Tributaries:
A Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water
Produced by:
Dr Justine Humphry and Dr Zoë Sofoulis
with Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyay
Centre for Cultural Research
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Date of publication: October 2011
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An appropriate citation for this directory is:
Humphry, J., Sofoulis, Z., and Bhattarai Upadhyay, V. 2011. Tributaries: A Directory of Social and Cultural Research
on Urban Water. Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.
Disclaimer
This directory is a partial listing of social and cultural researchers and research organisations in Australia, based on
information gathered in 2010-2011 as part of Cross-Connections: Linking Urban Water Managers with Humanities,
Arts and Social Sciences Researchers, a National Water Commission Fellowship project by Zoë Sofoulis, Centre for
Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney.
The directory does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the National Water Commission or the University
of Western Sydney. It has been compiled by the researchers primarily for the purpose of informing discussion and
facilitating communications amongst those listed within. Inclusion in this directory does not imply endorsement of
the researcher, research or organisation; likewise, exclusion does not imply disendorsement, but reflects limits of the
research and compilation process.
Cover image: Namibia aerial view of dry tributaries. Photo by B.Cain,Travel-Images.com
10/2011 CCR2878
Acknowledgements
The directory team of Dr Justine Humphry (Research Associate), Zoë Sofoulis (Fellow), Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyay
(Research Assistant) gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Water Commission, especially Peter
McLoughlin, Caroline Wenger and Commissioner Christopher Davies, and of the University of Western Sydney’s
Centre for Cultural Research, especially the Director Ien Ang, as well as members of the Cross-Connections
Reference Group (Ien Ang, Rebekah Brown, Gay Hawkins, Lesley Head, Cynthia Mitchell, Francis Pamminger,
Yolande Strengers, Geoff Syme, and Ross Young) for their various contributions throughout the project. Andrew
Speers of the Australian Water Association and Kate Harriden, co-convenor of the Household Water Research
Network, kindly helped with disseminating calls for researcher contributions to the Directory, while Kate Harriden,
Yolande Strengers and Janice Gray generously toiled through pilot versions of the survey.
The Fellow is particularly indebted to the conscientious and resourceful work of the Research Associate Justine
Humphry and to the diligence of the Research Assistant Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyay for completing the vast bulk
of work of researching and compiling this document.
Many thanks to the listed researchers themselves, especially those who completed the survey or shorter record
sheets, and to all of those who encouraged us to produce the directory.
The process of production means that by the time the document is finalised some details are already out of
date, and despite our best efforts some details will inevitably be incorrect. The authors apologise to those whose
entries need correcting, and invite amendments to be sent to [email protected] for inclusion in any further
development of the database, or exclusion from it. Researchers not listed here who should be included are
invited to complete the Individual Research Record form (Appendix 1).
Zoë Sofoulis
Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney
July 2011
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Contents
Acknowledgements
3
List of Figures
5
List of Tables
5
Abbreviations and acronyms
5
Guide to this Directory
6
Introduction: Why the Tributaries Directory?
8
Background
8
Rationale: the need for a directory
8
Audience and Scope
9
Significance and Benefits
10
Future of this directory
11
1. Classifying Research: problem areas, keywords and methods
12
Problem areas and key words
13
Developing problem areas and key words
15
Methods and processes
18
Methods of gathering data
18
Some revealing difficulties
19
2. Examples of social and cultural research on water
20
Mapping an uncharted field
21
Project Examples
23
Valuing Water
23
Assessing resilient urban systems to support long term adaptation to climate change
24
Yarra Valley Water Business sustainability strategy
24
Streets to Rivers IV – Newtown Environmental Education Project
25
Swan River Belonging: social and emotional interactions with an urban river in the South West of Western
Australia
26
The 84Hundred
26
Water for Life – NSW
27
Kinglake West sustainable sewerage project: Mutual learning for social change
28
Systematic Social Analyses of how community values alternative water supply options
29
Gold Coast Domestic Water End Use Study
30
Research Method: Water Diaries
31
Researcher Profile: Rebekah Brown
32
Adaptive water governance and systemic thinking for future NRM: Action research to build MDBA
capability
33
34
Aboriginal Cultural Values of Wetlands in Western NSW
Discussion
3. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Individuals
35
36
4. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Organisations
161
Bibliography
252
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List of Figures
Figure 1: Most frequent keywords - Individuals and Researchers
16
Figure 2: Word cloud of Keywords
17
Figure 3: Word cloud of sample bibliography titles
17
List of Tables
Table 1: The Tributaries dataset
18
Table 2: Different types of participation (after Reid et al. 2009)
22
Abbreviations and acronyms
ARC
Australian Research Council
AWA
Australian Water Association
CSIRO
Commonweath Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
DIISR
Department of Innovation, Industry Science and Research
HASS
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
MTSRF
Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility
NCCARF
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
NRM
Natural Resources Management
NWC
National Water Commission
SEQ
South East Queensland
STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (or Medicine)
WSAA
Water Services Association of Australia
WSUD
Water-Sensitive Urban Design
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Guide to this Directory
Tributaries has been designed primarily for use as an electronic document in a searchable pdf format. Users
can search for researcher names, which will lead to an entry in a directory of researchers alphabetically
organised by last names. Some entries are in turn hyperlinked to corresponding bibliographic entries, though
not all bibliographic entries have hyperlinks. Most hyperlinks are to the first publication by that researcher.
Keywords attached to a researcher or project of interest can be used as search terms to find other projects and
researchers on related topics.
Hint:
When you use the hyperlink to go from the researcher directory record to the bibliography, you can return to
the directory record by going to the menu item View/ Go to / Previous page, or use Mac shortcut:
⌘[Command] ←
Numbering starts from the cover page so there is a direct correspondence with the computer file page number
and the physical page number. It is suggested that readers print out the directory lists (Chapters 3 and 4) at two
pages per sheet in landscape format.
Introduction
Outlines the background and rationale of the directory, intended audiences, inclusions and exclusions, and the
significance of this directory in relation to the Cross-connection project’s aims of promoting social and cultural
research.
Chapter 1. Classifying Research: problems, keywords and method
Identifies the main problem areas addressed by social and cultural researchers, lists the keywords for classifying
researchers and their projects in this directory, outlines how Tributaries was researched. Includes chart and word
clouds for keywords and bibliographic entries.
Chapter 2. Examples of social and cultural research on water
Selected examples illustrating projects of different types, scale, methods and approaches.
Chapter 3. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water – Individuals
Provides name, institutional affiliations, basic contact details, areas of research, and titles of sample projects for
individual researchers. Clicking on the name of the project or publication takes you to sample entries (if any) in
the Research Bibliography.
Chapter 4. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water – Organisations
Provides names, contact details (where available), outline of areas of research, website links for organisations
involved in social and cultural research on water.
Chapter 5. Research Bibliography
Bibliography sampling recent publications by the listed researchers, and other references cited in this document.
Number of entries per researcher is generally limited to four and readers are encouraged to look up further
details on researcher websites and bibliographic databases.
Appendix 1: I Researcher Record
For those who are not listed in this directory, but ought to be.
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Introduction
Why the Tributaries Directory?
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Introduction: Why the Tributaries Directory?
Background
Many kinds of problems in urban water management are being addressed by social and cultural researchers,
and water planners and managers are increasingly recognising the value and significance of dealing with the
social and cultural dimensions of water in the design, planning and management of urban environments and
water sensitive cities. What is missing in this emerging field is a map – a way to find out who is doing social
and cultural research, what industry problems are being addressed, and how to get in contact with individuals
and organisations to work on or initiate future research projects and collaborations. This directory is a first and
incomplete draft of this map, aimed primarily at providing contact information about researchers, research
organisations and recent publications.
Tributaries was produced on the basis of research for of the project Cross-Connections: Linking urban water
managers with humanities, arts and social sciences researchers. This was a National Water Commission
Fellowship held by Dr Zoë Sofoulis at the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, New
South Wales in 2010-11. Research Associate Dr Justine Humphry had carriage of the bulk of the design and
research for the Directory and dataset, including liaison with contributors, design of survey instruments (including
a web-based questionnaire), compilation of the bibliography, and management and updating of the dataset
during most of the project. Research Assistant Vibha Bhattarai Upadhyay ably continued this excellent work
and completed details and finalisation of the documents in consultation with the Fellow from March 2011. Zoë
Sofoulis worked on survey design, oversaw the compilation, wrote most of the prefatory pages and undertook
the final editing and production.
Tributaries was originally planned as a modest inventory of projects equivalent to a literature review in the first
stage of the Cross-Connections project, but so many researchers replied requesting copies of the inventory that
the authors decided to produce this document, and to later pursue options for turning the project’s dataset into
a more accessible on-line database.
Rationale: the need for a directory
One finding from Cross-Connections is the need for more information flows and networking amongst social
and cultural researchers on water, both for these researchers to find colleagues and benefit more from each
others’ expertise, and for the water industry and government planners to more readily locate researchers who
could help them address the complex social dimensions of sustainable urban water management. This need
arises because unlike water professionals in an industry where there was an unusually tight coupling between
the building of water systems and the creation of industry, professional, and research networks of water experts
(Dovers 2008), social and cultural researchers on water are a minority within their own fields and have no ready
means to network with each other.
Social research is not defined as ‘core business’ for the water industry, which employs engineering and scientific
research experts full-time but usually contracts social research to outside agencies on a provider/payer basis,
often removing the results from circulation, peer review, or publications databases by classifying data and
reports as ‘commercial in confidence’. Even if funding bodies made reports publicly available, there are no
central repositories for social and cultural research on water in Australia as there are for current scientific and
technical water research. Funding for technical and scientific water projects (including funded networks and
databases) is available at orders of magnitude higher than social and cultural researchers could normally hope to
access. One suggestion arising from the Cross-Connections project and workshops is that water corporations
need to loosen up ‘commercial in confidence’ barriers to the circulation of social and cultural research, and for
there to be established some national repository of reports and data relating to that research. The final report
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calls for a shift in government rhetoric (and water grant guidelines) from an emphasis on the ‘science base’ to
the more inclusive idea of a ‘research base’.
The researchers and projects listed in Tributaries reveal a spectrum of social and cultural research concerns that
is far broader than the social research topics one might expect to be presented at a water industry conference.
Research is funded by a wide range of agencies beyond water companies, from national bodies like CSIRO or
the Australian Research Council, across a range of federal and state government departments, and through
various regional authorities, trusts, and local government organisations, as well as universities, NGOs and
advocacy groups. This dispersal of relevant researchers and projects makes gathering information about them
quite a difficult and painstaking process.
In this context, Tributaries is not yet a complete inventory but aims to sample and record some of the streams of
knowledge, research capacity and experience that comprise expertise on the social and cultural dimensions of
water that currently exists in Australia, with a view to improving the recognition, development and application of
this expertise and strengthening its links with the water sector.
Audience and Scope
This Directory is produced for two main audiences: urban water managers and members of the wider water
industry in search of social and cultural knowledge and research expertise; and social and cultural researchers
who are already involved in or intending to undertake research on water. For the latter, Tributaries may serve as a
point of contact between researchers and an initial guide to relevant resources.
However, as its name is intended to suggest, Tributaries is the beginning of a confluence of research resources
but is not a fully comprehensive listing: it does not include all currently active researchers in urban water in
Australia. Its scope has necessarily been limited by the constraints of a one-year project involving other research
activities and a total funded staff complement of about 1.1 full-time equivalent, and the need to keep roughly
within the scope of the Cross-Connections project emphasis on research.
Although exceptions may be found to each one of the following terms, the scope of Tributaries generally
excludes:
»»
Researchers on rural and remote water issues – though several listed researchers are involved in these more
than in urban water.
»»
Fine arts and community arts – there is important community engagement work proceeding through fine
arts and community arts activities undertaken at local or regional levels but this was excluded to maintain
the project focus on research.
»»
Local government social and community research – while some local government sponsored projects are
included here in connection with researchers who worked on them, local government organisations and
their research partners were not specifically canvassed for Tributaries.
»»
International projects – many Australian researchers are involved in international projects but the emphasis
here is on projects conducted within Australia.
»»
Economists – almost no economists responded to invitations to contribute, possibly due to nonidentification with the HASS sector.
»»
Market research – as most water utilities already cultivate stables of preferred market research providers,
there was no evident need for this project to promote links in this area.
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The Directory of individuals (Chapter 3) has 157 entries and mainly includes researchers, that is, people who
have been directly involved in proposing, conducting and reporting on research on the social and cultural
dimensions of water management. However, also listed are a few people classifiable as ‘end-users’ of social
and cultural research: industry or government personnel whose roles involve brokering or commissioning such
research, being project managers of research, and/or applying and implementing findings of the research. They
are included as examples of people with expertise in linking the water sector and socio-cultural researchers.
In addition to the individual researchers listed in Chapter 3, Chapter 4 lists 100 organisations, especially research
institutes and centres, described using excerpts from their websites. These centres generally have a technical
and scientific emphasis though may also auspice social and cultural research projects and programs. Only some
water utilities are listed—mainly those whose names kept cropping up in association with research—but most
are involved in some kinds of social research. Links to urban water utilities are found on the Water Services
Association of Australia website.
Significance and Benefits
The significance of this directory is as an attempt to bring to light and consolidate information about research
expertise in what is on the one hand a dispersed, marginalised, emergent and previously-unmapped field, yet
on the other hand, a vital, necessary and increasingly central one for urban planners and resource managers
dealing with the complexities and uncertainties of achieving sustainability in the twenty-first century.
A lot of social research commissioned by the water industry and CSIRO has deployed the lens of psychology
and market research to focus on notions of individual attitudes, behaviour and choice (see Shove 2010) and has
not undertaken a social, cultural or political analysis of water practices, meanings and the dynamics of collective
change. A typical problem with social research questions on water posed by water experts is that norms are
taken for granted – including population and consumption norms (the idea of the ‘average consumer’) and
behavioural and attitudinal norms. This focus on norms renders water managers perplexed when encountering
the facts of social and cultural complexity and wide variance in practice. But as Lesley Head (2008) points out,
socio-cultural approaches can examine what is considered the ‘norm’ and how it became so, how it changed
over time (e.g. expectations of unlimited potable water on tap, or of daily hot showers); they can unearth the
logics and contradictions in everyday practices (e.g. water savers who love watering gardens), and document
the variability of practices and non-average consumers. In behavioural approaches targeting the ‘low hanging
fruit’ of average consumers, such historical, socio-economic, gender, ethnic, and geographical variants from
the putative norm are seen as barriers to change, but from this different perspective, they represent cultural
resources for adaptation.
By demonstrating the depth and diversity of social and cultural research expertise on urban water in Australia,
Tributaries may give the water sector more confidence to access that expertise and extend its capacities to
address social dimensions of sustainable water management not captured by market research, and based on
the more nuanced understandings of people, communities, societies, institutions, histories, places, geographies
and material practices available from across the HASS spectrum.
These deeper understandings become more valuable as the water industry expands its interests from the
narrow instrumental use of social research to answer such questions as ‘how can we get customers to change
behaviour?’ or ‘how can we get the public to accept our new planned facilities?’ to more engaged questions
like ‘how can we get communities to move with us in adapting to climate change?’ or ‘how can we make
water planning and decision-making more participatory, transparent and just?’ (Syme 2008, 104) These more
difficult questions are hard to conceive, let alone research, if those with expert knowledge of cultural and social
processes are brought in to supply answers only after social research questions have been framed by experts in
engineering, chemistry or hydrology, who often demand ‘social data’ in similar form to data in their own fields.
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A key finding from the Cross-Connections project was that in order to access the most up-to-date theories
and methods in the humanities and social sciences, achieve the most rewarding exchanges of knowledge,
and to enjoy the most effective cross-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations in social research and water
planning exercises, qualitative researchers need to brought in as partners at the initial question-asking and
scoping stages of projects; likewise community engagement processes need to begin at the very earliest stages
of planning, such as setting the terms of reference. This allows projects and processes to be scoped so as
to make optimum use of everyone’s knowledge and capacity. Tributaries may help researchers and users of
research find each other and develop and undertake new collaborative projects.
Future of this directory
The limited information contained in Tributaries will quickly become out of date, web addresses will decay, some
streams of research (and funding) may dry up but others may swell. However, the details listed here will continue
to provide starting points for locating updated information through web searches and publications databases,
especially as most university researchers and research centres provide publication details and researcher
biographies or CVs on their websites.
It is hoped that financial and institutional support will be gained for taking this directory through to its next
stage, an on-line interactive database of researchers and projects. This would provide a useful infrastructure for
networking and knowledge exchange, though as it emerged in workshop discussions with social researchers
on water, possibly stronger needs are for researchers to meet up and network with each other, and across
the different sectors of university, CSIRO, industry, government and non-government organisations. There are
possibilities for a synergistic relationship between actual and on-line networks to strengthen the connections
amongst researchers, and between researchers and users of research in those sectors.
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Chapter 1
Classifying Research:
problem areas, keywords and methods
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1. Classifying Research: problem areas, keywords and methods
Problem areas and key words
Problem Area
Key Words
Change: People, Organisations, Society
Attitudes
Behavioural change
Cultural values, beliefs and practices
Organisational change
Professional Development
Public Acceptance/Trust
History
Human-Environment Interaction
Climate Change Adaptation
Engagement
Community Engagement
Stakeholder consultation
Community education
Community capacity building
Participatory planning
Cross-Cultural
Communication
Communication
Media Studies
Market Research
Cross-Cultural
Water Services
Supply
Decentralised
Sanitation
– supply
Recycling
– sanitation
Wastewater
– recycling
Stormwater
Utility
Desalination
Water Security
Irrigation
Water Quality
Smart Metering
Health
Labelling
Residential
Demand management
End use studies
Residential use
Gender and consumption
Household use
Smart Metering
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Problem Area
Key Words
Governance
Governance
Pricing – policy and regulation
Governance – urban
Equity and Access
Governance –
rural/regional/remote
Rights
Governance – marine
Law
Governance –
climate change adaptation
Restrictions
Policy
Compliance
Planning
History
Pricing
Pricing
Policy and regulation
Equity and access
Planning
Markets
Traditional ownership
Indigenous knowledge
Indigenous water rights
Indigenous water management
Sustainable Management
Catchment
Urban
Regional
Rural and/or remote
Coastal, estuarine, marine
Lakes, rivers, floodplains
Land and water
Impact analysis
Water sensitive urban design
Integrated approaches
History
Research Management
Research management
Knowledge brokering
Coordination
Research planning
Research communication/translation
Methodologies
Pilot project
Interdisciplinary partnerships
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Developing problem areas and key words
The classification schema charted above was developed with industry identified issues and problems in mind. It
aims to facilitate identification and alignment of common concerns and hopefully assist industry professionals to
see how social and cultural research fits in with the goals of water management.
It should be noted that in some cases, in the process of generating the problem areas and key words, the
researchers found some differences in the way research is described by researchers themselves and the
way the issue or problem is understood or classified by the industry. Where there is a disparity in the way
that problems are named and grouped, we suggest that this variation be seen as an indication of a different
approach or discovery of a new area of concern not yet widely understood and/or researched rather than a
divergence from a common concern or interest.
It might also be noted that key words can and often do cross problem areas and exist in multiple problem areas
at once. However, the foregoing chart keeps keywords in separate analytical categories to illustrate the primary
relationship that key words have with problem areas.
The above table of problems and keywords lists all of the keywords available, whereas the following chart
illustrates the most frequent keyword terms assigned in the directories for researchers and organisations. While
the numbers of most keywords were similar for both groups, there were some disparities. ‘Cultural values,
beliefs and practices’ were more often mentioned by the researchers, while ‘community education’ was more
associated with organisations than with researchers, who coded more for ‘community engagement’. In what
may be partly an artefact of coding methods, but might also be an indication of different priorities for useroriented compared to industry-oriented research, ‘decentralised’ water services were coded for 14 individual
researchers but for no organisations.
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Figure 1: Most frequent keywords - Individuals and Organisations
Most
frequent
keywords
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Behavioural
change
Cultural
values,
belief
and
prac>ces
Climate
change
adapta>on
Communica>ons
Community
educa>on
Community
Engagement
Decentralised
water
services
Governance
–
all
Governance
–
Planning
Governance
–
Policy
Indigenous
–
knowledge,
management,
rights
Interdisciplinary
Partnerships
Research
management
Supply
Sustainable
management
–
asstd
Sustainable
management
–
urban,
WSUD
Wastewater
Water
quality
Water
services
+
u>lity
Individuals
Organisa>ons
The classification of projects into keywords inevitably acts as a filter, masking the diversity that exists amongst
the wide range of research directions covered by the Tributaries directory. This can be illustrated by the
differences between the following two word clouds, generated with the online software Wordle ™, which filters
sizes words according to the number of occurrences in a text sample, making the most mentioned words larger.
The first word cloud was generated from all the keywords used for individuals and organisations in the directory,
while the second used a random sample of titles from 14 bibliographic entries. As can be seen by the large size
of a few markers in the first, and a more even spread of word sizes in the second, the keywords cover a far
narrower range of topics and concepts than the research projects themselves.
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Figure 2: Word cloud of Keywords
Figure 2: Word cloud of Keywords
Figure 3: Word cloud of sample bibliography titles
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Methods and processes
Methods of gathering data
A survey of projects to provide a snapshot of the water sector’s current concerns about the social and cultural
dimensions of water management was initially envisaged as a desktop research task in the first stage of the
project. Then the researchers decided to survey researchers and organisations in order to find out about
projects and reports developed for a highly diverse range of government, business, and funding bodies, and
to gather researchers’ ideas on the themes of Cross-Connections by eliciting comments on collaborations and
cross-sectoral partnerships. Contacts with researchers and organisations and calls to complete the survey
were made by email. The message was circulated through various existing networks, including the AWA, and a
‘snowball effect’ helped to recruit some participants beyond our initial contacts. Of the many people who made
contact with the Cross-Connections researchers and provided preliminary information, only 33 of them filled out
the survey form in its full version or completed a simplified version accessible on the Survey Monkey site. These
completed surveys added an additional qualitative dimension to the directory research and usefully informed the
project findings more generally. Further researcher details were collected from websites. Towards the end of the
research phase, prospective entrants were sent simple forms to complete (see Appendix 1). Finally, entries were
double-checked with researchers, who could send in corrections, withdraw their entries, or do nothing, which
was taken as assent. The directory lists 158 individuals and 100 organisations.
Table 1: The Tributaries dataset
Dataset Component
Contents
Format
Researcher Dataset
Dataset of individuals and research centres conducting social and
cultural research on water.
Excel Spreadsheet File
Word files
Tributaries Dataset
Edited version of Researcher Dataset, fot Chapters 3 and 4
Excel Spreadsheet File
Word files
Project Surveys
Project Inventory Survey responses with details of projects
undertaken
Excel Spreadsheet File
Research Bibliography
Bibliography of papers, books, conference proceedings, reports
Endnote / Rich Text Format
HTML and other files
Tributaries Bibliography
Edited and corrected version of Research Bibliography
Endnote
Word Files
Researcher References
Collection of references by individual researchers
Microsoft Word
Folder
Reference Library
Papers, articles, reports and project information from individual
researchers and research centres
PDF and MS Word Folder
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Some revealing difficulties
Although most researchers contacted were enthusiastic about the inventory and the Cross-Connections project,
some of the difficulties they encountered in compiling this directory revealed characteristics of researchers and
the field of social and cultural research on water. Some of these characteristics relate to how the water industry
positions social and cultural researchers, and others reflect the intermittent, discontinuous character of funding and
general lack of research career paths for researchers in the higher education sector. Another contextual factor is
the status of HASS research as the ‘poor relation’ (McIntyre 2010) compared to research in the STEM sector.
The following factors became apparent during the directory research process:
»» Project reports do not in most cases appear in scholarly databases and do not count as research outcomes
in university research metrics, while scholarly publications related to projects typically concentrate on
theories, methods and findings but provide little detail on the institutional infrastructure, such as funding or
partnership arrangements.
»»
Social research outsourced by industry is often held ‘commercial in confidence’, making it hard to find
reports or people with detailed knowledge of projects.
»»
Researchers may need to seek permission before ‘back-reporting’ on completed projects, adding to the
burden of completing a survey.
»»
Although most reports commissioned or produced by government agencies are accessible, the convention
of obscuring authorship makes researcher identification and contact difficult.
»»
Once collaborative and multi-institutional projects are over it is difficult to pin down which institution or
person is responsible for reporting on them.
»»
Most projects are of limited term, with fieldwork often conducted by contract researchers who may later be
difficult to find or reluctant to complete a survey on unpaid time.
»»
Senior university researchers may lack administrative assistance to supply project details on request.
Fortunately, university staff websites are often informative.
»»
Many university-based researchers suffer ‘self-reporting fatigue’ from ongoing institutional demands to
account for their research productivity. The Cross-Connections project offered no incentive—besides a
directory listing—for filling in yet another research report form.
Despite these obstacles to participation, most researchers contacted were very keen to see this directory
created and circulated.
There is little doubt that substantial capacity for high quality disciplinary and interdisciplinary HASS research
on water exists in Australia. The team estimates that Tributaries may have captured less than half of those
social and cultural researchers whose work is directly concerned with or closely related to the field of urban
water. The dispersed, fragmented, contingent, intermittent, and marginal character of a large portion of the
social and cultural research workforce means much of that strength goes unrecognised and remains invisible
or inaccessible to the urban water managers who want to mobilise that capacity. The Tributaries directory is a
modest intervention aimed at ameliorating this situation.
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Chapter 2
Examples of social and cultural research on water
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2. Examples of social and cultural research on water
Mapping an uncharted field
One of the main purposes of the Tributaries directory is to provide water industry professionals who conduct
and/or commission research with an overview of existing and emerging social and cultural research on water
by listing researchers, projects and publications. The field of social and cultural research on water in Australia is
uncharted territory, into which the Tributaries directory makes a preliminary assay that could form the basis for
a more comprehensive map. This chapter presents examples of social and cultural research and projects under
headings corresponding to most of the ‘Problem areas’ outlined in Chapter 2.
Most of the project researchers’ preliminary categorical distinctions could not be maintained, including the
seemingly basic distinction between researchers from the humanities and social sciences versus those from
science and engineering, who might be found on the same research team. Even engineers researching how
people behaved with new technologies (rainwater tanks, smart meters, low-flow showerheads, etc) could be
understood as undertaking a form of social research (human-technology interaction). Likewise, the distinctions
between the producers of research and the commissioners or users of research could be blurred: a senior
marketing manager in a water utility might well be involved in helping design and modify the social research they
commission an external agency to conduct, and would often also be responsible for translating and presenting
the findings back to others in the organisation. Not presuming to be guardians of disciplinary boundaries,
we accepted people’s own definitions of their projects or field and their willingness to be included in a
directory of social and cultural researchers as the main criteria for inclusion.
One set of methodological differences amongst various kinds of social research approaches arises in how they
engage with research participants and members of the public. Some research listed in Tributaries may involve
direct contact with members of the public or other stakeholders, whether by simple ‘extractive’ methods (like
telephone attitudes survey) or through more active and participatory processes (like keeping water diaries,
or in community consultations). Alternatively it could involve studies of law, policies, archival records, media
representations, etc. that do not directly involve public contact.
The following chart of different levels of participation (based on Reid et al, 2009, p. 24) maps different ways
of positioning people in relation to the institutions involved in fostering—or perhaps controlling and limiting—
change. What gets stronger from the top to the bottom of the chart is the degree of agency or sense of
ownership ordinary people have in deciding about and implementing change, which in the present report’s terms
is ultimately about achieving urban water sustainability through socially sustainable means. What gets weaker for
each category of participation is the degree of control external agencies have over people’s responses.
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Table 2: Different types of participation (after Reid et al. 2009)
Participation type
Characteristics of Participation
Passive participation
People told what is going to happen or has already happened.
Unilateral announcement by an administration or project management, sharing information that
belongs to external professionals.
Participation in
information giving
People answer questions posed by extractive researchers, e.g. questionnaire surveys.
Participation by
consultation
People consulted by external professionals who listen to their views.
No opportunity to influence proceedings – research findings not shared or checked with sources.
External people define problems and solutions, and may modify these post-consult.
No share in decision-making.
Professionals not obliged to take views on board.
Participation for material
incentives
People provide resources, for example labour, or use of their farmland, in return for food, cash, or
other material incentives.
(Could apply to rebates and incentives for water efficiency devices.)
No stake in prolonging activities when incentives end.
Functional participation
People form groups, perhaps according to an external template, to meet project objectives.
Involvement usually begins after the major decisions have been made.
Groups tend to be dependent on external initiators, but may become self-dependent.
Interactive participation
People participate in joint analysis, which leads to action plans and the formation of new local
institutions or the strengthening of existing ones.
Often uses interdisciplinary methodologies, multiple perspectives, structured learning processes.
Groups can control local decisions, so people have stakes in maintaining structures or practices.
Self-mobilisation
People participate by taking initiatives independent of external institutions to change systems.
May have contact with or support from external institutions but retain control over how resources
are used.
May or may not challenge existing inequitable distributions of wealth and power
In general, much social research in the Australian water sector has been at the first three or four levels of
participation, but there are examples of interactive participation and projects fostering self-mobilisation, such as
The Watershed (Example 4 below) and the Iramoo Sustainability Centre.
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Project Examples
The need for well-documented and convincing studies of cases where qualitative researchers had made
significant positive differences to outcomes of water planning or program implementation, or where interactive
community engagement exercises resulted in generally beneficial planning and management decisions, was
articulated by researchers a Cross-Connections workshop. A workshop and survey conducted by the Water
Governance Research Initiative identified a similar research priority: ‘fund comparative and case-oriented water
governance research to utilise the experiences of the past and present, both within Australia and internationally’
(Ison, Godden and Wallis, 2011, 3).
Tributaries has not taken a case study approach and was not an exercise in evaluating researchers and projects
according to some set of ‘best practice’ criteria, though the authors do acknowledge their bias towards more
participatory, interactive and self-mobilising modes of engagement with research subjects and communities. The
task has rather been to sample various streams of research forming across this emergent terrain. The projects
outlined in the remainder of this chapter have been selected to exemplify a diversity of approaches, scales,
scopes, problem areas and methods taken up in social or cultural research. That examples are selected here is
not intended as judgement of their quality—except in the case of the researcher profile (Example 12)—but their
illustrativeness—how they demonstrate different approaches to research. Availability of project information was
another criterion.
