Visiting Fellow
Information systems, urban geography policy and planning
Phone: +61 2 6125 4267
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
Email: Ken.Johnson@anu.edu.au

Professional Activities

My interests now focus on the development of information and knowledge for policy and planning, taking account of contemporary decision making. This is based on experience in teaching and research in the urban and rural environments of Australia and Britain. One focus of my research is on the development of expert systems for the analysis of climatic variation at different temporal and spatial scales. Attention is centred an understanding the seasonal cycle and the deeper knowledge that this perspective affords of climate in concert with the traditional serial view of time series. Intelligent analytical systems are being developed to support this search. My other focus is the study of market dynamics in cities in time as well as for places within cities. This follows the logic that by seeking to understand markets, for property, labour and goods and services as well as capital, we might better understand what is driving contemporary urban development.

Selected Publications

Johnson, K.M. 1994. Creating place and landscape. Chapter 3 in Stephen Dovers, Australian environmental history. Oxford University Press, Melbourne.

Johnson, K.M. 1992. The AUSMAP atlas of Australia, Cambridge University Press, Melbourne.

Johnson, K.M. 1991. The long-term variation of seasonal rainfall in the Darling basin. Proceedings of the 2nd Australian conference on agricultural meteorology.

Johnson K.M. and H.C. Garnett. 1970. The economics of containerisation. Allen and Unwin, London