Assoc Prof Christian Kull - Researcher Profile

Biography

Christian works in the School of Geography and Environmental Science, in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, as an Associate Professor.

He is a geographer and political ecologist with particular interest in the social dimensions of environmental change.  He investigates the management of natural resources (particularly in developing countries) and current and historical conflicts over resource management issues like fire, biodiversity conservation, and invasive species.

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: University of California at Berkeley

Year awarded: 2000

MS

Institution: Yale University

Year awarded: 1996

MA

Institution: University of Colorado - Boulder

Year awarded: 1995

BA

Institution: Dartmouth College

Year awarded: 1991

Publications

Books

Kull, C.A., 2004, Isle of Fire: The Political Ecology of Landscape Burning in Madagascar, University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA.

Book Chapters

Kull, C., 2012, Deforestation, erosion, and fire: degradation myths in the environmental history of Madagascar, in Indigenous Knowledge: Themes in Environmental History 3, eds Sarah Johnson, White Horse Press, United Kingdom, pp. 157-183.

Kull, C.A., 2012, Political ecology and the Malagasy environment, in Geopolitique et environnement : Les lecons de l?experience malgache, eds Herve Ralkoto Ramiarantosoa, Chantal Blanc-Pamard, Florence Pinton, IRD Editions, Marseille, France, pp. 127-153.

Kull, C., Rangan, H., 2012, Science, sentiment and territorial chauvinism in the acacia name change debate, in Peopled Landscapes: Archaeological and Biogeographic Approaches to Landscapes, eds Simon G Haberle and Bruno David, ANU ePress, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 197-219.

Rangan, H., Kull, C., 2010, The Indian Ocean and the making of outback Australia: an ecocultural odyssey, in Indian Ocean Studies: Cultural Social, and Political Perspectives, eds Shanti Moorty and Ashraf Jamal, Routledge, New York, United States, pp. 45-72.

Kull, C.A., Laris, P., 2009, Fire ecology and fire politics in Mali and Madagascar, in Tropical Fire Ecology: Climate Change Land Use and Ecosystem Dynamics, eds Mark A Cochrane, Springer Praxis Books, Heidelberg New York USA, pp. 171-226.

Kull, C.A., 2008, Fire Origins Politics and Questions, in Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, eds George Nicholas Julie Hollowell, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA USA, pp. 424-429.

Kull, C.A., 2008, Saving the land with spades: human landscape transformations in the central highlands, in Greening the Great Red Island: Madagascar in NAture and Culture, eds Jeffrey C Kaufmann, Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria Sout Africa, pp. 113-136.

Kull, C.A., 2003, Fire and the management of highland vegetation, in Natural History of Madagascar, eds S Goodman and J Benstead, University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA, pp. 153-157.

Kull, C.A., 2003, Uapaca woodlands, in Natural History of Madagascar, eds S Goodman and J Benstead, University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA, pp. 393-398.

Journal Articles

Kull, C.A., 2012, Air photo evidence of historical land cover change in the highlands: Wetlands and grasslands give way to crops and woodlots, Madagascar Conservation & Development [E], vol 7, issue 3, Jane Goodall Institute Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 144-152.

Kull, C.A., Tassin, J., 2012, Australian acacias: Useful and (sometimes) weedy, Biological Invasions [P], vol 14, issue 11, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 2229-2233.

Tassin, J., Kull, C.A., 2012, Devising other metaphors for biological invasions, Natures Sciences Societes [E], vol 20, issue 4, E D P Sciences, France, pp. 1-11.

Kull, C.A., 2012, Fire and people in tropical island grassland landscapes: Fiji and Madagascar, Journal of Pacific Studies [P], vol 32, University of the South Pacific, Fiji, pp. 127-135.

Tassin, J., Rangan, H., Kull, C., 2012, Hybrid improved tree fallows: Harnessing invasive woody legumes for agroforestry, Agroforestry Systems [P], vol 84, issue 3, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 417-428.

Kull, C., Tassin, J., Moreau, S., Rakoto Ramiaranrsoa, H., Blanc-Pamard, C., Carriere, S., 2012, The introduced flora of Madagascar, Biological Invasions [P], vol 14, issue 4, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 875-888.

Carruthers, J., Robin, L., Hattingh, J., Kull, C., Rangan, H., van Wilgen, B., 2011, A native at home and abroad: the history, politics, ethics and aesthetics of acacias, Diversity And Distributions [P], vol 17, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., UK, pp. 810-821.

Kull, C., Shackleton, C., Cunningham, P., Ducatillon, C., Dufour-Dror, J., Esler, K., Friday, J., Gouveia, A., Griffin, A., Marchante, E., Midgley, S., Pauchard, A., Rangan, H., Richardson, D., Rinaudo, T., Tassin, J., Urgenson, L., von Maltitz, G., Zenni, R., Zylstra, M., 2011, Adoption, use and perception of Australian acacias around the world, Diversity And Distributions [P], vol 17, issue 5, Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 822-836.