Example 1
Valuing Water
Problem area
Change: people, organisations, society
Keywords
behavioural change, residential use, water services – supply, demand management
Researchers
Corinna Doolan, Sydney Water, with Kirsten Davies & Associates, University of Sydney
There is a need to better measure qualitative benefits or aspects of social and cultural research projects so
they can be reflected appropriately when assessing research outcomes. […] the Valuing Water project is
now attempting to do this. – Corinna Doolan
Sydney Water is a large urban utility that like many others in Australia is committed to behavioural change
approaches as part of demand management and community education programs. Its active research program
has a particular interest in projects with ‘tangible outcomes which can be incorporated into new programs or
enable more effective assessment or development of existing ones.’ The project Valuing Water (2009-2011)
seeks to develop a set of qualitative and quantitative indicators for measuring the effectiveness of its behavioural
change programs. The research team has internal and external members and comprises two social ecologists,
two community education specialists, a project manager and a research program manager. The research
methods include fieldwork, stakeholder consultation, archival studies, and statistical analysis. Sydney Water’s
existing programs were reviewed to determine suitable indicators, while an extensive literature review examined
behavioural models and led to a new model for behavioural change, to be tested in a trial program.
The project was still in progress as this directory was being compiled but the organisation hopes that Valuing
Water will provide better ways to understand and report upon the costs, benefits and water savings related to its
behavioural programs and that these indicators would allow improved reporting on program effectiveness, better
tracking of progress towards conservation targets, and provide useful input into triple bottom line assessments
of programs and proposals.
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Social and cultural research is having a bigger role to play in many of the projects being done in the water
industry. You need to start thinking about the social and cultural aspects before the projects are underway
so that it can be built into the scope of the project. Too many times it is an after thought or it is too late for
those components to be incorporated. The qualitative research can be just as valuable and significant as
quantitative data. They can complement and support each other. It provides you with the complete picture,
not just the hard figures. There is a need to better measure qualitative benefits…. – Corinna Doolan.
Example 2
Assessing resilient urban systems to support long term adaptation to climate change
Problem area
Change: people, organisations, society
Keywords
behavioural change, household use, water services – decentralised, pilot
Researchers
Che Biggs, Paula Arcari, Yolande Strengers, Ralph Horne, Chris Ryan; RMIT University, Melbourne University
This is a collaborative project involving engineers, urban planners, designers, social scientists and environmental
managers in 2010-2011. Adaptive water and energy systems are being rolled out, usually on a pilot basis, but
there has been no study of what adaptive or maladaptive practices are developing in those communities, or
which innovation models are working. In what is conceived as a pilot stage of a larger proposed project, the
researchers seek to provide some evidence base about adaptive household practices by focusing on two cases
of communities where adaptive energy and water supply systems are in place. Qualitative household studies
examining household practices and stakeholder discussions aim to discover how people are managing—or
perhaps mismanaging—these systems. These studies, along with an institutional analysis and a preliminary
technical review of the systems, will lead to the development of initial assessment criteria to evaluate the
resilience of urban energy/water supply systems, ideas for improving adaptive practices, and presentations of
findings to generate further discussions among relevant public, private and community stakeholders.
This is an example of a study where ‘behavioural change’ is understood in a framework much larger than
individual cognitive or behavioural psychology, and where adaptive household practices are understood in
relation to technological interfaces, infrastructures, institutional arrangements and conventional and emergent
sociocultural norms.
Example 3
Yarra Valley Water Business sustainability strategy
Problem area
Change: people, organisations, society
Keywords
organisational change, professional development, sustainable management
Researchers
Francis Pamminger - Sustainability Manager, Yarra Valley Water, with EcoSteps consultancy
Some water entities are actively interested in organisational change for sustainability. The STEP program within
the West Australian Water Corporation offers short-term internal secondments in which people from different
parts of the organisation are trained in sustainability principles to take back to their departments, while the
NSW Water for Life program includes training local government sustainability champions. Yarra Valley Water’s
successful strategy is particularly interesting and inspiring for its ‘bottom up’ and whole-of-business approach
(see Pamminger and Crawford 2006, Crittenden et al., 2010).
Yarra Valley Water is a state-owned water retailer serving northern and eastern Melbourne. It has won Australian
and international prizes for its research and projects, including a 2009 Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Award
(Large Business category) for its success at reducing the organisation’s environmental footprint. A strategy
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and values exercise in 2002 had identified sustainability as the top future priority, one that offered a challenging
new direction for water industry professionals. A new CEO was supportive but there was some resistance to
be overcome amongst employees, including suspicion of a sustainability agenda as (politically) ‘green’ or as
lacking a business case, and the more general question of how to overcome the gap ‘between the philosophy
and the doing,’ or ‘what can I do on Monday?’ One helpful device was that a policy statement on the scientific
and logical case for sustainability was complemented by a more emotive paper that addressed the values and
motives for change.
The company formed an environmental sustainability advisory committee comprised of innovative people at
the peak of their careers and consultants with special expertise who could help serve as mediators or conduits
between industry and social research. Project manager Francis Pamminger explains the importance of ‘doing
something that everyone thinks makes sense’ in a more intuitive way, and of putting effort into environmental
education and training: ‘So everyone’s empowered because they know “why” and they believe it and then when
they see opportunities they’ll […] see what they can do.’ Exemplifying this are the staff toilets, highly educational
sites posted with messages, explanations and ideas about current or proposed sustainability actions.
The first practical action was to give everyone a ceramic cup, plate and knife and fork and remove the paper
cups and plates and plastic knives and forks from the eating areas. Bins for general waste were replaced by
central bins for separating food waste, paper waste, and landfill. This strategy had the effect of winning over
the finance section to sustainability principles when they realised they could save $14,000 in a year. A further
effect was to alter the criteria for internal project funding, so that a project that could deliver benefits for the
environment as well as customer service, business efficiency and organisational culture would have a better
chance of getting up. Sustainability principles have now so effectively permeated the organisation that it is
prepared to consider servicing options that may not be ‘the most financially attractive to the company but
actually delivered the better community solution.’
Example 4
Streets to Rivers IV – Newtown Environmental Education Project
Problem area
Engagement
Keywords
community education, community capacity building, community engagement, governance - planning,
stormwater
Researchers
Megan Bennett, Nell Graham, The Watershed, Marrickville and City of Sydney Councils, Stormwater Trust
The project was the fourth stage of joint initiative that began in 1999 between South Sydney City and Marrickville
Councils, with funding from the NSW Government Stormwater Trust. It sought to reduce pollution of waterways
receiving stormwater from the inner city commercial areas of Newtown, Enmore and Erskineville in Sydney
through engagement with relevant communities and sectors. A significant feature of this innovative project was
its holistic and multi-pronged approach that was anchored in theories of practical and place-based learning. It
focussed on education of the approximately 650 businesses in the area, capacity building for project and council
staff, and a comprehensive and flexible community education strategy targeting residents and visitors to the
district. It included a regulatory strategy to help councils target persistent illegal dumping, and an engineering
component to install some special drainage facilities in Newton.
Rigorous evaluation of the project has affirmed the theories of practice underpinning this work and shown that
monitoring and data analysis needs to be part of environmental education practice. Social research methods
used include fieldwork, questionnaires, archival studies, stakeholder consultations and statistical analysis.
Crucial to the community engagement essential for this long term project’s success has been walk-in shopfront
The Watershed in the heart of Newton, which provides an operational base for the project, is a retail outlet for a
range of sustainable household products, and is a place-based sustainability education centre for classes and
workshops (currently funded up to 2014). The Watershed staff and volunteers also maintain direct community
engagement through stalls at community events and festivals.
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Example 5
Swan River Belonging: social and emotional interactions with an urban river in the
South West of Western Australia
Problem area
Engagement
Keywords
human-environment interaction, cultural values, beliefs and practices
Researcher
Marie Seeman, University of Western Australia
This Master of Arts project in the field of environmental anthropology was part of an Australian Research Council
funded project Under Water: an ethnographic analysis of water use and natural resource management in
Queensland and Western Australia (Sandy Toussaint and Veronica Strang, 2003-2007), which examined social
and cultural factors in people’s interactions with water and waterways in four Australian catchment areas. For
Swan River Belonging, ethnographic research including participant observation and interviews was conducted
with a group of artists and a non-government water catchment group to find out how they interacted with, used
and represented a section of the Swan River. Research solicited insights about how, when and where people
visited the river, their associated emotions and memories, and their involvement with the river as members
of a group. The thesis examined theories of social and emotional belonging and disclosed that themes of
nostalgia, memory, aesthetics, space, proximity, ecological concerns and development issues were part of
human relationships with the river. While such themes could come up in survey-based research, this kind of
ethnographic study can reveal how themes are meaningfully linked for different types of people and different
ways of seeing the river—knowledge that is relevant to urban water managers seeking to engage communities
or community champions in waterways care.
Example 6
The 84Hundred
Problem area
Communications
Keywords
community education, communication, market research, sustainable management – lakes, rivers, floodplains
Researchers
Melbourne Water and consultants
Melbourne waterways were once seen as little more than drains that were managed for flood protection, but
after bike paths and walking trails were laid along them, people saw how polluted they were and demanded
better management of these environmental assets. Melbourne Water responded by forming the Waterways and
Drainage Group in 1996. Recently Melbourne Water wanted to remind the public to take more care to avoid
polluting their local waterways. Preliminary research had indicated people valued animal life around rivers, so a
campaign was designed featuring animals as the spokespersons for river health, such as a fish complaining how
his kids had got into cigarettes from encountering butts in the water. But while people in Melbourne Water loved
the campaign, evaluations showed it spoke only to keen environmentalists and the remaining 80% of people
didn’t get it.
Rather than waste funds trying to preach to the converted, the organisation undertook further research to
find out how to communicate with other segments of the population. It found that people had to appreciate
and enjoy their own local environments before developing a more extended environmental perspective that
allowed them to take the viewpoint of a fish or a frog. Instead of trying to get people to think like animals or
environmental scientists, a new campaign was designed based on the philosophy that people will protect what
they love, so the aim was to ‘build the love’ and to help people to enjoy waterways and to acknowledge that
enjoyment based on social pleasures rather than environmental concerns. This new campaign was called The
84Hundred—a reference to the city’s estimated 84,000 kilometres of rivers and creeks. There are many facets
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to this program, ranging from partnerships with local councils and community groups, including technical
aspects of river management and monitoring water flow and quality, frog census groups, technical aspects
of river management, schools, community and business education resources, maps of trails and paths, and
suggestions for ways to make use of waterways. A set of five posters informed by the market segmentation
analysis associates social concerns with river-related activities and ethnically and generationally diverse
characters. The ‘Dinner’ poster shows an older man fishing with a young boy; ‘New friends’ has a mother and
toddler encountering a water bird; ‘Talk Footy’ has two middle-aged men in waders fishing in a creek.
What is significant in this example is the use of more fine-grained social research to help a business get over
its own preoccupations and identify socially-oriented alternatives to environment-centred messages about the
value of waterways.
Example 7
Water for Life – NSW
Problem area
Communication
Keywords
Sustainable management – urban, demand management, household use, attitudes, communication,
professional development
Researchers
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (now Office of Environment and Heritage)
All states have government-run water conservation programs whose activities include projects in partnerships
with utilities, conservation, and scientific bodies, and research and planning exercises with different sectors
of the community and industry, as well as mass media campaigns about water restrictions or water-savings
tips. The New South Wales Water for Life program includes training for local government employees who can
become ‘sustainability champions’ within their organisations. Recent education projects include a partnership
with the NSW Ethnic Communities’ Council on ‘Water conservation education for non-English speaking people,’
and a project with the Australian Conservation Foundation on ‘Household water conservation education for 1835 year-olds’.
Whereas the trial of the Melbourne waterways campaign asked viewers to identify with frogs or fish, a NSW
Water for Life television campaign works by getting people to identify with a drop of water, personified by a
female voice telling water’s four-part ‘story’. The story is that water in dam storage is now supplemented by
a desalination plant, water efficiency and recycling, and that people can read the Metropolitan Water Plan. A
notable feature of this campaign is the almost complete absence of humans, except for the section on water
efficiency. With the voiceover ‘And by being water-wise, everyone can continue to play a big part,’ the camera
shows a low-flow showerhead in clear focus and an indistinct female body, then zooms in to follow a drop of
water from her hand down to the drain. The showerhead plays the biggest part in the ‘efficiency’ chapter of
water’s story, whose main message seems to be reassuring viewers the state has the water situation under
control.
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Example 8
Kinglake West sustainable sewerage project: Mutual learning for social change
Problem area
Water services
Keywords
decentralised – sanitation, community education, behavioural change, professional development
Researchers
Cynthia Mitchell, Dena Fam, Kumi Abeysuriya, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology
Sydney
The historical conventions of approaching water and sewerage provision as a purely engineering problem, or
more recently, as a combination of engineering and environmental management, are inadequate when it comes
to innovations where the perspectives, actions and experiences of users are vital to successful implementation
and adoption of new kinds of water services.
Yarra Valley Water recognises the need for new and more sustainable ways of providing water and sewerage
services, and with CSIRO and RMIT in 2006 had identified a potential opportunity to trial such new approaches
whilst modernising the sanitation services at Kinglake West. When the area was devastated by fires in 2009,
Yarra Valley Water asked residents if they wanted to proceed with the trial as part of the process of rebuilding.
Yarra Valley Water offered residents a suite of technologies to support integrated water management, including
Urine Diversion Toilets (UDTs). UDTs separate urine from faeces so that phosphorus in urine can be easily
reclaimed for use in fertilizers. They entail changes not just in plumbing techniques but also in cleaning and
toilet practices, not to mention the performance of masculinity, because for best results, UDTs require men to
sit when urinating. The experiences and practices of UDT users need to be well understood as they are critical
determinants of UDTs’ acceptability, long term performance, and potential for adoption on a broader scale.
Institute for Sustainable Futures researchers Prof. Cynthia Mitchell (an engineer turned transdisciplinarian),
Kumi Abeysuriya (a scientist) and Dena Fam (a designer) were contracted to investigate the socio-technical
dimensions of these new technologies. The first part of the project developed a suite of tools for engaging
households to ensure they (and their visitors) understand and accept how to use and maintain the UDTs to
maximise collection of urine that is safe to use. The second part studied users’ perceptions and experiences,
including practical and technical issues that arose, in order to improve communications about UDTs, and
enhance their future acceptability and performance. Both parts of the project acknowledge and aim to respond
to the diversity of motivations and commitments to using UDTs, and the varied educational and socio-economic
backgrounds of the Kinglake West residents involved in the trial.
The significance of this is that rather than isolating separate elements (such as behaviour, design of fittings,
infrastructure), it considers the whole assemblage of people, practices, experiences and technologies. As well
as engaging householders as partners in innovation, it also contributes to changing the plumbing industry by
helping to create a new kind of ‘yellow plumber’ with expertise in installing and maintaining these new systems.
(See also: http://www.worldplumbinginfo.com/article/yellow-plumber)
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Example 9
Systematic Social Analyses of how community values alternative water supply
options
Problem area
Residential
Keywords
residential use, sustainable management - urban, household use, attitudes, community engagement,
behaviour change
Researchers
Kelly Fielding, Aditi Mankad, David Tucker and others, with SEQ Urban Water Security Research Alliance
During the protracted drought in Queensland, the state government keenly explored and inaugurated a
number of new infrastructure projects, including recycled water and decentralised systems (such as rainwater
tanks). The South East Queensland Urban Water Security Research Alliance (UWSRA) was established as
a partnership between the Queensland government, Queensland and Griffith Universities, and CSIRO, to
optimise and maintain the quality of the science behind these new initiatives. While the Alliance is largely
technical and environmental in orientation, it does include a social science component under the leadership of
social psychologist Dr Kelly Fielding, who holds a dual post in CSIRO and (for 2011) as a Future Fellow in the
University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research. In addition to social psychology, the team has
expertise in human geography, economics, and public health. Two subcomponents of the research are directly
linked to engineering projects
Social dimensions investigated include: factors underpinning public support for indirect potable reuse; the
psycho-social, demographic, structural and behavioural factors that influence household water conservation;
development of interventions to achieve long-term household water conservation; and social, psychological, and
economic aspects of decentralised systems. The investigations are informed by social psychological theories
such as Theory of Planned Behaviour, Protection Motivation theory, Social Identity Theory, Norm Focus theory,
and theories of distributive and procedural justice. Both qualitative and quantitative research methods are used,
including focus groups and interviews, questionnaires, stakeholder consultations, and statistical analyses.
In the Decentralised Systems subcomponent of the study conducted by Aditi Mankad and David Tucker,
researchers interviewed 28 households in three SEQ localities, most of them users of decentralised systems
(rainwater tanks or greywater systems), to gain an in-depth understanding of their views and knowledge. One
finding was that people supported decentralised systems on environmental grounds, but that choices for
sustainability were constrained by ‘uncontrollable factors, such as property development regulations, available
property space, and financial limitations’ (UWSRA, 2010). The findings from this qualitative study were used
to develop a survey that was administered to 740 community members, who answered questions about
decentralised systems, future plans for adopting them, and other questions on water issues in the region.
Research progress and findings are shared with State government agencies such as Queensland Water
Commission and Department of Resource Management, and presented at major national and international
conferences. According to Kelly Fielding, aside from generating new knowledge in the under-researched
field of the social aspects of recycled and decentralised water systems, this research program is significant
for its interdisciplinary scope and context, and the way it integrates social science methods and models with
biophysical methods and models, for example, linking social-psychological data to Water End Use data. On
the basis of her extensive experience as a social scientist working in areas dominated by engineers and natural
scientists, Fielding offers the following tips on interdisciplinary collaborations:
You need to build trust through regular meetings, running workshops about the research with collaborators
and others who may be interested, staying open to feedback, and trying at all times to use lay language
to avoid what a colleague of mine calls the USLAM effect (when you use in-group jargon ‘You Sound Like
A Moron’ to other disciplines/others outside your discipline). […] I think you get good integration across
sections/disciplines when people work on a common project and they can all make a contribution to
answering the question.
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Example 10
Gold Coast Domestic Water End Use Study
(ARC LP0775348 - Impact of urban water conservation strategies on end-use water
consumption in residential households)
Problem area
Residential
Keywords
water end use study, demand management, residential use, dual reticulation, recycled water, attitudes and
behaviours
Researchers
Rodney Stewart, Philip Williams, Rachelle Willis, and Team. Griffith University, Gold Coast Water, Wide Bay
Water, the Queensland Water Directorate and the Institute for Sustainable Futures (UTS)
A study of residential water consumption that combined technical and social research was undertaken over
2007-2010 by a team of researchers at Griffith University on the Gold Coast (South East Queensland), with a
sample of 200 households fitted with smart meters and other water use logging devices, plus an investigation
of behaviours, attitudes, perceptions of water and water use in residential household settings. 150 of the
households were in the Pimpama-Coomera region, which had dual reticulation (potable and A+ purified recycled
water) and other water-conservation devices installed. The project aimed to fill in gaps in knowledge about
how much water was saved through various conservation strategies, and to explore how attitudes and water
behaviour changed in relation to these strategies and systems. Being engineers rather than social scientists, the
researchers consulted social scientists, including Kelly Fielding, for design of the survey instruments. One of the
key outcomes of the research project is Rachelle Willis’s PhD titled: ‘Residential Water End Use Consumption
Analysis: An Investigation of the Benefits of Dual Reticulated Systems and other Demand Management
Strategies.’
The first part of the study used various measures to establish baseline levels of consumption in the sample for
different household uses, and also to establish the smart metering system, which used highly sensitive meters
to record traces of water flows. These were transmitted via wireless or mobile phone networks to the water
provider, where special software analysed those traces into different uses (shower, laundry, etc.). They found
some uneven distributions in usage – for example, that 13% of homes used 30% of all the water of showering
used by the sample, while 24% of households were responsible for 80% of the water used in irrigation (Willis et
al, 2009).
One intervention trialled was shower alarms that beeped after 40 litres had been consumed (after about 4-5
minutes). The researchers found that water consumed went from an average of 58 litres per shower vent at
the start to close to 40 litres a month after installation of the alarm, but by three months later had crept back
up to the starting point. As Rodney Stewart put it, the visual display monitor seems mainly to reinforce rather
than produce conservation behaviour, and it doesn’t work well ‘if you do not have behaviours yourself, yourself
telling you to get out of the shower’. This is consistent with the finding that consumption of water in showers,
clothes washing, tap use and irrigation were all significantly lower for people with higher environmental water
conservation beliefs or perceptions.
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Example 11
Research Method: Water Diaries
Problem area
Residential
Keywords
Household use, gender and consumption, cultural values beliefs and practices
Researchers
Sofoulis et al., Strengers, Harriden and Lahiri-Dutt, Baldwin and Chandler
In contrast to the above large-scale social science and smart metering approaches to studying residential
consumption are smaller-scale qualitative approaches that rely on householders making records of their water
uses as well as thoughts and reflections on water issues around their home.
For the Everyday Water project (2004-05), Zoë Sofoulis, Fiona Allon, Marnie Campbell and Roger Attwater
(University of Western Sydney) developed Water Diaries that involved householders mapping water outlets in
the home and social interactions around them, undertaking a series of guided journal exercises exploring the
background to current water practices, and responding to images of water (Allon and Sofoulis 2006). The diary
method was also used in a subsequent project with Sydney Water on Demand Management through Cultural
Innovation: User Models. The journals highlighted a factor in water consumption not made visible by the typical
social science focus on standard socio-economic-status and postcode (or census collection district): the
extent to which people had spent time overseas or in rural Australia was directly linked to their preparedness
to undertake extra water-saving measures, including ‘do-it-yourself’ recycling of greywater. It also found a high
diversity of water use patterns within households.
Differences of usage amongst different household members were brought out in a pilot Water Diary study of
rural households in the Canberra region by Kate Harriden and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt in 2007-08 (Lahiri-Dutt and
Harriden, 2008). The diaries put more emphasis on recording actual occasions and volumes of use compared
to Sofoulis et al., and aimed at gathering water use data that could be disaggregated according to number of
variables, including water use activity, location, income, gender or dwelling type. In discussing their findings,
the researchers draw on development studies about access to and control of household resources, particularly
from the woman’s perspective, and argue for the value of such intra-household studies: ‘Without looking into
the household black box in more descriptive ways than financial status, water managers do not know the
communities they are wishing to engage’ (Lahiri-Dutt and Harriden, 2008, 238).
Diaries of ‘comfort and cleanliness’ were completed by householders in the doctoral research study by Yolande
Strengers, focussed on responses to smart metering programs. Like the other studies, it revealed a diversity of
intra-household practices normally masked in survey approaches and showed the disparity between the narrow
calculative rationality promoted by smart meters that attempt to position people as ‘micro-resource managers,’
compared to the rich and culturally nuanced sets of values, aesthetics, habits and normative assumptions
involved in daily water use practices. Strengers’ doctoral dissertation (2009) developed a model of practice that
can account for why campaigns focussed on specific behaviours so often fail over the longer-term: they only
deal with one of the four main elements of practice (rules and restrictions about what must be done) and ignore
the rest – the practical skills and knowledge required; socio-cultural common understandings of what ought
to be done (e.g. bodies regularly washed), and the array of material devices and infrastructures that enable
practices.
Water diaries provide many insights into the patterns and rationales of household consumption that could form
the basis of new approaches to demand management and community engagement. Moreover, many people
who complete them claim that doing the reflective and tracking exercises themselves produces changes in
consumption behaviour. As diaries produce interpretive, qualitative and holistic knowledge on a small or intimate
scale, not large data-sets ready to use in demand management planning, many in the water industry remain
uncertain about their value.
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Example 12
Researcher Profile: Rebekah Brown
Problem area
Governance
Keywords
governance – urban, Integrated approaches, organisational change, Stormwater, Water sensitive urban design
Researcher
Rebekah Brown, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash University
Rebekah Brown is a water researcher whose productive and rapidly ascending career has straddled sectors
and disciplines. Now a professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Science at Monash University
and a Director of its Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, in 1991-1994 she was a Cadet Engineer with Melbourne
Water Corporation who topped her year as a graduate in civil engineering. After being awarded the 1995
Australian Ove Arup & Partners Fellowship for Excellence in Engineering Studies, she went on to work as
designer and consultant engineer on water management and drainage schemes in major infrastructure projects
in the UK (for example, Channel Tunnel Rail Link) and Thailand (Bangkok Yannawa Wastewater Scheme). But
in 2002 her career took a different direction when she returned to the university sector, lecturing in the Institute
of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales whilst undertaking a PhD on the relationship
between organisational change and technological innovation for environmental sustainability in the water sector.
With her background in both engineering and social science, Brown now specialises in sustainable urban
water management, adaptive environmental and socio-technical transitions. The Monash website lists over 60
publications (many co-authored), conference papers and research papers from 2005 until the present. Between
2005 and 2009 she led the former National Urban Water Governance Program at Monash, a partnership with
twelve Australian water management organisations and the first Australian program dedicated to urban water
governance research. This became the Urban Water Governance program, a central part of the Centre for Water
Sensitive Cities.
One important large project she led under the National Urban Water Governance Program involved extensive
interviews and consultation with managers and stakeholders in a study of several demonstration urban water
projects in each of three cities (Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth) that revealed different priorities and approaches
to water governance. Interviews with water managers recently conducted for Cross-Connections indicated
that involvement with this comparative study and its pithy reports proved helpful in lifting industry awareness
of different options within the broad field of water governance, alerted them to dynamics of transitions and
transition management, and expanded the repertoire of modes of engagement with communities where these
projects are sited. Out of this work came a model of the water industry’s transitions through different phases
from its supply-side origins, through to more environmental concerns in what Brown Keath and Wong (2009)
call the ‘waterways city’ and towards an integrated approach in ‘water-sensitive’ cities in which consumers also
assume more responsibility and co-management of a diversity of water sources.
Prof. Brown has been successful in finding strong institutional support for her work at Monash and is now
leading the Centre for Water Sensitive Cities program of research on Society and Institutions, aiming ‘ to
proactively advance the mainstream application of decentralised stormwater harvesting across Australian
cities’ by investigating ‘the socio-institutional reform dynamics that will lead to the successful implementation of
decentralised stormwater harvesting approaches’.
In contrast to many water managers and engineers who have come to approach the social dimensions of
water management through a lens of psychology and economics (see Shove 2010), Rebekah Brown has
supplemented her training and experience as a working engineer by pursuing additional studies in contemporary
social science, where notions of the ‘sociotechnical’ help overcome the disabling and misleading convention of
considering human behaviour and social institutions as entirely separate from technologies and infrastructures.
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Example 13
Adaptive water governance and systemic thinking for future NRM: Action research
to build MDBA capability
Problem area
Governance
Keywords
governance, professional development, organisational change, integrated approaches
Researchers
Ray Ison - Monash University, David Russell - University of Western Sydney, Philip Wallis – Uniwater/Monash,
Robyn Holder - Australian National University, with Murray Darling Basin Authority.
Innovation is a term usually applied to new technical products and scientific developments, but innovations
arising from HASS research can take the form of changes in organisational processes, approaches and
perspectives in which people rather than things, are ‘developed’ or ‘refreshed’. This scoping project conducted
in 2009 was aimed at promoting innovation in approaches to inquiry and decision-making in a water governance
body, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA). The methods, which included questionnaires, workshops and
semi-structured interviews, were developed in conjunction with a project steering group, comprising members
of the study group and investigators. It investigated how action research methods and social/organisational
learning principles could improve the MDBA’s capability to carry out its functions under the Water Act 2007.
The project was conceived as a professional development exercise to introduce the theory and practice of
systemic thinking and explore how this approach could help the MDBA find ways of moving forward through
complex and often ambivalent decision-making situations. Systemic inquiry is a form of researching for
‘emergence’, in which unexpected outcomes and effects are anticipated and encouraged. As team member
Philip Wallis explains:
By employing systemic strategies that maximise the flow of information and that are built on collaborative
values, participants learnt to shape cultural and strategic change. The application of these change
strategies addressed, in an initial manner, internal and external collaboration, problem definition, and the
utilisation of new and challenging ways of listening, learning and action.
The project was evaluated and judged as very successful in exploring a critical and systemic approach to
working that was evidence-based, collaborative and outcome oriented. Participants concluded the theory
and practice of the systemic approach could be more widely applied across the MDBA and was capable of
achieving the desired cultural shift in the organisation, though a key issue identified for the future was how the
organisation could take advantage of the types of learning its members had experienced.
This last issue is itself a systemic problem for HASS interventions and innovations within an essentially STEM
framework: the insights seem illuminating and promising at the time, but the organisational frameworks for
defining and gathering data, and for implementing, reporting and evaluating actions and policies, may remain
unchanged, which makes it hard to figure out how and where to apply new knowledge in a pre-existing context.
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Example 14
Aboriginal Cultural Values of Wetlands in Western NSW
Problem area
Traditional Ownership
Keywords
community engagement, cultural values, beliefs and practices, indigenous knowledge, indigenous water
management, sustainable management – lakes, rivers, floodplains, planning
Researchers
Danielle Flakelar-Carney, with Damian Lucas and others. Department of Environment, Climate Change and
Water (now NSW Office of Environment and Heritage).
As part of developing an adaptive environmental management plan (AEMP) for the Macquarie Marshes and
Gwydir Wetlands of north-western NSW, the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
commissioned studies of the region’s ecological, economic, hydrological, archaeological, historical, cultural,
and social significance, with attention to its importance for Aboriginal people of the past, present and future.
Indigenous people have maintained contact with the area since ancient pre-colonial times, as witnessed by a
rich archaeological record and over 500 cultural heritage sites in the area.
In a report synthesising findings from various studies for the AEMP, the marshes and wetlands are described
by the DECCW ‘in terms of their assets and values, and on the basis of water supply, management and
geomorphological boundaries’ (p. v). For traditional indigenous people, the marshes were sources of water, plant
and animal foods, and stone for tool-making. However, as the report’s chapter on ‘Aboriginal cultural values of
the Macquarie Marshes’ points out:
The marshes were not only a resource base for Aboriginal people; the wetlands landscape was at the
centre of Aboriginal culture and spirituality. Aboriginal people were connected to the natural world through
totem and kinship relationships, which established relationships of mutual care and responsibility. The
landscape, specific places and specific plants and animals were all animated through events in the
Dreamtime. (DECCW 2010b, 65)
Extensive consultations with Wailwan people and other indigenous inhabitants or users of the area involved
walking and learning tours, knowledge exchange between government experts and Aboriginal elders,
archaeological studies, oral history gathering and various other formal and informal processes, plus regular
newsletters for participants. These events allowed the DECCW researchers (especially Danielle Flakelar-Carney
and Damian Lucas) to directly involve first nation stakeholders in the AEMP process.
