Biographical entry Robin, Elizabeth Anne de Quetteville (1956 - )

Summary

Elizabeth Anne de Quetteville (Libby) Robin is a Research Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University.

Areas of interest/expertise:
· Australian and comparative environmental history
· History of environmental science, activism, politics and policy
· Environmental sensibility and national identity
· Environment in museums – worked on Tangled Destinies team
· History of ornithology
· Climate and culture – major conference September 2002.
· History of Australian science

Author of The Flight of the Emu (2001); Defending the Little Desert (1998) and co-editor of Ecology and Empire.
Current work: Nature and Nation: science in northern Australia

Published resources

Books

• Brash, Stuart; Conde Anne-Marie; Robin, Libby; McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim, A Guide to the Records of Philip Crosbie Morrison, Australian Science Archives Project, Melbourne, 1993, 178 pp. Also available at http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/morr/morrison.htm. Details
• Robin, Libby, Building a Forest Conscience: an Historical Portrait of the Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria (NRCL), Natural Resources Conservation League of Victoria, Melbourne, 1991, 155 pp. Details
• Robin, Libby, Defending the Little Desert: the Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1998, 215 pp. Details
• Robin, Libby, The Flight of the Emu: a Hundred Years of Australian Ornithology 1901-2001, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2001, 492 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby, 'Towards and understanding of the environment', in Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby; Wasson, R.J. (ed.), Understanding the Environment, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 1-7. Details
• Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby, 'Bridging the divides', in Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby; Wasson, R.J. (ed.), Understanding the Environment, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 184-201. Details
• Robin, A. de Q., 'Penfold, William James (1875-1941), Bacteriologist', in Geoffrey Serle (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 11, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1988, pp. 197-198. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A110202b.htm. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Of Desert and Watershed: the Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Victoria, Australia', in Michael Shortland (ed.), Science and Nature: Essays in the History of the Environmental Sciences, British Society for the History of Science, Oxford, 1993, pp. 115-150. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Isaac, Cyril Everett (1884-1965), Schoolteacher, Politician and Conservationist', in John Ritchie (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 14, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1996, pp. 537-538. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A140611b.htm. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Ecology: a Science of Empire?', in Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds), Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies, Keele University Press/Melbourne University Press, Edinburgh/Melbourne, 1997. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Migrants and Nomads', in Sherratt, tim; Griffiths, Tom; Robin, Libby (ed.), A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia, Halstead Press, Sydney, 2004. Details
• Robin, Libby; Connell, Daniel, 'History of the Environment', in Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby; Wasson, R.J. (ed.), Understanding the Environment, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005, pp. 8-22. Details

Edited Books

• Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby; Wasson R.J. (ed.), Understanding the Environment, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 2005, 229 pp. Details
• Griffiths, Tom; Robin, Libby (ed.), Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies, Keele University Press/Melbourne University Press, Edinburgh/Melbourne, 1997, 248 pp. Details
• Sherratt, Tim; Griffiths, Tom; Robin, Libby (ed.), A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2005, 216 pp. Details

Journal Articles

• Robin, Libby, 'Visions of Nature: Wild Life, 1938-1954', The Victorian Naturalist, vol. 102, no. 5, September/October, pp. 153-61. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Thomas Sergeant Hall (1858-1915): Scholar and Enthusiast', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 6, no. 4, 1987, pp. 485-492. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR9870640485.htm. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Radical Ecology and Conservation Science: an Australian Perspective', Environment and History, vol. 4, no. 2, 1998, pp. 191-208. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Fleecing the Nation', Country and Calling: The Journal of Australian Studies, vol. 62, 1999, pp. 150-158 and 254-256. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Paradox on the Queensland Frontier: Platypus, Lungfish and Other Vagaries of 19th Century Science', Australian Humanities Review, no. 19, September - November 2000. Also available at http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2000/robin1.html. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'International Ornithology Comes to Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 13, no. 3, 2001, pp. 233-254. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR0011330233.htm. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Nationalising Nature: Wattle Days in Australia', Journal of Australian Studies, Special issue: 'The Dog of War', vol. 73, 2002, pp. 13-26. Also available at http://cres.anu.edu.au/people/wattle-day.pdf. Details
• Robin, Libby, 'Collections and the Nation: Science, History and the National Museum of Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 3, 2003, pp. 251-289. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HR02013.htm. Details
• Robin, Libby; Griffiths, Tom, 'Environmental History in Australia', Environment and History, vol. 10, no. 4, 2004, pp. 439-474. Details

Reviews

• Anderson, Warwick, review of Sherratt, Tim, Griffiths, Tom, Robin, Libby (ed.) A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia (2005), Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 16, no. 2, 2005, pp. 251-253. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR05012.pdf. Details
• Branagan, David; Robin, Libby, review of Macleod, Roy (ed.), 'Nature and Empire: Science and the Colonial Enterprise', Osiris, vol. 15, 2000., Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 236-237. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR02011.pdf. Details
• Burgman, Mark, review of Grafton, R.Q.; Robin, Libby; Wasson R.J., ed., Understanding the Environment (2005), Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 16, no. 2, 2005, pp. 255-256. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR05012.pdf. Details
• Noble, Ian, review of Sherratt, Tim; Griffiths, Tom; Robin, Libby, ed., A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia (2005), Australian Book Review, 2005, pp. 50-51. Details
• Robin, Libby, review of Humphreys, L.R., Wadham: Scientist for Land and People, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2000, 240 pp., Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 1, 2002, pp. 102-104. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR02901B_BR.pdf. Details
• Robin, Libby, review of Pawson, Eric and Brooking, Tom (eds) Environmental Histories of New Zealand (2002), Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 3, 2003, pp. 383-386. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR03901.pdf. Details
• Robin, Libby, review of Bowen, James, and Bowen, Margarita, The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science, Heritage (2002), Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 4, 2003, pp. 555-557. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR03010.pdf. Details
• Robin, Libby, review of Johnson, David, The Geology of Australia (2004), Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 15, no. 2, 2004, pp. 285-287. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR04007.pdf. Details
• Robin, Libby; Jenkin, John, review of Cross, Roger T., Fallout: Hedley Marston and the British bomb tests in Australia, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2001, 226 pp., Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 209-210. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR02011.pdf. Details
• Robin, Libby; McCarthy, Gavan, review of Collis, Brad, Fields of Discovery: Australia's CSIRO, Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, New South Wales, 2002, 520 pp., Historical Records of Australian Science, vol. 14, no. 2, 2002, pp. 211-214. Also available at http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=HR02011.pdf. Details

Online Resources

• Brash, Stuart; Condé, Anne-Marie; Robin, Libby; McCarthy, Gavan; Sherratt, Tim, Philip Crosbie Morrison Guide to Records, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 2004, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/guides/morr/morrison.htm. Details
• Martin, Mandy; Robin, Libby; Smith, Mike, Strata: Desert past, present and future. An environmental art project about a significant cultural place, ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Canberra, 2005, http://cres.anu.edu.au/strata/contents.html. Details
• National Library of Australia, 'Robin, Elizabeth Anne de Quetteville', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1474010. Details
• Robin, Libby, Official CRES home page: Dr Libby Robin, ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, 2002, http://cres.anu.edu.au/people/userprofile.php?user=libbyr. Details