Draft:Steve Turton
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Steve (Stephen M.) Turton is an environmental geographer who grew up in Southern Africa and New Zealand and has lived in Australia for 40 years. Turton graduated from the University of Canterbury in 1982 (BSc and MSc in geography) and James Cook University in 1992 (PhD in geography and environmental science).{{Cite web |title=Steve Turton |url=https://staff-profiles.cqu.edu.au/home/view/1577 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=CQUniversity Australia |language=en}}
Career
Turton was a lecturer, senior lecturer and associate professor in geography at James Cook University over the period 1984 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, he was an associate professor and Director of Research for the Rainforest Cooperative Research Centre. And from 2005 to 2016, he held several senior roles as director and professor at James Cook University in Cairns. Though now retired Turton remains active as an adjunct professor in environmental geography in the Research Division at Central Queensland University.{{Cite web |last=World Economic Forum |date=2025 |title=Steve Turton |url=https://www.weforum.org/stories/authors/steve-turton/ |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=World Economic Forum - Agenda Contributor}}{{Cite web |last=Turton |first=Stephen M. |date=16 June 2024 |title=Expert Report |url=https://www.edo.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/TURTON-AttachmentA_HVO_Expert-Report-on-Climate-Steve-Turton.pdf |access-date=16 January 2025 |website=Environmental Defenders Office}}
He is author of Surviving the Climate Crisis{{Cite journal |title=Surviving the Climate Crisis : Australian Perspectives and Solutions |url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003189909/surviving-climate-crisis-stephen-turton |journal=Taylor & Francis |date=2022 |language=en |doi=10.1201/9781003189909 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221129080816/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003189909/surviving-climate-crisis-stephen-turton |archive-date=2022-11-29 |last1=Turton |first1=Stephen M. |isbn=978-1-003-18990-9 }} and co-editor (with Nigel E. Stork) of Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape.{{Cite web |title=Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape {{!}} Wiley |url=https://www.wiley.com/en-au/Living+in+a+Dynamic+Tropical+Forest+Landscape-p-9781444300321 |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=Wiley.com |language=en}} He has published extensively on rainforest ecology, environmental geography and climate change adaptation in natural resource management.{{Cite web |title=SM Turton |url=https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=xRfbGRoAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=scholar.google.com.au}} He is also a frequent commentator on issues around climate change and science communication.{{Cite web |last=Turton |first=Steve |date=13 January 2025 |title=Much of Australia enjoys the same Mediterranean climate as LA. When it comes to bushfires, that doesn't bode well |url=https://theconversation.com/much-of-australia-enjoys-the-same-mediterranean-climate-as-la-when-it-comes-to-bushfires-that-doesnt-bode-well-247205 |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=The Conversation}}{{Cite news |last=Moussalli |first=Isabel |date=10 October 2024 |title=Hurricane Milton hits Florida |url=https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/hurricane-milton-hits-florida-/104458044 |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=ABC Radio}}{{Cite web |last=United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction |date=20 February 2015 |title=Safety first as cyclones hit Australia |url=https://www.undrr.org/news/safety-first-cyclones-hit-australia |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=UNDRR - United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction}}{{Cite web |last=Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas de la UNAM Campus Morelia |date=20 September 2017 |title=Steve Turton: Conservation Comitee & Asia-Pacific Chapter ATBC2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBfn3mo5jTc |access-date=14 January 2024 |website=IIES UNAM}}
Turton is a former president of the Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors, past president of the Institute of Australian Geographers and former chair of the Australian Academy of Science's National Committee for Geographical Sciences. He was an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change's (IPCC) Fifth and Sixth Assessment Reports, Working Group 2 (Impacts and Adaptation).{{Cite web |last=WGIIARS |title=Authors and Expert Reviewers |url=https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/WGIIAR5-AnnexI_FINAL.pdf |access-date=16 January 2025 |website=International Panel on Climate Change}} He has also served as a Councillor on the Boards of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland and the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation. He is a former member of the Wet Tropics Management Authority's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Honours
Turton is a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers (2016){{Cite web |title=Recipients of the Distinguished Fellowship |url=https://www.iag.org.au/distinguished-fellowship-recipients |access-date=2025-01-16 |website=www.iag.org.au}} and a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland's J.P. Thomson Medal (2017).{{Cite web |last=Royal Geographical Society of Queensland |date=2024 |title=J.P. Thomson Medallists |url=https://rgsq.org.au/resources/Documents/Administrative/Thomson%20medallists%20rev%202024.pdf |access-date=14 January 2025 |website=Royal Geographical Society of Queensland}} He received the 2009 Cassowary Award for Science (2009) from the Wet Tropics Management Authority.
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