Relationships to the place have changed over history, including through private property owners locking out
traditional owners from access to customary waterways and fishing areas, but the studies found contemporary
indigenous people (especially of the Wailwan community) maintain a custodial interest in the marshes and their
ecological health, and share ‘a specific interest in re-engaging with Country in order to enhance their spiritual
connection to Country, and to revive their cultural practice and expressions on Country’ (p.68). They are keen
to see water allocated for ‘cultural flows,’ that is, ‘allocations of water that Aboriginal people control in order
to improve the spiritual, cultural, environmental, social and economic conditions of Country’, which value
biodiversity and ‘in practice … could be used in conjunction with environmental flows’ (p.71).
The studies identified a number of ways to ensure future recognition of traditional ownership and ongoing
involvement in environmental and water management, such as:
»»
Formal means – having indigenous representatives on water management committees, forming an
Aboriginal community reference group on the management of environmental water flows, restoring
indigenous access to customary grounds and waterways.
»»
Cultural strategies - cultural awareness training for non-Aboriginal people working with indigenous people,
training and support for Aboriginal representatives on committees and working groups; ‘back to Country’
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camps and learning tours, maintaining and reclaiming Aboriginal place names, and holding welcome to
Country ceremonies at formal events.
»»
Economic development - enhance training opportunities for indigenous people to become equipped for
employment in environmental and water management and associated contracting work in the region (p.73).
Efforts to ‘integrate’ indigenous understandings of water and land into government planning can be fraught
because fundamental assumptions may not be commensurate with each other: ‘non-Aboriginal laws and
traditions separate water from the land and from the sky’—for example, national water reforms separating land
ownership from water entitlement—whereas ‘Aboriginal people’s connection with Country does not separate the
individual features of the landscape’ (Moggeridge 2010b). Similarly, governmental definitions of the Macquarie
Marshes region in terms of environmental ‘assets’ are incommensurate with more holistic, aesthetic, historical
and spiritual values attached to Country by the Wailwan people. Nevertheless, the process of developing the
AEMP shows that there are possibilities for engaging with communities to bring indigenous knowledge and
perspectives to bear upon water planning, and for discovering common interests, such as environmental health,
amongst a variety of stakeholders.
Discussion
The examples outlined above illustrate a range of project types. Some are mainstream water company and
government programs with a focus on behaviours, attitudes and social marketing. While such projects are
normally outsourced to external consultants, both the Sydney Water and Melbourne Water examples (1 and
6) entailed more of an iterative research process and a partnership relation between the researchers and the
commissioners of research. Some projects, like the MA thesis (Example 5), the RMIT/Melbourne pilot study of
adaptation to new systems (Example 2) or the water diary and photo-voice studies (Example 11) are relatively
small-scale undertakings to provide ‘rich data’ through qualitative methods, often with a high degree of
engagement with the research participants. Tributaries also lists a number of scholarly, archival, historical, legal
and policy research studies that do not involved direct contact with the public.
The large-scale projects under the Systematic Social Analysis program (Example 9) employ qualitative methods,
which are then used as a basis for developing large-scale survey studies. Being undertaken as part of a high
level cross-sectoral alliance (UWSRA) gives the findings of these studies a relatively clear and direct path to
implementation—a path that may be harder to find for smaller-scale and pilot projects. This program is one of
several examples (cf. 2, 11, 8, and 10) that entail consideration of behavioural and social aspects in conjunction
with technical components of water practices.
Aside from regular customer surveys by market research agencies, the vast majority of social and cultural
research projects on water are of a ‘one-off’ or pilot type. However there are occasional examples of programs
with a strong social and community engagement component that have managed to gain funding and a strong
community, stakeholder or institutional support base over several years – illustrated here by the well established
Streets to Rivers project (Example 4), and Monash University’s water governance program (Examples 12, 13).
Not all research projects are about making discoveries or generating data and knowledge. Some are closer
to action research that inaugurate, enable or maintain processes for change, such as the Yarra Valley Water
business sustainability strategy (Example 3), the Kinglake West sustainable sewerage project (Example 8),
the adaptive and systemic governance project with the MDBA (Example 13), and, potentially, the Macquarie
Marshes and Gwydir wetlands projects (Example 14)—especially if the recommendations arising from the
studies of indigenous histories and engagement with contemporary indigenous people are acted upon.
The following three chapters, including the directories of individual researchers and research organisations,
followed by the research bibliography, will give a much better indication of the current state and spectrum of
concerns in this diverse field.
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Chapter 3
Directory of Social and Cultural Research
on Urban Water – Individuals
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3. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Individuals
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Assoc Prof
First Name
Eva
Surname
Abal
Position
Science Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
International Water Centre (IWC)
Overall Research Summary
Scientific management and coordination of multidisciplinary
projects, ecophysiology of marine communities, effective science
communication, strategic research planning and facilitating linkages
between scientists and managers/stakeholders.
Key Words Summary
knowledge brokering, research communication, research
management - interdisciplinary partnerships
1. Project/Publication
Healthy Waterways: Management of scientific activities of the South
East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQHWP). Healthy
Waterways is a not-for-profit organisation working collaboratively
with government, industry, researchers and the community to protect
and improve waterway health in South East Queensland.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kumi
Surname
Abeysuriya
Position
Senior Research Consultant
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on sustainable urban sanitation in developing Asian
countries. A range of disciplines drawn on including thermodynamics,
ecological economics, Buddhist economics and deliberative
democracy to develop guiding principles and a deliberative decisionmaking framework based on soft systems methodology.
Key Words Summary
water services - sanitation, decentralised, sustainable management
- urban
1. Project/Publication
Lend Lease: Scoping Study for Alternative Distributed Wastewater
Infrastructure Options.
Key researcher involved in conceptualizing decentralized wastewater
options for a large greenfield development for 40,000 people in
northern Queensland, and conducting a financial assessment for
options as combinations of different scales of decentralization.
2. Project/Publication
Expanding economic perspectives for sustainability in urban water
and sanitation.
3. Project/Publication
PhD research examining how urban sanitation in developing Asian
countries may be resolved in a manner aligned with sustainability.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Michele
Surname
Akeroyd
Position
Program Manager
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Drinking Water
Organisation
Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Facilitates collaborative research of national application for Australian
Water Industry with a focus on drinking water quality, recycled water
and aspects of wastewater management.
Key Words Summary
water services - water quality, recycling, wastewater
1. Project/Publication
Current projects with Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA).
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Glenn
Surname
Albrecht
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy
Organisation
Murdoch University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Conducts transdisciplinary research in the domain of sustainability
and ecosystem health. Focus has been on complexity in relation to
human and ecosystem health. Current research being undertaken
into inland cities, Kalgoorlie and Broken Hill with respect to water
security and resilience in a drying climate.
Key Words Summary
climate change adaptation, water services - water security, health,
research management – interdisciplinary partnerships
1. Project/Publication
Resilience and Water Security in Two Outback Cities (NCCARF) with
Dr Helen Allison.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Helen
Surname
Allison
Position
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
School of Environmental Science
Organisation
Murdoch University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Strategic analysis of NRM using alternative paradigms which includes
the concepts of resilience, complex adaptive systems and the
adaptive cycle in the agricultural landscape in Australia.
Key Words Summary
climate change adaptation, water services - water security,
community engagement
1. Project/Publication
Resilience and Water Security in Two Outback Cities (NCCARF) with
Prof Glenn Albrecht.
2. Project/Publication
New paradigms to find solutions to intractable NRM problems.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Pat
Surname
Armstrong
Position
Principal Consultant
Organisation
Pat Armstrong Consulting
Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Consulting in education for sustainability with specialisation in
program development, displays, training, evaluation, facilitation and
strategic planning for education for sustainability. Has worked in
environmental education and education for sustainability for over
thirty years. Programs include Waste Wise Schools, Sustainable
Schools and Sustainable Communities for local governments.
Key Words Summary
community education, communication, cultural values, beliefs and
practices
1. Project/Publication
Waste Wise Schools, Sustainable Schools and Sustainable
Communities for local governments.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Roger
Surname
Attwater
Position
Senior Manager, Environment and Risk
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Capital Works and Facilities
Organisation
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Water management relating to compliance (for example Water
Savings Action Plans) and projects for water recycling, stormwater
harvesting and broader water sensitive urban design.
Key Words Summary
governance - compliance, water services - recycling, decentralised
- supply, sustainable management - water senstive urban design,
urban
1. Project/Publication
Water Savings Action Plans.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kate
Surname
Auty
Position
Commissioner
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Victoria (CES)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Consulting about community development concerns and strategies
across regional Australia, member of Ministerial Reference Council
on Climate Change Adaptation and the Premier’s Reference
Committee on Climate Change, Commissioner for Environmental
Sustainability June 2009.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, climate change adaptation, governance regional
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Claudia
Surname
Baldwin
Position
Senior Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Regional and Urban Planning
Organisation
University of Sunshine Coast
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
USC’s Sustainability Research Centre
Overall Research Summary
Research on social dimensions of water planning and management
consensus building in water planning, use of photovoice to elicit
stakeholder values about water allocation and management,
development of tools to assist stakeholders in water planning.
Key Words Summary
participatory planning, stakeholder consultation, water services recycling, supply
1. Project/Publication
Water Allocation Planning in Australia - Current Practices and
Lessons Learned. Analysis of current practices in each jurisdiction in
context of water reform commitments.
An approach to water allocation planning in the Northern Territory.
Report to NRETA, Northern Territory
2. Project/Publication
At the Water’s Edge: Community Voices on Climate Change.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Cara
Surname
Beal
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Smart Water Research Centre
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on Water Efficiency, Water Partitioning in Residential End
Use Measurement (Rain water tanks, smart metering), Sustainable
Alternate Water Supplies, Water Energy Nexus, Energy Efficiency in
the Urban Water Cycle, Sustainable Urban Water Management.
Key Words Summary
residential use, end use studies, sustainable management - urban,
water services -decentralised - supply
1. Project/Publication
South East Queensland Residential End Use Study - Baseline Results.
2. Project/Publication
Systematic Social Analysis of Residential Water Use.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Simon
Surname
Beecham
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
SA Water Centre for Research into Water Management and Re-Use
Organisation
Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment,
School of Natural and Built Environments, University of South
Australia
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research into developing tools for sustainable water management
such as the Syfon and Switch2 software programs used to design
siphonic roofwater harvesting systems and for modelling total
water cycle management in residential, commercial and industrial
developments.
Key Words Summary
water services -decentralised - supply, sustainable management
-water sensitive urban design, residential use
1. Project/Publication
Syfon and Switch2 software programs.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Kathryn
Surname
Bellette
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Areas of Strategic Research Investment (ASRI) - Water and
Environmental Sustainability
Organisation
Flinders University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Has held several positions in water management and specialises in
sustainable management of marine and freshwater resources, land
and water and rivers. Currently (2010) working on establishing Water
and Environmental Sustainability (WES) ASRI.
Key Words Summary
Integrated management, sustainable management - coastal,
estuarine, marine, land and water, rivers, research management
-interdisciplinary parternships
1. Project/Publication
Establishing Water and Environmental Sustainability (WES) ASRI.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Colin
Surname
Berryman
Position
Manager
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Water in the Landscape
Organisation
Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd (WSROC)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Managing current WSROC project: Water in the Landscape:
Understanding and Valuing Water in Our Local Environments in
Western Sydney.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices, human-environment interaction,
sustainable management - urban
1. Project/Publication
Water in the Landscape: Understanding and Valuing Water in Our
Local Environments in Western Sydney (WSROC).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Assoc Prof
First Name
Frances
Surname
Bonner
Position
Professor
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
School of English, Media Studies and Art History
Organisation
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Current research includes popular non-fiction television programs
and their presenters; magazines, especially magazines and health;
and celebrity. Her work includes research on popular gardening
programs.
Key Words Summary
media studies, community engagement, residential use
1. Project/Publication
Digging for difference: British and Australian television gardening
programmes. In Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Annette
Surname
Bos
Position
PhD Candidate
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
National Urban Water Governance Program
School of Geography and Environmental Science
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Has background in water related institutional and management
issues, extensively involved in initiatives in Africa and Europe. Her
PhD research (Sustainable Urban Water Management: the Art of
Translation) focuses on the interface of technical and social facets of
water sector management in an urban environment.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, research communication/
translation
1. Project/Publication
Sustainable Urban Water Management: the Art of Translation. PhD
research linked to community water management theme of the
Urban Water Governance Program.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
John
Surname
Brennan
Position
Manager Water efficiency Projects
Organisation
Water Corporation (Western Australia)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Involved in a number of water saving community initiatives such as
Waterwise Garden at the Rockingham Regional Environment Centre.
Key Words Summary
communication, household use, residential use, water services demand management
1. Project/Publication
Waterwise Garden.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Jean
Surname
Brennan
Position
Coordinator
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Water and Catchments
Organisation
Marrickville Council
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Involved in Community Sustainable Water Planning project: a
partnership between Marrickville Council and Monash University
(NUWGP). This research project involves trialling a deliberative
and local community planning process for sustainable water
management. The trial includes different communities across eight
municipalities within the Cooks River Catchment in Sydney. The
project aims to gain insight into alternative planning approaches
often advocated in theory but rarely put into practice. Deliberative
planning processes focus on in-depth involvement of the community
for the identification of local water issues, and the subsequent codesign and co-management of solutions.
Key Words Summary
governance - urban, planning, sustainable management - urban,
community capacity building
1. Project/Publication
Community Sustainable Water Planning
project: a partnership between Marrickville Council and Monash
University (component of project: OurRiver - Cooks River
sustainability Initiative).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Tracy
Surname
Britton
Position
PhD Candidate
Organisation
Griffith University and Wide Bay Water
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Smartwater Research Centre
Overall Research Summary
Current research interests include: analysis of relationships between
society, environment and natural resources, the political sociological
basis of collective action and participatory approaches to natural
resource management and systems of knowledge.
Key Words Summary
human-environment interaction, participatory planning, community
engagement, residential use
1. Project/Publication
Smart Metering for Post Meter Leak Detection and Evaluation in
Residential Households: Implications for Policy and Practice: PhD
Research.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kathleen
Surname
Broderick
Position
CEO
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
NRM South
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research interests in the potential of social research to contribute to
the adaptive management and recovery of linked social-ecological
systems. Innovative social research in catchments will explore
changes in: land management practices; social networks; perception
of management processes; perception of catchment health;
wellbeing; and feedback loops between the social and ecological
systems.
Increasingly interested in governance and institutional arrangements
for NRM.
Key Words Summary
climate change adaptation, sustainable management - catchments,
human-environment interaction, water services - health
1. Project/Publication
Sustainability and rivers: A case study of communities in the Collie
catchment, Western Australia.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Rebekah
Surname
Brown
Position
Research Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash Sustainability Institute
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Professor
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University
Overall Research Summary
With a background in both engineering and social science, Prof
Brown specialises in sustainable urban water management, adaptive
environmental and socio-technical transitions, and leads a current
research program on the dynamics of socio-institutional reform
that could enhance the successful implementation of decentralised
stormwater harvesting approaches. (See Example 12)
Key Words Summary
governance – urban, integrated approaches, organisational change,
stormwater, water sensitive urban design
1. Project/Publication
National Urban Water Governance Program and Centre for Water
Sensitive Cities.
2. Project/Publication
Advancing Policy and Organisational Receptivity to Water Sensitive
Urban Design: research on advancing the adoption of Water Sensitive
Urban Design (WSUD) principles in practice, through improving
knowledge of the design and operation of water biofiltration systems.
3. Project/Publication
Comparative Study of Urban Water Governance in Australia: This
project aimed to test the significance of different institutional
arrangements and other factors in terms of how they constrain and/
or enable progress towards Water Sensitive Cities. It involved an
in-depth and comparative analysis across Brisbane, Melbourne and
Perth.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Shelley
Surname
Burgin
Position
Professor
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
School of Natural Sciences, Provost Hawkesbury Campus
Organisation
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Areas of research include Landscape Management, Environmental
Management, Aquatic ecology, Herpetology, increasingly focused on
environmental management in peri-urban Western Sydney. Involved
in implementation and development of catchment management in
NSW.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, catchment, community
engagement
1. Project/Publication
Water Futures: using Participatory Action-Research methods to
explore the challenge of getting real community engagement in
social-environmental planning for water sustainability - with Tony
Webb.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Jeff
Surname
Camkin
Position
Adjunct Associate Professor Water Resource Management
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Centre of Excellence for Ecohydrology, School of Environmental
Systems Engineering
Organisation
University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Visiting Professor
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC), Lisbon, Portugal
Overall Research Summary
Interests in governance of water and other natural resource
management; water resources policy, allocation and management;
bridging the science, policy, stakeholder divide, improving integration
of multiple scientific disciplines for better science impact.
Key Words Summary
governance, integrated approaches, interdisciplinary partnerships,
irrigation, communication/translation, research management,
stakeholder consultation
1. Project/Publication
Institutional Design Principles for Climate Change Adaptation. Global
Environmental Change (under review) (P. Huntjens, first author). ASEM
Waternet Program Water - a collaboration between Asia and Europe
for improved water management.
2. Project/Publication
Designs for the future: The role of sustainable irrigation in northern
Australia. In Sustainable Irrigation: Management Technologies and
Policies II.
Northern Australia Irrigation Futures project. A collaboration between
the Australian, Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australian
Governments, CSIRO and the CRC for Irrigation Futures.
3. Project/Publication
Review of existing cultural and social initiatives and key groups and
organisations across northern Australia associated with water (C. J.
Robinson, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
John
Surname
Cary
Position
Professorial Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation (ISI)
Organisation
Victoria University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research into human and social behaviour related to natural
resource management and water use, socio-economic and social
impact analysis, public attitude measurement, policy development
and technology transfer.
Key Words Summary
behavioural change, attitudes, governance - policy, sustainable
management - rivers, public acceptance/trust
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Rob
Surname
Catchlove
Position
Director
Organisation
Alluvium
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Environmental Scientist with experience in investigating,
promoting and delivering water sensitive urban design within the
Lower Yarra region. Member of research consultancy Alluvium.
(Formerly with Melbourne Water.)
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - water sensitive urban design, urban
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Michael
Surname
Cathcart
Position
Broadcaster
Organisation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Lecturer
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Historical and Philosophical Studies,
Melbourne University
Overall Research Summary
Broadcaster and journalist for the national network, and
environmental historian with particular interests in colonial period
imaginings of land and water, water issues between settlers and
indigenous inhabitants, and the Murray-Darling Basin. His book
Water Dreamers received the Colin Roderick Award in 2010 and
was shortlisted for both the Prime Minister’s and the NSW Premier’s
literary prizes for non-fiction.
Key Words Summary
History, cultural values, beliefs and practices, traditional ownership,
indigenous knowledge, lakes rivers and floodplains.
1. Project/Publication
The Water Dreamers: The remarkable history of our dry continent
52 | Tributaries: A Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Bethany
Surname
Cooper
Position
Recent PhD candidate
Organisation
La Trobe University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on community attitudes to water restrictions: households
surveyed included communities that have endured water restrictions
for some time, like Bendigo and Goulburn, and others where
restrictions are relatively recent. More than half of the sample came
from Sydney and Melbourne.
Key Words Summary
governance - restrictions, attitudes, cultural values, beliefs and
practices
1. Project/Publication
Does anybody like water restrictions? Some observations in
Australian urban communities: PhD Research.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Lin
Surname
Crase
Position
Professor of Applied Economics/ Executive Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Albury-Wodonga Campus, Applied Economics
Faculty of Law and Management
Organisation
La Trobe University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research into Institutional Arrangements for Natural Resource
Management and Water Policy.
Key Words Summary
governance - policy, restrictions, markets, pricing - policy and
regulation
1. Project/Publication
Reforming Institutions in Water Resource Management: Policy and
Performance for Sustainable Development.
2. Project/Publication
Water Policy in Australia: The Impact of Change and Uncertainty,
Resources for the Future.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Mary
Surname
Crooks
Position
Executive Director
Organisation
Victorian Women’s Trust
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Project Manager
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Water Mark Australia project
Overall Research Summary
Project Director of Water Mark Australia Project: a nationwide,
community engagement project based around issues of water
sustainability began in 2005 and brings together small groups of
people to meet monthly to discuss water, sharing their thoughts,
anecdotes and ‘folk-wisdom’, to bring it all back to the Watermark
Australia team.
Key Words Summary
community education, community engagement, organisational
change, knowledge brokering
1. Project/Publication
Water Mark Australia Project: an initiative of the Victorian Women’s
Trust.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Allan
Surname
Dale
Position
Policy, Planning and Research Leader (NRM Governance)
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Cairns Institute
Organisation
James Cook University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research areas include: Land-use planning, Environmental and
social impact assessment, Indigenous issues in natural resource
management, Strategic and corporate planning, Lecturing/training
in planning and development theory, Land resources assessment,
management and rehabilitation, Rural enterprise and community
development.
Key Words Summary
governance, planning, climate change adaptation, indigenous
knowledge, indigenous water management, sustainable
management, land and water, regional, impact analysis
1. Project/Publication
Social Assessment in Natural Resource Management Institution.
2. Project/Publication
Integrating effort for regional natural resource outcomes: the Wet
Tropics experience.
3. Project/Publication
Integrating knowledge to inform water quality planning in the TullyMurray basin.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Chris
Surname
Daniels
Position
Professor of Urban Ecology/ Institute Deputy Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Barbara Hardy Institute
Organisation
School of Natural & Built Environments, University of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Development and promotion of strategies that enhance urban
living and encourage education, communication and awareness
of the importance of the urban ecological environment, including
citizen science, evolution of animals, adaptation to rapidly changing
environments and human animal interactions.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, community education, governance
- climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
Adelaide: Water of a City.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Helen
Surname
Delaporte
Position
Manager
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Water Efficiency, Water Industry Division
Organisation
Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Extensive experience working in the Department of Sustainability
and Environment with a background in urban infrastructure and road
safety. Currently managing The Water Smart Behaviour Program
(Victorian Government Initiative).
Key Words Summary
behavioural change, household use, community education
1. Project/Publication
The WaterSmart Behaviour Change Program: a Victorian Government
initiative to help people achieve their goals to reduce water use in
their homes.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Phil
Surname
Donaldson
Position
Project Director
Organisation
Lochiel Park
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Closely involved with Lochiel Park from the beginning of the project.
In his role as Director Sustainability Policy and Programs at the Land
Management Corporation, he has worked to embed sustainability
principles into all LMC’s projects, and has used Lochiel Park as a
working example.
Key Words Summary
community capacity building, community education, sustainable
management – urban
1. Project/Publication
Lochiel Park Project: The site has been transformed from a former
education institution to model green village incorporating a raft of
best practice sustainable technologies. Lochiel Park will serve as
a model for other urban developments and assist in educating the
public and the property development industry about sustainable
housing and land development, with South Australia Government.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Corinna
Surname
Doolan
Position
Project Manager
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Water & Energy Futures
Science & Technology, Sustainability Division
Organisation
Sydney Water
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Currently Project Manager - Water and Energy Futures at Sydney
Water. Previously Deputy Program Leader, Distribution Program at
CRC Water Quality and Treatment.
Professional Scientist and Systems Operations Officer at Sydney
Water.
Key Words Summary
behavioural change, residential use, water services - supply
1. Project/Publication
Smart Metering Residential Project.
2. Project/Publication
Valuing Water. (See Project Example 1)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Stephen
Surname
Dovers
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Fenner School of Environment and Society Organisation
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Charles Darwin University
Overall Research Summary
Research and post-graduate supervision in theoretical and policy
dimensions of sustainability, institutional arrangements for resource
management, science-policy linkages, climate change adaptation
and Australian environmental history.
Key Words Summary
research management, governance - policy, climate change
adaptation, organisational change, history, research management interdisciplinary
1. Project/Publication
Managing water for Australia (K. Hussey, first author).
2. Project/Publication
Urban water: Policy, institutions and government.
3. Project/Publication
Troubled waters - ASSA National Symposium and follow-up ANU
intensive workshop: bringing together lead social science researchers
to examine non-engineering (social, cultural, political, historical)
responses to water scarcity in Australian cities.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Michael
Surname
du Plessis
Position
Consultant
Organisation
GreenIce
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Director of consultancy Greenice. Research areas include: R&D
management, innovation, new product development, carbon
accounting, water, energy and eco footprinting.
Areas of expertise include: Carbon accounting using macroeconomic
models (input output analysis), Hybrid Life, Cycle Assessment, R&D
strategy, R&D process development, R&D Tax Concession.
Key Words Summary
research management, knowledge brokering, research planning,
innovation, business case development, strategic planning
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Gareth
Surname
Edwards
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
School of Geosciences (Geography)
Organisation
University of Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Currently researching the interplay between water scarcity, notions of
‘justice’ and the ongoing COAG water reforms.
Key Words Summary
governance - policy, equity and access, rights
1. Project/Publication
The construction of scarcity and the mobilization of justice in the
context of neoliberal water reforms in Australia. PhD thesis.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Nick
Surname
Emtage
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
School of Integrative Systems
Organisation
The University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Land use and management and development of planning tools with
an emphasis on maintaining open space and agricultural production
(SEQ region).
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - land and water, governance - planning
1. Project/Publication
MTSRF Transition Program: Integrating landholder research and
Natural Resource Management (NRM) program appraisals for
enhanced NRM arrangements.
2. Project/Publication
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme Marine And Tropical Science Research Facility: 4.9.4 ext a Integrating
ecology, economics and people in forest and landscapes (20082009).
3. Project/Publication
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme Marine & Tropical Science Research Facility: Integrating ecology,
economics and people in forest and landscapes (2006-2010).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Jim
Surname
Falk
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS)
Organisation
University of Melbourne
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Specialises in the study of the nature, impact and management
of science and technology in their social contexts. His research
has focussed particularly on issues associated with globalisation,
technological change and the environment, nuclear technology,
arms races and militarisation, and information and communication
technology in their social settings.
Key Words Summary
climate change adaptation, sustainable management - integraged
approaches
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Dena
Surname
Fam
Position
Researcher
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on sustainable sanitation futures and distributed
wastewater management. Doctoral research is focused on the
potential of systems innovation in wastewater management, in
particular resource recovery systems such as ‘Urine Diversion’.
Key Words Summary
water services - sanitation, dencentralised wastewater, cultural
values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
Kinglake West sustainable sewerage project: Mutual learning for
social change: Yarra Valley Water (YVW). Social research project
(See Example 8)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Simon
Surname
Fane
Position
Research Director
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Future
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Has worked extensively in water conservation, integrated resource
planning, least cost planning, sustainable urban water modelling,
and catchment management. PhD thesis compared distributed
strategies (including water conservation, decentralised water supply
and wastewater systems) to centralised and supply-side options.
Research interests include: options modelling and assessment for
sustainable urban water, regional supply and demand planning, and
the role of distributed and decentralised strategies in water and
wastewater management.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, governance - planning, pricing,
water services - decentralised, wastewater
1. Project/Publication
Regulatory impact statement: minimum water efficiency standards
for showerheads, taps, toilets and urinals.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Megan
Surname
Farrelly
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Lecturer
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Geography and Environmental Science, Faculty of Arts, Monash
University
Overall Research Summary
Sustainable urban water management, sustainable cities, integrated
environmental planning and management, policy formulation,
integration and evaluation, institutional capacity building and
community engagement and participation.
Key Words Summary
governance - planning, policy, urban, sustainable management urban, community engagement, pilot project
1. Project/Publication
Adopting decentralised urban water supplies: overcoming
professional risk perceptions.
This project is undertaken with assistance from the CSIRO’s Water for
a Healthy Country Flagship program.
2. Project/Publication
Exploring the role and significance of demonstration projects in
transforming urban water management practices.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Catherine
Surname
Ferrari
Position
General Manager Communications Group
Organisation
Water Corporation (Western Australia)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Expertise in the strategic positioning of organisations and of
engagement with key stakeholders and the community. Previous
work involved re-vitalising and re-positioning the WA Symphony
Orchestra.
Key Words Summary
communications, utility, behavioural change
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kelly
Surname
Fielding
Position
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Systematic Social Analysis of Residential Water
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Future Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Social Science Research, University of Queensland
Overall Research Summary
Research focuses on understanding the social and psychological
determinants of pro-environmental decisions and behaviours and
developing evidence-based individual and community strategies to
increase pro-environmental actions. Projects in this area focus on
sustainable natural resource management, household water and
energy use, community acceptance of recycled water, domestic and
public place recycling, and environmental activism.
Key Words Summary
residential use, sustainable management - urban, household use,
attitudes, community engagement, behaviour change
1. Project/Publication
Systematic Social Analysis of how community values alternative
water supply options: Developing and maintaining community
partnerships for the sustainable use and management of water
resources. (See Example 9)
2. Project/Publication
Environmental sustainability in residential housing: Understanding
attitudes and behaviour towards waste, water, and energy
consumption and conservation among Australian households.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Julian
Surname
Fyfe
Position
Researcher
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Has been an analyst and project manager on a range of water
and wastewater related projects. These have included urban
water demand forecasting and planning, climate correction
modelling, distributed wastewater infrastructure options scoping
and modelling, analysis of large water use surveys using multiple
analysis techniques and review of national sustainability assessment
approaches in neighbourhood-scale urban development. Recent
project evaluating the water quality impacts and operational
performance of best management practice in dairy shed waste for
the Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA).
Key Words Summary
water services - wastewater, governance - planning, sustainable
management - impact analysis, urban
1. Project/Publication
Best practice in waste management on dairy farms looking at waste
minimisation, wastewater treatment and recycling and resource
recovery. PhD research.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Vivian
Surname
Garde
Position
Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Community and Stakeholder Engagement
Organisation
South East Water Ltd
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research and delivery of a range of community and stakeholder
engagement projects across a variety of industries. Currently working
for South East Water as Manager of Community and Stakeholder
Engagement, developing a community engagement culture in the
organisation.
Key Words Summary
community engagment, cultural values, beliefs and practices, utility,
stakeholder consultation, organisational change
1. Project/Publication
South East Water’s Community Engagement Framework.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Anne
Surname
Gardiner
Position
Principal Scientist
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Office of the Water Supply Regulator
Organisation
Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management
Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Studies of household water use and decentralized water acceptability.
PhD examined social and governance aspects of the implementation
of Water Sensitive Urban Design.
Key Words Summary
behavioural change, decentralised, governance – urban, water
quality, water security, water sensitive urban design
1. Project/Publication
Do rainwater tanks herald a cultural change in household water use?
2. Project/Publication
Implementing Water Sensitive Urban Design: The context of changing
urban stormwater technologies in Australia, University of Newcastle
(PhD Thesis). Research on social and governance aspects of the
implementation of Water Sensitive Urban Design.
