PUBLICATIONS LIST

                                                                  Doug Cocks

This complete list of my publications from 1964 to 2003 is organised under the following headings:

Refereed papers

Theses and books

Volumes edited

CSIRO Divisional reports and technical papers

CSIRO Technical memoranda

Published conference papers

Consultancy reports

CSIRO Unpublished Working Documents

Miscellaneous (including newspaper articles)

Web page articles on my home page http://www.labshop.com.au/dougcocks

 

Refereed papers

Cocks KD, 1964, Creep budgeting, Rev. Marketing and Agric. Econ. 32(3), 137-48.

Cocks KD, 1964, Evaluation of technological change, J. Agric. Econ. 16, 263-71.

Cocks KD and Hardaker JB, 1965, Farm recording of labour and machinery use, NAAS Quart. Rev. 69, 22-27.

Cocks KD, 1965, Capital accumulation and Hicksian models, Farm Economist 10, 458-65.

Cocks KD, 1965, Deferred grazing and nitrogen fertilisation in Southern Australia,  Exptl. Agric. 1, 271-79.

Cocks KD, 1965, Discounted cash flow and agricultural investment,  J. Agric. Econ. 17, 552-62.

Murray MW and Cocks KD, 1966,  Valuation of poultry flocks,  Brit. Poultry Sci. 7(1), 45-53.

Cocks KD, 1968, Discrete stochastic programming, Manag. Sci. 15, 72-79.

Cocks KD, and Carter, HO, 1968, Micro goal functions and economic planning, J. Farm Econ. 50(2), 400-11.

Gunn RH and Cocks KD, 1971, Potentialities for cashew in northern Australia, J. Aust. Inst. Agric. Sci. 37, 25-31.

Cocks KD, 1974, Current land use in the Balonne-Maranoa area, CSIRO Aust. Land Res. Ser. No. 34, 210-32.

Cocks KD, 1975, Social functions of aquatic ecosystems, Proc. Ecol. Soc. Aust. 8, 166-73.

Cocks KD, 1978, Rural planning : marshalling the data, R. Aust. Plann. Inst. J. 16(3), 87-9.

Cocks KD and Austin, MP, 1978, The land use problem and approaches to its solution,  In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales (Vol. 1. Austin MP, and Cocks KD, eds) 1-11 (CSIRO: Melbourne).

Cocks KD, Austin MP, and Basinski JJ, 1978,  Conceptual framework and implementation of research program, In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol 1. (Austin MP, and Cocks KD, eds) 12-18,  CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD, 1978,  Methods of refining and appraising land use options.  In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 1. (Austin MP, and Cocks KD, eds), 19-23, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD, 1978,  Socio-economic inventory techniques. In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 1 (Austin MP and Cocks KD, eds), 49-54, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Austin MP, Cocks KD, and Basinski JJ, 1978, Application of exclusion rules, In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 1. (Austin MP and Cocks KD, eds), 80-97, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD and Ive JR, 1978,  Regional land use planning objectives. In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 1. (Austin MP and Cocks KD, eds), 98-112, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD and Fitzwarryne P, 1978,  Appraisal of planning objectives, In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 1. (Austin MP, and Cocks KD, eds), 113-18, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD, Austin MP, and Basinski JJ, 1978,  Evaluation of Stage One of the South Coast Project, In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 1. (Austin MP and Cocks KD, eds), 119-29, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD and Basinski JJ, 1978,  Agriculture in Eurobodalla Shire, In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 4, (Austin MP, and Cocks KD, eds), 1-22, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD  and Dennis C, 1978,  Apiculture, In Land Use on the South Coast of New South Wales, Vol. 4. (Austin MP, and Cocks KD, eds), 22-30, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD and McConnell G, 1980,  Environment and conservation issues of the eighties, BHP Journal 1/80, 48-55.

Cocks KD, 1981,  Information for regional land use options, Town Plann. Rev. 52, 228-30.

Anderssen RS, Ive JR and Cocks KD, 1983,  Implications of the generalised upper bounding structure in land use allocation, Environ. Plann. B. 10, 207-17.

Cocks KD, Ive JR, Davis JR and Baird IA, 1983, SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN: An Australian approach to land use planning.  1. The SIRO-PLAN land use planning method,  Environ. Plann. B. 10, 331-45.

Ive JR and Cocks KD, 1983, SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN: An Australian approach to land use planning.  2. The LUPLAN land use planning package, Environ. Plann. B. 10, 347-55.

Baird IA and Cocks KD, 1984,  The role of plant and animal survey in park management, In Survey Methods for Nature Conservation,  (Myers, K, Margules CR and Musto I, (eds)), 67-87, CSIRO Div. Water & Land Resources, Canberra.

Cocks KD, 1984, A systematic method of public use zoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia, Coast. Zone Manage. J. 12(4), 324-359.

Walker PA and Cocks KD, 1984, Computerised choropleth mapping of Australian resources data, Cartography, 13(4), 243-51.

