Dargavel, John (1932 - 2024)

Summary

John Dargavel worked on fertilisers to improve yields of wood from plantations during the 1970s. He was a pioneer in forest history and the social sciences in forestry. In 1988 he was a founding member of the Australian Forest History Society, of which he became a Life Member.

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Chronology

1956

Education - BSc (forestry), University of Edinburgh, United Lingdom

1970

Education - MSc (forestry), University of Melbourne

1983

Education - PhD, Australian National University

Published resources

Books

• Dargavel, John, Fashioning Australia's Forests (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995), 333 pp. Details
• Dargavel, John, Anthropocene days (Winwick, Cambridgeshire: White Horse Press, 2023), 228 pp. Details
• Dargavel, John and Johann, Elisabeth, Science and Hope: a Forest History (Cambridge: The White Horse Press, 2013), 269 pp. Details

Conference Papers

• Dargavel, John, 'A Review of Australian Forest Industry and Labour history', in Australia's Ever Changing Forests: Proceedings of the 1st National Conference on Australian Forest History, Canberra 1988 edited by Kevin J. Frawley and Noel M. Semple (Canberra: Australian Defence Force Academy, Department of Georgraphy and Oceanography, 1988), pp. 257-274.. Details

Conference Proceedings

• Changing Tropical Forests: Historical Perspectives on Today's Challenges in Asia, Australiasia and Oceania: Workshop meeting, Canberra, 16-18 May 1988 edited by Dargavel, John; Dixon, Kay; Semple, Noel (Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU, 1989), 456 pp. Details
• Australia's Ever-Changing Forests II: Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Australia's Forest History, Creswick, 1992 edited by Dargavel, John; Feary, Sue (Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 1992), 302 pp. Details
• Australia's Ever-changing Forests V: Proceedings of the Fifth National Conference on Australian Forest History edited by Dargavel, John; Gaughwin, Denise; Libbis, Brenda (Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 2002), 442 pp. Details
• Australia's Ever-Changing Forests IV: Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Australian Forest History edited by Dargavel, John; Libbis, Brenda (Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies and the Australian Forest History Society, 1999), 374 pp. Details

Edited Books

• Dargavel, John; Hart, Diane; Libbis, Brenda ed., Perfumed Pineries: Environmental History of Australia's Callitris Forests (Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 2001). Details

Journal Articles

• Dadswell, Gordon, Dargavel, John and Evans, Philip D., 'Wood collections in Australia: a history of expansion and retraction', Australian Forestry, 78 (1) (2015), 18-28. Details
• Dargavel, J., 'An initial inventory of Australian foresters' lives', Australian Forestry, 79 (4) (2016), 265-70. Details
• Dargavel, John, 'Conceding to Capital: Resource Regimes in the Forests of British Columbia and Tasmania', Australian Canadian Studies, 6 (2) (1989), 93-108. Details
• Dargavel, John, 'The coming of age of Australian forests', Environment and history, 4 (2) (1998), 169-90. Details
• Dargavel, John, 'Contested Forestries, Contested Educations: a Centenary Reflection', Australian Journal of Forestry, 75 (2012), 15-21. Details
• Dargavel, John; Evans, Philip D.; and Dadswell, Gordon, 'From Science to Heritage: the History of a Wood Collection', Historical Records of Australian Science, 25 (1) (2014), 43-54, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR14004. Details
• Roche, Michael; and Dargavel, John, 'Imperial ethos, dominions reality: forestry education in New Zealand and Australia, 1910 - 1965', Environment and history, 14 (3) (2008), 523-43, https://doi.org/10.3197/096734008X368420. Details

Resources

• 'Dargavel, John (1932-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-612451. Details

Reviews

• Bowman, D.M.J.S., Australian Rainforests: Islands of Green in a Land of Fire (2000)
  Dargavel, John, Historical Records of Australian Science records of Australian Science, 13 (4), (2001), 559-560. https://www.publish.csiro.au/HR/issue/3266/. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_d.html. Details