3. Project/Publication
Domestic rainwater tanks: Usage and maintenance patterns in South
East Queensland.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Ted
Surname
Gardner
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability
Organisation
Central Queensland University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Formerly Principal Research Scientist
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Integrated Urban Water Systems group, CSIRO
Overall Research Summary
Research on the design and management of decentralised water and
waste water systems, as well as urban storm water harvesting and
reuse.
Key Words Summary
decentralised - supply, recycling, wastewater, sustainable
management - urban, integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Currumbin Village Case Study.
2. Project/Publication
Life Cycle Assessment of Water Cycle Alternatives. (J. Lane, first author.)
Purified recycled water for drinking: The technical issues.
(Queensland Water Commision; Co-editor.)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Andrea
Surname
Gaynor
Position
Associate Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of History
Organisation
University of Western Australia (UWA)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Australian environmental history and the history of science and
technology, urban history, heritage and history, Australian studies,
animals in history, history of consumption, garden history.
Key Words Summary
communication, sustainable management - history, governance history
1. Project/Publication
Colonists and the Land: An environmental history of nineteenthcentury Australia.
2. Project/Publication
People, Place and the Pipeline: Visions and impacts of the Goldfields
Water Supply Scheme, 1896-1906 (J. Davis, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Assoc Prof
First Name
Rod
Surname
Giblett
Position
Associate Professor, Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Research in Entertainment, Arts, Technology, Education &
Communications
Organisation
School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Giblett’s writings cover a variety of fields including literature,
communication and cultural studies, with a special emphasis on the
environmental humanities, including historical and ecological and
cultural studies of colonial settlement and urbanisation of wetlands
in Western Australia and Canada, and philosophical work on the
relationships of culture, nature, land and water.
Key Words Summary
cross-cultural, cultural values, beliefs and practices, history, land and
water, lakes rivers and floodplains.
1. Project/Publication
Landscapes of culture and nature.
2. Project/Publication
The Tao of water
3. Project/Publication
Black and White Water: Cross-Cultural Colour-Coding of the LifeBlood of the Earth-Body.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Ute
Surname
Goeft
Position
Associate
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Natural Sciences
Organisation
Edith Cowan University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research (for PhD) in social aspects integral to water management:
social water needs reveal the complete permeation of water into all
areas of human life, from the basics of survival and health to the
ethical and spiritual spheres. All these social aspects, or values, of
water, should be integral to water management.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices, sustainable management integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Water Centrality for Water and Society. PhD research on importance
of social aspects to water management.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Margaret
Surname
Gooch
Position
Manager (Social and Economic Research)
Organisation
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Building resilience and sustainability of catchment groups and
environmental volunteers - coastal Queensland.
Key Words Summary
professional development, sustainable management - catchment,
community engagement, community education
1. Project/Publication
How do primary pre-service teachers in a regional Australian
university plan for teaching, learning and acting in environmentally
responsible ways?
2. Project/Publication
Voices of the volunteers: an exploration of the influences that
volunteer experiences have on the resilience and sustainability of
catchment groups in coastal Queensland.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Heather
Surname
Goodall
Position
Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Social and Political Change Group
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on indigenous histories and relationships in Australia;
environmental history, focused on water, rivers and oceans and
tracing in particular the ways environmental issues are used in social
conflicts and inter-cultural social relations; intercolonial networks,
particularly those between Australia and India and around the Indian
Ocean, and including the decolonization conflicts of the mid 20th
century in India, Indonesia and Australia.
Key Words Summary
governance, history, indigenous knowledge, management, water
rights, lakes, rivers, floodplains
1. Project/Publication
Investigated the use of an urban river and parklands in a high conflict
area of working class Sydney, the Georges River, by a range of
class and ethnic groups, including Indigenous, Anglo, Vietnamese
and Arabic-speaking communities. With the NSW Department of
Environment and Climate Change.
2. Project/Publication
Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney’s Georges River.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Quentin
Surname
Grafton
Position
Professor and Co-Chair
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
ANU Water Initiative
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Researches and writes on the economics of water and sits on a
number of advisory boards including as Chair of the Social and
Economics Reference Panel of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission
(2008-2009) and a member of the National Council on Education
for Sustainability (2008-2010). Research interests include: water
pricing , water markets and water economics, social networks and
network theory, fisheries management - especially marine reserves,
property rights (especially quantitative instruments in resource and
environmental management).
Key Words Summary
governance - pricing, markets, planning, rights, policy and
regulation, sustainable management - coastal, estuarine, marine
1. Project/Publication
Limits to the Privatization of Fishery Resources: Comment.
2. Project/Publication
Prices versus Rationing: Marshallian Surplus and Mandatory Water
Restrictions
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Sue
Surname
Graham-Taylor
Position
Historian
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
History Council of Western Australia
Organisation
Western Australia Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Dr Graham-Taylor, a former president of the Conservation Council
of WA, has been involved with many policies and legislation of
environmental issues through executive roles with a range of
organisations. Her work in air pollution, particularly in her role with
the development of Perth’s Air Quality Management Plan, and the
area of waste management is significant.
Key Words Summary
history, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
Swan River Stories website http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/swan_river.
Swan River Stories provides a fascinating look at the social, political
and environmental history of Perth water, as told through the use of
original photographs and text specifically written for the site .
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Janice
Surname
Gray
Position
Senior Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Law
Organisation
University of NSW
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include Property, Equity, Native Title and Water
Law. Background as a solicitor and retains current practising
certificate. Served on the Property Law Committee of the NSW
Law Society. Amongst courses taught are a Masters Level unit on
Water Rights and Contemporary Policy. Although usually employing
standard legal research methods, she has also collaborated with
researchers from social and ‘hard’ sciences. Has co-authored a
major paper on rights in sewage and is currently a researcher on a
UTS Project about transitioning to sustainable sanitation.
Key Words Summary
governance - law, rights, policy, sanitation, equity and access
1. Project/Publication
‘Water Poverty’ in Australia.
2. Project/Publication
Exploiting the Unspeakable.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Julian
Surname
Gray
Position
CEO
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Smart Approved WaterMark
Organisation
Australian Water Association, Irrigation Australia, Nursery and Garden
Industry and Water Services Association of Australia
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Heading up Smart Approved WaterMark, Australia’s labelling scheme
for products and services that are helping to reduce water use
outdoors and around our homes.
Key Words Summary
communication, community education, labelling
1. Project/Publication
Smart Approved WaterMark.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Stephen
Surname
Gray
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation
Organisation
Victoria University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Professor Gray is the Director of the Institute for Sustainability and
Innovation, and co-ordinates a multi-disciplinary research program.
Research interests include water treatment, membrane fouling,
high recovery desalination processes, membrane fabrication,
membrane distillation, high strength flocculation and integrated water
management.
Key Words Summary
water services - water quality, supply, sustainable management integrated approaches, research management
1. Project/Publication
Cluster Leader, Advanced Membrane Technologies for Water
Treatment Research Cluster, funded by CSIRO.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Michelle
Surname
Graymore
Position
Research Fellow
Organisation
Deakin University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Sustainable water management particularly developing water use
behaviour change programs with residential and farm users in rural
and regional areas, and decision support tools for water allocation
for community engagement and to enhance transparency in water
allocation decision making.
Key Words Summary
sustainable water management - regional, rural and/or remote,
attitudes, behavioural change, residential use, community engagement,
demand management
1. Project/Publication
Reshaping water saving attitudes in southwest Victoria:
Project developed and tested behavior change strategies to encourage
sustainable water use by regional urban and rural customers of
Wannon Water in south west Victoria, 2007-2010, Deakin University,
funded by Victorian Water Trust through the Smart Water Fund and
Alcoa Foundation through Portland Aluminium.
Household water use behavior: An integrated model
(B. Jorgensen, first author).
Water savings or water efficiency? Water-use attitudes and behaviour
in rural and regional areas.
2. Project/Publication
Footy, flows, fields and families – water allocation and community
resilience: Development and piloting of a visualisation tool for
community engagement about water allocation decisions and
investigation into the role of water availability in community resilience in
the Wimmera, 2008-2009, Deakin University and University of Ballarat.
Driving Water Futures: The Use of an Interactive Visualisation Tool for
Community Water Allocation Engagement
(McRae-Williams, P., first author).
3. Project/Publication
A framework for Community Reasoning and Decision-making on Water:
Developed and tested a decision support tool for water authorities
which provides transparency to water allocation decisions based on
an adapted version of Maslow’s hierarchy of social needs for water
management and sustainability principals, 2009-2010, Deakin
University and University of Ballarat.
A Reasoning Framework for decision making in water allocation: a tree
for water decisions.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Alan
Surname
Gregory
Position
Theme Leader
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Urban Water, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Leads a team examining cities as total urban systems and
investigating the full impact of urban water activities, from the
ocean to the outer reaches of water supply catchments. Previously
the manager of water conservation and recycling for Sydney Water,
where his primary focus was on demand management, water
recycling and integrated water service provision.
Key Words Summary
water services - demand management, recycling, sustainable
management - urban, integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Increasing water benefits in Australia’s major urban centres.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Robyn
Surname
Grey-Gardner
Position
Senior researcher and consultant
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on management of water supplies in indigenous
communities, sustainable management of water.
Key Words Summary
indigenous knowledge, indigenous water management, sustainable
management - remote
1. Project/Publication
Guidelines and Best Practice Documentation - Water Supply
in Remote lndigenous Communities: This project developed an
information package, including materials such as diagrams, maps,
and tables, that assists with preparing usable and understandable
drinking water management plans.
2. Project/Publication
Project initiated by the National Water Commission involved the
production of the community water planner field guide. It also
provided the opportunity for partnerships to be created to conduct
work involved in providing potable water supply to remote Indigenous
communities.
Publication:
Community Water Planner Field Guide.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Peter
Surname
Guttmann
Position
Senior Policy Analyst
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Water Sector Group
Organisation
Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Commissions and reviews research and policy relating to water
resources, especially residential use.
Key Words Summary
research management, residential use, behavioural change, policy
1. Project/Publication
WaterSmart behaviour change program.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
David
Surname
Halliwell
Position
Program Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Wastewater and Recycled Water Programs
Organisation
Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Facilitate collaborative research of national application on behalf of
the Australian Water Industry with a focus on drinking water quality,
recycled water and aspects of wastewater management.
Key Words Summary
water services - water quality, recycling, wastewater, governance planning
1. Project/Publication
Current projects under management by Water Quality Research
Australia.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Kate
Surname
Harriden
Position
Researcher
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
New Flows Research
Organisation
Co-convenor of household water research network
Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Master of Geographical Sciences (candidate)
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian National University
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on generating household scale water use data,
with gender emphasis, and investigating household water use and
management expertise using water diaries; slum development
impacts on fluvial hydrology.
Key Words Summary
household studies, cultural values, beliefs and practices, gender and
consumption, pilot, behaviour change, governance – rural, urban
1. Project/Publication
Water Diary – a methodology to disaggregate by gender - Based on
pilot household study.
‘Water Diaries: Capturing Intra-household water attitudes and uses’
2. Project/Publication
Household Water Use Researchers Network (Co-Convenor).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Gay
Surname
Hawkins
Position
Professorial Research Fellow, Deputy Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies
Organisation
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on ecological humanities, materiality and biopolitics, and
the relations between government, media and everyday life.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices, media studies, history
1. Project/Publication
From the tap to the bottle: an international study of the social and
material life of bottled water. Co-researchers Dr Kane Race, Sydney
University and Dr Emily Potter, Deakin.
Plastic Water: The social and material life of bottled water
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Lesley
Surname
Head
Position
Laureate Fellow and Director of AUSCCER
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on long term changes in the Australian landscape
and interactions of both prehistoric and contemporary peoples with
these environments; using a range of analytical tools from cultural
geography, archaeology and palaeoecology.
Key Words Summary
history, sustainable management - urban, human-environment
interaction, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
The Backyard Project: Addresses the challenge of managing
environments for hybridity, change and human presence, rather than
timeless purity.
Nature, networks and desire - changing cultures of water in Australia.
2. Project/Publication
Making Less Space for Carbon: household sustainability in the
Illawarra, NSW (with Gordon Waitt, Chris Gibson, Nick Gill, Carol
Farbotko). Builds adaptive capacity for climate change mitigation and
adaptation, using cultural research.
Climate change and household dynamics: beyond consumption,
unbounding sustainability (C. Gibson, first author).
Is it easy being green? On the dilemmas of material cultures of
household sustainability. In Material cultures of sustainability
(C. Gibson, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Colin
Surname
Hocking
Position
Coordinator
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Irramoo Sustainable Community Centre
Organisation
Victoria University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Senior Research Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Faculty of Health, Engineering & Science; and Institute for
Sustainability & Innovation, Victoria University
Overall Research Summary
Coordination and development of Iramoo Sustainable Community
Centre, part of the Victoria University, St Albans campus. Research
covers scientific research into the management, recovery and
weed control in native lowland grasslands, and social research and
developmental action research into the ways that people learn and
change to achieve sustainability outcomes, including biodiversity
outcomes.
Key Words Summary
community education, community engagement, community capacity
building, sustainable management - urban
1. Project/Publication
Iramoo Sustainable Community Centre – Sustainability Street Project.
Taking sustainability to the streets. Final Evaluation Report
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Ralph
Surname
Horne
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Design
Organisation
College of Design & Social Context , RMIT University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research interest in social and policy change for environmentally
sustainable design and development, with experience of
environmental techniques including environmental impact
assessment, life cycle assessment, environmental management
systems and sustainability appraisal. He combines research
leadership and participation in research projects concerning
the environmental, social and policy context of production and
consumption in the urban environment.
Current projects:
Lifetime Affordable Housing in Australia: Integrating environmental
performance and affordability – integrated life cycle costing and
environmental performance assessment of housing options and
policy analysis.
More than a Roof Overhead - meeting the need for a sustainable
housing system in remote indigenous communities - system
development of design, consultation, building and enhancing socioeconomic benefits through sustainable housing provision.
Key Words Summary
research management, interdisciplinary partnerships, governance policy, human-environment interaction, impact analysis
1. Project/Publication
‘Limits to labels: The role of eco-labels in the assessment of product
sustainability and routes to sustainable consumption’
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Jasmine
Surname
Hoye
Position
Research Director
Organisation
GA Research
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research specialty in designing research programmes assessing
community and stakeholder sentiment and behaviours.Conducted
social and market research studies in the water, energy, waste, and
natural resource management covering transport, climate change
and behavioural change. Founded the annual Ipsos-Eureka Climate
Change survey.
Key Words Summary
behaviour change, stakeholder consultation, market research,
communication
1. Project/Publication
Ipsos-Eureka Climate Change survey.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Anna
Surname
Hurlimann
Position
Senior Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Urban Planning
Organisation
University of Melbourne
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Teaching and research activities focus on issues of environmentally
sustainable cities with particular interest in the sustainable
management of water resources. Project areas include community
attitudes to alternative water sources, planning policy to promote
effective catchment management, an assessment of the social and
equity outcomes of adaptation to sea level rise in Gippsland Victoria,
education for sustainability, and curriculum development.
Key Words Summary
community acceptance, attitudes, decentralised - supply, governance
- policy, planning, climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
Water for Australia’s Future - Reducing Fears and Increasing
Acceptance of Alternative Water Sources through Public Information
(with University of Wollongong).
Publications:
What effects public acceptance of recycled and desalinated water?
(S. Dolnicar, first author).
When Public Opposition Defeats Alternative Water Projects – The
Case Of Toowoomba Australia.
Understanding behaviour to inform water supply management in
developed nations - A review of literature, conceptual model and a
research agenda.
2. Project/Publication
CRC for Water Quality and Treatment Project No. 201307–
Community Attitudes to Recycled Water Use: an Urban Australian
Case Study Part 2.
Is Recycled Water Use Risky? An Urban Australian Community’s
Perspective.
3. Project/Publication
Revealing Hidden Waters – Socio-cultural perspective on water
planning, management and practice: an inter-disciplinary study of
water on the margins of Melbourne (with: F. Miller, A. Bolitho, N.
Jamison, K. Bowen). 2010.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Karen
Surname
Hussey
Position
Senior Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Fenner School of Environment and Society,
College of Medicine, Biology and Environment
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Co-Chair
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
ANU Water Initiative
Overall Research Summary
Research on water policy, agri-environment policy, water-energynexus and global environmental governance.
Key Words Summary
governance, policy, institutions
1. Project/Publication
Managing water for Australia: the social and institutional challenges
(Co-edited with Dovers, Stephen)
2. Project/Publication
Climate-Energy-Water Links: Lessons from Australia and the United
States, 2010-2012, ANU, United States Studies Centre.
3. Project/Publication
Water Resources Planning and Management: Challenges and
Solutions (Co-edited with Grafton, Quentin)
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Jorg
Surname
Imberger
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Water Research
Organisation
University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on lakes with focus on understanding the underlying
transport and mixing processes that control the health of the lake
ecosystem. Development of real time self learning management
systems that allow a natural ecosystem to be managed for multiple
objectives. Director of research centre that conducts some social
research.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - lakes, health, research management
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Ray
Surname
Ison
Position
Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Geography and Environmental Science
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Adjunct Professor
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Overall Research Summary
Research in developing and evaluating systemic, participatory and
process-based environmental decision making, natural resource
management, organisational change and R&D methodologies.
Key Words Summary
research management - methodologies, participatory planning,
organisational change, integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Adaptive water governance and systemic thinking for future NRM:
Action research to build MDBA capability. (See Example 13)
2. Project/Publication
Research into the history of water managing in the Goulburn-Broken
Catchment.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Sue
Surname
Jackson
Position
Senior Research Scientist
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Division of Ecosystem Sciences
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Social and cultural dimensions of marine, coastal and water resource
management. Current research on Indigenous values of water and
their successful incorporation into contemporary water resource
management frameworks. Also conducting research on collaborative
water planning and the social impacts of water allocation decisions.
PhD on native title and environmental planning in Northern Australia
with case studies in Darwin and Broome, Western Australia.
Key Words Summary
water planning, water management, indigenous knowledge,
indigenous water management, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
National Indigenous Water Planning Forum: Background paper
2. Project/Publication
Indigenous Interests in Tropical Rivers: Research and Management
Issues.
3. Project/Publication
Incorporating social values into environment management – CSIRO
research program includes projects on: Indigenous values and
north Australian water resource management; Assessing the social
and economic values of Australia’s tropical rivers; Tropical river
management and water policy: Indigenous interests; Indigenous
socio-economic values and river flows. Resources on these projects
found at
http://www.terc.csiro.au/research.asp?Program=SOCVALUES
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Tamara
Surname
Jackson
Position
Post Doctoral Fellow -Water and Energy Analyst
Organisation
Charles Sturt University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Formerly at CRC Irrigation Futures
Overall Research Summary
Irrigation, water resource management and food security. PhD
was on ‘Assessing the on-farm water and energy nexus in
irrigated agriculture’, with emphasis on energy and greenhouse
gas emissions impacts associated with converting from flood to
pressurised irrigation systems - South East of South Australia and the
Coleambally Irrigation Area in NSW.
Key Words Summary
irrigation, sustainable management - rural, sustainable management
- land and water
1. Project/Publication
An Appraisal of the on-farm water and energy nexus in irrigated
agriculture. PhD thesis.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Lesley
Surname
Jolly
Position
Adunct Academic
Organisation
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Anthropologist with an interest in organisational culture and
technology studies who has experience working with engineers in
both academic and industrial settings.
Key Words Summary
organisational change, cultural values, beliefs and practices,
interdisciplinary parternships
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Nina
Surname
Keath
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
National Urban Water Governance Program
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University
Overall Research Summary
Research focus around local government capacity issues and the role
of knowledge brokering and capacity building to achieve sustainable
urban water management. Has been responsible for managing a
range of capacity building projects involving in-depth stakeholder
research, targeted interviews and case study development in addition
to resource and training development and delivery.
Key Words Summary
governance - urban, community capacity building, sustainable
management - urban, knowledge brokering, stakeholder consultation
1. Project/Publication
Urban Water Management in Cities: Historical, Current and Future
Regimes (R. Brown first author)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Ganesh
Surname
Keremane
Position
Research Associate
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Comparative Water Polices and Laws
Organisation
University of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
Overall Research Summary
Research on using alternative sources of water for non-potable uses
with emphasis on public acceptance/trust/policy and regulation.
Key Words Summary
governance, policy and regulation, public acceptance/trust,
stormwater, wastewater
1. Project/Publication
The role of community participation and partnerships: The Virginia
pipeline scheme.
2. Project/Publication
Successful wastewater reuse scheme and sustainable development:
A case study in Adelaide.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Anthony
Surname
Kiem
Position
Hydroclimatologist/Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and
Information Technology
Organisation
University of Newcastle
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Member of Environmental and Climate Change Research Group
(ECCRG)
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Faculty of Science, University of Newcastle
Overall Research Summary
Impacts of climate variability on change on water resources and
associated adaptation strategies in the Asia-Pacific region. Of
particular interest are hydrological extremes and how these may
change in the future.
Key Words Summary
climate change adaptation, sustainable management - regional
1. Project/Publication
Drought and the Future of Small Inland Towns: Drought impacts and
adaptation in regional Victoria, Australia.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Richard
Surname
Kingsford
Position
Centre Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre
Organisation
University of NSW
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Professor of Environmental Science
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
New South Wales
Overall Research Summary
Research on rural water and the environment trying to bridge that
gap between the science and the links to community. Currently
working on WISE (Water Information System for the Environment)
Key Words Summary
research management, science communication, sustainable
management - rural and/or remote, sustainable management - lakes,
rivers, floodplains
1. Project/Publication
Water Information System for the Environment (WISE): an innovative
software package for managing information on water for an entire
catchment and across catchments.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kuntala
Surname
Lahiri-Dutt
Position
Fellow in the Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Convenor of Graduate Studies
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian National University (ANU)
Overall Research Summary
Research areas include women, gender and development;
environmental sustainability; women’s empowerment in relation
to water and mining; communities’ roles and livelihoods in natural
resources, such as in large-scale and artisanal mining, and the water
and sanitation sectors. Research focus primarily on South Asia,
mainly India, also Bangladesh and Indonesia. (See also Example 11)
Key Words Summary
governance - equity and access, rights, engagement - crosscultural, sanitation, cultural values, beliefs and practices, sustainable
management - land and water
1. Project/Publication
Gender Water Network (GWN): links students, professionals and
researchers with interests related to gender concerns in water
resource management.
2. Project/Publication
Fluid Bonds: Views on gender and water.
3. Project/Publication
Community participation in water resource management in South
Asia.
Water First: Issues and Challenges for Nations and Communities.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Steffen
Surname
Lehmann
Position
Director; Chair of Sustainable Design
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Univeristy of South Australia
Organisation
School of Art, Architecture and Design
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Professor of Sustainable Design
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Zero Waste SA, government agency (Adelaide)
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on sustainable design and holistic system thinking for
high performance city districts and green buildings, interdisciplinary
design strategies for green urbanism and healthy cities, urban
regeneration and resource recovery through the adaptive reuse
of buildings, building components and materials, materials flow in
relationship to sustainable urban and architectural development.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, interdisciplinary partnerships,
green buildings and cities
1. Project/Publication
The Principles of Green Urbanism.
2. Project/Publication
General Editor of US-based academic journal Journal of Green
Building, since 2006.
3. Project/Publication
Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development (Co-Editor of
Proceedings,4 Volumes).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Abby Mellick
Surname
Lopes
Position
Senior Lecturer in Design
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Communication Arts
Organisation
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Design for sustainability including developing alternative water-based
sanitation systems. Currently working on pilot project to create
exemplary intervention in the dominant water-based sanitation
system.
Key Words Summary
sustainable design, sanitation, pilot project, transdisciplinary research
1. Project/Publication
Transitioning to sustainable sanitation futures: a transdisciplinary
pilot project of urine diversion, phosphorus recovery and reuse in
agricultural applications.
2. Project/Publication
The challenge of system change: an historical analysis of Sydney’s
sewer systems to determine windows of opportunity for system
change (D. Fam, first author).
3. Project/Publication
‘Irrigation of Urban Green Spaces: A Review of the Environmental,
Social and Economic benefits’ (D. Fam, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Darryl
Surname
Low Choy
Position
Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Urban & Environmental Planning Program, School of Environment
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Professor, Urban
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Research Program
Overall Research Summary
Environmental and landscape planning at the local government and
collaborative regional and catchment levels.
Key Words Summary
governance - planning, climate change adaptation, sustainable
management - regional, peri-urban
1. Project/Publication
Continuity and Change in Peri-urban Australia project 2006 to 2008.
2. Project/Publication
Coastal CRC Environmental Planning project 2003 to 2006.
3. Project/Publication
Comparative study of the development process characteristics of
Asian Hill Stations and Australian outer metropolitan equivalents.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Damian
Surname
Lucas
Position
Policy Advisor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Water & Wetlands Strategy, Department of Environment, Climate
Change and Water
Organisation
NSW Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Developing ways of documenting and characterising Aboriginal
values of water and wetlands, innovative strategies for incorporating
cultural values in the technical domains of environmental planning
and river management.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, cultural values, beliefs and practices,
indigenous knowledge, planning, sustainable management - rivers
1. Project/Publication
Aboriginal Cultural Values of Wetlands in Western NSW (DECCW).
(See Example 14)
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Shelley
Surname
Luxton
Position
Principal Advisor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Urban Water Policy and Management, Department of Environment
and Resource Management
Organisation
Queensland Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Market research to inform policy to assist in demand management
program development, and to test our communication products.
Key Words Summary
demand management, market research, communication
1. Project/Publication
‘Using Research to Develop, Monitor and Evaluate Water Efficiency
Programs in Queensland’
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Amanda
Surname
Lynch
Position
Head of the Monash University Climate
program and a Professor in the School of Geography and
Environmental Sciences
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Regional Climate Group, School of Geography and Environmental
Sciences
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Current research developing a model-based methodology to
characterize the extremes (of climate events) that are not usually
predicted by climate models.
Key Words Summary
climate change, adaptation, community engagement, research
management - methodologies
1. Project/Publication
Federation Fellowship: Complexity in climate impact assessment: a
methodology to address extremes.
2. Project/Publication
Context matters: An integrated assessment of climate vulnerabilities
and adaptations in Alpine Shire, Victoria.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Linda
Surname
MacPherson
Position
Owner/Managing Director
Organisation
New Water Resources
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Actively involved in water resource related planning, research, and
professional organizations addressing water resources issues.
Key Words Summary
community education, communication, governance - planning
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
John
Surname
Marsden
Position
Director
Organisation
Marsden Jacob Associates
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Strategic advice to water and other utilities on economic regulation,
governance, pricing, property rights and environmental/natural
resource economics.
Key Words Summary
governance, pricing, rights
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Edward
Surname
McDonald
Position
Principal Anthropologist
Organisation
Ethnosciences
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Senior Research Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Social Sciences & Asian Languages, Curtin University
Overall Research Summary
Consulting anthropologist on Aboriginal heritage assessment/
clearance surveys. Research conducted for a number of urban
and remote area ground and surface water programs including the
Yarragadee and Gnangara Mound Projects in Metropolitan Perth.
Key Words Summary
community engagement - cross cultural, indigenous knowledge,
indigenous water management, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
Study of Groundwater-Related Aboriginal Cultural Values on the
Gnangara Mound, Western Australia.
Publication:
The Green Frog and Desalination: A Nyungar Metaphor
2. Project/Publication
Study of the Aboriginal Heritage Values of the Proposed Yarragadee
Project, Western Australia.
3. Project/Publication
Various projects in the Pilbara on Indigenous water values and
mining operations with the Eastern Guruma, Nyiyaparli and Martu Idja
Banyjima groups.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Janine
Surname
McDonald
Position
Capacity Building and Communications Project Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of Water
Organisation
Western Australia Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Focus on community and capacity building.
Key Words Summary
governance - planning, community engagement, stakeholder
consultation, research management -coordination
1. Project/Publication
Planning and Coordination of Gnangara Sustainability Strategy.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Jennifer
Surname
McKay
Position
Director: Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Commerce, Division of Business
Organisation
University of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
National Centre of Excellence groundwater research and training
Overall Research Summary
Research interests concern water law reform and in particular
regulatory models for the management and allocation of water
between competing uses and between competing jurisdictions.
Particular attention to ASR and desalinaiton projects.
Key Words Summary
decentralised – supply, governance – urban,
law, policy and regulation, stormwater
1. Project/Publication
Collaborative research with Federal and State government agencies
in Australia and water law reform. Coordinator of the Water
Management Interest Group for the Australian Water Association.
‘The contribution of actors to achieving sustainability in Australia
through water policy transitions’. (S. Hughes first author.)
2. Project/Publication
Comparative law framework for analysing the legal institutional
aspects of Natural Resources Management in Australia and India.
‘Some Australian examples of the integration of environmental,
economic and social considerations into decision making - the
jurisprudence of facts and context’.
3. Project/Publication
Program 5: Integrating Socioeconomics, Policy and Decision Support,
sub program 5C Institutional, Law and Governance issues, National
Centre for groundwater Research and Training.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
John
Surname
McKibbin
Position
PhD Candidate and Research Consultant
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on applying integrated resource planning to inform
cost-effective, desirable and sustainable policy development.
Currently engaged in doctoral research exploring how analyticallyinformed and deliberative decision-making can reveal more resilient,
distributed and integrated urban resource systems.
Key Words Summary
integrated approaches, sustainable management - urban,
governance - policy, planning
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Lynne
Surname
McLoughlin
Position
Senior Education Officer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Community Education Section, Department of Environment, Climate
Change and Water
Organisation
NSW Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Post-1770 Australian environmental history, particularly of the
Sydney Region, environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour,
particularly through conduct of the DECCW’s triennial research into
the environmental knowledge attitudes and behaviour of the people
of NSW, ‘Who Cares about the Environment?’
Key Words Summary
environmental history, attitudes, behaviour change
1. Project/Publication
‘Who Cares About the Environment?’: Measures the environmental
knowledge, attitudes and behaviour of the people of NSW. Who Cares
about the Environment is a social research series that has been
conducted every three years since 1994 to measure environmental
knowledge, views, attitudes and behaviour of people in NSW.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Reid
Surname
McNamara
Position
Manager, Education, Water for Life Education Program
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
NSW Office of Water
Organisation
NSW Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Policy and research on sustainable management of metropolitan
water. Background in local govt, with a growing interest and focus on
behavioural change and community capacity building, especially in
relation to climate change, energy and water.
