BIOGRAPHY - Simon Benger

Participation in the Network's Paradigm and Applications Working Group (select the appropriate options)

Paradigm Working Groups

 Socio-spatial theory

 Methodologies, tools and techniques

 Scenarios and forecasting

 Sources, data quality and data integration

Application Working Groups

 National and regional socio-economic change

 Population, economic and information flows

 Social and economic networks

 Regional development and community capacity building

 Behaviour and well-being in socio-spatial settings

Publication 1:

Vo, P., Pearce, M. and Benger, S. (in press) Community Participation as a Driver for Sustainable Environmental Management in Vietnam: A Study of Urban Household Solid Waste, International Journal of Sustainability.

Publication 2:

Benger, S.N. (2004) Remotely Sensed Analysis of Wetland Community Response to Environmental Flows in the Macquarie Marshes, Australia. Proc. International Geographical Congress, August 2004, Glasgow, Scotland.

Publication 3:

Benger, S.N. (2003) Remotely Sensed Indicators of Wetland Decline, Macquarie Marshes, NSW, Journal and Proc. Royal Society of New South Wales, Vol. 136, Pts. 1-4, Royal Society of NSW, Sydney.

Publication 4:

Benger, S.N. (2003) Remote Sensing of Vegetation Surrogates for Regolith Landform Mapping, Proc. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS '03), July 2003, Toulouse, France.

Publication 5:

Benger, S.N. (2003) Remotely Sensed Determination of Flood Surface Gradients for Hydrological Modelling of Semi-Arid Floodplains, Proc. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS '03), July 2003, Toulouse, France.

Publication 6:

Benger, S.N. (2000) Remote sensing of semi-arid floodplain conversion from wet pasture to dry chenopod scrubland, Proc. International Geographical Congress, August 2000, Seoul, South Korea.

Publication 7:

Benger, S.N. (1997) Remote sensing of the effects of irrigation activities in ephemeral wetlands of semi-arid Australia, Proc. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARRS '97), August 1997, Singapore.

Publication 8:

Benger, S.N. (1994) The difficult road forward, in Setting and Managing Standards for Air Quality in the UK, White Horse Press, Cambridge, pp.17-27

Publication 9:

Benger, S.N. (1994) University of Cambridge Register of Environmental Research, White Horse Press, Cambridge, 156p.

Publication 10:

Colhoun, E.A., Benger, S.N., Fitzsimons, S.E., Van der Geer, G. and Hill, D. (1994) Quaternary Organic Deposits at Newton Creek, Western Tasmania, in Australian Geographical Studies, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp.26-38

Current Research 1:

GIS and Remote Sensing of Environment

Current Research 2:

Spatial Modelling

Current Research 3:

GeoHealth

Current Research 4:

Mekong and Mekong Delta

Current Research 5:

Rivers, Floodplains and Wetlands