Journal Articles
Burns V (2024) Growing law in Goolarabooloo Country. Postcolonial Studies, 27(1), 151-154.
Kumar A, Butcher S, Hammett D, Barragan-Contreras S, Burns V, Chesworth O, Cooper G, Kanai JM, Mottram H, Poveda S & Richardson P (2024) Development beyond 2030: more collaboration, less competition?. International Development Planning Review, 46(2), 227-242. View this article in WRRO
Kuhfuss L, Burns V, Shortall O & Vinten A (2024) Obstacles to local payments for ecosystem services schemes for water management at the catchment scale: A case study from Eastern Scotland. Land Use Policy, 139, 107057-107057.
Burns V (2022) Analysis of ocean ontologies in three frameworks: a study of law of the sea discourse. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.
Rivera M, Guarín A, Pinto-Correia T, Almaas H, Mur LA, Burns V, Czekaj M, Ellis R, Galli F, Grivins M, Hernández P et al (2020) Assessing the role of small farms in regional food systems in Europe: Evidence from a comparative study. Global Food Security, 26, 100417-100417.
Burns V (2019) Oceanic embodiments: Living ENSO events in coastal Timor-Leste. Political Geography, 70, 102-116.
Chapters
Burns, V. “Decolonial Governance as Good Governance” in Maria Gavris and Jessica Savage (eds.), Good Governance and Sustainable Development: From People to Planet (Routledge, London)(forthcoming)
Chen, J., Dahlin, M. J., Luuppala, L., Bickford, D., Boljka, L., Burns, V. and Johnson, M., (2020) “Air Pollution and Climate Change: Sustainability, Restoration, and Ethical Implications”, in R. A. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Science and Technology (New York: Springer Nature), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_1082-1
Burns, V., (2019) “Traditional Water Management as an Adaptive Subsistence Practice: A Case Study from Coastal Timor-Leste”, in Rishabh Kumar Dhir and Ariel Ahearn (eds.), Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: Emerging Research on Traditional Knowledge and Livelihoods (Geneva: International Labour Organization), pp. 21-34
Reports
Burns, V. (2025) Community Report: Understanding and Supporting Adaptation Work in the Fijian Sugar Industry, University of Sheffield, Ministry of iTaukei Affairs (Fiji), University of Sheffield Knowledge Exchange and Policy Development Project: 189689
Burns, V. and Sutherland, L. A., (2020) Practice Brief on the Forms of Small Farmers and Small Food Businesses Organization that Contribute to Food Availability, Access, Utilisation and Stability Prepared under contract for the European Commission, Project number: 677363
Ellis, R, Burns, V. and Sutherland, L. A., (2019) The Governance of Small Farms and Small Food Businesses to Support Food and Nutritional Security Prepared under contract for the European Commission, Project number: 677363
Sutherland, L.,Zengeni, T., Adolph, B., Atela, J., Bjørkhaug,H., Brunori, G., Burns, V, Cerrada-Serra, P., Ellis,R., Galli, F., Hopkins, J., Ķīlis, E., Noble, C., Ortiz-Miranda, D., Prosperi, P., Rocha, R., Šūmane, S., Toma, I., Tonui, C., Yeboah, R. (2019) Report on Governance Frameworks and Gender Prepared under contract for the European Commission, Project number: 677363
Theses
Burns, V. (2020) Deterritorialising Climate: Ocean-Based Approaches to Adaptation Governance, DPhil in Geography and the Environment, Jesus College, Oxford
Burns, V. (2012) Nonhuman Rights and Climate Change: Foundations in Early European Natural Justice, Master of Arts, University of New South Wales