affiliation

NSW Dept of Environment and Climate Change

email

andrew.growcock[at]environment.nsw.gov.au

contact details

Planning and Performance Unit, Parks and WIldlife Group, Dept of Environment and Climate Change, PO Box 1967, Hurstville BC NSW 1481, Australia, Tel: (02) 9585 6595

research interests

• Recreation & tourism
• Management of alpine areas
• Long-term monitoring
• Other: Visitor monitoring
• Other: Assessment of management effectiveness in Protected Areas

publications

Growcock, A.J. (2006) Impacts of camping and trampling on Australian alpine and subalpine vegetation and soils.” PhD Thesis, Griffith University Gold Coast. Available online at: http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060818.164033/index.html

Growcock, A.J., Pickering, C.M. and Johnston, S.W. (2006) Trampling after Landscape level disturbance: Impacts on subalpine vegetation and soils in the Australian Alps. The third international conference on Monitoring and Management of Visitor Flows in Recreational and Protected Areas.

Scherrer, P. & Growcock, A. (2006) Managing visitor impacts in the Australian Alps: a case study in informal track development and track recovery. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol. 97. WIT Press.

Johnston, S.W. and Growcock, A.J. (2005). Visiting the Kosciuszko alpine area: visitor numbers, characteristics and activities. Sustainable Tourism Co-operative Research Centre Technical Report

Growcock, A. J., C. M. Pickering, and S. W. Johnston. (2004). Walking on ashes: short-term impacts of experimental trampling on soils after bushfire. Victorian Naturalist 121: 199 - 206

Growcock, A. (1999) Ski Industry Development in Kosciuszko National Park: A Comparison of Slope Hydrology. Graduate Diploma Thesis. Australian National University, Canberra.

current research or projects

The NSW State of the Parks program which aims to:

• improve our understanding of the condition of and pressures on parks;
• evaluate how well we manage against objectives and planned outcomes;
• inform planning and decision-making at all levels of management from individual parks right up to the statewide level; and
• promote effective communication of our management performance to communities (eg. through the State of the Parks report).