Associate Professor Brett Bennett

Journal Articles

• Bennett, B. (2023), 'Global wonder tree or global curse : the history of eucalyptus', Guoji Shehui Kexue Zazhi, vol 40, no 4 , pp 100 - 106.
• Bennett, B., van Sittert, L. and Pooley, S. (2022), 'The historical context of biological invasions in South Africa from pre-history to post-apartheid', African Language and Culture Studies, vol 2 , pp 110 - 145.
• Bennett, B., Barton, G., Hifazat, S., Tsuwane, B. and Kruger, L. (2021), 'Sustaining the University of Johannesburg and Western Sydney University partnership in the time of COVID : a qualitative case study', Yesterday and Today, vol 24 , pp 71 - 91.
• Bennett, B. and Barton, G. (2021), 'Temporality, space, and networks in Indo-Pacific environmental histories', Pacific Historical Review, vol 90, no 2 , pp 140 - 156.
• Barton, G. and Bennett, B. (2021), 'Decolonizing informal empire : the loss of the British teak trade in Thailand, 1941-1958', Pacific Historical Review, vol 90, no 2 , pp 211 - 232.
• Morbidelli, R., Garcia-Marin, A., AL Mamun, A., Atiqur, R., Ayuso-Munoz, J., Taouti, M., Baranowski, P., Bellocchi, G., Sanguesa-Pool, C., Bennett, B., Oyunmunkh, B., Bonaccorso, B., Brocca, L., Caloiero, T., Caporali, E., Caracciolo, D., Casas-Castillo, M., Catalini, C., Chettih, M., Chowdhury, A., Chowdhury, R., Corradini, C., Custo, J., Dari, J., Diodato, N., Doesken, N., Dumitrescu, A., Estevez, J., Flammini, A., Fowler, H., Freni, G., Fusto, F., Garcia-Barron, L., Manea, A., Goenster-Jordan, S., Hinson, S., Kanecka-Geszke, E., Kar, K., Kasperska-Wolowicz, W., Krabbi, M., Krzyszczak, J., Llabres-Brustenga, A., Ledesma, J., Liu, T., Lompi, M., Marsico, L., Mascaro, G., Moramarco, T., Newman, N., Orzan, A., Pampaloni, M., Pizarro-Tapia, R., Torres, A., Rashid, M., Rodriguez-Sola, R., Manzor, M., Siwek, K., Sousa, A., Timbadiya, P., Filippos, T., Vilcea, M., Viterbo, F., Yoo, C., Zeri, M., Zittis, G. and Saltalippi, C. (2020), 'The history of rainfall data time-resolution in a wide variety of geographical areas', Journal of Hydrology, vol 590 .
• Bennett, B. and Van Sittert, L. (2019), 'Historicising perceptions and the national management framework for invasive alien plants in South Africa', Journal of Environmental Management, vol 229 , pp 174 - 181.
• Shackleton, R., Richardson, D., Shackleton, C., Bennett, B., Crowley, S., Dehnen-Schmutz, K., Estevez, R., Fischer, A., Kueffer, C., Kull, C., Marchante, E., Novoa, A., Potgieter, L., Vaas, J., Vaz, A. and Larson, B. (2019), 'Explaining people's perceptions of invasive alien species : a conceptual framework', Journal of Environmental Management, vol 229 , pp 10 - 26.
• Bennett, B. and Barton, G. (2018), 'The enduring link between forest cover and rainfall : a historical perspective on science and policy discussions', Forest Ecosystems, vol 5, no 5 .
• Bennett, B. (2017), 'Decolonization, environmentalism and nationalism in Australia and South Africa', Itinerario, vol 41, no 1 , pp 27 - 50.
• Bennett, B. and Barton, G. (2017), 'Generalizations in global history : dealing with diversity without losing the big picture', Itinerario, vol 41, no 1 , pp 15 - 25.
• Bennett, B. (2015), 'Margaret Levyns and the decline of ecological liberalism in the Southwest Cape, 1890-1975', South African Historical Journal, vol 67, no 1 , pp 64 - 84.
• Bennett, B. and Kruger, F. (2015), 'Forestry in reconstruction South Africa : imperial visions, colonial realities', Britain and the World, vol 8, no 2 , pp 225 - 245.
• Bennett, B. (2014), 'Model invasions and the development of national concerns over invasive introduced trees : insights from South African history', Biological Invasions, vol 16, no 3 , pp 499 - 512.
• Dickie, I., Bennett, B., Burrows, L., Nu?ez, M., Peltzer, D., Porte, A., Richardson, D., Rejmanek, M., Rundel, P. and van Wilgen, B. (2014), 'Conflicting values : ecosystem services and invasive tree management', Biological Invasions, vol 16, no 3 , pp 705 - 719.
• Bennett, B. (2014), 'The origins of timber plantations in India', Agricultural History Review, vol 62, no 1 , pp 98 - 118.
• Bennett, B. (2013), 'The rise and demise of South Africa's first School of Forestry', Environment and History, vol 19, no 1 , pp 63 - 85.
• Bennett, B. and Kruger, F. (2013), 'Ecology, forestry and the debate over exotic trees in South Africa', Journal of Historical Geography, vol 42 , pp 100 - 109.
• Kruger, F. and Bennett, B. (2013), 'Wood and water : an historical assessment of South Africa's past and present forestry policies as they relate to water conservation', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, vol 68, no 3 , pp 163 - 174.
• Bennett, B. (2011), 'Naturalising Australian trees in South Africa : climate, exotics and experimentation', Journal of Southern African Studies, vol 37, no 2 , pp 265 - 280.
• Bennett, B. (2011), 'A Global History of Australian Trees', Journal of the History of Biology, vol 44, no 1 , pp 125 - 145.
• Barton, G. and Bennett, B. (2011), 'Edward Harold Fulcher Swain's vision of forest modernity', Intellectual History Review, vol 21, no 2 , pp 135 - 150.
• Bennett, B. (2010), 'El Dorado of Forestry: the Eucalyptus in India, South Africa and Thailand, 1850-2000', The International Review of Social History, vol 55, no 18 , pp 27 - 50.
• Bennett, B. and Barton, G. (2010), 'Forestry as foreign policy Anglo-Siamese relations and the origins of Britain's informal empire in the teak forests of Northern Siam, 1883-1925', Itinerario, vol 34, no 2 , pp 65 - 86.
• Barton, G. and Bennett, B. (2010), ''There is a pleasure in the pathless woods' : the culture of forestry in British India', British Scholar, vol 3, no 2 , pp 219 - 234.
• Bennett, B. (2009), 'An imperial, national and state debate : the rise and near fall of the Australian forestry school, 1927-1945', Environment and History, vol 15, no 2 , pp 217 - 244.
• Bennett, B. and Barton, G. (2008), 'Environmental conservation and deforestation in British India 1855-1947 : a reinterpretation', Itinerario: International Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction, vol 38, no 2 , pp 83 - 104.