Young MD, Walker PA and Cocks KD, 1984, Distribution of influences on rangeland management, In Management of Australia's Rangelands,  (Harrington G, Wilson AD and Young, MD (eds)), Ch. 22, CSIRO, Melbourne. 

Cocks KD and Davis JR, 1985, The role of land use planning in reducing the impact of certain extreme meteorological events, In Natural disasters in Australia: Proceedings 9th invitation symposium, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, Sydney.

Cocks KD and Parvey CA, 1985,  Prospects for land use planning in arid Australia, Aust. Rangel. J. 7(1), 47-50.

Cocks KD, Walker PA, and Parvey CA, 1985, Using information technology to examine the location of a HSGT system for eastern Australia, Trans. Inst. Eng. Aust. (Civil Eng.) 27(3), 321-327.

Davis JR, Cocks KD, and Ive JR, 1985,  SIRO-PLAN: Improving the acceptability of a practical planning method, Plann. Outlook. 28(1), 36-39.

Ive JR and Cocks KD, 1985, Adding a localised adjustment capability to the LUPLAN land use planning package, Environ. Plann. B. 12, 455-462.

Ive JR, and Cocks KD, 1985,  Rural land use planning techniques, Chap. 11 In Newton P and Taylor M (eds), Microcomputers for local government planning and management, Hargreen, Melbourne, 112-122.

Ive JR, Davis JR and Cocks KD, 1985, LUPLAN - a computer package to support the inventorying, evaluation and allocation of land resources, Soil Survey Land Eval. 5(3), 77-87.

Walker PA and Cocks KD, 1985,  Estimating proximate populations for an extensive set of locations in Australia, Aust. Geogr. 16, 295-300.

Walker PA, Cocks KD, and Young MD, 1985, Regionalising continental data sets, Cartography, 14(1), 66-73.

Cocks KD and Ive JR, 1986, Matching planning aids to planning tasks: A reply, Environ. Plann. B.  Planning and Design, 13, 345-347.

Cocks KD, Ive JR, and Davis JR, 1986, Policy guidelines for the management of public natural lands, Land Use Policy, 3(1), 9-20.

Cocks KD, Young MD and Walker PA, 1986, Mapping viability prospects for pastoralism in Australia, Agricultural Systems, 20(3), 175-193.

Hannam ID, Davis JR and Cocks KD, 1986, Implementation of total catchment management plans, J. Soil Cons. Serv. NSW. 42(1), 80-82.

Young MD, Walker PA, and Cocks KD, 1986, Land use in Australia's rangelands, Aust. Rangelands J. 8(2), 131-139.

Cocks KD, and Walker PA, 1987, Edging towards a nation-wide resources information system for Australia, In  Readings in Australian Geography: Proceedings of the 21st Institute of Australian Geographers' Conference, Perth, May, 1986. Conacher A, (ed), (Institute of Australian Geographers and Department of Geography, University of Western Australia, Perth, 319-325.

Cocks KD and Walker PA, 1987, Using the Australian Resources Information System to describe extensive regions, Appl. Geography 7(1), 17-27.

Davis JR, Nanninga PM and Cocks KD, 1987, The usefulness of computer aids that capture expert knowledge about land management, In Demands on rural lands:  Planning for resource use, Cocklin C, Smit B and Johnston T, (eds), Westview Press, Boulder and London, 197-208.

Ive JR, and Cocks KD, 1987, The value of adding searching and profiling capabilities to a land use planning package, Soil Survey and Land Evaluation, 7(2), 87-94.

Cocks KD, Gilmour, AJ and Wood NH, 1988,  Regional impacts of rising sealevels in coastal Australia. In Pearman GI (ed), Greenhouse: Planning for climatic change, EJ Brill Publishing Co.,Leiden.

Cocks KD and Ive JR, 1988,  Evaluating a computer package for planning public lands in New South Wales, J. of Envir. Managt., 26, 249-60.

Cocks KD, Walker PA, and Parvey, CA, 1988,  Evolution of a continental scale geographic information system. Int.J. Geogr. Inf. Syst. 2(3), 263-80.

Ive JR and Cocks KD, 1988,  LUPIS: A decision-support system for land planners and managers. In Desktop planning: Advanced microcomputer applications for physical and social infrastructure planning, Newton, PW, Taylor MAP and Sharpe R (eds),Hargreen,Melbourne.

Cocks KD and Baird IA, 1989,  Using mathematical programming to address the multiple reserve selection problem: An example from the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Biological Conservation 49, 113-30.

Cocks KD and Walker PA, 1989,  ARIS: A working geographic information system for continental Australia. In Ball, D., and Babbage, R., (eds) Geographic information systems and the defence of Australia, Pergamon, Melbourne.

Ive JR, and Cocks KD, 1989,  Incorporating multi-party preferences into land use planning, Envir.and Planning B 16, 99-109.

Ive JR, Cocks KD, and Parvey, CA, 1989,  Using the LUPIS land management package to select and schedule multi-site operations, J. Envir. Mngnt. 29, 31-45..

Walker PA and Cocks KD, 1991,  HABITAT: A procedure for modelling a disjoint environmental envelope for a plant or animal species, Global Ecology and Biogeography Letters 1, 108-118.