Key Words Summary
community education, communications, community engagement,
community capacity building, sustainable management - urban
1. Project/Publication
Water for Life Education Program.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Toni
Surname
Meek
Position
Manager, Community Engagement
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Yarra Valley Water
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Community relations specialising in community engagement
and consultation, media relations, risk communication, issues
management, and conflict resolution particularly in environmental
and related areas. Developed and implemented various community
relations initiatives to deal with communities affected by
environmental problems such as soil contamination, industrial
pollution, and large scale water infrastructure construction works and
operations. International involvement, for example, in solid industrial
waste landfill in India.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, community education, communication
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Fiona
Surname
Miller
Position
Future Generation Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of Resource Management and Geography
Organisation
The University of Melbourne
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research fellow in geography at the University of Melbourne
specialising in the social dimensions of environmental change,
especially issues of vulnerability and resilience. She has been
collaborating with a small team of researchers to explore sociocultural perspectives on water in Melbourne.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, cultural values, beliefs and
practices, attitudes, governance – planning, equity and access,
climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
‘Revealing Hidden Waters: Socio-cultural perspectives on water
planning, management and practice’: an inter-disciplinary study of
water on the margins of Melbourne (with Charlotte Catmur, Annie
Bolitho, Anna Hurlimann, Natalie Jamieson, Kathryn Bowen).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Monica
Surname
Minnegal
Position
Anthropologist
Organisation
Melbourne University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research interests concern the articulation of social and ecological
systems, and the processes that shape change in the ways that
people understand relationships to each other and the land.
Current research on anthropological study of commercial fishers
in Victoria. This research investigates the effects of different forms
of engagement with the sea, with markets and with management
on organisation of social relationships, community cohesion and
reproduction, and fisher identity.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices, research communication/
translation, sustainable management – marine
1. Project/Publication
Anthropological study of commercial fishers in Victoria.
Managing risk, resisting management: Stability and diversity in a
southern Australian fishing fleet.
Managing shark fishermen in southern Australia: A critique
(P. Dwyer, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Cynthia
Surname
Mitchell
Position
Professor of Sustainability
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research spans people-centred (cultural change and learning for
sustainability) and techno-centred approaches (life cycle analysis,
water cycle management in industrial and urban settings, water
treatment technologies), with implementation strategies incorporating
critical thinking, context evaluation, and sustainability criteria
development, application, and evaluation.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, cultural values, beliefs and
practices, attitudes, decentralised - supply, sanitation, community
education
1. Project/Publication
Kinglake West sustainable sewerage project: Mutual learning for
social change, with Yarra Valley Water. (See Example 8)
2. Project/Publication
Community indicators framework, with City of Sydney.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Brad
Surname
Moggridge
Position
Indigenous Water Research Specialist
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
CSIRO Land and Water
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Employed by CSIRO Land and Water, primarily to identify gaps in
research relating to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge and values of
water (including surface and ground water) in South East Australia.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices, indigenous knowledge,
indigenous water management, water quality.
1. Project/Publication
Effects of changes in water availability on Indigenous people of the
Murray – Darling Basin: a scoping study (S. Jackson, first author).
2. Project/Publication
Identification of Culturally Significant Groundwater Dependent
Ecosystems and Identification of reaches within management zones
to support Aboriginal Community Development Licenses.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Ruth
Surname
Morgan
Position
PhD Candidate
Organisation
University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include environmental history, perceptions
and understandings climate change, public response to demand
management policies in Western Australia.
Key Words Summary
demand management attitudes, behavioural change, cultural values,
beliefs and practices, history
1. Project/Publication
Drying out: an environmental history of the perceptions and
understandings of a changing climate in southwest Western
Australia, 1829-2007. PhD Research.
‘Climate Change Policy in WA, Australia and the World: What Next?’
2. Project/Publication
A Thirsty City: an environmental history of public responses to water
demand management policies in Perth, WA, 1830s-1980. Honours
Research.
‘A thirsty city: an environmental history of water supply and demand
in 1970s Perth’
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Peter
Surname
Morison
Position
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Urban Water Governance Program, Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focus on urban water policy and practice,
interorganisational networks and social receptivity to alternative
water systems. Recent PhD research on the application of urban
stormwater policy within the typical state-local intergovernmental
context and the refinement of program interventions that are
sympathetic to the relative capacities of the local councils involved.
Key Words Summary
governance - urban, sustainable management - urban, stormwater,
water sensitive urban design
1. Project/Publication
‘Avoiding the presumptive policy errors of intergovernmental
environmental programs: a case analysis of urban stormwater
management’ (with R. Brown).
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Candice
Surname
Moy
Position
PhD Candidate
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research
Organisation
University of Wollongong
Overall Research Summary
PhD research on culture of rainwater tanks.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, cultural values, beliefs and
practices
1. Project/Publication
My Tank, My Water: A Sociocultural Exploration of Suburban
Rainwater Tanks (PhD research working title).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Blair
Surname
Nancarrow
Position
Social Scientist
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Syme & Nancarrow Water
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Visiting Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National
University
Overall Research Summary
Research on determining the triggers of behavioural change in
communities to achieve environmental sustainability in both urban
and rural areas, developing methods to incorporate human values
and quality of life in sustainability assessments, integrating social
science with economics and biophysical sciences for environmental
management and Triple Bottom Line assessments, social justice in
environmental decision making including process for community
definition of fairness and equity in water (re)allocation to multiple
uses.
Key Words Summary
attitudes, behavioural change, community engagement, demand
management, end use studies, equity and access, governance,
methodologies, participatory planning, public acceptance/trust,
recycling, residential use, restrictions, stakeholder consultation
1. Project/Publication
What drives communities’ decisions and behaviours in the reuse of
wastewater. Measuring the predictors of communities’ behavioural
decisions for potable reuse of wastewater.
2. Project/Publication
Predicting community acceptability of alternative urban water supply
systems: A decision making model.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Anitra
Surname
Nelson
Position
Associate Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
RMIT-AHURI (Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute)
Research Centre
Organisation
RMIT University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Community-based groundwater management: interdisciplinary
research addressing the conflict between competing users of bore
water.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - groundwater, sustainable management land and water, community engagement
1. Project/Publication
Interdisciplinary research addressing the conflict between competing
users of bore water.
2. Project/Publication
‘Engagement, but for what kind of marriage?: community members
and local planning authorities’
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Jessica
Surname
North
Position
ARIES Coordinator
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability
(ARIES)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
As a ARIES (The Australian Research Institute for Environment and
Sustainability) Coordinator, Jessica manages the institute, including
designing and developing new projects, liaising with funding bodies,
managing the team and organising the budget. She also oversees the
production of ARIES publications and the management of the ARIES
office.
Key Words Summary
research management, coordination, community capacity building,
community education, professional development
1. Project/Publication
Reviewing water saving messages to culturally and linguistically
diverse (CALD) communities (2009).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Emily
Surname
O’Gorman
Position
Associate Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research
Organisation
University of Wollongong
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on how people live in and understand their environments,
with a particular focus on rivers, weather and climate change.
Interests include: the changing environmental practices and
knowledges of town and urban dwellers, industry members (farmers,
miners), managers and scientists (meteorologists, ecologists,
engineers), as well as the institutions that connect them.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices, history, climate change
adaptation, sustainable management – rivers
1. Project/Publication
Growing Rice on the Murrumbidgee: Histories and Futures of Food
and Water in Australia.
2. Project/Publication
Flood Country: Floods in the Murray and Darling River Systems, 1850
to the Present.
3. Project/Publication
Colonial Meteorologists and Australia’s Variable Weather
4. Project/Publication
Local Knowledge and the State: The 1990 Floods in Cunnamulla,
Queensland, Australia
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Hon.
First Name
Mark
Surname
Parnell
Position
Parliamentary leader
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
The Australian Greens (SA)
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens in the South Australian
Parliament. In 2008 I commissioned a research project titled Water
that doesn’t cost the Earth.
Key Words Summary
supply, desalination, decentralised - supply
1. Project/Publication
Water that doesn’t cost the Earth. This research focussed on
alternative supply strategies for metropolitan Adelaide that did NOT
rely on desalination projects or further extraction from the ailing River
Murray.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Marian
Surname
Patrick
Position
PhD Candidate
Organisation
Edith Cowan University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
OCE Scholarship Holder
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Water for a Healthy Country at CSIRO
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include: Social – Ecological Systems
Transboundary Water Governance.
Key Words Summary
governance - policy, equity and access, sustainable management integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Justice and Scale in Water Allocation. PhD Research.Water scarcity
and issues of equity and justice.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Gillian
Surname
Paxton
Position
Social Researcher
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Exploration and Mining
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected], 0422637000 (mobile)
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include qualitative social research methods, the
interaction between people and their landscape, and the sustainable
management of natural resources.
Key Words Summary
human-environment interaction, governance - compliance,
organisational change
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Emily
Surname
Potter
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Communication and Creative
Arts
Organisation
Deakin University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
The application of cultural and critical theory to questions of water
politics, practices and cultures. An interest in understanding water as
an interdisciplinary concern. Is currently a member of an Australian
Research Council team examing the rise of bottled water as a global
object, its social and material life, the creation of bottled water
markets through diverse governance models, the phenomenon of
ethically-branded bottled water, and the concept of water commons.
Key Words Summary
cultural values, beliefs and practices; history; governance; markets
1. Project/Publication
From the tap to the bottle: an international study of the social and
material life of bottled water. With Gay Hawkins and Kane Race.
‘Drinking to Live: The work of ethically-branded bottled water’.
Plastic Water: The social and material life of bottled water
(G. Hawkins, first author).
2. Project/Publication
Fresh Water: New Perspectives on Water in Australia.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Joseph Michael
Surname
Powell
Position
Historian
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Faculty of Arts
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on the history of water with a focus on Queensland water
history.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - history
1. Project/Publication
Plains of promise, rivers of destiny: water management and the
development of Queensland 1824-1990.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Susan
Surname
Pritchard
Position
Environmental Project Officer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Our River - Cooks River Sustainability Initiative
Organisation
City of Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Currently Project officer on OurRiver - Cooks River Sustainability
Initiative.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, sustainable management - rivers,
governance, community education, water sensitive urban design
1. Project/Publication
OurRiver - Cooks River Sustainability Initiative, see
http://www.ourriver.com.au/cooks-river/
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kane
Surname
Race
Position
Senior Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
Organisation
University of Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research areas include sexuality and queer studies, cultural studies
of health and biopolitics, consumption practices, and science and
technology studies. Co-researcher with Professor Gay Hawkins and
Dr Emily Potter on an ARC Discovery Project, From the tap to the
bottle: an international study of the social and material life of bottled
water.
Key Words Summary
gender and consumption, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
From the tap to the bottle: an international study of the social and
material life of bottled water. With G. Hawkins and E. Potter
Plastic Water: The social and material life of bottled water
(G. Hawkins, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
John
Surname
Radcliffe
Position
Former Commissioner (2005-2008)
Organisation
National Water Commission
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Honorary Research Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
CSIRO
Overall Research Summary
Specialisations in recycling of waste water, policy development,
agricultural research. Has held executive positions in water industry.
Was the Project Director for Australian Academy of Technological
Sciences and Engineering studies, Pesticide Use in Australia during
2001-2 and Director and author of Water Recycling in Australiaduring
2003-4.
Key Words Summary
recycling, wastewater, governance, policy
1. Project/Publication
Water Recycling in Australia: a review undertaken by the Australian
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.
2. Project/Publication
Evolution of water recycling in Australian cities since 2003.
3. Project/Publication
Chair, Eminent Scientists Group, Dept Agriculture, Fisheries and
Forestry.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Vivienne
Surname
Read
Position
Owner/Director
Organisation
Emerging Options
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Consultant and facilitator who uses Cognitive Edge sensemaking
tools and methods in organisational change practice.
Key Words Summary
knowledge brokering, organisational change, community capacity
building, stakeholder consultation
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Cathy
Surname
Robinson
Position
Research Scientist
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Sustainable Ecosystems, Social and Economic Sciences program
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focuses on integrated approaches to water planning
and management with focus on Indigenous values and knowledge
systems.
Key Words Summary
governance, water planning, indigenous knowledge, indigenous water
management, integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Review of existing cultural and social initiatives, and key groups and
organisations across northern Australia associated with water.
2. Project/Publication
‘Institutional complexity and environmental management: the
challenge of integration and the promise of large-scale collaboration’.
(M. Lane first author)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
John
Surname
Rolfe
Position
Professor (Resource Economist)
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Faculty of Arts, Business, Informatics and Education
Organisation
CQ University at Rockhampton
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Program Leader
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Smart Water Research Centre
Overall Research Summary
Specialises in regional development, environmental, resource and
agricultural economic issues, resource tradeoffs, and economic
impact assessment in regional areas. Research interests include:
assessing community water demands, assessing community
attitudes toward water, water demand management, recreational
uses of water, assessing environmental tradeoffs.
Key Words Summary
attitudes, demand management, sustainable management - rural,
residential - end use studies
1. Project/Publication
Demands for water quality and environmental protection in
Rockhampton, with Central Queensland University.CQU).
2. Project/Publication
SEQ Residential End Use Study with UWSRA.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Helen
Surname
Ross
Position
Professor of Rural Community Development
Organisation
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Visiting Lecturer
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
International Water Centre (IWC)
Overall Research Summary
Interdisciplinary social science research (environmental psychologist
and anthropologist) specialising in social aspects of sustainable
development and environmental management. Areas of expertise
include community participation in natural resource management,
collaborative planning and management processes involving
communities and agencies, social impact assessment and
approaches to integration.
Key Words Summary
interdisciplinary partnerships, sustainable management - coastal,
estuarine, marine, participatory planning, community engagement
1. Project/Publication
Understanding and enhancing social resilience, 2006 – 2010.
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Programme.
Marine and Tropical Science Research Facility. Funded by: Reef and
Rainforest Research Centre Limited.
2. Project/Publication
Fishers, Families and Communities: Assessing the Social Impacts of
Fisheries Decline in Queensland Coastal Regions, 2008 - 2009.
Funded by: University of Queensland.
3. Project/Publication
Co-management and Indigenous protected areas in Australia:
achievements and ways forward
4. Project/Publication
A common-pool resource approach for water quality management:
An Australian case study (A. Sarker first author)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Vicki
Surname
Ross
Position
Research Fellow, Health and Environment
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Integrative Systems, School of Natural and Rural Systems
Management
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Smart Water Research Centre
Overall Research Summary
Has undertaken various projects with CSIRO, Queensland EPA, local
councils and several water authorities. PhD research was on Trust in
authorities on public acceptance of recycled water.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management, recycling, public acceptance/trust
1. Project/Publication
Current project examines how risk communication can be enhanced
between scientists, policy-makers and managers of recycled water
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Alice
Surname
Roughley
Position
Socio-environmental consultant
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S)
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Community development and social impact assessments, integrative
approaches in natural resource management and environmental
protection.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, stakeholder consultation, sustainable
management - land and water, integrated approaches
1. Project/Publication
Knowing people: reflections on integrating social science 19782002.
2. Project/Publication
Australia’s Farmers: Past, Present and Future: This project examined
the entry and exit patterns of Australian farmers to build a model
of the farm sector in order to project potential farming population
structures.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Sharon
Surname
Ryall
Position
Centre Research Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Wetlands & Rivers Centre
Organisation
University of NSW
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on rural water and the environment trying to bridge that
gap between the science and the links to community. Currently
working on WISE (Water Information System for the Environment).
Key Words Summary
research management, science communication, sustainable
management - rural and/or remote, sustainable management - lakes,
rivers, floodplains
1. Project/Publication
Water Information System for the Environment (WISE) is an innovative
software package for managing information on water for an entire
catchment and across catchments.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Marie
Surname
Seeman
Position
Former Masters student
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Social and Cultural Studies, Sociology and Anthropology
Organisation
University of Western Australia
Overall Research Summary
PhD research on concepts of belonging in relation to the Swan River
of Perth, Western Australia with a focus on the various ways in which
people express their social and emotional connections to a waterway
often referred to as the ‘soul of the city’. (See Example 5)
Key Words Summary
human-environment interaction, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
Swan River Belonging: social and emotional interactions with an
urban river in the South West of Western Australia. MA Thesis.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Ashok
Surname
Sharma
Position
Principal Research Scientist,Integrated Urban Water Systems
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Land and Water
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Adjunct Professor
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation, Victoria University,
Melbourne
Overall Research Summary
Research in the development of distributed and decentralised
systems and methodologies to allow the transition of existing
systems to more sustainable states through adoption of alternative
systems and technologies.
Key Words Summary
water sensitive urban design, supply, sustainable management urban
1. Project/Publication
Incorporating the Social Dimension into the Assessment of Urban
Water Services: with a particular focus on Greenfield developments
(M. Moglia, first author).
2. Project/Publication
Innovative decentralised designs and technologies to meet the
changing needs of our cities.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Sylvie
Surname
Shaw
Position
Lecturer in Religion and Spirituality Studies
Organisation
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Religion and sustainability. Social and sacred ecology, including social
and spiritual impacts of environmental and climate change, e.g.
decline in fisheries. Connecting human health and wellbeing, ecology
and nature; impacts of ‘ecosocial’ and ‘ecospiritual’ experiences of/
in land, sea, the wild, the sacred, and the numinous. Spirit of extreme
sports. Cultural appropriation, shamanism and the new age, religious
change and diversity.
Key Words Summary
knowledge brokering, sustainable management - coastal, estuarine,
marine, sustainable management - rural, water services –health,
cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Project/Publication
Monitoring and evaluating Moreton Bay and its catchments as a
socio-ecological system: enhancing social science contributions to
marine park management.
The Human Dimension of Moreton Bay Marine Park: A baseline
analysis of social values and perceptions.
2. Project/Publication
Fishers, Families, Communities: Assessing the social impact of
fisheries decline in Queensland coastal regions
(H. Johnson, first author).
3. Project/Publication
Deep Blue: Critical Reflections on Nature Religion and Water.
(A. Francis, co-editor.)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Jenifer
Surname
Simpson
Position
Writer, Researcher
Organisation
New Water Resources
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Writer and Researcher helping to forge links between water industry
and and the community and raise awareness of water management
issues.
Key Words Summary
community education, communication
1. Project/Publication
From Waste-d-water to Pure Water for National Water Commission.
2. Project/Publication
We All Use Water Education Kit for Australian Water Association.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Martha
Surname
Sinclair
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, Department of Epidemiology
and Preventive Medicine
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Water Quality Research Australia
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Formerly involved at Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality
and Treatment (ceased 2008)
Overall Research Summary
Planning and management of research projects on water quality
and human health, including epidemiological studies and health risk
assessment. Coordination of project administration and financial
management.
Key Words Summary
knowledge brokering, health, decentralised - supply, research
management – coordination, household use, residential use, water
quality
1. Project/Publication
Greywater use in the backyard: what are the health risks?: Survey of
Melbourne householders asking them about their greywater use, and
monitoring greywater quality at selected households.
‘Health status of residents of an urban dual reticulation system’.
2. Project/Publication
A survey of the practices of residents supplied with recycled water
via a dual reticulation system (Rouse Hill, NSW) and a comparison
area with conventional water supply
Study of Water Usage in Urban Areas. (J. O’Toole, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Zoë
Surname
Sofoulis
Position
Research Fellow
Organisation
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on cultural aspects of urban water use and HASS
contributions to urban water management. Earlier projects included
development of ‘water diary’ method (see Example 11). Convenor
and co-convenor of several cross-sectoral symposia and workshops
on social and cultural aspects on water.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, cultural values, beliefs and
practices, interdisciplinary partnerships, research communication/
translation, research management
1. Project/Publication
Cross-connections: linking urban water managers with humanities,
arts and social sciences researchers. Tributaries was part of this
project .
Cross-Connections - Final Report.
2. Project/Publication
Demand Management Through Cultural Innovation. Study of
householder and utility views of their roles and relationships.
From Pushing Atoms to Growing Networks
Skirting Complexity: The retarding quest for the average water user
3. Project/Publication
Big Water, Everyday Water: A Sociotechnical Perspective.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Anneliese
Surname
Spinks
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Systematic Social Analysis of Residential Water
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include: injury epidemiology, environmental health,
social determinants of health and well-being.
Key Words Summary
residential use, health, community capacity building, community
engagement, sustainable management
1. Project/Publication
Systematic Social Analyses of how community values alternative
water supply options: Developing and maintaining community
partnerships for the sustainable use and management of water
resources.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Celine
Surname
Steinfeld
Position
PhD Candidate
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, School of Biological,
Earth and Environmental Science
Organisation
University of New South Wales
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on social-ecological interactions for sustainable
management of dryland floodplains, focusing on the past 50
years of land use and environmental change in the Macquarie
Marshes and Gwydir Wetlands of the Murray Darling Basin, in
the context of water policy and management.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - lakes, rivers, floodplains, governance
- policy, sustainable management - land and water
1. Project/Publication
Social-ecological interactions for sustainable management of
dryland floodplains. (Macquarie Marshes and Gwydir Wetlands of
the Murray Darling Basin). PhD Research.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Louise
Surname
Stelfox
Position
Project Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of Water
Organisation
Western Australia Government
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Hydrogeologist, project managing a National Water Commission
project looking at groundwater – surface water interaction in the
floodplain of the Fitzroy basin, Kimberley, NW Australia including
collaboration with local people to understand traditional knowledge
and water science on the floodplain and river pools.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - lakes, rivers, floodplains, indigenous
water knowledge
1. Project/Publication
Raising National Water Standards (RNWS) Fitzroy surface water groundwater interaction project.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Rodney
Surname
Stewart
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Infrastructure Engineering & Management
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Project Leader
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Smart Water Research Centre
Overall Research Summary
Inter-disciplinary research (engineers, planners and social scientists)
on residential water use. Project leader on South East Queensland
(SEQ) Residential Water End Use Study.
Key Words Summary
residential use, end use studies, interdisciplinary partnerships,
research management
1. Project/Publication
SEQ Residential End Use Study: a study to see how social science
interventions can affect end use performance. (See Example 10)
2. Project/Publication
Pimpama-Coomera dual reticulation end use study: pre-commission
baseline, context and post-commission end use prediction.
(R. Willis first author)
3. Project/Publication
Quantifying the influence of environmental and water conservation
attitudes on household end use water consumption
(R. Willis first author)
4. Project/Publication
Web-based knowledge management system: linking smart metering
to the future of urban water planning
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Veronica
Surname
Strang
Position
Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of Anthropology
Organisation
University of Auckland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research focuses on the social and cultural aspects of humanenvironmental interactions. Her research has examined conflicts
between land and water users along the Mitchell River in northern
Queensland, and cultural histories of water, as well as the symbolic
meanings encoded in water and their effects on patterns of water
usage and attitudes to water conservation.
Current projects include:
• Water Over Time: a cultural history of
• the diverse ways human societies have engaged with water over
time.
• Representational Flows: water imagery as a reflection of
changing human-environmental relations.
• Water, Culture and Power: on the political ecology of water and
its utility as a reflection of democratic enfranchisement and
political agency.
• Thinking with Water: a collaborative exploration of water as
something that is ‘good to think’, including via metaphors of flow,
depth, etc.
Key Words Summary
human-environment interaction, cultural values, beliefs and practices,
history, sustainable management – land and water
1. Project/Publication
Cosmopolitan Natures: paradigms and politics in Australian
environmental management.
2. Project/Publication
Gardening the World: agency, identity, and the ownership of water.
3. Project/Publication
The Meaning of Water.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Helen
Surname
Stratton
Position
Program Leader
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Smart Water Centre
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Research Fellow and Lecturer in microbiology
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Biomolecular & Biomedical Sciences, Griffith University
Overall Research Summary
Specialises in wastewater microbiology and conducts research into
wastewater and microbial ecology. Microbiologist involved in The
Water Futures – Toowoomba project speaking on behalf of the safety
of the water.
Key Words Summary
recycled water, wastewater, water quality, supply
1. Project/Publication
Water Futures: Toowoomba project – acted as Scientist speaking on
behalf of the safety of the water.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Yolande
Surname
Strengers
Position
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Design
Organisation
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Smart metering and household cleanliness practices from a
sociotechnical/social practice theory perspective.
Key Words Summary
residential use, household use, cultural values, beliefs and practices,
demand management, climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
Bridging the divide between resource management and everyday life:
smart metering comfort and cleanliness. PhD Research.
(See Example 11)
2. Project/Publication
Assessing resilient urban systems to support long term adaptation to
climate change. (See Example 2)
3. Project/Publication
Beyond Demand Management: Co-managing energy and water
practices in Australian households
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Bronwyn
Surname
Sutton
Position
Marketing Director
Organisation
Kenmore DMP, Victoria
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Specialises in leading teams, project management, writing to target
a variety of audiences, creative development, art direction, public
speaking, marketing communications planning and advice, social
change marketing, marketing mentoring, event management,
relationship building, networking, business development.
Key Words Summary
market research, communications, behaviour change, recycling
1. Project/Publication
You can’t make me change unless I want to, how to make them want it.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Geoff
Surname
Syme
Position
Professor of Planning
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre of Planning
Organisation
Edith Cowan University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Formerly of CSIRO Land and Water
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include: incorporation of social justice, equity
and fairness in planning processes; systems (and complex systems)
approaches to planning; Interdisciplinary psychological and economic
approaches to policy evaluation. Current research area: Integrated
assessment of catchment management policy; community based
monitoring within state of environment reporting; monitoring
community behavioural modification in response to climate change.
Key Words Summary
participatory planning, equity and access, planning, policy,
sustainable management - integrated approaches, community
engagement, behavioural change, climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
Community responses to climate change policies (Office of Climate
Change WA 2008).
2. Project/Publication
Impacts of meso-scale Watershed Development in Andhra Pradesh
(India) and their implications for designing and implementing
improved WSD policies and programs (2009-2014).
3. Project/Publication
Changing attitudes to urban water use and consumption.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Nor Azlin
Surname
Tajuddin
Position
PhD Candidate
Organisation
University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
PhD research on the meanings of Pollution: A cross-national
comparison of the Klang and Torrens Rivers.
Key Words Summary
cross-cultural, river pollution, water quality, urban
1. Project/Publication
The Meaning of Urban River Pollution: A Cross-national Study of
the Klang River, Malaysia and the Torrens River in Adelaide, South
Australia.
This ethnographic study was conducted to produce an in-depth
analysis of perceptions towards and use of rivers as well notions of
river pollution in two disparate cultural settings - the Klang River in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and the Torrens River, South Australia.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Assoc Prof
First Name
Poh Ling
Surname
Tan
Position
International Watercentre Associate Professor of Water Governance
and Law
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Griffith Law School, Socio Legal Research Centre, Australian Rivers
Insitute
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research into water law, water management and policy, comparative
Asian legal systems.
Key Words Summary
law, policy, governance, participatory planning, indigenous water
rights, indigenous water management
1. Project/Publication
TRaCK Collaborative Water Planning Project: better understanding
ways that people engage in an active process of working together to
manage water.
Collaborative Water Planning: Legal and Policy Analysis.
2. Project/Publication
Water Planning Tools (www.waterplanning.org.au)
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Andre
Surname
Taylor
Position
Consultant
Organisation
Andre Taylor Consulting
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Former PhD candidate
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Monash University
Overall Research Summary
PhD research that investigated emergent environmental leaders
(champions) and developed management strategies to foster such
leaders. This research included designing, delivering and evaluating
a customised leadership development program (LDP) for emergent
environmental leaders in the Australian water industry.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - urban, governance, professional
development, community capacity building, leadership
1. Project/Publication
Sustainable urban water management: Understanding and fostering
champions of change.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Don
Surname
Thomson
Position
Director
Organisation
Landscape & Social Research Pty Ltd
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Former National Waterwatch Facilitator (contracted to Australian
Government, DEWHA)
Overall Research Summary
Provides research to a range of organisations on social dimensions of
natural resource management (NRM).
Key Words Summary
catchment, sustainable management - rural, community engagement
1. Project/Publication
‘Capacity Assessment Tool’ for Land & Water Australia’s Riparian
Lands Program in 2003.
2. Project/Publication
Identifying different ‘styles’ of farmers, their social construction
and their participation in catchment management initiatives. Rural
sociology and human geography. PhD Research.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Nicole
Surname
Thornton
Position
PhD Candidate and Research Consultant
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Institute for Sustainable Futures
Organisation
University of Technology, Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Currently researching the influence of attitudes and behaviour on
water use in urban households. Her research is jointly funded by CRC
for Water Quality and Treatment (reformed as Water Quality Research
Australia), Gosford City Council on the Central Coast of NSW and the
NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.
Key Words Summary
household water use, sustainable management -urban, attitudes,
behavioural change, smart meters
1. Project/Publication
Examining the influence of attitudes and behaviour on water use in
urban households. PhD Research.
2. Project/Publication
Residential end-use measurement guidebook: a guide to study
design, sampling and technology (D. Giurco, first author).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Sandy
Surname
Toussaint
Position
Adjunct Professor
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Social and Cultural Studies and Centre of Excellence in NRM
Organisation
The University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry, Melbourne
University
Overall Research Summary
People’s relationships to a spectrum of water sources, mostly located
in the remote Kimberley region of northern Western Australia.
Key Words Summary
human/environment relationships, water and culture, australian
indigenous groups, social and environmental sustainability, remote
and urban settings, interdisciplinary research.
1. Project/Publication
Under Water: a comparative ethnographic analysis of water use and
natural resource management in WA and Qld.
2. Project/Publication
For whom the Fitzroy River flows: a fluctuating analysis of social and
environmental sustainability, and incremental sovereignty.
3. Project/Publication
Kimberley Friction: complex attachments to water places in northern
Australia.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kerry
Surname
Trayler
Position
Principal Scientist
Organisation
Swan River Trust
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Swan River Trust’s principal scientist, specialises in sustainable
management and governance of water including water quality
issues: involved in development of the Climate Change Risk
Assessment Project - a methodology enabling local government to
assess the vulnerability of foreshore areas to sea level rise.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - coastal, water quality, governance climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
The Point Fraser case study: contributed to the development of the
Climate Change Risk Assessment Project - a methodology enabling
local government to assess the vulnerability of foreshore areas to sea
level rise.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Patrick
Surname
Troy
Position
Visiting Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
The Fenner School of Environment & Society
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Currently Adjunct Professor Urban Research Program, Griffith
University
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Visiting Professor City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of Built
Environment, UNSW
Overall Research Summary
Research conducted on Australian cities their administration and
development, housing, urban environment, infrastructure investment
and operation. Current research interests: Urban water policy, the
vulnerability of the city, the construction of energy and water profiles
for Australian cities, the suburbanisation of Australian cities, trust and
the development and application of environmental regulations.
