Biography/ Background
Qualifications
Files
Media Expertise

Professor Nick Harvey

Telephone	+61 8 8313 4163
Position	Executive Dean
Email	nicholas.harvey@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 6008
Building	Napier Building
Floor/Room	G 57a
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Humanities and Social Sciences Office

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Biography/ Background

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
2007 - Joint award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of which I was one of the Lead Authors

1994 - Royal Australian Planning Institute Medal and Prize for Planning Research

KEY EMPLOYMENT
2007-13 - Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Adelaide

2002-04 - Professor and Head of Geography and Environmental Studies, The University of Adelaide

1996-98 - Director of The Mawson Graduate Centre for Environmental Studies, The University of Adelaide

1985-91 - Senior Environmental Officer, Environmental Impact Assessments Branch, Department of Environment and Planning, Adelaide, South Australian Government

1979-82 - Lecturer in Physical Geography, The University of Adelaide

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC APPOINTMENTS
1998-11 - Chair of the International Oceania Scientific Committee for START (global change SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training ). The START-Oceania Secretariat is based at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

2004-07 - Lead Author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, for the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC

AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2007-11 - Specialist Member (coastal expertise) of the South Australian Development Assessment Commission.

2007-08 - Member, Executive Steering Committee for South Australia's State of the Environment Report 2008.

2003-11 - Chair, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (SA Branch) Publications Committee

2007 - Member, Australian Government Advisory Group on Coastal Vulnerability Assessment.

UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE APPOINTMENTS
2009-2011 - Member, Helpmann Academy Board

2002-09 - Director on the Board of The Ngee Ann - Adelaide Educational Centre, Singapore (a Joint Venture Company of the Ngee-Ann Konsi Foundation, Singapore and The University of Adelaide, South Australia)

2007-10 - Member, Board of The Don Dunstan Foundation, South Australia

2006-09 - Chair, Mawson Lakes Fellowship Committee (a tripartite committee of the three South Australian universities operating in conjunction with three Japanese universities: Waseda, Nagoya and Tskuba)

Qualifications

1993 - Master of Planning, The University of Adelaide, South Australia (awarded 1994)

1980 - Doctor of Philosophy in Coastal Geomorphology, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Australia (awarded 1981)

1974 - Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Arts (with First Class Honours) in Geography, James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Australia(awarded 1975)

Files

Recent postgraduate supervisions - last_updated_July_2012.pdf [51.8K] (application/pdf)
Recent publications - last_updated_July_2012.pdf [171.9K] (application/pdf)

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Environment
Expertise	Environment (coastal processes, global coastal change); greenhouse effect; coastal management; environmental impact assessment; coastal processes; global coastal change

Entry last updated: Monday, 18 Mar 2013

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