Cocks KD, and Baird IA, 1991,  The role of geographic information systems in the collection, extrapolation and use of survey data. In Austin MP, and Margules, C.R., (eds) Nature conservation: Cost effective biological surveys and data analysis: Proceedings of CONCOM/CSIRO workshop on quantitative methods in survey, CSIRO and New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service, Melbourne,

Ive JR, Walker PA, and Cocks KD, 1992,  Small-scale spatial modelling of the potential for dryland salinisation in Victoria, Australia. Land Degradation and Rehabilitation, 3(1), 27-36.

Baird IA, Cocks KD, and Ive, JR, 1992,  Optimising allocation of nursery stocks to landholders in a participatory revegetation scheme, J. Envir. Mngt., 35, 113-130.

McDonald WS, Cocks KD, Wood NH, Ive JR, and Yapp GA, 1993, The future population of Australia's coastal lands, Australian Geographical Studies 31(2), 177-88.

Cocks KD, 1993, Population, resources and environment: Contributions to the Australian debate, Progress in Rural Policy and Planning, 3, 337-60.

Cocks KD and Walker BH, 1994, Contribution of `sustainability' criteria to social perceptions of land use options, Land Degradation and Rehabilitation, 5, 143-51.

Cocks KD and Ive JR, 1996, Mediation support for forest land allocation: The SIRO-MED system, Environmental Management 20(1) 41-52.

Cocks KD, 1996, The case for stabilising Australia's population, Search 27(4), 120-3.

Hamilton NTM and Cocks KD, 1996, A small scale spatial analysis system for maritime Australia, Oceanographic Literature Review, 43(10), 1066-76

Cocks Doug, 1998, Future makers, future takers, Australian Quarterly, 70(6), 26-31

Ive John and Cocks Doug, 1999, SIRO-MED: Bringing information-based mediation support to natural resource allocation, Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, 10(3) 165-72.

Cocks Doug, 2000,  Taking a Running Jump at the Future, Dissent, Vol 1(2)  6-11.

Cocks Doug, 2002, Stages, trends and defining events in world history, ISAA Review, Spring pp??

Cocks Doug, 2003 (in press), Ships that Pass in the Night, Dissent, Vol 4 

Theses and books

Cocks KD, 1963,  Stocking and feeding policy on sheep properties in the central western district of Victoria, M Agr Sc thesis, University of Melbourne.

Makeham, JP, Reading W, and Cocks KD, 1964,  Farm Management Handbook JP Makeham and Assoc, Colac. pp. 93.

Cocks KD, 1969, Farm planning under non-certainty with special reference to the use of multi-stage stochastic programming,  PhD thesis, University of California.

Cocks Doug, 1985,  Training a gundog for retrieving trials, Black Mountain Press, Canberra.

Cocks Doug, 1992,  Use with care: Managing Australia's natural resources in the 21st century, New South Wales University Press, Sydney.

Cocks Doug, 1996, People policy: Australia's population choices, New South Wales University Press, Sydney.

Cocks Doug, 1999, Future makers, future takers: Life in Australia 2050, New South Wales University Press, Sydney.

Cocks Doug, 2003, Deep Futures: Our Prospects for Survival, New South Wales University Press, Sydney.

 

Volumes edited

Austin MP and Cocks KD (eds), 1978, Land use on the south coast of New South Wales: A study in methods of acquiring and using information to analyse  regional land use options, 4 vols, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Basinski JJ and Cocks KD (eds),1985, Environmental planning and management: Proceedings of Commonwealth Science Council Workshop, Canberra, May 1984, Commonwealth Science Council and CSIRO Division of Water and Land Resources, Canberra.

Cocks KD, Ive JR and Clark J.L. (eds), 1995, Forest issues: Processes and tools for inventory, evaluation, mediation and allocation. CSIRO Div. Wildlife and Ecology, Divisional Project Report 7.

CSIRO Divisional reports and technical papers

Cocks KD, McConnell G, and Walker PA, 1980, Matters for concern - tomorrow's land use issues, CSIRO Div. Land Use Res. Divisional Report 80/1.

Laughlin GP, Basinski JJ, and Cocks KD, 1981, Annotated bibliography of land evaluation,  CSIRO Div. Land Use Res. Tech. Paper No. 42, CSIRO, Melbourne.

Cocks KD, Baird IA, and Anderson JR, 1983, Application of the SIRO-PLAN planning method to the Cairns Section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia, CSIRO Div. Water and Land Resour., Divisional Report 83/1.

Cocks KD, Cole RP, Garrard IM, Ive JR, and Trethewey, SV, 1986,  Using the LUPLAN package to assist in the assessment of Crown lands near Lake Eucumbene, CSIRO Div. Water and Land Resources Divisional Report 86/2.

Technical Memoranda

(Divisions of Land Use Research, Water and Land Resources, Wildlife and Ecology, Sustainable Ecosystems)

No. 69/19  Cocks KD, The profitability of peanut production at Katherine, N.T.

