Daley, Ben (2014) The Great Barrier Reef: an environmental history. Earthscan Oceans . Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK.

Daley, Ben, Griggs, Peter, and Marsh, Helene (2008) Exploiting marine wildlife in Queensland: the commercial dugong and marine turtle fisheries, 1847-1969. Australian Economic History Review, 48 (3). pp. 227-265.

Daley, Ben, Griggs, Peter, and Marsh, Helene (2008) Reconstructing reefs: qualitative research and the environmental history of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Qualitative Research, 8 (5). pp. 584-615.

Daley, Ben, and Griggs, Peter (2008) 'Loved to death': coral collecting in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, 1770-1970. Environment and History, 14 (1). pp. 89-119.

Daley, Ben, and Griggs, Peter (2006) Mining the reefs and cays: coral, guano and rock phosphate extraction in the Great Barrier Reef, 1844-1940. Environment and History, 12 (4). pp. 395-433.

Daley, Benjamin (2005) Changes in the Great Barrier Reef since European settlement: implications for contemporary management. PhD thesis, James Cook University.