Key Words Summary
policy, sustainable management - urban, pricing - policy and
regulation, public acceptance/trust, research management interdisciplinary partnerships
1. Project/Publication
Troubled waters - ASSA National Symposium and follow-up intensive
workshop at Fenner School, bringing together leading social science
researchers to examine non-engineering (social, cultural, political,
historical) responses to water scarcity in Australian cities.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Michael
Surname
Valli
Position
PhD Candidate
Organisation
University of Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
PhD Research developing a system to track the trades in water rights
between irrigators in the Murray-Darling river. Researching the link
between market trends and rural land-use changes; and the socioeconomic impacts of water markets in rural communities.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - land and water, governance - rights,
planning, markets
1. Project/Publication
Socio-economic and land-use impacts of water trading in the
Murray-Darling. PhD research.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Kitty
Surname
Van Vuuren
Position
Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Journalism & Communication
Organisation
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Environmental communication and public opinion, particularly in
rural, regional and remote communities.
Key Words Summary
media studies, communication, community engagement, regional
1. Project/Publication
Press bias and local power in the Toowoomba water referendum.
2. Project/Publication
Water pressure: The crisis in Australia.
3. Project/Publication
The impact of local independent newspapers in south east
Queensland.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Karen
Surname
Vella
Position
Lecturer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Environment
Organisation
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Former Manager, Natural Resource Management (NRM) Plan
Coordination Unit
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Terrain Natural Resource Management (Wet Tropics)
Overall Research Summary
Focus on management delivery: broker and manage research for
natural resource management in the Wet Tropics including social
research projects related to water planning and adaptation.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - coastal, estuarine, marine, research
management, knowledge brokering, coordination, governance marine
Presentation on collaborative project: Adaptive Approaches to
Collaborative Governance in Great Barrier Reef Regions
(A. Dale, first author. )
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Prof
First Name
Iain
Surname
Walker
Position
Research Group Leader
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Social & Behavioural Sciences Group
Organisation
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Murdoch University
and University of the Sunshine Coast
Overall Research Summary
Heads CSIRO’s Social & Behavioural Sciences Group research
program to inform natural resource management policy and the
design of sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management, research management, governance –
policy, behavioural change, climate change adaptation
1. Project/Publication
Social Systems Analysis for the South-East Queensland Water
Security Alliance.
2. Project/Publication
Climate Change Adaptive Behaviours: CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation
Flagship.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Philip
Surname
Wallis
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Monash Sustainability Institute
Organisation
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
National water governance, research on the impact of population
growth, adaptation responses in the Victorian context, history of
water management.
Key Words Summary
climate change adaptation, catchment, water services - supply,
history, governance, professional development
1. Project/Publication
Adaptive water governance and systemic thinking for future NRM:
Action research to build MDBA capability (R. Ison, first author).
(See Example 13)
2. Project/Publication
Research into the history of water managing in the Goulburn-Broken
Catchment.
3. Project/Publication
Framing multi-level and multi-actor adaptation responses in the
Victorian context.
Melbourne’s water situation: the opportunity for diverse solutions.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Tony
Surname
Webb
Position
Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Supply Chain Management
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
School of Natural Sciences
Organisation
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Participatory action research exploring community engagement in
resource sustainability issues and the building of eco-social capital
and community capacity for influencing policy change and practical
action.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, sustainable management, policy,
participatory planning, community capacity building
1. Project/Publication
Water Futures: using Participatory Action Research methods to
explore the challenge of getting real community engagement in
social-environmental planning for water sustainability – with Western
Sydney as a model for peri-urban water issues.
Action research for sustainable water futures in Western Sydney
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Jessica
Surname
Weir
Position
Research Fellow
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Native Title Research Unit (NTRU)
Organisation
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Visiting Fellow
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
The Fenner School of Environment and Society
Australian National University
Overall Research Summary
Research on human geography in the Murray-Darling Basin and the
Kimberley with expertise in intercultural dialogue and environmental
issues, water, and native title.
Key Words Summary
engagement - cross-cultural, indigenous knowledge, indigenous
water management, indigenous water rights
1. Project/Publication
Murray River Country: an Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners.
2. Project/Publication
Native title and ecology: this project considers native title in the
context of ecological relationships and ecological change.
3. Project/Publication
Cultural flows in the Murray Lower Darling Rivers
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Ms
First Name
Jane
Surname
West
Position
Communications & Marketing Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Sydney Water Corporation
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Specialises in: Strategic positioning & brand management, issues
management, internal communications, external communications,
marketing, major events.
Key Words Summary
communications, market research
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Ian
Surname
White
Position
Senior Policy Officer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Department of Environment and Resource Management
Organisation
Queensland Government
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Formerly Research Fellow, Law School
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Griffith University
Overall Research Summary
Research interests include water security, environmental integration
and harmony, conflicts of values in water resource mangament.
Has worked at Griffith Law School on a National Water Commission
project ‘Water Planning Tools’, considering community engagement
on a legislative amendment to address aquifer mining, with
significant cutbacks to groundwater take in the Condamine alluvia,
Queensland.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, cultural values, beliefs and practices,
decentralised – supply, governance, indigenous water use and
knowledge, methodologies, participatory planning, water sensitive
urban design
1. Project/Publication
Decentralised environmental technology adoption: The household
experience with rainwater harvesting. PhD Research.
2. Project/Publication
Mywaterwisehome.com (private study).
3. Project/Publication
Water planning processes: lessons, gaps and adoption: incorporating
groundwater into an existing water resource plan.
Sub project : Water Planning Tools (as lead researcher for the project
in the Condamine by NWC).
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Rachelle
Surname
Willis
Position
Infrastructure Planning Engineer
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Total Water Cycle Management
Organisation
Allconnex Water
Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Infrastructure Planning Engineer
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Griffith University, Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and
Management
Overall Research Summary
Recently completed PhD: Residential Water End Use Consumption
Analysis: An Investigation of the Benefits of Dual Reticulated Systems
and Other Demand Management Strategies. Combined social science
measurement instruments with water end use data to investigate
household consumption, savings attributed to water efficient fixtures,
consumption awareness devices, and dual reticulated recycled water
supply in the Gold Coast. Investigated the relationship between
attitudes towards the environment and water conservation and the
impact that this had on end use water consumption. (See Example 10)
Key Words Summary
water end use study, demand management, residential use, dual
reticulation, recycled water, attitudes and behaviours
1. Project/Publication
Quantifying the influence of environmental and water conservation
attitudes on household end use water consumption.
Web-based knowledge management system: linking smart metering
to the future of urban water planning (R. Stewart, first author)
2. Project/Publication
Alarming visual display monitors affecting shower end use water and
energy conservation in Australian residential households.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Mara
Surname
Wolkenhauer
Position
Science Projects Manager
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Position
Vice Chancellor’s Office
Overall Research Summary
Research on fishery habitats impacts, research on sea cucumber
removal.
Key Words Summary
sustainable management - marine, integrated approaches,
research management, interdisciplinary partnerships, stakeholder
consultations
1. Project/Publication
Incorporating climate change adaptation and resilience-building
needs within management of social-ecological systems:
examines primary and secondary effects of climate change on Southeast Queensland’s catchments, Moreton Bay and islands, towards
integrated planning and management.
2. Project/Publication
Impacts of Removal—A Case Study on the Ecological Role of the
commercially important sea cucumber Holothuria scabra in Moreton
Bay. PhD Research.
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Michael
Surname
Woodward
Position
PhD Candidate
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
College of Medicine, the Environment and Biology
Organisation
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Research on individuals in Australian communities affected by
water shortages and imposed domestic water usage restrictions.
The research is focussed on broader psycho-social and well-being
issues and perceptions of climate change .
Key Words Summary
water services - health, climate change adaptation, governance restrictions, sustainable management - regional, domestic water
restrictions.
1. Project/Publication
Climate Change: Water and Wellbeing. PhD Research.
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Dr
First Name
Zhifang
Surname
Wu
Position
Research Associate
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws
Organisation
University of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
Overall Research Summary
Research on water use management from social perspectives;
community attitudes, intention and behavioural changes are most
involved.
Key Words Summary
attitudes, behavioural change, end use studies, governance – urban,
health, history, household use
1. Project/Publication
Stormwater use and management in urban Australia: the case of
SA and Qld, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training
(with Professor Jennifer McKay and Dr Ganesh Keremane).
Roles of Levies for Sustainable Domestic Water Consumption
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INDIVIDUAL RESEARCHER RECORD
Title
Mr
First Name
Grant
Surname
Young
Position
Director
Centre/Department/Program/Organisation
Zumio - social design
Email
[email protected]
Overall Research Summary
Consults and advises on social design strategies, including social
media/network engagement. Founded Zumio, a business consultancy
that helps clients unlock the value in their community, to identify
and create innovative services and products that thrive in a sociallyaware and networked economy.
Key Words Summary
community engagement, participatory planning, behaviour change,
communication, organisational change, market research
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Chapter 4
Directory of Social and Cultural Research
on Urban Water – Organisations
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4. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Organisations
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.assa.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 2 62491788
Fax Number
61 2 62474335
Physical Address
28 Balmain Crescent
Acton, ACT 2601
Postal Address
GPO Box 1956
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an autonomous, nongovernmental organisation, devoted to the advancement of knowledge and research in
the various social sciences. Its objectives are: to promote excellence in and encourage
the advancement of the social sciences in Australia; to act as a coordinating group for
the promotion of research and teaching in the social sciences; to foster excellence in
research and encourage the publication of studies in the social sciences; to encourage
and assist in the formation of other national associations or institutions for the
promotion of the social sciences; to promote international scholarly cooperation and to
act as an Australian national member of international organisations concerned with the
social sciences to consult and advise; to comment where appropriate on national needs
and priorities from the perspective of the social sciences; to collaborate with other
national bodies for the purposes of research and the production of knowledge.
Key Words
research management, research communication/ translation, research planning,
coordination
Research Contact Name
William Douglas
Research Contact Position
Deputy Executive Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
ACTEW Corporation Ltd.
Organisation/Department
ACT Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.actew.com.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6248 3111
Fax Number
61 2 6248 3567
Physical Address
ActewAGL House
Level 5, 40 Bunda St
Canberra
Postal Address
GPO Box 366
Canberra City ACT 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
ACTEW owns the water and wastewater assets and business in the ACT. Community
Consultation studies include, for example, ‘My Cotter, My Place: Community
consultation on the values and visions for the Cotter Precinct.’
Key Words
supply, water security, wastewater, community engagement, cultural values, beliefs and
practices, utility
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Allconnex Water
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.allconnex.com.au/Pages/default.aspx
Phone Number
1300 000 928 / 61 7 3412 5494
Fax Number
1300 009 824
Postal Address
PO Box 8042
Gold Coast MC 9726
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Water saver programs, educational programs. Allconnex Water is responsible for the
delivery of water, recycled water, trade waste and wastewater services to more than
850,000 consumers. Our business represents one of a range of responses initiated to
ensure South East Queensland is made resilient to severe and prolonged drought. Our
core focus is to responsibly manage the water and wastewater needs of our customers.
Key Words
utility, supply, recycling, wastewater, community education, behavioural change
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Alluvium (Consultancy)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.alluvium.com.au/Home.aspx
Phone Number
61 3 96863504 /61 7 47242170
Fax Number
6 1 396863508/ 61 7 47241639
Physical Address
1 John St
South Melbourne 3205 VIC
and 3/62 Walker St
Townsville 4810 QLD
Postal Addresses
PO Box 204 South Melbourne 3205 VIC
PO Box 1581 Townsville 4810 QLD
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Provides advice to government and private organisations on sustainable solutions to
issues facing the management of our water resources, rivers and catchments.
Key Words
sustainable management - rivers, catchments, governance - policy
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
ANU Water Initiative
Organisation/Department
Australian National University
Website URL
http://www.water.anu.edu.au/
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
ANU Water Initiative will make a significant contribution to the development and
successful implementation of sustainable water policies for Australia and the region, for
the long term. Four core themes are:
Water Resources and the Rural Sector
• Water Resources under Climate Variability
• Water Resources and Urban Systems
• Water Resources and Human Health and Well-Being
Key Words
sustainable management – rural, climate change adaptation, sustainable management
– urban, health
1. Research Contact Name
Dr Karen Hussey
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Professor Quentin Grafton
2. Research Contact Position
Co - Chair, ANU Water Initiative
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Water and Environmental Sustainability ASRI (Areas of Strategic Research
Investment)
Organisation/Department
Flinders University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/info-for-researchers/asri/#Water
Phone Number
61 8 8201 5989
Fax Number
61 8 8201 3567
Physical Address
Earth Sciences Building, Room 131
Postal Address
Water and Environmental Sustainability ASRI
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Water and Environmental Sustainability (WES) ASRI was established in 2010. It will
enhance research capacity at Flinders University in the conservation and sustainability
of marine and freshwater resources, and the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
and landscapes they support. This includes the sustainable management of those
resources, ecosystems and landscapes, for healthy and productive human populations
in both urban and agricultural environments.
Key Words
sustainable management - coastal, estuarine, marine, governance - marine, research
management, health, interdisciplinary partnerships
Research Contact Name
Kathryn Bellette
Research Contact Position
Leader, Water & Environmental Sustainability ASRI
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Australian Academy of Science
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.science.org.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6201 9400
Fax Number
61 2 6201 9494
Physical Address
Ian Potter House
Gordon Street
Canberra ACT 2601
Postal Address
GPO Box 783
Canberra ACT 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Academy objectives are to promote science through a range of activities. It has
defined four major program areas: recognition of outstanding contributions to science;
education and public awareness; science policy; international relations.
Key Words
research management, research communication/ translation, research planning,
coordination
Research Contact Name
Dr Michael Agostino
Research Contact Position
Science Policy Coordinator
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=136
Phone Number
61 3 9864 0900
Fax Number
61 3 9864 0930
Physical Address
Level 1/ 1 Bowen Cresent
Melbourne Vic 3004
Postal Address
GPO Box 4055
Melbourne VIC 3001
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
ATSE is an independent, non-government organisation, promoting the development
and adoption of existing and new technologies to improve and sustain our society
and economy. The objectives are: the development of technology for more effective
management of natural resources and improved competitiveness of industries and
services; the development and practice of existing and new technologies; the study of
the effects of technology on the quality of life of the community and on the physical
and sociological environment; public services dependent on technological sciences and
engineering; the development of technology for national security and the prevention,
control and mitigation of natural disasters; and the development of ecologically
sustainable technology.
Key Words
research management, research communication/ translation, research planning,
research management - coordination
Research Contact Name
Dr Margaret Hartley
Research Contact Position
Chief Executive Officer
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.humanities.org.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6125 9860
Fax Number
61 2 6248 6287
Physical Address
3 Liversidge Street, Acton, ACT 2601
Postal Address
GPO Box 93, Canberra ACT 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Academy aims to advance knowledge of, and the pursuit of excellence in, the
Humanities. The general disciplinary areas of the Academy include: Archaeology;
Asian Studies; Classical Studies; English; European Languages and Cultures; History;
Linguistics; Philosophy, Religion and the History of Ideas; Cultural and Communication
Studies; The Arts. The goals are to advance knowledge of the Humanities; to encourage
and support scholarship in the Humanities; to promote studies therein and to assist the
publication of any such studies; to establish and maintain relations with international
bodies concerned with the Humanities; to correlate and assist in correlating the
efforts of other bodies in the Humanities; to arrange or assist in arranging meetings
of humanists in Australia; to encourage and assist the visits of humanists from other
countries to Australia; to assist Australian humanists in scholarly pursuits in Australia
or elsewhere and to assist in exchanges of scholars between the Commonwealth
of Australia and other countries; to administer or assist in administering funds for
the purposes of research in the Humanities; to assist and promote the development
of libraries in Australia in the field of the Humanities; to act as a consultant and an
advisory body in matters concerning the Humanities.
Key Words
research management, research communication /translation, research planning,
coordination
Research Contact Name
Dr Christina Parolin
Research Contact Position
Executive Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics – Bureau of Rural
Sciences (ABARE–BRS)
Organisation/Department
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Email
http://www.daff.gov.au/feedback?query=abare-brs
Website URL
http://www.daff.gov.au/abare-brs
Phone Number
61 2 6272 2000
Physical Address
Tourist Drive 7
Canberra City ACT 2601
Postal Address
ABARE-BRS
GPO Box 1563
Canberra ACT 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics – Bureau of Rural
Sciences (ABARE–BRS) is a research bureau within the Department of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Forestry. We provide professionally independent, world-class research,
analysis and advice to inform decision-makers on current and future policy challenges
affecting Australia’s primary industries.
Example ‘Connected Water’ - The Connected Water website has been developed to
progress a coordinated approach to managing surface and groundwater resources in
Australia. It is intended to provide an up-to-date resource for water managers, policy
makers and catchment management groups.
Key Words
groundwater, supply, sustainable management - catchment, irrigation, sustainable
management - land and water
1. Research Contact Name
Phillip Glyde
1. Research Contact Position
Executive Director
2. Research Contact Name
Paul Morris
2. Research Contact Position
Deputy Executive Director
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)
Organisation/Department
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/ausccer/index.html
Phone Number
61 2 4221 3555, 61 2 4221 3721
Postal Address
AUSCCER,
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
AUSCCER aims to undertake:
• cultural analysis of Australia’s highest priority environmental issues
• practical contributions to problems of environmental sustainability
• strengthen national humanities/ social science research and research training
capacity in the environmental field
• drive theoretical and practical research frontiers on the cultural environment
• provide a basis for more effective multidisciplinary engagement with the natural
and physical sciences
• contribute to the development of relevant local, state and federal policy
• build Australia’s international research presence in the cultural dimensions of
environmental sustainability.
Key Words
sustainable management - urban, research management, human - environment
interaction, cultural values, beliefs and practices
Research Contact Name
Prof. Lesley Head
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Centre for Science, Innovation and Society (ACSIS)
Organisation/Department
University of Melbourne
Email
jfalk@ unimelb.edu.au
Website URL
http://www.acsis.unimelb.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 3 8344 9266
Fax Number
61 3 9013 2674
Physical Address
Level 1, 221 Bouverie Street
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
ACSIS focuses its attention on innovations that arise from the interaction between
technological, social and economic change. It focusses in particular on those
technological and social innovations which can facilitate progress towards more
sustainable human societies and settlements. Initial technologies of interest are
biotechnology, small scale technology (including nano scale technology) and
information and communication technology. Social and economic drivers being
considered include environmental sustainability and ageing populations within cities.
Key Words
sustainable management - urban, research management, climate change adaptation,
human-environment interaction
1. Research Contact Name
Jim Falk
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
jfalk@ unimelb.edu.au
2. Research Contact Name
Prof Chris Ryan
2. Research Contact Position
Co-Director
2. Research Contact Email
cryan@ unimelb.edu.au
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments
Organisation/Department
University of Southern Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.usq.edu.au/acsc
Phone Number
61 7 4631 5415
Fax Number
61 7 4631 5581
Physical Address
Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments (ACSC)
University of Southern Queensland
Toowoomba QLD 4350
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Focuses on issues concerning water quality in rivers and reservoirs; on urban
stormwater runoff; on wastewater treatment and reuse; and on groundwater
hydrodynamics and quality.
Key Words
water quality, wastewater, stormwater, sustainable management - catchment
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES)
Organisation/Department
Macquarie University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.aries.mq.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 2 9850 8597
Fax Number
61 2 9850 7972
Postal Address
Graduate School of the Environment
Macquarie University
North Ryde NSW 2109
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
ARIES specialises in education, participatory change and learning for sustainability,
working with action research and other change management techniques and methods.
Key Words
community education, participatory planning, interdisciplinary partnerships
1. Research Contact Name
Prof. Suzanne Benn
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Jessica North
2. Research Contact Position
ARIES Coordinator
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Australian Water Association
Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
Website URL
http://www.awa.asn.au/
Phone Number
1300 361 426 (Local Call) or 61 2 9436 0055
Physical Address
Lvl 6, 655 Pacific Hwy, St Leonards, NSW 2065
Postal Address
PO Box 222, St Leonards, NSW 1590
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Australian Water Association (AWA) is the leading water sector body in Australia,
representing over 10,000 water sector professionals across all disciplines...providing
a voice for water professionals around Australia on a wide range of sector issues
including skills shortages, climate change, water management and reform and
regulation.
Key Words
community education, communication, professional development, governance - policy,
planning, pricing, pricing -policy and regulation
Research Contact Name
Tom Mollenkopf
Research Contact Position
Chief Executive Officer
Research Contact Email
EA to Chief Executive - Clare Beer
[email protected] or 61 2 9467 8402
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC)
Organisation/Department
Business Unit of the South Australian Water Corporation (SA Water)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.awqc.com.au/awqc/
Phone Number
+61 1300 653 366
Fax Number
+61 1300 883 171
Physical Address
250 Victoria Square, Adelaide
South Australia 5000
Postal Address
PO Box 1751, Adelaide
South Australia 5001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The centre is a large facility providing customers with an integrated range of services
for sampling, analysis, advice and research associated with the chemistry, microbiology,
biology and ecology of waters, wastewaters, sediments and sludges.
Key Words
water quality, wastewater, health
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre
Organisation/Department
University of NSW
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.wetrivers.unsw.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 2 9385 8296
Fax Number
61 2 9385 1558
Physical Address
Room 508
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Our group focuses research effort on the key threats, risks and uncertainties facing
biodiversity of wetlands and rivers and their conservation values. We are also involved
similar challenges in terrestrial ecosystems. We have a strong emphasis on providing
rigorous advice to governments at State and Federal levels and building expertise in the
adaptive management of Australia’s ecosystems. Communication of research results
is a key objective through peer reviewed papers, the media, electronic databases and
other research outputs.
Key Words
climate change adaptation, sustainable management - regional, research management,
sustainable management – catchment
1. Research Contact Name
Sharon Ryall
1. Research Contact Position
Centre Research Manager
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Professor Richard Kingsford
2. Research Contact Position
Director
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments
Organisation/Department
University of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.unisa.edu.au/barbarahardy/
Phone Number
61 8 830 22317 (Chris Daniels)
Fax Number
61 8 830 22252
Physical Address
School of Natural and Built Environments
University of South Australia
Office: BJ3-61, City East Campus
Postal Address
Barbara Hardy Centre - City East
University of South Australia
GPO Box 2471
Adelaide SA 5001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Barbara Hardy Centre is focussed on the sustainability of cities, the conservation of
biodiversity and the maintenance of the natural processes that sustain life. Our work is
underpinned by community participation and education.
Key Words
sustainable management - urban, stormwater, interdisciplinary partnerships, research
management, community education
Research Contact Name
Prof. Chris Daniels
Research Contact Position
Professor of Urban Ecology, School of Natural and Built Environments
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Centre for Cultural Research
Organisation/Department
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr
Phone Number
61 2 9685 9600
Fax Number
61 2 9685 9610
Physical Address
Building EM, Parramatta Campus
University of Western Sydney
Postal Address
Centre for Cultural Research
University of Western Sydney
Building EM, Parramatta Campus
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
CCR aims to build the cultural intelligence needed to address the cultural challenges
and contradictions of a 21st century world … The distinguishing feature of CCR
research is critical engagement. Combining theoretically directed research with a
practical emphasis on collaboration, this means working across disciplines, sectors,
communities and sites to generate and empirically test innovative methods of
knowledge production. Relevant projects include communicating climate change,
cultural heritage sites, air conditioning, urban water, GIS mapping.
Key Words
Cultural values beliefs and practices, cross-cultural, community engagement, climate
change adaptation, history, human-environment interaction.
Research Contact Name
Professor Tony Bennett
Research Contact Position
Director, Research
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Centre for Design
Organisation/Department
RMIT University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.rmit.edu.au/cfd
Phone Number
61 3 9925 3484
Fax Number
61 3 9639 3412
Physical Address
Level 2, Room 11, Building 15, 124 La Trobe St (Behind Bowen St)
Melbourne 3000
Postal Address
GPO Box 2476
Melbourne 3001 VIC
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Centre for Design promotes sustainability through research, consulting, and
capacity building through active dissemination and professional development.
Key Words
professional development, community capacity building, human-environment
interaction
1. Research Contact Name
Nicole McGrath
1. Research Contact Position
Administration Officer
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Professor Ralph Horne
2. Research Contact Position
Director
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities
Organisation/Department
La Trobe University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/csrc/
Phone Number
61 3 5444 7804
Fax Number
61 3 5444 7998
Physical Address
La Trobe University Bendigo campus
Edwards Road
Flora Hill, VIC 3550
Postal Address
La Trobe University
PO Box 199
Bendigo, VIC 3552
AUSTRALIA
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities (CSRC) brings the University and
its community together in our common concern to understand those factors which
contribute toward sustainable communities. Specifically the Centre aims to:
• Foster discussion and debate about what it means to be a sustainable community;
• Undertake research which assists communities make sustainable development
choices; and,
• Provide a forum for others to explore social, economic and environmental aspects
of sustainable living.
Key Words
sustainable management - regional, residential use, household use, communication,
behavioural change
1. Research Contact Name
Prof. John Martin
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Dr Brad S Jorgensen
2. Research Contact Position
Senior Research Fellow
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP)
Organisation/Department
Crawford School of Economics and Government, College of Asia and the Pacific
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://cweep.anu.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6125 6558
Physical Address
Crawford School of Economics and Government
College of Asia and the Pacific
J.G. Crawford Building (Bld 132)
Lennox Crossing, ANU
Postal Address
CWEEP,
Crawford School of Economics and Government
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 2601
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Centre aims to become a leading research centre on water economics and related
water policy and water governance issues; and to be part of a global network of water
researchers, educators and policy makers to support water education, to strengthen
water governance and to promote environmental sustainability.
Example projects:
• Water buybacks and water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin
• The climate risk project
Key Words
governance - pricing, policy, pricing - markets, governance – rights
Research Contact Name
Prof. Quentin Grafton
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Centre for Water Research (CWR)
Organisation/Department
University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/homepage.php
Phone Number
61 8 6488 2409
Fax Number
61 8 6488 3053
Physical Address
University of Western Australia M023
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley 6009
Western Australia
Postal Address
University of Western Australia M023
Crawley 6009 WA
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
CWR undertakes fundamental and applied research in three areas - water, carbon, and
sustainability. Our mission is to create tools and systems to quantify sustainability in
river basins based on the building blocks of water and carbon and to use these tools
to optimize water quality, carbon sequestration, aesthetic value and human satisfaction
while delivering maximum water, power, flood control and protein depending on the
system.
Example projects:
Environmental Fluid Dynamics of Natural Systems: Transport and mixing process in
catchments, rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal seas. Interest centres on the control
these two processes impose on the biogeochemical systems active in the water
column.
Regional Climate Change: The effect of changes in the transport and mixing in these
natural systems due to regional climate change. In particular to ascertain whether
these changes offer positive or negative feed backs to regional climate change.
Quantifying Sustainability: Determining quantitative measures for assessing
sustainability and management strategies for natural systems.
Key Words
research management, water quality, sustainable management – lakes, rivers,
floodplains, coastal, estuarine, marine, climate change adaptation
Research Contact Name
Prof. Jorg Imberger
Research Contact Position
Environmental Engineering Group
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
Organisation/Department
Monash Sustainability Institue, Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.watersensitivecities.org.au/
Phone Number
61 3 9905 9709
Fax Number
61 3 9905 9348
Physical Address
Monash Sustainability Institute
Building 74 –Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Centre will play a pivotal role in transforming Australian cities to become resilient to
current and future challenges.
The Centre is building Australia’s capacity to advance sustainable urban water
practices through
• research excellence
• engagement with planning, development and water management professions
• supporting the development of government policies.
Key Words
water sensitive urban design, sustainable management - urban, governance - planning,
policy
1. Research Contact Name
Prof Tony Wong
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Prof. Rebekah Brown
2. Research Contact Position
Director
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
3. Research Contact Name
Prof. Ana Deletic
3. Research Contact Position
Director
3. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
City Futures Centre
Organisation/Department
Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/cf/
Phone Number
61 2 9385 7777
Fax Number
61 2 9385 5935
Physical Address
Faculty of the Built Environment, Building H13 Kensington Campus, UNSW
Postal Address
Kensington Campus, University of New South Wales
Sydney, NSW 2052
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
City Futures is a University Research Centre dedicated to developing a better
understanding of our cities, their people, the policies that manage their growth, the
issues they face, and the impacts they make on our environment and economy. In
2008 the Australian Government committed funding of $10 million over four years to
establish eight national research networks investigating the effects of climate change
on areas such as water resources and freshwater biodiversity; primary industries;
terrestrial biodiversity; human health; emergency management; settlements and
infrastructure; marine biodiversity and resources; social, economic and institutional
dimensions.
The Australian Climate Change Adaptation Research Network for Settlements and
Infrastructure is based here in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
part of the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility hosted by Griffith
University.
Key Words
sustainable management - urban, governance - urban, climate change adaptation,
research management, human-environment interaction
1. Research Contact Name
Prof Bill Randolph
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Dr Simon Pinnegar
2. Research Contact Position
Deputy Director
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Claise Brook Catchment Group
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.cbcg.org.au/
Phone Number
61 8 9227 9514
Postal Address
P.O. Box 218, North Perth, WA 6906
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Claise Brook Catchment Group is an incorporated community-based environmental
group working to restore wetlands and improve the quality of water flowing into the
Swan River from Perth city and inner city.
The group has collected social information on Smith’s Lake, Mount’s Bay catchment
and the Robertson Park wetland. The group also has an interesting page on flora and
fauna in city art.
Key Words
water quality, sustainable management - catchment, supply, community engagement,
governance - urban
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Victoria (CES)
Organisation/Department
Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.ces.vic.gov.au
Phone Number
61 3 8636 2197
Fax Number
61 3 8636 2099
Physical Address
Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability
Level 16, 570 Bourke Street
Melbourne, VIC Australia 3000
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability is an independent, statutory role
established under the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability Act 2003. The
statutory functions of the Commissioner include the preparation of a Report on the
State of the Environment of Victoria at intervals not exceeding 5 years and the conduct
of annual strategic audits of the implementation by government departments and
agencies of environmental management systems. The Commissioner undertakes
these, and other functions, in a manner which will encourage and engage the Victorian
community and enhance the knowledge and understanding of issues related to
ecologically sustainable development and the environment, including climate change.