No. 73/4  Angus, JF.,Wood, IM. and Cocks KD, BUDGET:  A  program for estimating the cost of production and the  profitability of crops.

No. 77/11  Cocks KD, South Coast Project: socio-economic inventory data.

No. 77/18  Austin MP, and Cocks KD, Introduction to the South Coast Project.

No. 77/19  Austin MP, Basinski J.J., Cocks KD and Ive JR, South Coast Project: pre-print of chapters describing land use planning methodology.

No. 77/20  Austin MP, Basinski J.J., Cocks KD and Cook BG, South Coast Project: pre-print of chapters describing computer, biophysical survey and socio-economic inventory methods.

No. 78/16  Cocks KD, Nix HA. and  Morris DG, Conditional prediction of growth and development in sorghum crops. 

No. 79/3  Cocks KD, Economic aspects of rural land use planning.  (Paper presented to third annual meeting of Regional Science Association, Monash University. 1979)

No. 79/8  Cocks KD, Systematising the production of rural land use plans: a pre-print.  (Paper presented to ANZAAS, Auckland). 

No. 79/14  Cocks KD, and Austin MP, A policy-oriented approach to land use planning: a pre-print. (Published in Methods and strategies for Integrated Development, Proc. MAB/UNESCO Internat. Conf. on the Environment, Arlon, Belgium, Sept. 1979)

No. 80/1  Baird IA, Cocks KD, and Compagnoni, P, Possibilities for land capability assessment as a planning tool in New South Waldes. 

No. 80/4  Compagnoni P and Cocks KD, Producing environmental plans.

No. 80/18  Davis JR, Clark JL and Cocks KD Computers in local government: text of contributions to a seminar for local  government officers.

No. 80/19  Cocks KD and Walker PA, An introduction to the Australian Resources Information System. 

No. 81/10  Compagnoni P and Cocks KD, Operational policies for shire and regional land use planning. 

No. 83/11  Walker PA, and Cocks KD, The Australian Resources Information System: Status report 1983. 

No. 83/24  Walker PA, and Cocks KD, Census-based estimates of 1981 population and dwellings for map sheets of the Australian 1:100,000 topographic series.

No. 84/6  Ive JR, and Cocks KD, SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN:  notes for local government clients. 

No. 84/7  Ive JR, and Cocks KD, SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN:  notes for resource agency clients. 

No. 84/17  Walker PA, and Cocks KD, Estimates of proximate populations for map sheets of the Australian 1:100 000 topographic series. 

No. 84/18  Cocks KD, and Wood NH, Estimates of 1988 voter populations based on 1981 local government areas. 

No. 84/31  Wood NH, and Cocks KD, Microfiche of data held against basic mapping units in the Australian Resources Data Bank.

No. 85/14  Walker PA, and Cocks KD, Algorithms for calculating regional populations. 

No. 85/20  Wood NH, and Cocks KD, GRIDLIST:  A procedure for accessing GRIDBANK data on the VAX11/750. 

No. 86/8  Ive JR, Cocks KD, Young, JP and Wittmark, B., BIDGEEDATA:  A data set compiled to evaluate land use options in  the Murrumbidge corridor.

No. 86/22  Cocks KD and Walker PA, Using ARIS to evaluate  the biogeographical spread of Australia's biosphere reserves.

Published conference papers

Cocks KD, 1961,  Planning of fodder conservation activities. Report of Fodder Conservation Conference, Dept. of Agric., Vic. Nov.1961, 90-104.

Cocks KD, 1967,  Goal functions in linear programming. Western Farm Economics Association Conference, Las Vegas. 

Cocks KD, 1972,  Economics and rice recipes. Working papers of the First Australian Rice Research Conference, Leeton. 

Laut P and Cocks KD, 1975,  Land use conflicts and land use planning, The living earth (Conservation Society of N.S.W.) 18(1,2), 11-13. 

Basinski JJ, Cocks KD and Millington RJ, 1976,   The South Coast study: An exercise in comprehensive regional land use planning.  Symp. Land Resource Evaluation in N.S.W., School of Geography, Univ. of N.S.W. and Aust. Soc. Soil Sci. Inc., 1-5. 

Cocks KD, 1976,  Options for urban and recreation land use in the high rainfall zone of south-eastern Australia.  In Limits to Growth and Options for Action: Working papers of AIAS National Symposium, Canberra, 47-56. 

Cocks KD, 1979,  Systematising the production of rural land use plans. Proc. 10th N.Z. Geogr. Conference, Auckland, 238-40. 

Davis JR, Walker PA and Cocks KD, 1980,  Regional information systems - a preliminary survey.  Proc. URPIS 8, Aust. Urban and Regional Information Systems Assoc., Surfers Paradise, pp. 11.1-11.4. 

Cocks KD, and Walker PA, 1980,  Introduction to the Australian Resources Information System.  Proc. URPIS 8, Aust. Urban and Regional Information Systems Assoc., Surfers Paradise, p. 50.1. 

Cocks KD, 1981,  Status report on the Australian Resources Information System.  Proc. of Conf. Institute of Australian Geographers, Bathurst, August.

