhofer, David Gibbon and Benoit Dedieu, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 141-157.

Blackmore, C.P., Cerf, M., Ison, R.L., Paine, M., 2012, The role of action-oriented learning theories for change in agriculture and rural networks, in Farming Systems Research into the 21st Century: the New Dynamic, eds Ika Darnhofer, David Gibbon and Benoit Dedieu, Springer, Dordrecht The Netherlands, pp. 159-177.

Ison, R., Wallis, P., 2011, Planning as performance: the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, in Basin Futures - Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, eds Daniel Connell and R Quentin Grafton, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 399-412.

Godden, L., Ison, R., 2010, From water supply to water governance, in More Than Luck: Ideas Australia Needs Now, eds Mark Davis and Miriam Lyons, Centre for Policy Development, Haymarket Sydney NSW, pp. 177-184.

Ison, R., 2010, Governance that works, in More Than Luck: Ideas Australia Needs Now, eds Mark Davis and Miriam Lyons, Centre for Policy Development, Haymarket Sydney NSW, pp. 215-228.

Ison, R., Russell, D., 2010, The worlds we create: designing learning systems for the underworld of extension practice, in Shaping Change: Natural Resource Management, Agriculture and the Role of Extension, eds Jess Jennings, Roger Packham and Dedee Woodside, Australasia Pacific Extension Network, Wodonga Vic Australia, pp. 66-76.

Ison, R., 2010, Traditions of understanding: Language, dialogue and experience, in Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice, eds Chris Blackmore, Springer, Walton Hall Milton Keynes UK, pp. 89-106.

Ison, R.L., Bawden, R., McKenzie, B., Packham, R., sriskandarajah, N., 2009, From sustainable to systemic development: An inquiry into transformations in discourse and praxis, in Systemic Development: Local Solutions in a Global Environment, eds James Sheffield, ISCE Publishing, United States of America, pp. 231-249.

Ison, R.L., 2008, Systems Thinking and Practice for Action Research, in The SAGE Handbook of Action Research Participative Inquiry and Practice, eds Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury, Sage Publications, London UK, pp. 139-158.

Blackmore, C.P., Ison, R.L., 2007, Boundaries for thinking and action, in Research Skills for Policy and Development: How to find out fast, eds Alan Thomas and Giles Mohan, Sage Publications, London UK, pp. 47-71.

Ison, R.L., 2006, Traditions of Understanding: Language Dialogue and Experience, in Social Learning in Environmental Management::Towards a Sustainable Future, eds Meg Keen Valarie A Brown and Rob Dyball, Earthscan, London UK, pp. 22-40.

Journal Articles

Wallis, P.J., Ison, R.L., Samson, K.D., 2013, Identifying the conditions for social learning in water governance in regional Australia, Land Use Policy [P], vol 31, Pergamon, Oxford UK, pp. 412-421.

Wei, Y., Ison, R.L., Colvin, J.D., Collins, K., 2012, Reframing water governance: a multi-perspective study of an over-engineered catchment in China, Journal Of Environmental Planning And Management [P], vol 55, issue 3, Routledge, London UK, pp. 297-318.

Li, X., Ison, R., Kellaway, R., Stimson, C., Annison, G., Joyce, D., 2011, Agronomic characteristics of annual Trifolium legumes and nutritive values as predicted by near-infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy, Crop & Pasture Science [P], vol 62, issue 12, CSIRO, Collingwood Vic Australia, pp. 1078-1087.

Wallis, P., Ison, R., 2011, Appreciating institutional complexity in water governance dynamics: A case from the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, Water Resources Management [P], vol 25, issue 15, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 4081-4097.

Iaquinto, B., Ison, R., Faggian, R., 2011, Creating communities of practice: scoping purposeful design, Journal of Knowledge Management [P], vol 15, issue 1, Emerald Group, Bingley UK, pp. 4-21.

Wallis, P.J., Ison, R.L., 2011, Institutional change in multi-scalar water governance regimes: a case from Victoria, Australia, Journal of Water Law [P], vol 22, issue 2/3, Lawtext Publishing, Oxford UK, pp. 85-94.

Ison, R., Collins, K., Colvin, J., Jiggins, J., Roggero, P., Seddaiu, G., Steyaert, P., Toderi, M., Zanolla, C., 2011, Sustainable catchment managing in a climate changing world: new integrative modalities for connecting policy makers, scientists and other stakeholders, Water Resources Management [E], vol 25, issue 15, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 3977-3992.

Godden, L., Ison, R., Wallis, P., 2011, Water governance in a climate change world: appraising systemic and adaptive effectiveness, Water Resources Management [P], vol 25, Springer, Berlin Germany, pp. 3971-3976.

Collins, K., Ison, R., 2010, Trusting emergence: Some experiences of learning about integrated catchment science with the environment agency of England and Wales, Water Resources Management [P], vol 24, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 669-688.

Collins, K., Colvin, J., Ison, R., 2009, Building 'learning catchments' for integrated catchment managing: Designing learning systems based on experiences in the UK and South Africa, Water Science And Technology [P], vol 59, issue 4, IWA Publishing, UK, pp. 687-693.

