Publications
C Briggs, L Harper, A Lara Heyns, M Melo Zurita, A Farris, T Coyne, D Chesworth, X Ho, S Leber and O R Piccardo “Understanding the past to inform the future – a sonic and augmented reality experience of urban undergrounds in southeast Melbourne” Cities 142 (2023): 104513
A Agwor, M. Melo Zurita and P G Munro, “Underground Urbanism in Africa: splintered subterranean space in Lagos, Nigeria” Urban Studies (2023): early online
K Ruming and M Melo Zurita “Care, urban regeneration and forced resident relocation: the case of Ivanhoe Estate, Sydney” Housing Studies (2023): early online.
B Cook, I Cornes, P Satizàbal, and M Melo Zurita, “Experiential learning, practices, and space for change: the institutional preconfiguration of community participation in flood risk reduction” Journal of Flood Risk Management (2023): early online
N Naseri, T Coyne, M Melo Zurita, K Zhang, and V Prodanovic, “Community values on governing Nature-based Solutions in Sydney, Australia” Journal of Environmental Management 322 (2022): 116063
P Satizabal, I Cornes, M Melo Zurita, and B Cook, “The power of connection: Navigating the constraints of community engagement for disaster risk reduction” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 68 (2022): 102699
P Satizabal and M Melo Zurita “Bodies-holding-bodies: The trembling of women’s territorio cuerpo-tierra and the feminists’ responses to the earthquakes in Mexico City” Third World Thematics 6:4-6 (2021): 267-289
L von der Tann, N Metje, B Collins & M Melo Zurita, “A perspective on the governance of London’s subsurface” IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 703:1 (2021): 012020.
T Coyne, M Melo Zurita, D Reid a& V Prodanovic, “Culturally Inclusive Water Urban Design: a critical history of hydrosocial infrastructures in Southern Sydney, Australia” Blue-Green Systems 2:1 (2020): 364-382.
M Melo Zurita, “Challenging sub terra nullius: a critical underground urbanism project” Australian Geographer 51:3 (2020): 269-282.
M A Pérez and M Melo Zurita, “Underground exploration beyond state reach: Alternative volumetric territorial projects in Venezuela, Cuba, and Mexico” Political Geography 79 (2020): 102144.
K Ruming and M Melo Zurita, “Care and dispossession: Contradictory practices and outcomes of care in forced public housing relocations” Cities 98 (2020): 102572.
M Melo Zurita, “Holes, subterranean exploration and affect in the Yucatan Peninsula” Emotion, Space and Society 32 (2019): 100584.
M Melo Zurita and K Ruming, “From Choice to Chance’: choice-based letting use in forced tenant relocations in New South Wales, Australia” Housing Studies 34:8 (2019): 1243-1262
M Melo Zurita and P G Munro “Voluminous territorialisation: Historical contestations over the Yucatan Peninsula’s subterranean waterscape” Geoforum 102 (2019): 38-47
B R Cook, M Melo Zurita, “Fulfilling the promise of participation by not resuscitating the deficit model” Global Environmental Change 56 (2019): 56-65.
M Melo Zurita, “Sinkholes.” Volumetric Sovereignty Part 3: Turbulence Society and Space (2019): http://societyandspace.org/2019/03/17/sinkhole/.
I Cornes, B Cook, P Satizabal and M Melo Zurita, “‘(In)action’: rethinking traditional understandings of disaster risk reduction” Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 34:1 (2019): 52-57.
L Silva Ontiveros, P G Munro and M Melo Zurita, "Proyectos de Muerte: Energy justice conflicts on Mexico's unconventional gas frontier", The Extractive Industries and Society 5:4 (2018): 481-489.
M Melo Zurita, P G Munro, and D Houston “Unearthing the Subterranean Anthropocene" Area 50:3 (2018), 298-305.
R Plummer, S Renzetti, R Bullock, M Melo Zurita, J Baird, D Dupont, T Smith, & D Thomsen, “Evolving water paradigms: The roles of capitals in building resilience”, Environment and Planning C 28:2 (2018): 67-81.
M Melo Zurita, D C Thomsen, T Smith, A Lyth, N J Holbrook, P G Munro, A de Bruin, P P Roggero, G Seddaiu, J Baird, R Plummer, R Bullock, K Collins, N Powell,“Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative arrangements for Adaptive Transformations” Water 10:1 (2018): 29.
R Plummer, J Baird, R Bullock, A Dzyundzyak, D Dupont, Å Gerger Swartling, Å Johannessen, D Huitema, A Lyth, A., M Melo Zurita, S Munaretto, T Smith, D Thomsen, “Flood Governance: A multiple country comparison of stakeholder perceptions and aspirations” Environmental Policy and Governance 28:2 (2018): 67-81.
M Melo Zurita, B Cook, D Thomsen, P G Munro, T Smith and J Gallina, “Living with Disasters: Social Capital for Disaster Governance,” Disasters 42:3 (2018): 471-589
B Cook and M Melo Zurita, "Planning to Learn: an insurgency for disaster risk reduction (DRR)" International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 19 (2016): 265-272.
K de Rjike, P G Munro and M Melo Zurita, “The Great Artesian Basin: Contested resource environments of subterranean water and coal seam gas in Australia” Society and Natural Resources 29 (2016): 696-710.
M Melo Zurita, B Cook, A March & L Harms, “Towards New Disaster Governance: subsidiarity as a critical tool” Environmental Policy and Governance 25:6 (2015): 386-398
M Melo Zurita, D Thomsen, T Smith, A Lyth, B Preston & S Baum “Reframing water: contesting H2O within the European Union” Geoforum 65 (2015): 170-178.
M Melo Zurita, “La tierra el pretexto, los recursos naturales el motivo: El caso de la mercantilización de la naturaleza mediante dos estudios de caso en México”in R F Macíp Rios (ed) Al que a buen árbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija: Deslindando prácticas, símbolos y realidades con Robert D. Shadow. BUAP: Puebla (2012): 121-144.
P G Munro & M Melo Zurita, “The Role of Cenotes in the Social History of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula" Environment and History 17:4 (2011): 583-612.
P G Munro and M Melo Zurita, “Aprendiendo del pasado: Impactos históricos de intervenciones en la agricultura de Sierra Leona” Ecología Política 38 (2009): 92-95.