Cocks KD, 1982,  An outline of the Australian Resources Information System, Australian Cartography Conference, Canberra. 

Cocks KD, 1983,  Rationality and effectiveness in local government and resource agency planning.  Keynote address, 15th Pacific Science Congress, Dunedin. 

Cocks KD, 1984,  Summary of proceedings, In Rural Land Use Planning: Cooma and Yass.  Proceedings of Seminars, Dept. of Agriculture and Dept. of Environmental Planning,  Sydney, 141-2. 

Cocks KD, 1985,  Possibilities for an environmental survey of Australia,. In Environmental Survey of Australia: Report of a joint Commonwealth-State workshop, Adelaide 1983 (AGPS: Canberra), 27-30.

Cocks KD, 1985,  What on earth is environmental planning,. In Basinski J.J and Cocks KD, eds) Environmental Planning and Management: Proceedings of Commonwealth Science Council Workshop, Canberra. 

Cocks KD, Parvey CA, Walker PA and Clark JL, 1986,  Information sources for coastal planning. (keynote paper) Proceedings of the National Conference on Coastal Management, Coffs Harbour, October 1986. Mimeo, Australian Environment Council.

Scott, G., Wittmark, B., Ive JR, and Cocks KD, 1986,  Murrumbidgee River Corridor:  A computer-assisted planning exercise. World Planning and Housing Congress, Adelaide, September 1986.

Ive JR, and Cocks KD, 1988,  Rural land degradation in Australia: The role of trees in ecological solutions. In Proceedings Bicentenary International Forestry Conference,  Australian Forest Development Institute, Albury, April 1988 (keynote address)

(This was also reprinted in The Australian Conservation Farmer, 1989, 1: 18-22  and was the subject of `Reversing rural tree decline' by R. Beckmann and S. Davidson, Rural Research, 146, 19-26.)

Cocks KD, 1993, Making good use of the place: Adapting to the Australian environment, Proceedings 1992 conference of Australian Society for Human Biology, Canberra.

Hamilton NTM and Cocks KD, 1994, Australia's coastal population: Environmental implications today and tomorrow, Proceedings of workshop, Mobility in Australia, Australian Population Association, Melbourne, Nov.

Cocks KD and Foran BD, 1995,  Quality of life as a discretionary determinant of Australia's long-term population, in Stone J (ed) Proceedings of Population 2040: Australia's choice, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra.                               

Hamilton N and Cocks D, 1995,  The application of marine biogeographic techniques to the oceanic environment, in Muldoon J (ed), Towards a Marine Regionalisation for Australia,  Ocean Rescue 2000 Workshop series No. 1, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Canberra 81-90.                                                                                                   

Hamilton N, Cocks D, Busby J and Burne R, 1995, CAMRIS, NATMIS and AGSO coastal and marine information systems in Muldoon J (ed), Towards a Marine Regionalisation for Australia,  Ocean Rescue 2000 Workshop series No. 1, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Canberra 195-208.

Cocks Doug, 1999, Scenarios for Australian Landscapes,  Paper to Fenner Conference, Visions of Future Landscapes, Canberra May 1999.

Consultancy reports

Cocks KD, 1970,  Prospects for agricultural and pastoral investment in northern Australia.  (J.P. Makeham and Associates: Colac, Vic.)

Cocks KD, 1970,  An introduction to the writing of management abstracts for research papers published by Division of Plant Industry.  Report to Adaptive Research Committee, CSIRO Div. of Plant Industry.

Cocks KD and Nix, HA, 1971,  Possibilities and limitations in substituting extensive cash cropping for wool growing.  Appendix 4 in Report to the Executive of CSIRO by the ALTWOOL Committee. 

Cocks KD, 1971,  Management of agricultural research in CSIRO. Report to CSIRO Executive. 

Parvey CA, Taylor M and Cocks KD, 1988,  A regionalisation of Australia for comparative economic analysis. Australian Regional Developments, 4.6.  Department of Local Government and Administrative Services, (AGPS: Canberra,

Cocks KD, and Schodde R (compilers), 1989,  Report on the environment and resources of an area proposed for the location of defence facilities in central north Queensland (revised version) CSIRO Div. of Wildlife and Ecology Environmental Study Report 89/01

Cocks KD, 1989,  Report to the VFT Consortium on methods for evaluating potential station sites CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology

Young, MD, Cocks KD, and Humphries SE, 1990,  Australia's natural resources and environment: An outlook. (CSIRO Institute of Natural Resources and Environment: Canberra)

Cocks KD and Crossland, C, 1991, The Australian coastal zone: A discussion paper, Consultancy report to EHCD Program for ecologically sustainable development

Abel D, Cocks KD and McDonald WS, 1992, Requirements for a national marine information system for the Environmental Resources Information Network: A consultancy for Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service by CSIRO Division of Information Technology and CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology 

Walker J and Cocks KD, 1992, Development of a national state of the environment reporting system, A discussion paper prepared for the Commonwealth  Environment Protection Agency (CEPA) by CSIRO Institute of Natural Resources and Environment

McDonald WS. and Cocks KD, 1993, Coastal Australia: A Regional Characterisation.  CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology; Consultancy report to Resource Assessment Commission

Cocks D, 1996, The LOICZ Plan : A discussion paper, Consultancy report prepared for the Australian Academy of Science, April, 13pp.