Key Words
governance, community engagement, environmental management
Research Contact Name
Prof. Kate Auty
Research Contact Position
Commissioner
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Consortium for Health and Ecology
Organisation/Department
Edith Cowan University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.ecu.edu.au/research/research-showcase/environment-and-sustainability/
consortium-for-health-and-ecology
Phone Number
61 8 6304 5558
Fax Number
61 8 9400 5509
Physical Address
Joondalup Campus, Edith Cowan University
Postal Address
Edith Cowan University
270 Joondalup Drive
Joondalup WA 6027
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Consortium for Health and Ecology (CHE) has a central focus on the two-way
connection between human/public health and ecology, particularly the connection that
links the biophysical condition of the landscape, cityscape or waterscape with people’s
health and socioeconomic well-being.
Key Words
human-environment interaction, health, sustainable management - urban,
interdisciplinary partnerships
Research Contact Name
A/Prof Pierre Horwitz
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)
Organisation/Department
Curtin University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://sustainability.curtin.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 8 9266 9030
Fax Number
61 8 9266 9031
Physical Address
3 Pakenham St
Fremantle WA 6160
Postal Address
Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute
GPO Box U1987
Perth WA 6845
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
CUSP aims to be a leading-edge, internationally renowned provider of research,
teaching and policy advice in sustainability policy with an innovative approach to its
implementation through demonstrations and partnerships with business, government
and the community.
Key Words
governance - policy, research management, governance - planning, interdisciplinary
partnerships
Research Contact Name
Professor Peter Newman
Research Contact Position
CUSP Founder
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) (from March
2011 - Office of Heritage and Environment)
Organisation/Department
NSW Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/community/whocares.htm
Phone Number
131 555 or 61 2 9995 5555
Fax Number
61 2 9995 5999
Physical Address
59-61 Goulburn Street, Sydney
Postal Address
PO Box A290, Sydney South NSW 1232
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
DECCW is working with communities, business and government to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, enhance NSW’s ability to adapt to a changing climate, reduce harmful
emissions to air, land and water, reduce the number of significantly contaminated sites,
reduce the exposure of the community and the environment to chemicals, radiation,
noise, dust, waste, odour and vibration, encourage the community to connect with,
and enjoy, the environment - to maintain and improve their physical and mental health.
DECCW runs a social research survey ‘Who Cares About the Environment?’ every three
years since 1994. It measures the environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviour
of the people of NSW through surveys and focus groups. Education programs include
Water for Life (see Example 7).
Key Words
climate change adaptation, community education, attitudes, market research, water
quality
1. Research Contact Name
Lynne McLoughlin
1. Research Contact Position
Who Cares About the Environment
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Reid McNamara
2. Research Contact Position
Manager, Education, Water for Life Education Program, Office of Water
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment
Organisation/Department
Water Resources Division, Tasmanian Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Home/1?Open
and Water Resources Division:
http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/ThemeNodes/DREN-4VH8C4?open
Phone Number
61 3 6233 6753
Fax Number
61 3 6233 6055
Postal Address
Water Resources Division
GPO Box 44
Hobart TAS 7001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment (DPIPWE) is
responsible for the sustainable management and protection of Tasmania’s natural and
cultural assets for the benefit of Tasmanian communities and the economy.
Water Resources Division: sustainable development and management of Tasmania’s
freshwater resources including information on specific topics such as groundwater
management, water licensing and allocation, water quality monitoring and irrigation
development. See also ‘Water in Tasmania - who is responsible?’
Key Words
sustainable management - groundwater, sustainable management - irriation, supply,
governance - rights
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Department of Water
Organisation/Department
Western Australian Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.water.wa.gov.au/
Phone Number
61 8 6364 7600
Fax Number
61 8 6364 7601
Physical Address
The Atrium
168 St George’s Terrace, Perth,WA
Postal Address
P O Box K822
Perth WA 6842
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Department of Water’s core business is to manage the State’s groundwater and
surface water resources and ensure adequate water services. It does this through
adherence to sustainable development principles and a range of activities that
include measurement, allocation and regulation. Undertakes a variety of research and
engagement projects. Examples:
• Assessment identifying social values of water for the western south coast region,
including interviewing specific water based/related interest groups. • Local catchment scale assessments of social values of water (Marbellup Brook and
Denmark River); involved stakeholder consults.
• Aboriginal Cultural values assessment of water at the broad sub-regional scale and
local scale.
Key Words
groundwater, supply, policy, governance - planning, pricing - policy and regulation,
water quality, research management, community engagement
1. Research Contact Name
Verity Klemm
1. Research Contact Position
Strategic Projects
Water Resource Management Executive
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Mike McKenna (or Rachael Duffield)
2. Research Contact Position
Program Manager
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Department of Environment and Resources
Organisation/Department
Queensland Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.derm.qld.gov.au
Phone Number
61 7 3247 0376
Fax Number
61 7 3224 7887
Physical Address
DERM,
Level 2, Queen Adelaide Building, 59 Adelaide St, Brisbane QLD 4000
Postal Address
GPO Box 2454,
Brisbane QLD 4001
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Department of Environment and Resource Management manages our environment
and natural environment for the benefit of all Queenslanders.
From promoting sustainable living and resource use, strengthening our response to
climate change and using the latest science to underpin decision making, we aim to
deliver long-term sustainability for the State’s natural environment.
By planning for, allocating and managing our natural resources in a way that considers
social, economic and environmental outcomes we can support economic growth and
maintain our natural environment for today and for future generations.
Our key responsibilities include:
• Climate change—meeting the challenge
• Environment—conserving our natural and cultural heritage
• Land—managing our land wisely
• Water—securing water for Queensland’s future.
Key Words
community education, residential use, demand management, attitudes, household use,
market research, communication
Research Contact Name
Shelley Luxton
Research Contact Position
Principal Advisor,
Urban Water Policy and Management
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Emerging Options Pty Ltd
Email
[email protected] or [email protected]
Website URL
http://www.emergingoptions.com.au/
Phone Number
61 2 4930 5698 (Viv)
61 0 402 308 403 (Chris)
Postal Address
PO Box 91,
Lorn , NSW 2320
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Consultancy engaged in water research.
For example: Perceptions, understandings and reactions to climate change – a
SenseMaker® project with CSIRO. A team of scientists from CSIRO, University of
the Sunshine Coast, Southern Cross University (SCU), and the Southeast Climate
Consortium (USA) are […] analysing the stories that people tell each other everyday.
Do people in different countries or regions have similar or very different experiences
of what helps or hinders their ability to adapt? Using Cognitive Edge’s SenseMaker®
suite in conjunction with well established methods from social psychology and cognitive
anthropology we seek to explore patterns in the stories people tell of their adaptation
experiences. The information will be used to inform those keen to enhance the adaptive
capacity of societies around the world.
Key Words
climate change adaptation, attitudes, cultural values, beliefs and practices
1. Research Contact Name
Chris Fletcher
1. Research Contact Position
Principal
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Vivienne Read
2. Research Contact Position
Principal
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research Centre
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.ebcrc.com.au
Phone Number
61 2 9209 4970
Fax Number
61 2 9209 4980
Physical Address
Environmental Biotechnology CRC
Australian Technology Park
Locomotive Workshop
Suite 3010 Eveleigh NSW 2015, Australia
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research Centre (EBCRC) uses advanced
biotechnology to make natural systems work harder to benefit industry, the
environment as well as human and animal health.
The new technologies can be applied to many areas of industrial processes such as
management of waste materials, recycling waste into useful products and cleaner
production methods.
Key Words
wastewater, recycling, sustainable management - integrated approaches
Research Contact Name
Dr David Garman
Research Contact Position
Executive Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Environmental Protection Authority, Victoria
Email
https://epanote2.epa.vic.gov.au/4A2565E60021FA61/webfeedback?openform
Website URL
http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ and http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/water/
Phone Number
61 3 9695 2722
Fax Number
61 3 9695 2610
Physical Address
200 Victoria Street,
Carlton, 3053
Postal Address
GPO Box 4395,
Melbourne, 3001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
EPA Victoria’s purpose is to protect, care for and improve our environment. EPA
priorities are: Improve Air and Water Quality; Target High Risk Sectors; Enforce the Law;
Improve Resource Efficiency; Transform the Way We Work.
Key Words
governance, water quality, water security
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Environmental Protection Authority, Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.epa.wa.gov.au/
Phone Number
61 8 6467 5600
Fax Number
61 8 6467 5556
Physical Address
The Atrium
168 St Georges Terrace
Perth, Western Australia 6000
Postal Address
Environmental Protection Authority
Locked Bag 33, Cloisters Square
Perth Western Australia 6850
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The EPA has statutory obligations under the Environmental Protection Act 1986
to conduct environmental impact assessments, initiate measures to protect the
environment from environmental harm and pollution and to provide advice to the
Minister on environmental matters generally.
Key Words
governance, water quality, water security
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
eWater Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
Organisation/Department
University of Canberra
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.ewatercrc.com.au
Phone Number
61 2 6201 5168
Fax Number
61 2 6201 5038
Physical Address
Innovation Centre, Building 22,
University of Canberra, ACT 2601
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
eWater’s mission is to be a national and international leader in the development and
application of products for integrated water cycle management. eWater provides
educational and financial support and professional development training for
postgraduate students at our eight partner universities.
Key Words
research management, sustainable management -integrated approaches, professional
development
1. Research Contact Name
Dr Dugald Black
1. Research Contact Position
Application Project Leader, River Systems, eWater CRC
2. Research Contact Name
Tim Blackman
2. Research Contact Position
CEO, eWater Innovation Pty Ltd
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Fenner School of Environment and Society
Organisation/Department
Australian National University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6125 2579
Fax Number
61 2 6125 0746
Physical Address
Building 48 (Forestry), Linneaus Way,
Australian National University
Canberra
Postal Address
Fenner School of Environment and Society
Building 48
Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Fenner School delivers research and education focusing on the major and
emerging environment-society challenges of the 21st Century through a unified,
integrative, problem-driven research program where disciplines and individuals work in
fluid teams according to the nature of the problem being investigated.
Key Words
interdisciplinary partnerships, research management, sustainable management catchment, integrated approaches, water quality, participatory planning, cultural values,
beliefs and practices, governance - law, policy
Research Contact Name
Stephen Dovers
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
GA Research
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.garesearch.com.au/index.htm
Phone Number
61 2 9552 8996
Fax Number
61 2 9552 4899
Physical Address
Level 2
137 Pyrmont Street
PYRMONT NSW 2009
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Consultancy engaged in water research: GA Research is a specialist market and social
research firm with particular expertise in corporate, financial and issues projects.
Key Words
communications, behavioural change, stakeholder consultation, market research,
communication
1. Research Contact Name
Sue Vercoe
1. Research Contact Position
CEO
2. Research Contact Name
Jasmine Hoye
2. Research Contact Position
Research Director
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
Organisation/Department
Australian Government
Email
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/about_us/feedback
Website URL
http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/
Phone Number
61 7 4750 0700
Fax Number
61 7 4772 6093
Physical Address
2-68 Flinders Street
Townsville QLD 4810
Postal Address
PO Box 1379
Townsville QLD 4810
AUSTRALIA
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) is the Australian Government
agency responsible for management of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Marine
Park). Among other things, the GBRMPA works towards the Marine Park’s long-term
protection and ecological sustainability, as well as understanding and enjoyment for all
Australians and the international community, through the care and development of the
Marine Park.
Key Words
sustainable management – coastal, estuarine, marine, governance – marine
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Institute for Advanced Studies
Organisation/Department
University of Western Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 8 6488 1340
Fax Number
61 8 6488 1711
Physical Address
Old Irwin Street Building,
The University of Western Australia
Crawley Campus
Postal Address
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley, Perth
Western Australia 6009
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Hosts lectures by prominent intellectuals and professionals. The 2010 George Seddon
Lecture was delivered by Sue Murphy, Chief Executive Officer, Water Corporation of
Western Australia, on ‘Water, Fundamental to a Sense of Place’.
Key Words
professional development, community education, communication
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Institute for Social Science Research
Organisation/Department
University of Queensland
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.issr.uq.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 7 3346 7344
Fax Number
61 7 3346 7646
Physical Address
Room 403A, Level 4,
General Purpose North 3 (Building 39A)
Campbell Road
St Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia
Postal Address
Institute for Social Science Research
University of Queensland
QLD 4072 Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Institute for Social Science Research is one of Australia’s largest social science
institutes. Our researchers address some of the most important issues and challenges
facing Australia today.
Programs of research include:
The Sustainability and Environment Research Program which examines the social,
political and institutional aspects of sustainable development, particularly in urban and
regional Australia. … For example, how can we adapt to climate change, how can we
best use and manage water resources, how can we develop more sustainable energy
sources, how can we protect environmental assets, and how can we optimise the use
of recycled materials? How can these challenges be met in ways that are affordable
and equitable?
Key Words
sustainable management -integrated approaches, attitudes, behavioural change,
demand management, household use, policy, governance
Research Contact Name
Prof. Brian Head
Research Contact Position
Program Leader, Sustainability and Environment
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Institute for Sustainability and Innovation
Organisation/Department
Victoria University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.vu.edu.au/institute-for-sustainability-and-innovation-isi
Phone Number
61 3 9919 8248
Fax Number
61 3 9919 7696
Physical Address
Building 4 (via gate 2)
Werribee Campus
Hoppers Lane
Werribee 3030
Postal Address
PO Box 14428
Melbourne, VIC 8001
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Our research promotes and enables sustainable outcomes for industry and the
community, based on environmental and innovative technologies. We provide industry
and community solutions in water treatment technology, resource management, asset
management, social and behavioural research, and environment.
Project examples: Public perception of, and response to, desalination in Australia,
funded by National Centre of Excellence in Desalination (NCED)
Victoria Statewide River Health Social Condition Benchmarking (in collaboration with
Department of Sustainability and Environment), funded by Queensland University of
Technology.
Key Words
attitudes, sustainable management, wastewater, stormwater, recycling, behavioural
change, research management, interdisciplinary partnerships
1. Research Contact Name
Prof. Stephen Gray
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Prof. John Cary
2. Research Contact Position
Contact for Social and behavioural aspects of water use stream at ISI
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy
Organisation/Department
Murdoch University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.istp.murdoch.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 8 9360 2913
Fax Number
61 8 9360 6421
Physical Address
Level 3, Social Sciences Building, South Street Campus.
Postal Address
Murdoch University
90 South Street
Murdoch WA 6150
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The ISTP is dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative research to develop
innovative solutions to a range of global, national and local sustainability challenges.
An international research reputation was built mainly around the topics of sustainability,
urbanization and cities, and its more recent focus is on key themes in ethics, politics,
futures and policy that are aimed at creating a genuinely sustainable society.
Example project funded by NCCARF: Drought and Small Inland Settlements – Project 2:
Resilience and Water Security in Two Outback Cities. Comparative study of Kalgoorlie
and Broken Hill.
Key Words
sustainable management - urban, research management, stormwater, recycling,
residential use, community engagement - cross-cultural
Research Contact Name
Prof. Glenn Albrecht
Research Contact Position
Dean - School of Sustainability
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Institute For Sustainable Futures (ISF)
Organisation/Department
University of Technology
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.isf.uts.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 2 9514 4950
Fax Number
61 2 9514 4941
Physical Address
Level 11
UTS Building 10
235 Jones Street
Ultimo NSW 2007
Postal Address
PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
We design practical solutions to real world problems in a number of different research
areas. Our research helps our government clients to develop policies and processes.
We also work with industry to create and implement sustainable strategies and
operations and we assist community groups to articulate and promote sustainability
issues. We use a variety of approaches, or methodologies, across the different research
areas we work in.
Research areas:
• Cities and buildings
• Corporate sustainability
• Energy and climate change
• International development
• Local government
• Natural resources and ecosystems
• Resource futures
• Social dimensions of sustainability
• Transport
• Water and sanitation
Example Projects: Kinglake West sustainable sewerage project: Mutual learning for
social change
Key Words
sanitation, decentralised, sustainable management - urban, research management,
community capacity building, climate change adaptation
Research Contact Name
Prof. Cynthia Mitchell
Research Contact Position
ISF Research Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
International Water Centre (IWC)
Organisation/Department
Partnership with the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership and
the International RiverFoundation
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.watercentre.org/
Phone Number
61 7 3123 7766
Fax Number
61 7 3103 4574
Physical Address
International Water Centre
Level 16, 333 Ann Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000
Postal Address
International Water Centre
PO Box 10907, Adelaide St, Brisbane, QLD 4000
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The International Water Centre (IWC) provides education and training, applied research
and expert services to promote a whole-of-water cycle approach and develop capacity
in integrated water resource management around the world. The IWC’s partners are
the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership and the International
RiverFoundation, and it is supported by the Queensland Government.
Key Words
sustainable management - integrated approaches, community education, research
management, coordination, professional development
Research Contact Name
Assoc. Prof. Eva Abal
Research Contact Position
Science Program Director, SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Iramoo Sustainable Community Centre
Organisation/Department
Victoria University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.iramoo.org/
Phone Number
61 3 9919 2815
Fax Number
61 3 9919 2770
Physical Address
St Albans Campus
McKechnie Street, St Albans Building 1J
Melbourne Vic 8001
Postal Address
PO Box 14428
Melbourne Vic 8001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Iramoo Sustainable Community Centre, part of the Victoria University, St Albans
campus. is an organiser of sustainability focused student projects and other learning
from university disciplines as diverse as Ecology, Community Development, Preservice
Education, Multi-media, TAFE skills training and Disability Services. Iramoo also runs
major sustainability programs for, and with, schools, community groups and municipal
councils.
Key Words
community education, sustainable management - urban, community capacity building,
community engagement
Research Contact Name
Dr Colin Hocking
Research Contact Position
Coordinator
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Kenmore DMP (consultancy)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.kenmore-dmp.com/
Phone Number
61 3 9540 0801
Physical Address
13/20 Duerdin Street, Clayton North VIC 3168
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Consultancy in the areas of social change marketing and communications, with a
particular focus on communicating with communities about waste reduction, recycling
and environmental issues.
Key Words
communications, recycling, wastewater, market research, behavioural change
1. Research Contact Name
Bronwyn Sutton
1. Research Contact Position
Director Marketing & Communications
2. Research Contact Name
Anthony Sutton
2. Research Contact Position
Director
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Marrickville Council (with partner Councils - Ashfield, Bankstown, Canterbury,
City of Sydney, Hurstville, Rockdale and Strathfield)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/marrickville/internet/me.get?site.home
Phone Number
61 2 9335 2222
Fax Number
61 2 9335 2029
Physical Address
2-14 Fisher Street, Petersham NSW 2049
Postal Address
The General Manager
Marrickville Council
PO Box 14
Petersham NSW Australia 2049
DX 3910 Annandale NSW
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
1. OurRiver - Cooks River Sustainability Initiative: is focused on six local areas within
the Cooks River Catchment. The project team is working with communities,
businesses and councils for long term improvement of the Catchment.
2. Community Sustainable Water Planning: partnership with Monash University’s
National Urban Water Governance program. The trial includes different communities
across eight municipalities within the Cooks River Catchment in Sydney. The project
explores deliberative planning processes that focus on in-depth involvement of
the community for the identification of local water issues, and the subsequent codesign and co-management of solutions.
3. Sustainable Water Planning with Local People.
Key Words
sustainable management – urban, rivers, catchment, governance - planning,
community engagement, participatory planning
1. Research Contact Name
Jean Brennan
1. Research Contact Position
Water and Catchments Coordinator
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Susan Prichard
2. Research Contact Position
Environmental Project Officer
Our River - Cooks River Sustainability Initiative
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Marsden Jacob Associates (consultancy)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.marsdenjacob.com.au
Phone Number
61 3 9882 1600
Fax Number
61 3 9882 1300
Physical Address
Level 3, 683 Burke Road
Camberwell VIC 3124, AUSTRALIA
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Consultancy undertaking research on water: MJA provides independent advice on
the application of economic principles to public policy and business issues, including:
business analysis, monopoly pricing and economic regulation, program and policy
analysis.
Key Words
governance - policy, pricing - policy and regulation, governance - law, pricing - markets
Research Contact Name
Dr John Marsden
Research Contact Position
Director
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Melbourne Water
Email
http://feedback.melbournewater.com.au/
Website URL
http://www.melbournewater.com.au/
Phone Number
61 3 9235 7100
Fax Number
61 3 9235 7200
Physical Address
100 Wellington Parade
East Melbourne, VIC 3002
Australia
Postal Address
PO Box 4342
Melbourne, VIC 3001
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
84Hundred [8400] Healthy Waterways campaign: The campaign aims to raise public
awareness of the natural, social and recreational values of waterways within the
Port Phillip and Western Port catchment, and encourages people to enjoy, value and
protect rivers and creeks in Melbourne. (See Example 6)
Key Words
utility, supply, recycling, wastewater, community education, behavioural change,
communication, market research
1. Research Contact Name
Robert Considine (see also Anne Randall)
1. Research Contact Position
Anne Randall - Communications and Community Relations
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]; [email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Dr Judy Blackbeard
2. Research Contact Position
Manager, Water Recycling Research, Strategic Planning
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Monash Sustainability Institute
Organisation/Department
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.monash.edu.au/research/sustainability-institute/
Phone Number
61 3 9905 9323
Fax Number
61 3 9905 9348
Physical Address
Monash University, Building 74
Monash Science Centre, Wellington Road
Clayton VIC 3800
Postal Address
Monash University VIC 3800 Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Monash Sustainability Institute (MSI) is a multi-disciplinary, cross-faculty institute
that aims to deliver solutions to key climate change and sustainability challenges
through research, education and action.[...] This covers all forms of research across
the sustainability spectrum, including theoretical, experimental and technological, policy
development, needs and impact assessments, and evaluation and action research.
Example projects:
VCCCAR (Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research) ‘Framing multilevel and multi-actor adaptation responses in the Victorian context’.
‘Melbourne’s water situation: The opportunity for diverse solutions’: Looking at the
impact of population growth, reduced inflows and different levels of water demand on
Melbourne’s water supplies, with a series of recommendations to address the situation.
Improving the efficiency of water and electricity use in Victoria. Project in progress,
supported by the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust.
Key Words
climate change adaptation, governance - policy, sustainable management - impact
analysis, demand management
Research Contact Name
Professor Dave Griggs
Research Contact Position
Director, Monash Sustainability Institute
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Murray Darling Basin Authority
Organisation/Department
Australian Government
Email
http://www.mdba.gov.au/contact#contact-form
Website URL
http://www.mdba.gov.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6279 0100
Fax Number
61 2 6248 8053
Physical Address
Level 4, 51 Allara St, Canberra City, ACT 2601
Postal Address
GPO Box 1801, Canberra City 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Murray–Darling Basin Authority’s principal aim is to manage the Basin’s water
resources in the national interest.
The establishment of the MDBA means that, for the first time, a single agency is now
responsible for planning integrated management of the water resources of the Murray–
Darling Basin.
Key Words
governance - planning, rights, pricing - policy and regulation, irrigation
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre (Mildura)
Organisation/Department
La Trobe University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.mdfrc.org.au/
Phone Number
61 3 50514050
Fax Number
61 3 50236248
Physical Address
Brian Grogan Building
La Trobe University
Benetook Ave
Mildura
Postal Address
PO Box 3428
Mildura VIC 3502
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre (MDFRC) is a multi-disciplinary
research centre whose work includes; environmental flows; nutrient cycles; algal,
fish and invertebrate ecology; macro- and microinvertebrate taxonomy; water quality
assessment through biological and chemical monitoring programs.
Key Words
water quality, health, sustainable management - rivers, interdisciplinary partnerships
Research Contact Name
Dr Todd Wallace
Research Contact Position
Officer in Charge
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre (Wodonga)
Organisation/Department
La Trobe University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.mdfrc.org.au/
Phone Number
61 2 60249650
Fax Number
61 2 60597531
Physical Address
Building 8
University Drive
Wodonga
Postal Address
PO Box 991
Wodonga VIC 3690
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre (MDFRC) is a multi-disciplinary
research centre whose work includes; environmental flows; nutrient cycles; algal,
fish and invertebrate ecology; macro- and microinvertebrate taxonomy; water quality
assessment through biological and chemical monitoring programs.
Key Words
water quality, health, sustainable management - rivers, interdisciplinary partnerships
Research Contact Name
Dr Ben Gawne
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)
Organisation/Department
Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.nccarf.edu.au/
Phone Number
61 7 5552 9333
Fax Number
61 7 5552 7333
Physical Address
The Chancellery (G34) 2.07 Griffith University,
Gold Coast Campus Parklands Drive, Southport
Postal Address
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
Griffith University Gold Coast Campus
QLD 4222, Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The key roles of NCCARF include:
• developing National Adaptation Research Plans to identify critical gaps in the
information available to decision-makers
• synthesising existing and emerging national and international research on climate
change impacts and adaptation and developing targeted communication products
• undertaking a program of integrative research to address national priorities, and
• establishing and maintaining adaptation research networks to link together key
researchers and assist them in focussing on national research priorities.
For example: NCCARF Adaptation Research Network for Water Resources and
Freshwater Biodiversity – ‘Water Governance Initiative’ aims to create a community
of conversation about water governance in Australia, build collaborative research
links, create opportunities for co-researching and information sharing, and provide
opportunities for early-career researchers.
Key Words
climate change adaptation, governance, impact analysis, research management,
knowledge brokering, interdisciplinary partnerships, professional development
1. Research Contact Name
Professor Jean Palutikof
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Frank Stadler
2. Research Contact Position
Research Coordinator
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
National Native Title Tribunal
Organisation/Department
Australian Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.nntt.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx
Phone Number
61 8 9268 9700
Fax Number
61 8 9268 7299
Physical Address
Level 4, Commonwealth Law Courts Building
1 Victoria Avenue
Perth WA 6000
Postal Address
GPO Box 9973
Perth WA 6848
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The National Native Title Tribunal’s Research Section undertakes a range of research
tasks designed to support Tribunal members and employees in their mediation,
agreement-making and other functions relating to Australian native title.
Key Words
indigenous water rights, indigenous knowledge, indigenous water management,
governance - rights, law
Research Contact Name
Dr Jim Rhoads
Research Contact Position
Research Manager, Principal Registry, Research Section
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
National Urban Water Governance Program
Organisation/Department
Monash University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.urbanwatergovernance.com/
Phone Number
61 3 9905 9992
Fax Number
61 3 9905 2948
Physical Address
Monash Sustainability Institute
Building 74 –Monash University
Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800
Postal Address
National Urban Water Governance Program,
Monash University, Clayton VIC, 3800
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The National Urban Water Governance Program comprises a number of closely
related and complimentary research projects, across Australia and overseas, aimed at
advancing Water Sensitive Cities.
Example projects:
Comparative Study of Urban Water Governance in Australia
Advancing Policy and Organisational Receptivity to Water Sensitive Urban Design
Community Sustainable Water Planning
Key Words
governance - urban, planning, policy, sustainable management - water sensitive
urban design, urban, community capacity building, participatory planning, research
management
Research Contact Name
Prof. Rebekah Brown
Research Contact Position
Program Leader
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
National Water Commission (NWC)
Organisation/Department
Australian Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp
Phone Number
61 2 6102 6000
Fax Number
61 2 6102 6006
Physical Address
95 Northbourne Avenue, CANBERRA ACT 2600
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The National Water Commission is responsible for driving progress towards the
sustainable management and use of Australia’s water resources under our blueprint
for water reform - the National Water Initiative. It funds and commissions a variety of
research projects and events, and collaborates with universities, learned Academies,
and the water industry. It produces a number of publications including a monthly
newsletter and the Waterlines series of reports on key water issues. The NWC
website contains a large amount of information and resources, including suite of water
assessment and planning tools developed in different projects. Of special relevance to
this directory and the larger project (funded by an NWC Fellowship) is the April 2011
report Urban water in Australia: future directions.
Key Words
research management, governance - planning, policy, pricing - policy and regulation,
communication
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Native Title Research Unit (NTRU)
AIATSIS
Organisation/Department
Australian Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/overview.html
Phone Number
61 2 6246 1161
Fax Number
61 2 6249 7714
Physical Address
Lawson Cres, Acton, Canberra
Postal Address
GPO Box 553
Canberra ACT 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The NTRU provides high quality independent research and policy advice in order to
promote the recognition and protection of the native title of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander Peoples. We facilitate access to the Institute’s records, materials
and collections and publish the results of our research both as a source of public
information and academic publication.
Key Words
indigenous water rights, indigenous knowledge, indigenous water management,
governance - rights, law
Research Contact Name
Jess Weir
Research Contact Position
Research Fellow
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sports
Organisation/Department
Northern Territory Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/index.html
Phone Number
61 8 8999 5511
Physical Address
Goyder Building
25 Chung Wah Terrace,
Palmerston
Postal Address
PO Box 496
Palmerston NT 0831
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Agency is responsible for conserving, enhancing and ensuring best possible
access to, and enjoyment of, the Territory’s natural and cultural assets. This includes
native wildlife and habitats, renewable natural resources including water and natural
landscapes, historic buildings and places, scientific, literary and cultural collections,
sport and recreation development opportunities as well as promotion and development
of strong, creative communities.
Key Words
governance, water quality, community education, human-environment interaction
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
New Water Resources (consultancy)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://newwaterresources.com/New_Water_Resources/Home.html
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
New Water ReSources’s approach challenges conventional thinking to create different
learning and meaning-making experiences. It brings together a network of very special
individuals in response to the needs of clients and their projects. The team members
have developed specialized expertise that can change mental models, create new
linkages and stimulate new behaviors about water and especially water’s use and
reuse.
Key Words
behavioural change, community education, recycling, organisational change
Research Contact Name
Linda Macpherson
Research Contact Position
Managing Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Northern Australia Water Futures Assessment
Organisation/Department
Aquatic Ecosystems Policy Section, Aquatic Systems Health Branch, Department
of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.environment.gov.au/water/policy-programs/northern-australia/index.html
Phone Number
61 2 6274 1111
Fax Number
61 2 6275 9371
Physical Address
John Gorton Building
King Edward Terrace
Parkes, Canberra ACT 2600
Postal Address
GPO Box 787
Canberra ACT 2601
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The assessment is a multidisciplinary program being delivered jointly by the
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and the National Water
Commission, in close collaboration with relevant state and territory government
agencies. The assessment is comprised of four components:
• Water Resources program (the CSIRO Northern Australian Sustainable Yields
project)
• Ecological program
• Cultural and Social program
• Knowledge Base program
Example project of cultural and social program:
Review of existing cultural and social initiatives, and key groups and organisations
across northern Australia associated with water: DEWHA in consultation with the NWC,
has commissioned CSIRO to review projects, research initiatives and water planning
processes relevant to cultural values, beliefs and practices, including those that relate
to social and economic issues, associated with water across northern Australia.