Collins, K., Ison, R., 2009, Editorial: Living with Environmental Change: Adaptation as Social Learning, Environmental Policy and Governance [P], vol 19, Environmental Policy and Governance, Wiley InterScience, pp. 351-357.

Collins, K., Ison, R., 2009, Jumping off Arnstein's Ladder: Social Learning as a new policy paradigm for climate change adaptation, Environmental Policy and Governance [P], vol 19, Wiley InterScience, United Kingdom - URL, hhtp://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121640454/grouphome...., pp. 358-373.

Ison, R., 2008, Methodological challenges of trans-disciplinary research: some systemic reflections, Natures Sciences Societes [P], vol 16, E D P Sciences, France, pp. 241-251.

Ison, R., Roling, N., Watson, D., 2007, Challenges to science and society in the sustainable management and use of water: investigating the role of social learning, Environmental Science and Policy [P], vol 10, Elsevier, on-line 14 June 2007, pp. 499-511.

Ison, R., 2007, Epistemological awareness: a systemic inquiry, Cybernetics and Human Knowing [P], vol 11, issue 2-3, Imprint Academic, UK, pp. 197-200.

Ison, R., Watson, D., 2007, Illuminating the Possibilities for Social Learning in the Management of Scotland's Water, Ecology and Society [P], vol 12, issue 1, Resilience Alliance, http://www.ecologyandscoiety.org-Canada, pp. 21-41.

Ison, R., Blackmore, C.P., Armson, R., 2007, Learning Participation as Systems Practice, The Journal of Agricultural Education & Extension [P], vol 13, issue 3, Routledge, London UK, pp. 209-225.

Ison, R., Blackmore, C., Collins, K., Furniss, P., 2007, Systemic environmental decision making: Designing learning systems, Kybernetes [P], vol 36, issue 9/10, Emerald Group, UK, pp. 1340-1361.

Morris, D., Oreszczyn, S., Blackmore, C.P., Ison, R., Martin, S., 2006, A systemic approach to scoping of factors influencing more sustainable land use in Herefordshire, Local Environment [P], vol 11, issue 6, Routledge, London UK, pp. 683-699.

Russell, D., Ison, R., 2005, The Researcher of Human Systems is Both Choreographer and Chorographer, Systems Research And Behavioral Science [P], vol 22, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 131-138.

McClintock, D., Ison, R., Armson, R., 2004, Conceptual Metaphors: A Review With Implications for Human Understandings and Systems Practice, Cybernetics and Human Knowing [P], vol 11, issue 1, Imprint Academic, United Kingdom, pp. 25-47.

Schlindwein, S.L., Ison, R., 2004, Human knowing and perceived complexity: Implications for systems practice, Emergence [P], vol 6, issue 3, ISCE Publishing, United States, pp. 27-32.

Russell, D., Ison, R., 2004, Maturana's Intellectual Contribution: A Choreography of Conversation and Action, Cybernetics and Human Knowing [P], vol 11, issue 2, Imprint Academic, United Kigndom, pp. 36-48.

McClintock, D., Ison, R., Armson, R., 2003, Metaphors for Reflecting on Research Practice: Researching with People, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management [E], vol 46, issue 5, Routledge, London UK, pp. 715-731.

Conference Proceedings

Ison, R.L., Bruce, C., Carberry, P.S., Maru, Y.T., McMillan, L., Pengelly, B.C., Sparrow, A., Stirzaker, R.J., Wallis, P.J., 2012, A 'learning system design' for more effective agricultural research for development, Producing and reproducing farming systems. New modes of organisation for sustainable food systems of tomorrow, International Farming Systems Association, Vienna Austria, pp. 1-13.

Wallis, P.J., Godden, L., Ison, R.L., 2012, Building a community of conversation about water governance in Australia, Water and Climate: Policy Implementation Challenges, Engineers Australia, Barton ACT Australia, pp. 665-672.

Hubert, B., Ison, R., 2011, Institutionalising understandings: from resource sufficiency to functional integrity, A Paradigm Shift in Livestock Management: from Resource Sufficiency to Functional Integrity, Cardere editeur, Lirac France, pp. 11-22.

Other

Ison, R., Grant, A., Iaquinto, B., 2010, Conceptual and methodological opportunities for the Victorian DPI with systems thinking and practice, Monash Sustainability Institute, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 1-235.

Ison, R., 2010, Strategic Governance of the Urban Water Sector, National Water Commission, Canberra, Australia.

Ison, R., Russell, D., Wallis, P., 2009, Adaptive Water Governance and Systemic Thinking for Future NRM: Action Research to Build MDBA Capability, Scoping study and report, Monash Sustainability Institute, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

Ison, R., Wallis, P., 2009, Submission to the Advisory Group on the Reform of Australian Government Administration, Monash Sustainability Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Contextual and ecological influences in sports injury prevention research theory and practice..

Supervisors:

Finch, C (Joint-co), Ison, R (Joint).