Cocks KD, 1996, Review of the draft strategic plan for the Shoalwater Bay Taining Area, Consultant's report to the Department of Defence, 7 pp

Unpublished Working Documents

(sole author unless indicated)

Group1. Land Use Planning Group and Information Systems Group, Div. of Land Use Research, Div. of Water and Land Resources

WD 80/5  Land evaluation and land use planning in the CSIRO Division of Land Use Research. 

WD 80/6  The regional planning process:  experience with a methodology (with P Compagnoni)  

WD 80/7  The national land use issues survey:  Some possible themes for a Divisional research program. 

WD 80/13  Notes on adapting the SIRO-PLAN methodology to park planning. 

WD 80/14  National land use issues survey:  coastal issues (with Arman, O.,  

WD 80/15  Prospect for systems thinking.

WD 80/16  Some land use policy suggestions.

WD 80/17  The ideology and legitimacy of land use planning.

WD 80/19  Data collection for planning.

WD 80/20  Land inventory, land evaluation and land planning in CSIRO Div. of Land Use Research. 

WD 80/21  Land use planning and control issues (with O Arman)  

WD 80/23  Human factors in management.

WD 80/24  Management of agricultural research in CSIRO.

WD 80/25  Status report and introduction to ARIS.

WD 80/26  Land use planning in Australia and the CSIRO Div. of Land Use Research. 

WD 81/1  Some useful references in rural land use planning (with P Compagnoni)   

WD 81/4  A land use planning approach to park planning. 

WD 81/7  Perceptions of the SIRO-PLAN methodology (with O Arman)  

WD 81/8  Historical geography of the Land Use Planning Group (with JL Clark)  

WD 81/9  Land classification, land evaluation and land use planning (with P Compagnoni)  

WD 81/13  Outline of a course on environmental planning (with P Compagnoni, JR Davis and JR Ive)  

WD 81/20  Experiences with the South Coast data bank mapping system. 

WD 81/29  Finding sites for new cities - A demonstration of the search capabilities of the Australian Resources Information System, (with Arman OM, Clark JL, Davis JR, Hinde CV, Parvey CA, Walker PA and Wood NH)

WD 82/1  Land use in Australia.

WD 82/6  Definitions for land use planners. 

WD 82/7  Land use planning and resource development.

WD 82/13  Introduction to a park planning workshop.

WD 82/14  Research options in land use planning.

WD 82/15  Prospects for computerised geographic information systems in local, State and Federal Governments. 

WD 83/1  The relationship between regional planning and environmental impact assessment in New South Wales. 

WD 83/2  Methodology of environmental impact studies with particular reference to the quality of impact prediction. 

WD 83/5  Questions and answers about the SIRO-PLAN land use planning method. 

WD 83/6  Rationality and effectiveness in local government and resource agency planning. 

WD 83/7  Possibilities for increasing the effectiveness of local government and resource agency planning. 

WD 83/14  Possibilities for an environmental survey of Australia. 

WD 83/15  A critique of the ARIS (Australian Resources Information System) Project. 

WD 84/6  What is environmental planning?

WD 84/9  Approaches to plans evaluation.

WD 84/10  Scientific inputs to environmental planning.

WD 84/11  SIRO-PACT:  A procedure for developing target values for project impact indicators.

WD 84/12  Possibilities for research into environmental impact assessment. 

WD 84/13  A geographic converter for Australian local government areas 1978-1981 (with NH Wood)  

WD 84/14  Information systems and related techniques in comprehensive land use planning. 

WD 84/15  Writing BASIC code for a LUPLAN exercise (with JR Ive)  

WD 84/16  Possibilities for research into the role of geographic information systems for Division of Water and Land Resources.

WD 85/9  Lake Eucumbene planning exercise : A joint Crown Lands Office (NSW) and CSIRO demonstration (with Garrard, I.M., and Ive JR)       

WD 85/10  Land related computer databases in Australia. 

WD 85/11  Can planning cope with Victoria's rural land use  issues?

WD 86/1  Using ARIS to identify soils suitable for guayule (with PA Walker)

WD 86/2  Use of the Australian Resources Information System (ARIS) for small scale mapping of scio-economic and demographic data (with CA Parveyand PA Walker)

WD 86/3  Representativeness of the proposed Army training area at Cobar.

WD 86/4  Research into the development and use of geographic information systems in CSIRO Division of Water and Land Resources.

WD 86/6  Definitions for land use planners (revised, 

WD 86/7  Using ARIS to map rainforest formations. 