Wilson, J., Gairifo, C., Gibson, M., Arianoutsou, M., Bakar, B., Baret, S., Celesti-Grapow, L., DiTomaso, J., Dufour-Dror, J., Kueffer, C., Kull, C., Hoffmann, J., Impson, F., Loope, L., Marchante, E., Marchante, H., Moore, J., Murphy, D., Tassin, J., Witt, A., Zenni, R., Richardson, D., 2011, Risk assessment, eradication, and biological control: global efforts to limit Australian acacia invasions, Diversity And Distributions [P], vol 17, Wiley-Blackwell Pulishing Ltd., UK, pp. 1030-1046.

Bowman, D., Balch, J., Artaxo, P., Bond, W., Cochrane, M., D'Antonio, C., Defries, R., Johnston, F., Keeley, J., Krawchuk, M., Kull, C., Mack, M., Moritz, M., Pyne, S., Roos, C., Scott, A., Sodhi, N., Swetnam, T., 2011, The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth, Journal Of Biogeography [P], vol 38, issue 12, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, UK, pp. 2223-2236.

Rangan, H., Kull, C.A., Alexander, L.V., 2010, Forest plantations, water availability, and regional climate change: Controversies surrounding Acacia mearnsii plantations in the upper Palnis Hills, southern India, Regional Environmental Change [P], vol 10, Springer, Germany, pp. 103-117.

Dressler, W., Buscher, B., Schoon, M., Brockington, D., Hayes, T., Kull, C., McCarthy, J., Shrestha, K., 2010, From hope to crisis and back again? A critical history of the global CBNRM narrative, Environmental Conservation [P], vol 37, issue 1, Cambridge Journals, Cambridge, UK, pp. 5-15.

Tassin, J., Bellefontaine, R., Roger, E., Kull, C.A., 2009, A preliminary analysis of the invasiveness of introduced forest species in Madagascar, Bois et Forets des Tropiques [E], vol 299, issue 1, CIRAD, France, pp. 27-36.

Tassin, J., Medoc, J.M., Kull, C.A., Riviere, J.N., Balent, G., 2009, Can invasion patches of Acacia mearnsii serve as colonizing sites for native plant species on Reunion (Mascarene archipelago)?, African Journal Of Ecology [P], vol 47, Wiley-Blackwell, UK, pp. 422-432.

Bowman, D.M., Balch, J.K., Artaxo, P., Bond, W.J., Carlson, J.M., Cochrane, M.A., D'Antonion, C.A., Defries, R.S., Doyle, J.C., Harrison, S.P., Johnston, F.H., Keeley, J.E., Krawcuk, M.A., Kull, C.A., Marston, J.B., Moritz, M.A., Prentice, I.C., Roos, C.I., Scott, A.C., Swetnam, T.W., Van der Werf, G.R., Pyne, S.J., 2009, Fire in the earth system, Science [P], vol 324, issue 5926, AAAS, Washington DC New York USA, pp. 481-484.

Aitken, M., Rangan, H., Kull, C.A., 2009, Living with alien invasives: The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld Mpumalanga, South Africa, Etudes Ocean Indien [P], vol 42-43, issue 42-43, Etudes Ocean Indien, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, pp. 115-141.

Tassin, J., Rakotomanana, R., Kull, C.A., 2009, Proposal for a representational framework for studies of bioinvasions in rural areas: The example of Acacia Dealbata In Madagascar, Bois et Forets des Tropiques [E], vol 300, issue 2, CIRAD, France, pp. 3-14.

Kull, C.A., Scanlon, L.J., 2009, Untangling the links between wildlife benefits and community-based conservation at Torra Conservancy, Namibia, Development Southern Africa [P], vol 26, issue 1, Routledge/Development Bank of Southern Africa, Johannesburg South Africa, pp. 75-93.

Rangan, H., Kull, C.A., 2009, What makes ecology 'political'?: Rethinking 'scale' in political ecology, Progress in Human Geography, vol 33, Sage, United Kingdom, pp. 28-45.

Kull, C.A., Rangan, H., 2008, Acacia exchanges: Wattles, thorn trees, and the study of plant movements, Geoforum; journal of physical, human, and regional geosciences [P], vol 39, Elsevier/ Pergamon, UK, pp. 1258-1272.

Kull, C.A., Tassin, J., Rambeloarisoa, G., Sarrailh, J., 2008, Invasive Australian acacias on western Indian Ocean islands: A historical and ecological perspective, African Journal of Ecology, vol 46, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 684-689.

Breton, C., Guerin, J., Ducatillion, C., Medail, F., Kull, C.A., Berville, A.L., 2008, Taming the wild and 'wilding' the tame: tree breeding and dispersal in Australia and the Mediterranean, Plant Science, vol 175, issue 3, Elsevier, Clare Co Ireland, pp. 197-205.

Kull, C.A., 2008, Who should vote where? Geography and fairness in migrant voting rights, Geographical Research, vol 46, issue 4, Blackwell/Inst of Australian Geographers, Perth WA Australia, pp. 459-465.

