Selection of recent publications

Lobo, M., & Parsons, M. (2023). Decolonizing ocean spaces: Saltwater co-belonging and responsibilities. Progress in Environmental Geography, 27539687231179231.

Parsons, M., & Taylor, L. (2022). Indigenous Geographies: Researching and De-colonising Environmental Narratives. In The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography (pp. 144-160). Routledge.

Makey, L., Parsons, M., Fisher, K., Te Huna, A., Henare, M., Miru, V., ... & Miru, M. (2022). (Un) Heard Voices of Ecosystem Degradation: Stories from the Nexus of Settler-Colonialism and Slow Violence. Sustainability, 14(22), 14672.

Parsons, M. (2023). Governing with care, reciprocity, and relationality: recognising the connectivity of human and more-than-human wellbeing and the process of decolonisation. Dialogues in Human Geography, 20438206221144819.

Johnson, D. E., Parsons, M., & Fisher, K. (2022). Indigenous climate change adaptation: New directions for emerging scholarship. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(3), 1541-1578.

Yumagulova, L., Parsons, M., Yellow Old Woman-Munro, D., Dicken, E., Lambert, S., Vergustina, N., ... & Black, W. (2023). Indigenous perspectives on climate mobility justice and displacement-mobility-immobility continuum. Climate and Development, 1-18.

Nursey-Bray, M., Parsons, M., & Gienger, A. (2022). Urban nullius? Urban indigenous people and climate change. Sustainability, 14(17), 10830.

Johnson, D., Parsons, M., & Fisher, K. (2023). Adaptation at whose expense? Explicating the maladaptive potential of water storage and climate-resilient growth for Māori women in northern Aotearoa. Global Environmental Change, 82, 102733.

Garcia, A., Gonda, N., Atkins, E., Godden, N. J., Henrique, K. P., Parsons, M., ... & Ziervogel, G. (2022). Power in resilience and resilience's power in climate change scholarship. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 13(3), e762.

Parsons, Meg, and Karen Fisher. "Decolonising flooding and risk management: indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, and memories of environmental injustices." Sustainability 14.18 (2022): 11127.

Rarai, A., Parsons, M., Nursey-Bray, M., & Crease, R. (2022). Situating climate change adaptation within plural worlds: The role of Indigenous and local knowledge in Pentecost Island, Vanuatu. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(4), 2240-2282.

Makey, L., Fisher, K., Parsons, M., Bennett, A., Miru, V., Morehu, T. K., & Sherard, J. (2021). Lived Experiences at the Intersection of Sediment(ation) Pollution, Gender, Ethnicity and Ecosystem Restoration from the Kaipara Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand. GeoHumanities, 0(0), 1–35. DOI: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.1986099

Parsons, M., & Fisher, K. (2021). Historical smellscapes in Aotearoa New Zealand: Intersections between colonial knowledges of smell, race, and wetlands. Journal of Historical Geography, 74, 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2021.08.006

Johnson, D., Parsons, M., and Fisher, K. (2021). Engaging Indigenous perspectives on health, wellbeing and climate change. A new research agenda for holistic climate action in Aotearoa and beyond. Local Environment, 26(4), 477-503. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1901266

Parsons, M. and Fisher, K. (2021). Hegemonic masculinity and femininity in the ‘backblocks’ of the Waikato and King Country 1860s-1930s. International Review of Environmental History. 7(1), 37-61. 

Johnson, D., Parsons, M., and Fisher, K. (2021). Indigenous health, wellbeing and climate change: a new research agenda. Local Environment. DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2021.1901266

Parsons, M., Fisher, K., & Crease, R. P. (2021). Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene: Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5

Pinhate, T., Parsons, M., Fisher, K., Crease, R., and Baars, R. (2020). A Crack in the Automobility Regime? Exploring the transition of São Paulo to sustainable urban mobility. Cities. Volume 107. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2020.102914

Fisher, K., and Parsons, M. (2020). River co-governance and co-management in Aotearoa New Zealand:  enabling Indigenous ways of knowing and being. Transnational Environmental Law Journal. 9(3), 455-480. DOI: 10.1017/S204710252000028X

Gampell, A., Gaillard, JC, Parsons, M., Le Dé, L. (2020). Exploring the use of Quake Safe House to foster disaster and disaster risk reduction awareness in museum visitors. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101670

Parsons, M. and Fisher K. (2020). Indigenous peoples and transformations within freshwater governance and management, Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2020.03.006

Gampell, A., Gaillard, J.C., Parsons, M., and Le Dé, L. (2020) ‘Serious’ Disaster Video Games: An Innovative Approach to Teaching and Learning about Disasters and Disaster Risk Reduction, Journal of Geography, 119:5, 159-170, DOI: 10.1080/00221341.2020.1795225

Patterson-Shallard, H., Fisher, K., Mackey, L. (2020). A holistic approach to river restoration: a case study from Aotearoa New Zealand. 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.12.013

Parsons, M., Nalau, J., Fisher, K., Brown, C. (2019), Disrupting path dependency: making room for Indigenous knowledge in river management, Global Environmental Change. 56, 95-113. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.03.00