Group 2. CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Decision Support Systems Program, Assessment and Management of Natural Resource Systems Program, Spatial Resource Allocation and Evaluation Program

WD 87/1 Producing base maps for encoding or locating ARIS GRIDBANK data (with NH Wood)

WD 87/2 Notes on the ARIS project

WD 88/1 Impacts of climatic change on the coastal zone

WD 88/2 Climate data for coastal gridcells in the Australian Resources information System, (with NH Wood and TH Booth)

WD 88/3 Resource data for the Australian coastal zone (with NH Wood )

WD 90/1 Gemstone deposits in Australia, (with NH Wood)

WD 90/2 Distribution of wetlands in Australia---Current status of dataset and maps (with NH Wood)

WD 90/3 LUPIS: A spatial decision support system for park planners and managers (with JR Ive)

WD 90/6 Briefing notes on sustainable development

WD 90/7 Australians and their environment

WD 90/10 Coastal data sets in the Australian Resources Information System (with NH Wood)

WD 91/1 Resolving conflicts over land and resource use (contribution to Academy environmental textbook)

WD 91/2 Coastal population data 1971-1986) in the Australian Resources Information System (with GA Yapp and NH Wood)

WD 91/3 Current status of variables in Australian Resources Information System (with NH Wood)

WD 91/4 The Australian coastal zone: A discussion paper (with C Crossland)

WD 91/5 A decision support system for the allocation and management of coastal and marine resources (with WS McDonald and JR Ive)

WD 91/6 Research projects in the Spatial Resource Allocation and Evaluation Program 1991-2.

WD 92/3 Managing Australia's natural resources in the 21st century.

WD 92/6 The future of Australia's coastal lands (with WS McDonald, NH Wood,  JR Ive and GA Yapp)

WD 92/8 Population, resources and environment: Contributions to the Australian debate

WD 92/9 Estimated areas of wetlands in Australia (with NH. Wood)

WD 92/10 Thoughts on being asked to talk about `An overused continent'.

WD 92/11 Defining and quantifying coastal resources (with G Batley)

WD 92/12 Recent Australian Government initiatives on population and environmental issues

WD 92/13 Population, resources and environment: Research implications of the Australian debate

WD 92/15 Making good use of the place: Adapting to the Australian environment

WD 93/3 Animal Farm: Thinking about Australia's carrying capacity.

WD 93/4 The Pros and Cons of High Immigration. 

WD 93/6 Mediation Support for Forest Land Allocation: The SIRO-MED System. (with JR Ive)

WD 93/8 Estimated areas of wetlands in the Australian coastal zone (with NH Wood).

WD 93/9 A small scale spatial analysis system for maritime Australia (with NT Hamilton

WD 93/10 The contributions of `sustainability' criteria to social perceptions of land use options (with BH Walker).

WD 93/11 The future of Australia's coastal lands (with WS McDonald, NH Wood, JR Ive, and GA Yapp

Group 3 CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Division of  Sustainable Ecosystems, Resource Futures Program

WD 98/05 Environmental futures Workshop Report (with B Foran and N Hamilton)

WD  99/02 The Ringing Grooves of Change: Mid-Future Possibilities for the Global System.

WD 00/07 Report on a Workshop to Identify Plausible Changes Affecting the South Australian Tourism Industry over Coming Decades (with B Ekert)

 

WD 00/08 Insights from the Coalface: A Catalogue of Plausible Changes Affecting the Australian Tourism Industry over Coming Decades (with B Ekert)

WD 00/11 A Comprehensive Simulation Model of Material and Energy Transformations and Transfers in the Australian Economy (with F Poldy and B Foran)

 

Miscellaneous

Cocks KD, 1967,  Goals and strategies in a risky planning environment. UC Davis seminar series.

Cocks KD, 1970,  The profitability of rice farming on the sub-coastal plains of the Northern Territory. In Annual Report, Coastal Plains Research Station, Darwin. 

Cocks KD, 1970,  Surprise free cost forecasts for continuous sorghum grown in the monsoonal tropics under a 'tracker' system of mechanisation. Accepted but withdrawn from Journal of Australian Institute of Agricultural Science.  Typescript.

Cocks KD, 1971,  Principles of national science policy.  Mimeo. 

Cocks KD, 1974,  An introduction to non-urban land use planning.  Paper to seminar series, Modern Economic Issues, University of Sydney.  Typescript.  

Cocks KD, 1980,  A note on the South Coast Project, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Australia 11(1), 5­­-6 

Compagnoni PT and Cocks KD, 1980, Land use research, CANPLAN 3(3), 8-10. 

Cocks KD, 1984,   The nature and focus of national land use policy in Land Use Policy in Australia  Senate Standing Committee on Science, Technology and the Environment (AGPS: Canberra, 

Cocks KD, 1985,  Getting land use policy onto the political agenda.  Review of Land Use Policy in Australia.  Report of Senate Standing Committee on Science, Technology and the Environment.  Search 16(3,4), 60-61.  

Ive JR, Walker PA and Cocks KD, 1988,  Combating dryland salinity through tree replanting, Research into Rural Tree Decline.  Annual Newsletter, Canberra, CSIRO Div. of Forestry and Forest Products.