Kull, C.A., 2007, Book review of, Geographical Research, vol 45, issue 4, Institute of Australian Geographers/Blackwell, Australia /UK, pp. 415-416.

Kull, C.A., 2007, Book review of Global Visions Local Landscapes: a Political Ecology of Conservation Conflict and Control in northern Madagascar (Altamira 2005), African Studies Review, vol 50, issue 3, African Studies Association, United States, pp. 199-200.

Kull, C.A., Tassin, J., Rangan, H., 2007, Multifunctional, scrubby, and invasive forests? Wattles in the highlands of Madagascar, Mountain Research and Development, vol 27, issue 3, International Mountain Society and United Nations University, Berne Switzerland, pp. 224-231.

Kull, C.A., Ibrahim, C.K., Meredith, T.C., 2007, Tropical forest transitions and globalization: Neo-liberalism, migration, tourism, and international conservation agendas, Society and Natural Resources, vol 20, issue 8, Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia USA, pp. 723-737.

Dressler, W.H., Kull, C.A., Meredith, T.C., 2006, The politics of decentralizing national parks management in the Philippines, Political Geography, vol 25, issue 8, Elsevier, Oxford UK, pp. 789-816.

Kull, C.A., 2005, Historical landscape repeat photography as a tool for land use change research, Norwegian Journal of Geography, vol 59, issue 4, Routledge, UK, pp. 253-268.

Kull, C.A., Ratsirarson, J., Randriamboavonjy, G., 2005, Les forets de tapia des Hautes Terres malgaches, Terre Malgache/Tany Malagasy, vol 24, University of Antananarivo, Antananarivo Madagascar, pp. 37-58.

Kull, C.A., 2002, Empowering pyromaniacs in Madagascar: idealogy and legitimacy in community-based resource management, Development and Change, vol 33, issue 1, pp. 57-78.

Kull, C.A., 2002, Madagascar aflame landscape burning as peasant protest resistance or a resource management tool?, Political Geography, vol 21, issue 7, pp. 927-953.

Kull, C.A., 2002, Madagascar's burning issue: the persistent conflict over fire, Environment, vol 44, issue 3, pp. 8-19.

Kull, C.A., 2002, The 'degraded' tapia woodlands of highland Madagascar: rural economy fire ecology and forest conservation, Journal of Cultural Geography, vol 19, issue 2, pp. 95-128.

Kull, C.A., 2000, Deforestation erosion and fire: degradation myths in the environmental history of Madagascar, Environment and History, vol 6, issue 4, pp. 421-450.

Conference Proceedings

Hartanto, H., Rangan, H., Thorburn, C.C., Kull, C.A., 2008, Strategic Engagement and Dynamic Adaptation: Customary Forest Management in Kerinci Central Sumatra Indonesia, 12th Biennial Conference of the International Assoication for the Study of Commons/Digital Library of the Commons, 14-18 July 2008, Digital Library of the Commons/University of Indiana, http//dic.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00003827/(website hosted at Champagne-Urbana Indiana), pp. 1-30.

Kull, C.A., Ibrahim, C.K., Meredith, T.C., 2006, Can privatization conserve the global biodiversity commons? Tropical reforestation through globalization, Digital Library of the Commons, June 19-23 2006, The Trustees of Indiana University, hhtp://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/view/conferences.html, pp. 1-28.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Alien vegetation and indigenous perspectives: considering a pluralistic approach to the management of non-native plant species.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Bradley, J (Associate), Kull, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Political Ecology of Valuing Forest Ecosystem Services: A comparative study of community actions in the Tinau watershed, Western Nepal and Wombat Forest Catchment, Victoria, Australia.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Kull, C (Associate), Stubbs, W (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Aitken, M.

Program of Study:

Living with alien invasives - The political ecology of wattle in the eastern highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Kull, C (Joint-Co), Rangan, H (Joint).

Student:

Egan, A.

Program of Study:

Doing Right by Country: Prickly Trees, Cattle and Camels in Northwest Queensland. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Kull, C (Joint-Co), Rangan, H (Joint).

Student:

Hartanto, H.

Program of Study:

Adaptability of customary forest institutions in Kerinci, Central Sumatra, Indonesia. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Kull, C (Associate), Thorburn, C (Associate).

Student:

Rajkobal, P.

Program of Study:

Citizen engagement in environmental governance: Desalination as an urban water planning initiative in Victoria, Australia. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Dibden, J (Main), Kull, C (Associate).

Student:

Shah, U.

Program of Study:

Bringing Order to the Jangal: State Building, Social Change,International Intervention in Afghanistan's Kunduz River Basin. (Masters) 2009.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Kull, C (Associate), Thorburn, C (Associate).

Student:

Shinde, K.

Program of Study:

The environment of pilgrimage on the sacred site of Vrindavan, India. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Rangan, H (Main), Costello, L (Associate), Kull, C (Associate).