Associate Professor Bill Carter
BSc(For)Hons ANU, BSc Qld., PhD Qld., Churchill Fellow
Position: Associate Professor in Heritage Resource Management, Director, Fraser Island Research and Learning Centres and Head of Discipline - Environmental Science
Office: Innovation Centre
Tel: + 61 7 5430 1140
Email: bcarter@usc.edu.au
Research areas
- Ecotourism
- Cultural change and tourism
- Protected area management
- Interpretation
Student research projects
- The effect of tourism on the water quality and biota of coral reef communities – P. Reopanichkul (PhD)
- Validating the use of expert knowledge in management effectiveness evaluations of protected areas in Australia – C. Cook (PhD)
- Ecotourism: Future for conservation and local community development at tourist sites in Vietnam – Le Thi Nhu Hoa (PhD)
- Tourism and change in cultural dance in the Cook Islands – E. Matapo (PhD)
- Rights and responsibilities in land ownership and resource management – C. Witt (PhD)
- The role of perceived risk, unpredictability and interpretation in learning behaviour, attitude and behavioural change towards the aquatic environment – S. Marshall (PhD)
- Modelling and forecasting cultural and environmental changes – L. Sinay (PhD)
- Environment projects as vectors of environmental policy – P. Hunnam (PhD)
- What constitutes success in Pacific Island Community Conservation Areas – J. Axford (PhD)
- Management approaches in marine protected areas: A case study of Surin Marine National Park, Thailand – S. Worachananant (PhD)
- Policy, culture and the achievement of conservation education outcomes: A case study of the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service – D. Parkin (PhD)
Profile
Associate Professor Bill Carter was Academic Adviser for the Environmental Tourism at the University of Queensland before his appointment with the University of the Sunshine Coast. He was the Queensland National Parks and Wildlife Service’s first Interpretive Officer and the founding director of Brisbane Forest Park.
After 16 years in park management, Bill established a consulting business offering ecological impact assessment, and tourism, park and interpretive planning advice to the public and private sectors throughout Australia. He has undertaken tourism and conservation planning consultancies throughout the Asia Pacific Region and South Africa.
Bill has been responsible for course development in Public Administration, Park Interpretation, Environmental Problem Solving, Recreation Resource Management, Ecotourism, Tourism Planning, Recreation, Tourism Product Development and Contemporary Case Studies at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. He currently supervises nine PhD students and has ‘graduated’ around 30 postgraduate students by research from honours to PhD level.
Bill is co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management and is currently co-investigator for an ARC Linkage Grant with NSW, Victoria and the Federal Government’s park managing agencies in management effectiveness evaluation and adaptive management.
Publications
Electronic copies of various academic papers from Associate Professor Bill Carter are available on the USC Coast Research Database website.
Research grants
- Building capacity for adaptive management in protected areas through improved systems for monitoring and evaluation, M.T. Hockings, R.W. Carter and G. Wardell-Johnson, Australian Research Council, Linkage Grant, 2006 - 2008. Development of monitoring and assessment systems for protected areas which link assessment information to decision-making. The project examines factors impacting on management effectiveness, develops and applies a framework for integrating assessment information into adaptive management, and facilitates the use of evaluation information to modify and adapt management.
- Urban people’s views of farmers, rural land management and conservation, B. Witt, C. Witt, R.W. Carter and R.J.S. Beeton, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, 2005-2007. Clarifies ‘the public interest’ in rural land management and rural issues for better communication and relationship building.
- Improving systems for monitoring and evaluation of protected areas, M.T. Hockings, R.W. Carter and G. Wardell-Johnson, University of Queensland, 2005-2006, Analysis of data collected through state of parks evaluation system to inform managers of the drivers of management effectiveness.
- Regional Touring Route Travellers, A. Hardy, R.W. Carter and R.J.S. Beeton, Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism, 2003-2004. Profile of drive tourists who travel into outback Queensland and regional Tasmania.
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