Walker BH, Young, MD, Parslow JS, Cocks KD, Fleming PM, Margules CR, Landsberg JJ, 1989,  Global climate change and Australia: Effects on renewable natural resources. In Global climate change - Issues for Australia, Prime Minister's Science Council, AGPS: Canberra

Ive JR, Baird IA and Cocks KD, 1989,  Mathematical programming for optimising landholder allocations of native species to diverse landscape habitats, Tree Decline and Revegetation Newsletter 1, Department of Conservation and Land Management, WA.

Baird IA, Cocks KD and Ive JR, 1990,  Distributing plant nursery stocks to participants in a voluntary revegetation scheme Tree Decline and Revegetation Newsletter 2, Department of Conservation and Land Management, WA.

Young, MD, Cocks KD and Humphries SE, 1990, Australia's natural resources and environment: An outlook, CSIRO Institute of Natural Resources and Environment

Cocks KD, 1990, Australians and their environment, IUCN Bulletin, 21(3) 14-15.

Cocks KD, 1991,  Resolving conflicts over land and resource use (contribution to Academy of Science environmental textbook (also printed as Working Document WD91/1)

Baird IA, Cocks KD and Ive JR, 1990, Distributing plant nursery stocks to participants in a voluntary revegetation scheme, Tree Decline and Revegetation Newsletter 2, Department of Conservation and Land Management, WA.                                               

Cocks KD, 1991,  Executive summary, Data quality and standards, Proceedings of a seminar organised by the Commonwealth Land Information Forum, Canberra.

Cocks. KD, Ive JR 1992 In the forests with SIRO-MED and LUPIS: Something different from CSIRO, Agricultural systems and Information Technology Newsletter 3 (1)

Cocks KD, 1996,  Review of ‘People policy: Australia's population choices’, People and Place,  4(2), 71-4.

Cocks D, 1996, Sides set in numbers game, Australian Financial Review, 6 Feb p17.

Cocks Doug, 1996, article on environmental management??, Australian Financial Review

Cocks Doug, 1996, In at the shallow end, Canberra Times ??

Cocks Doug, 1999, The role of history in future-gazing,  Paper to annual conference of Independent Scholars Association of Australia, Canberra.

Cocks D, 1999, Labor's intake plan based on false premises, The Australian  Feb 23, p15

Cocks Doug, 1999, Prospects for Environmental Quality, Editorial, Ecos ??

Cocks Doug, 2000, Healthier Little Vegemites, The Age Good Weekend Magazine Jan 1, 24-25.

Cocks Doug, 2001, How to Energise the Clever Country, Australian Financial Review (Friday Review)  July 20 p 9.

Cocks Doug, 2001, There will be life---But Not as We Know It, Australian Financial Review (Friday Review)  July 27 p 9.

Cocks Doug, 2001, Coming to Terms with Complexity, Australian Financial Review (Friday Review)  Aug 3 p 8.

Cocks Doug, 2002, ?? Australian Financial Review    Nov 23 p 50.

 

Web page articles (http://www.labshop.com.au/dougcocks)

(a number of these are copies or rewrites of material published elsewhere)

A note on memes and similar (loaded Nov 2002)

A note on evolutionary economics (loaded Nov 2002)

Ships that pass in the night (loaded June 2003)

Stages, trends and defining events in world history, Paper in ISAA Review Spring 2002 (loaded October 2002)

Trends and shifts in our sort of science Paper to Resource Futures Science Forum, Oct 2002 (loaded Nov 2002)

Three articles on energy policy from Australian Financial Review July-August 2001 (loaded August 2001)

Paper on 'Population, consumption and environment' for Internet conference organised by Nature and Society Forum (loaded July 2001)

Notes for a talk on research strategy (loaded July 2001)

The ringing grooves of change: Mid-future possibilities for the global system (loaded May 2000)

Bringing mediation to natural resource allocatioon (loaded Feb 2000)

Notes on 'Searching for settlement' (loaded Feb 2000)

3000 word synopsis of Future Makers, Future Takers (loaded Jan 2000)

Big picture scenarios for Australia, with a comment on the implications for public administration (loaded Dec 99)

Newspaper article ---The future is another country (loaded Nov 99)

The Emerging Environment-Economy Tradeoff (loaded Nov 99)

Scenarios for an urban society (loaded Sept 99)

Taking the long view (loaded October 99)

Where might we be in 2050? (loaded June 99)

The role of history in future-gazing (loaded Sept 1999)

Scenarios of future landscapes (loaded Apr99)

An editorial on prospects for the environment (loaded May 99)

Participate in a casual survey of how Australians perceive their Quality Of Life (loaded Jul 99)

Daily life in 2020 (loaded Apr 99)

A review of Fred Argy's Recent Book

Book chapter: Making it to 3000AD

Talk on World Environment Day

Notes on: Out of the Rut: Making Labor a Genuine Alternative

Threadbare policy---A short article on Labor's proposed new immigration policy Feb 1999

On deconstructing complex adaptive systems

The immigration-population debate in Australia

Managing Australia's natural resources in the 21st century

Future of the Australian tourist industry

Forget 2000, what about 2050?(essay on the future of the Austalian economy)

Thoughts on being asked to talk about 'an overused continent'