Key Words
indigenous knowledge, cultural values, beliefs and practices, indigenous water
management, governance – planning
Research Contact Name
Georgina Usher
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Our Water Our Future, Watersmart program
Organisation/Department
Office of Water, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Victoria
Email
http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/contact
Website URL
http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/
Phone Number
136 186 (inside Australia)
Fax Number
61 3 9637 8254
Physical Address
Level 16, DSE building
8 Nicholson Street
East Melbourne
Postal Address
PO Box 500
East Melbourne, VIC 3002
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Involved in various social research and programs. Example progam: The WaterSmart
Behaviour Change Program is a Victorian Government initiative to help people achieve
their goals to reduce water use in their homes.
Key Words
behavioural change, community education, recycling, residential use, household use,
communication
Research Contact Name
Helen Delaporte
Research Contact Position
Manager, Water Efficiency, Water Industry Division
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Queensland Water Commission
Organisation/Department
Queensland government
Email
http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/Contact+us
Website URL
http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/
Phone Number
1300 789 906 (within Australia)
Fax Number
61 7 322 78227
Postal Address
PO Box 15087
City East 4002
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Queensland Water Commission is responsible for achieving safe, secure and
sustainable water supplies in South East Queensland.
Key Words
governance, water security, community education
Research Contact Name
Mary Boydell
Research Contact Position
Commissioner
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Reef and Rainforest Research Centre including the Marine and Tropical Sciences
Research Facility
Organisation/Department
James Cook University
Email
http://www.rrrc.org.au/about/feedback.html
Website URL
http://www.rrrc.org.au/mtsrf/index.html
Phone Number
61 7 4050 7400
Fax Number
61 7 4031 7550
Physical Address
Level 1, 51 The Esplanade
Cairns, QLD 4870
and Building 61, James Cook University
Townsville, QLD 4810
Postal Address
PO Box 1762
Cairns, QLD 4870
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
MTSRF aims to deliver scientific solutions for the problems facing North Queensland’s
key environmental assets: the Great Barrier Reef and its catchments, tropical
rainforests including the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, and Torres Strait.
See project example: Strategic Natural Resource Managenent and land use planning
(Project 4.9.6)
Key Words
climate change adaptation, sustainable management - coastal, estuarine, marine,
governance - marine
Research Contact Name
Dr Catherine Robinson
Research Contact Position
Project Leader (Project 4.9.6)
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (RNSISS)
Organisation/Department
University of Queensland and other universities
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.siss.edu.au/home
Phone Number
61 7 3365 6307
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
To enhance the research and development capacity and capability in Australia for
innovative, policy relevant, cross-disciplinary research conducted in the social sciences
using spatially integrated approaches to provide an improved evidence-base for more
meaningful understanding of the issues and challenges facing people and places in
contemporary society.
Key Words
interdisciplinary partnerships, research management, governance - policy, humanenvironment interaction, research management, integrated approaches
Research Contact Name
Prof. Robert J. Stimson
Research Contact Position
Network Convenor
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
SA Water
Organisation/Department
South Australia government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.sawater.com.au/sawater/
Phone Number
1300 650 950 (within Australia)
Fax Number
61 8 7003 1118
Physical Address
SA Water, 250 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
SA Water is an internationally recognised water utility wholly owned by the Government
of South Australia for the people of South Australia. It undertakes partnership research
projects.
Key Words
utility, supply, wastewater
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse also Urban Water Resources
Group (UWRG)
Organisation/Department
University of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.unisa.edu.au/water/default.asp
Phone Number
61 8 8302 5141
Fax Number
61 8 8302 5086
Physical Address
Mawson Lakes Campus
University of South Australia
Mawson Lakes, SA 5095
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Research with a focus on desalination, membrane and nanotechnology; securing water
supplies; treatment for fit for purpose reuse; Water Recycling Systems Design and
Urban Water Resource Group.
Key Words
supply, desalination, water security, water quality, recycling, sustainable management rural and/or remote, water sensitive urban design
Research Contact Name
Professor Simon Beecham
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Seqwater
Email
http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/contact-us
Website URL
http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/home
Phone Number
61 7 3035 5500
Physical Address
240 Margaret Street
Brisbane QLD 4000
Postal Address
PO BOX 16146
City East, QLD, 4002
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Seqwater is South East Queensland’s bulk water supply provider. We deliver innovative
and efficient management of catchments, water storages, and treatment services to
ensure the quantity and quality of the region’s water supplies.
Key Words
utility, supply, wastewater, water quality, sustainable management - catchment,
governance
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Sinclair Knight Merz (consultancy)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.skmconsulting.com
Phone Number
61 2 9928 2100
Fax Number
61 2 9928 2500
Physical Address
100 Christie Street
St Leonards, Sydney NSW
Postal Address
PO Box 164
St Leonards NSW 2065
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
SKM is a leading engineering, sciences and project delivery firm. Its purpose is to
deliver a positive and enduring impact on the world.
Key Words
recycling, sustainable management - urban, climate change adapation, markets
1. Research Contact Name
Craig Clifton
1. Research Contact Position
SKM’s Practice Leader for Climate Change
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
David Ronskley
2. Research Contact Position
Contact – SKM Sydney
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Smart Water Research Centre
Organisation/Department
Griffith University
Email
http://www.smartwaterresearchcentre.com/contact
Website URL
http://www.smartwaterresearchcentre.com/
Phone Number
61 7 5552 7269
Physical Address
Griffith University
Gold Coast Campus
Edmund Rice Drive, QLD 4222
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Smart Water Research Centre embodies a synergistic approach to the integrated
water management cycle. Our state-of-the-art research facility offers cutting-edge
water research equipment focused on microbiology, environmental toxicology and
chemical diagnostics. We also provide a program of education and training directed
towards emerging industry needs.
Water and Society theme example project: SEQ Residential Water End Use Study …
using smart water metering technologies to analyse end use water consumption of 320
households will provide much needed priority data for urban water management. The
study was commissioned by the Urban Water Research Security Alliance (UWRSA).
Key Words
Residential - end use studies, sustainable management - integrated approaches, water
services - water quality, water services - smart metering
1. Research Contact Name
Dr John Rolfe
1. Research Contact Position
Program Leader Water and Society
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Larry Little
2. Research Contact Position
CEO
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Social and Behavioural Sciences Group (formerly ARCWIS)
Organisation/Department
Social and Economic Sciences Program, Division of Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.csiro.au/science/Social-Economic-Sciences.html
Phone Number
61 8 9333 6291
Fax Number
61 8 9383 7193
Physical Address
Cnr Underwood Ave and Brockway Rd,
Floreat WA 6014
Postal Address
Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO
Private Bag 5
Wembley WA 6913
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Formerly ARCWIS (Australian Research Centre for Water and Society), the Social
and Behavioural Sciences Group, does research on water and climae change and is
involved in the South-East Queensland Water Alliance. CSIRO’s Social and Economic
Sciences research program aims to deliver social, behavioural, economic and
institutional research that informs natural resource management policy and the design
of sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
Our scientists work with governments, communities, industries, land managers and
Indigenous Australians to assist in understanding complex issues and decision-making
about natural resource management.
Key Words
behavioural change, climate change adaptation, sustainable management, governance
- policy, planning, research management, interdisciplinary partnerships, indigenous
knowledge
Research Contact Name
Iain Walker
Research Contact Position
Group Leader, Social and Behavioural Sciences Group
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQHW)
Organisation/Department
Healthy Waterways
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.healthywaterways.org
Phone Number
61 7 3123 1682
Fax Number
61 7 3103 4573
Physical Address
Level 4 Hitachi Building
239 George Street
Brisbane
Postal Address
PO Box 13086
George Street
Brisbane QLD 4003
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership is a collaboration between
the Queensland Government, local governments, industries, research organisations
and community groups.The Partners work together to improve how we manage our
catchments and the health of the waterways in South East Queensland.
The key elements of the Partnership include: the implementation by a range of
partners of management actions ranging from upgrades in sewage treatment plants, to
improved planning regimes and rehabilitation of riparian vegetation; a multi-disciplinary
science and research program that underpins the management action program and
monitors its effectiveness; and the Healthy Waterways promotional and educational
program that seeks to build on similar activities of partners and ensure that there is
community awareness and support for action.
Key Words
sustainable management - catchment, intetgrated approaches, wastewater,
governance - planning, community education, research management, interdisciplinary
partnerships
Research Contact Name
Assoc. Prof. Eva Abal
Research Contact Position
Science Program Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Swan River Trust
Organisation/Department
Western Australian Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.swanrivertrust.wa.gov.au/Content/Home.aspx
Phone Number
61 8 9278 0900
Fax Number
61 8 9325 7149
Physical Address
Level 1, Hyatt Business Centre
20 Terrace Road
East Perth WA 6004
Postal Address
Swan River Trust
PO Box 6829
East Perth WA 6892
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Established in 1989, the Swan River Trust is a State government agency charged with
protecting and managing the Swan Canning river system.
Key Words
sustainable management - lakes, rivers, floodplains, governance - planning, community
engagement, history, participatory planning
Research Contact Name
Wendy York
Research Contact Position
Communications Manager
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Sydney Coastal Councils Group
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.sydneycoastalcouncils.com.au/system-approach-to-regional-climatechange-adaptation-strategies-in-metropolises/index.php
Phone Number
61 2 9246 7791
Fax Number
61 2 9265 9660
Physical Address
Level 14, 456 Kent Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Postal Address
GPO Box 1591
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
DX 1251 Sydney
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Example Project: ‘The Systems Approach to Regional Climate Change Adaptation
Strategies in Metropolises’ project is developing and testing an integrated, systems
approach to assisting the fifteen Sydney Coastal Councils Group (SCCG) Member
Councils in assessing their vulnerability to climate change and the barriers and
opportunities associated with adaptation at the Local Government scale. The project
also seeks to demonstrate the value of coordinated regional-scale responses
to climate vulnerability through Local Government cooperation. The project is a
partnership between the SCCG, and the CSIRO’s Climate Adaptation Flagship working
in collaboration with University of the Sunshine Coast. It is part of the Australian
Government’s Department of Climate Change (DCC) National Climate Change
Adaptation Program.
Key Words
sustainable management – urban, regional, integrated approaches, governance planning, climate change adaptation
Research Contact Name
Geoff Withycombe
Research Contact Position
Regional Coastal Environment Officer, Officer Sydney Coastal Councils Group Inc.
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Sustainability Division
Organisation/Department
Sydney Water
Email
http://sydneywater.custhelp.com/app/ask
Website URL
http://www.sydneywater.com.au/
Phone Number
13 20 92 (within Australia)
Physical Address
1 Smith St
Parramatta NSW 2150
Postal Address
Sydney Water
PO Box 399
Parramatta NSW 2124
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Example programs: Smart Metering Residential Project and Valuing Water (Measuring
Behavioural Change) Project and project inventory
Key Words
utility, sustainable management - urban, smart metering, residential use, behavioural
change, cultural values, beliefs and practices, household use
Research Contact Name
Corinna Doolan
Research Contact Position
Project Manager, Water & Energy Futures
Science & Technology, Sustainability Division
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Sustainability Research Centre
Organisation/Department
University of Sunshine Coast
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Research/
SustainabilityResearchCentre/
Phone Number
61 7 5459 4891
Physical Address
Office 1.28A
Innovation Centre - ML 28
University of the Sunshine Coast
Sippy Downs Drive
Sippy Downs QLD
Postal Address
Sustainability Research Centre - ML28
University of the Sunshine Coast
Maroochydore DC QLD 4558
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Our research focus is based on dominant and emerging theoretical discourses in
sustainability and regional engagement. Areas of research are: sustainability science;
resilience; adaptive capacity; adaptive management; social learning; social and human
capital; regional development theory. Examples of our issues of focus include coastal
management, climate change, water management, natural and cultural heritage,
innovation, adaptive growth, and community wellbeing.
Example Projects:
• National Climate Change Adaptation Research Network in Marine Biodiversity and
Resources - ARN-MBR Research Association
• Indigenous attachment, engagement and protocol in natural and cultural heritage
management
Key Words
sustainable management - coastal, estuarine, marine, governance - climate change
adaptation, health, indigenous knowledge, indigenous water management, integrated
approaches, community capacity building
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Terrain Natural Resource Management
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.terrain.org.au
Phone Number
61 7 4043 8000
Fax Number
61 7 4061 4677
Physical Address
Level 1, 88 Rankin Street, Innisfail
Postal Address
PO Box 1756, Innisfail QLD 4860
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
This is a non-profit company with a membership of over 120 local organisations
‘charged with building regional consensus between Governments, industry and the
community about the key targets and actions needed to secure the health of our water,
biodiversity, soil, river, climate, traditional owner and community assets.’ Brokers
research projects, including social research related to water planning.
Key Words
climate change adaptation, governance - planning, sustainable management - coastal,
estuarine, marine
Research Contact Name
Dr Allan Dale
Research Contact Position
Chief Executive Officer
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
The Sustainability Centre, Lochiel Park
Organisation/Department
Government of South Australia
Email
http://ci02.keyvision.net/programs/pod.send_email?xtype=EPOD&xid=10076685
Website URL
http://ci02.keyvision.net/programs/groups.group_summary?sid=&xinput=10076685
Phone Number
61 8 71277182
Physical Address
1 Lochiel Parkway,
Campbelltown SA 5074
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Lochiel Park is to become a model for sustainable living demonstrating best practice in
water and energy efficiency, waste reduction and creation of a sustainable community.
A number of research projects have been carried out on the project and others
are in the process of being researched. The Sustainabilty Centre at Lochiel Park
provides community, industry, school and university groups with information about
environmentally, socially and economically sustainable techniques to change the way
we live.
Key Words
research management - pilot project, sustainable management - urban, water sensitive
urban design, community education, community engagement
Research Contact Name
Phil Donaldson
Research Contact Position
Project Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
The Watershed
Organisation/Department
Marrickville Council
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/environment/thewatershed.htm
Phone Number
61 2 9519 6366
Physical Address
The Watershed Shopfront:
218 King Street
Newtown NSW 2042
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Watershed is a sustainability resource centre in the heart of Newtown. The
Watershed is dedicated to growing a culture of environmental sustainability within the
urban community.
Example project: Newtown Streets to Rivers Project - a joint initiative between South
Sydney City and Marrickville Councils through the NSW Government Stormwater Trust.
(See Example 4)
Key Words
community education, community capacity building, community engagement,
governance - planning, stormwater
Research Contact Name
Megan Bennett
Research Contact Position
Senior Environment Officer
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Think water, act water
Sustainability Programs & Projects
Organisation/Department
Department of Environment, Climate Change, Energy & Water, ACT Government
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.thinkwater.act.gov.au/
Phone Number
61 2 6207 2170
Fax Number
61 2 6207 6255
Physical Address
Macarthur House
12 Wattle Street
Lyneham ACT 2602
Postal Address
GPO Box 158
Canberra City ACT 2601
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
ACT Government rebate programs and services, and advice to help you make your
home, garden, school or business more water efficient.
Example project: ‘ToiletSmart’ program and a new ‘ToiletSmart PLUS’ program.
ToiletSmart assists ACT residents to upgrade their single flush toilet with a waterefficient dual flush model and ToiletSmart Plus provides additional options to install
other water efficient fixtures in their homes.
Key Words
community education, behavioural change, decentralised - supply, decentralised sanitation, demand management
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre (TERC)
Organisation/Department
CSIRO
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.terc.csiro.au/
Phone Number
61 8 8944 8400
Fax Number
61 8 8944 8444
Physical Address
564 Vanderlin Drive, Berrimah, 0828, NT.
Postal Address
PMB 44, Winnellie, Northern Territory
Australia, 0822
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The CSIRO Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre (TERC) in Darwin, Northern Territory,
serves as a focus for research in the seasonal tropics of northern Australia. For more
than 30 years scientists have been researching issues such as:
• conservation management of natural and semi-natural areas,
• tropical agriculture and horticulture,
• ecology and integrated control of weeds.
Example project: Incorporating social values into environment management.
Key Words
sustainable management - coastal, estuarine, marine, sustainable management - land
and water, indigenous knowledge, indigenous water management
1. Research Contact Name
Barbara McKagie
1. Research Contact Position
Research Support Manager
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Dr Sue Jackson
2. Research Contact Position
Senior Research Scientist, Manages Research on Water
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Urban Research Centre
Organisation/Department
University of Western Sydney
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.uws.edu.au/urban_research_centre/urc
Phone Number
61 2 8833-5912
Physical Address
Level 6, 34 Charles Street, Parramatta NSW.
Postal Address
Urban Research Centre
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Centre undertakes world-class research involving a large team of interdisciplinary,
adventurous and engaged staff with high-level expertise in spatial economic analysis,
urban performance indicators, demographic change, innovation studies, policy
development and evaluation, community consultation, qualitative and quantitative
research techniques, and in the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Key Words
interdisciplinary partnerships, research management, governance - policy, humanenvironment interaction, community engagement
Research Contact Name
Prof Phillip O’Neil
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Urban Research Program
Organisation/Department
Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.griffith.edu.au/environment-planning-architecture/urban-research-program
Phone Number
61 7 3735 3742
Fax Number
61 7 3735 4026
Physical Address
Environment 1 Building (N55)
Room 0.28,
Griffith University, Nathan campus
Postal Address
Urban Research Program
Griffith University, Nathan campus
170 Kessels Road
Nathan QLD 4111
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The strategic foci of the URP are research and advocacy in an urban and regional
context. We seek to improve understanding of, and develop innovative responses
to Australia’s urban challenges and opportunities by conducting and disseminating
research, advocating new policy directions, and by providing training assistance. Our
research produces new knowledge for policy, regulatory and community frameworks
that seek to manage change and engender sustainable urban development.
Key Words
climate change adaptation, sustainable management - urban, regional, governance policy, planning, research management, cultural values, beliefs and practices.
Research Contact Name
A/Prof Jago Dodson
Research Contact Position
Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Urban Water Security Research Alliance (UWSRA)
Organisation/Department
Queensland Government, CSIRO, University of Queensland, Griffith University
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.urbanwateralliance.org.au/index.html
Phone Number
61 7 3247 3006
Fax Number
61 7 3405 0373
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Urban Water Security Research Alliance has been formed to address South-East
Queensland’s emerging urban water issues. Focus on water security and recycling,
but will seek to align research where appropriate with other water research programs
such as those of other local SEQ water agencies, Water for a Healthy Country National
Research Flagship, the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Water Quality and
Treatment, e-Water CRC and the Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA).
Partners of the Alliance are:
• Queensland Government
• CSIRO (through the Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship)
• The University of Queensland
• Griffith University, Brisbane.
Key Words
research management, interdisciplinary partnerships, water security, sustainable
management - urban, impact analysis, water services - recycling, decentralised,
stormwater, end use studies
1. Research Contact Name
Prof. Chris Davis
1. Research Contact Position
Alliance Chair
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Don Begbie
2. Research Contact Position
Alliance Director
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Victorian Women’s Trust
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.vwt.org.au
Phone Number
61 3 9642 0423
Fax Number
61 3 9642 0016
Physical Address
The Victorian Women’s Trust, 1st Floor,
388 Bourke Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Postal Address
As above
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Watermark Australia is a six year community based initiative designed to give people a
greater knowledge of water issues and a stronger foothold in debates and discussions
about water. It is an initiative of the Victorian Women’s Trust and has operated from the
Women’s Trust office since 2001.
Key Words
community engagement, participatory planning, community capacity building,
community education
Research Contact Name
Mary Crooks
Research Contact Position
Executive Director/Project Director
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Water Corporation (Western Australia)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.watercorporation.com.au/
Phone Number
13 13 85 (within Australia)
Physical Address
629 Newcastle Street
Leederville WA 6007
Postal Address
Locked Bag 2
Osborne Park Delivery Centre
WA 6916
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
The Water Corporation is working with the community to establish state-of-the-art
water, wastewater and drainage services across the state. Where possible, we ask for
community input to help us make more sustainable decisions.
Example project: Gnangara Mound sustainability strategy - stakeholders issues and
perspectives
Key Words
utility, supply, wastewater, quality, community engagement, community education
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Water for Life
Organisation/Department
NSW Office of Water, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.waterforlife.nsw.gov.au/education/research
Phone Number
61 2 8281 7777
Physical Address
Level 17, 227 Elizabeth St
Sydney NSW 2000
Postal Address
GPO Box 3889
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Example programs: IPART Research Report: Survey of Household Water Attitudes 2005
and Water Consumption and the Built Environment: A Social and Behavioural Analysis,
and Water Use and the Built Environment: Patterns of Water Consumption in Sydney
and Pittwater Community Water Survey (from website)
Key Words
community education, attitudes, communication, residential use, household use,
sustainable management - urban, behavioural change, professional development
Research Contact Name
Reid McNamara
Research Contact Position
Manager, Education, Water for Life Education Program
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.wqra.com.au/
Phone Number
61 3 9606 0678
Fax Number
61 3 9606 0376
Physical Address
Level 8, 469 LaTrobe Street Melbourne VIC 3000
Level 3, 250 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Postal Address
WQRA,
Level 3, 250 Victoria Square
Adelaide SA 5000
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
WQRA undertakes collaborative research of national application on drinking water
quality, recycled water and relevant areas of wastewater management. The main
focus of the research program is on urban water issues related to public health and
acceptability aspects of water supply, water recycling and aspects of wastewater
management. WQRA also has an Education Program, utilising the most successful
elements of the CRC Program.
Key Words
water quality, health, recycling, wastewater, community education
1. Research Contact Name
Prof Michael Moore
1. Research Contact Position
Chair
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Michelle Akeroyd
2. Research Contact Position
Chief Executive Officer (Acting)
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Program
Organisation/Department
The Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.wsud.org/
Phone Number
61 2 9895 6206
Fax Number
61 2 9895 7330
Physical Address
Ground Floor, Macquarie Tower,
10 Valentine Ave,
Parramatta NSW 2150
Postal Address
PO Box 3720
Parramatta, NSW 2124
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Example Project: Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Program is funded by the
Australian Government’s Caring for Our Country.
Key Words
sustainable management - water sensitive urban design, urban, governance - planning,
policy
Research Contact Name
Kate Black
Research Contact Position
WSUD Program Manager
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA)
Website URL
https://www.wsaa.asn.au/Pages/default.aspx
Phone Number
61 3 9606 0678 (VIC)
61 2 9221 5966 (NSW)
Fax Number
61 3 9606 0376 (VIC)
61 2 9221 5977 (NSW)
Physical Address
Level 8, 469 Latrobe Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000
Suite 1, Level 30, 9 Castlereagh Street
Sydney NSW 2000
Postal Address
PO Box 13172, Law Courts Post Office VIC 8010
GPO Box 915, Sydney NSW 2001
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Peak body of the Australian urban water industry. WSAA’s activities are organized
around five Priority Projects, namely:
• Industry Performance and Regulation
• Public Health and Drinking Water Quality
• Asset Management
• Water Resources, Climate Change, and Environmental Sustainability
• National Water Issues
Website has links to Australian urban water utilities.
Key Words
utility, sustainable management – urban, governance, policy, professional development
Research Contact Name
Adam Lovell
Research Contact Position
Executive Director (Acting)
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Waterwatch Australia
Organisation/Department
Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water,
Population and Communities
Email
http://www.waterwatch.org.au/contacts.html
Website URL
http://www.waterwatch.org.au/
Phone Number
Contacts in each state: see http://www.waterwatch.org.au/contacts.html
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Waterwatch is a national community water quality monitoring network that encourages
all Australians to become involved and active in the protection and management of
their waterways and catchments.
The Waterwatch program was established by the Australian Government during 1993.
There are now nearly 3000 Waterwatch groups monitoring water quality at over 7000
sites throughout 200 catchments.
Key Words
attitudes, sustainable management - lakes, rivers, floodplains,water quality, community
engagement
Research Contact Name
Contacts in each state: see http://www.waterwatch.org.au/contacts.html
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd (WSROC)
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.wsroc.com.au/
Phone Number
61 2 9671 4333
Fax Number
61 2 9671 7741
Physical Address
Level 1, WSROC House
49 Campbell Street
Blacktown, NSW 2148
Postal Address
GPO Box 63
Blacktown, NSW 2148
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils (WSROC) represents 10 local
councils in Western Sydney. Our focus is on transport, employment and regional
planning.
Example project: Water in the Landscape
Key Words
governance - urban, planning, sustainable management - urban, cultural values, beliefs
and practices
Research Contact Name
Colin Berryman
Research Contact Position
Manager, Water in the Landscape Project
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Wide Bay Water
Organisation/Department
Fraser Coast Regional Council
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.widebaywater.qld.gov.au/home
Phone Number
1300 808 888
Fax Number
61 7 4125 5118
Physical Address
Wide Bay Water Corporation
29-31 Ellengowan St
Urangan, Hervey Bay QLD 4655
Postal Address
PO Box 5499 Hervey Bay Queensland Australia 4655
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
Wide Bay Water Corporation is a local government owned corporation in Queensland,
providing water and wastewater services to the Fraser Coast. Wide Bay Water
Corporation undertakes the planning, development and operation of water distribution
infrastructure in the collection, distribution and disposal of water.
Project example: WetSide Water Education Park
Key Words
supply, utility, wastewater, demand management, water quality, recycling, community
education
Research Contact Name
Kelvin O’Halloran
Research Contact Position
Director, Research & Training Centre
Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Organisation/Department
Yarra Valley Water
Email
https://www.yvw.com.au/Home/Aboutus/Contactus/Findus/index.htm
Website URL
http://www.yvw.com.au
Phone Number
13 1721 (General inquiries)
Physical Address
Lucknow St, Mitcham
VIC 3132 Australia
Postal Address
Yarra Valley Water
Private Bag 1
Mitcham VIC 3132
Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
We are the largest of Melbourne’s three retail water businesses providing water supply
and sewerage services to over 1.6 million people and over 50,000 businesses in the
northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne. A prizewinner in business sustainability
(See Example 3) with a community-oriented approach; undertakes social research
partnerships.
Key Words
utility, wastewater, supply, research management, stakeholder consultation,
organisational change
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RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD
Centre/Program
Zero Waste SA Research Centre
Organisation/Department
University of South Australia, Government of South Australia
Email
[email protected]
Website URL
http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/research/ZeroWasteSAResearchCentre/
default.asp#contact
Phone Number
61 8 8302 27372
Fax Number
61 8 8302 0211
Physical Address
Level 4 Kaurna Building
Corner Fenn Place and Hindley St
City West Campus
University of South Australia, Adelaide
Postal Address
Zero Waste SA Research Centre sd+b
University of South Australia
GPO Box 2471
Adelaide SA 5001 Australia
Research Summary
(excerpt from website)
A SA government initiative with University of South Australia collaborations, centred in
the Architecture & Design school. The objective of Zero Waste SA is to promote waste
management practices that, as far as possible, eliminate waste or its consignment
to landfill and advance the development of resource recovery and recycling. Key
areas include: understanding and changing behaviour, better measurement of
our consumption and ecological footprint, better resource efficiency and life cycle
measurement, improved decision making.
Key Words
wastewater, sustainable management - land and water, urban, behavioural change,
community engagement, capacity-building, water sensitive urban design
1. Research Contact Name
Prof Steffen Lehmann
1. Research Contact Position
Director
1. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
2. Research Contact Name
Pamela Hart
2. Research Contact Position
Administrative Officer
2. Research Contact Email
[email protected]
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Researcher Record
Addition or Update
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Researcher Record – Addition or Update
These pages are for researchers who would have liked to have been listed in the directory, as well as for those
who are incorrectly listed.
The authors regret these omissions and errors. The constraints of the project and research methods employed
in producing Tributaries inevitably meant that not all relevant researchers were contacted or identified for
inclusion, and that despite the team’s best efforts, some details listed will be wrong, or will have changed since
first gathered.
At the time of final production it was not known whether support could be found for taking the directory dataset
to a more animated stage as an accessible on-line editable database. Like much of the social and cultural
research listed within it, Tributaries was a product of researchers working on a fixed-term project and getting it
further will take some voluntary efforts.
As a hopeful investment in this possible future on-line directory, and a demonstration of interest to prospective
funders of that development, you may want to add or amend your directory details using this form (or an email
approximation of it). Email to [email protected] prior to 30 March 2012.
The rest of this form contains 3 sections.
1. Directory record information – complete fields
2. Additional Publications (for bibliography) – where possible include urls for project
reports and publications; include only those most relevant to urban water.
3. List of keywords – select up to five keywords or phrases from list to enter into
directory record.
If the source of the information for the ‘research summary’ section of the directory record comes from a staff or
research centre website, please give the web address for later checking.
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1. Directory record information
Please enter relevant information into the fields below, using directory entries as models.
Directory Record:
Title
First Name
Second Name
Position
Centre/Department/Program or Organisation
Organisation
Email
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Program
Research Summary (and web source)
Key Words Summary (please select from the list
on the next page)
1. Project/Publication (title, description, date,
collaborators/organisation or publisher, website)
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collaborators/organisation, publisher, website)
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collaborators/organisation, publisher, website)
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2. Additional Publications (for bibliography)
Please list additional publications (last 5 years). The Tributaries document had restricted space for bibliographical
samples but this limit might not apply in an on-line version.
3. List of keywords
Note: please select no more than five of these to put into the directory record table.
Attitudes
Behavioural change
Catchment
Climate Change Adaptation
Coastal, estuarine, marine,
Communication
Community capacity building
Community education
Community Engagement
Compliance
Coordination
Cross-Cultural
Cultural values, beliefs and practices
Decentralised
Decentralised – recycling
Decentralised – supply
Decentralised– sanitation
Demand management
Desalination
End use studies
Equity and Access
Gender and consumption
Governance
Governance – climate change
adaptation
Governance – marine
Governance – rural/regional/remote
Governance – urban, Health
History
Household use
Human-Environment Interaction
Impact analysis
Indigenous knowledge
Indigenous water management
Indigenous water rights
Integrated approaches
Interdisciplinary partnerships
Irrigation
Knowledge brokering
Labelling
Lakes, rivers, floodplains,
Land and water
Law
Market Research
Markets
Media Studies
Methodologies
Organisational change
Participatory planning
Pilot project
Planning
Policy
Policy and regulation
Pricing
Pricing – policy and regulation
Professional Development
Public Acceptance/Trust
Recycling
Regional
Research communication/
translation
Research management
Research planning
Residential use
Restrictions
Rights
Rural and/or remote
Sanitation
Smart Metering
Stakeholder consultation
Stormwater
Supply
Urban
Utility
Wastewater
Water Quality
Water Security
Water sensitive urban design
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Email new or amended records to [email protected] prior to 30 March 2012.
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