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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

Online/print ISBN: 978-1-74108-237-1

Tributaries: A Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water

Published by the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney (Parramatta Campus) Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Website: http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr

Date of publication: October 2011

Document design by Celia Zhao, iMedia, University of Western Sydney.

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

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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 ResearchUniversity of Western SydneyJuly 2011


ContentsAcknowledgements 3

List of Figures 5

List of Tables 5

Abbreviations and acronyms 5

Guide to this Directory 6

Introduction: Why the Tributaries Directory? 8Background 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 12Problem 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 20Mapping 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

Aboriginal Cultural Values of Wetlands in Western NSW 34

Discussion 35

3. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Individuals 36

4. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Organisations 161

Bibliography 252


ContentsAcknowledgements 3

List of Figures 5

List of Tables 5

Abbreviations and acronyms 5

Guide to this Directory 6

Introduction: Why the Tributaries Directory? 8Background 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 12Problem 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 20Mapping 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

Aboriginal Cultural Values of Wetlands in Western NSW 34

Discussion 35

3. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Individuals 36

4. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Organisations 161

Bibliography 252

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


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.


IntroductionWhy the Tributaries Directory?


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


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 non-identification 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.


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.


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.


Chapter 1Classifying Research:

problem areas, keywords and methods


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


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


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 user-oriented compared to industry-oriented research, ‘decentralised’ water services were coded for 14 individual researchers but for no organisations.


Figure 1: Most frequent keywords - Individuals and Organisations

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Behaviouralchange

Culturalvalues,beliefandprac>ces

Climatechangeadapta>on

Communica>ons

Communityeduca>on

CommunityEngagement

Decentralisedwaterservices

Governance–all

Governance–Planning

Governance–Policy

Indigenous–knowledge,management,rights

InterdisciplinaryPartnerships

Researchmanagement

Supply

Sustainablemanagement–asstd

Sustainablemanagement–urban,WSUD

Wastewater

Waterquality

Waterservices+u>lity

Mostfrequentkeywords

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.


Figure 2: Word cloud of Keywords

Figure 2: Word cloud of Keywords

Figure 3: Word cloud of sample bibliography titles


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 FileWord files

Tributaries Dataset Edited version of Researcher Dataset, fot Chapters 3 and 4 Excel Spreadsheet FileWord 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 FormatHTML and other files

Tributaries Bibliography Edited and corrected version of Research Bibliography EndnoteWord 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


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.


Chapter 2Examples of social and cultural research on water


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.


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.

No opportunity to influence proceedings – research findings not shared or checked with sources.

Participation by consultation

People consulted by external professionals who listen to their views.

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.


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.


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


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


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


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.


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


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 18-35 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.


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)

http://www.worldplumbinginfo.com/article/yellow-plumber


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.


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)


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.


Example 11 Research Method: Water Diaries


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.


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.

http://www.watersensitivecities.org.au/

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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.


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’


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.


Chapter 3Directory of Social and Cultural Research

on Urban Water – Individuals


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.

mailto:e.abal%40uq.edu.au?subject=



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


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 decision-making 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.

mailto:Kumi.Abeysuriya%40uts.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Michele

Surname Akeroyd

Position Program Manager

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Drinking Water

Organisation Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA)


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).


Title Prof

First Name Glenn

Surname Albrecht

Position Director

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy

Organisation Murdoch University


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.

mailto:michele.akeroyd%40wqra.com.au?subject=

mailto:g.albrecht%40murdoch.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Helen

Surname Allison

Position Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation School of Environmental Science

Organisation Murdoch University


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.


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.

mailto:hallison%40murdoch.edu.au?subject=

mailto:pat.arm%40bigpond.net.au?subject=

mailto:pat%40leadersforsustainability.com?subject=



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


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.


Title Dr

First Name Kate

Surname Auty

Position Commissioner

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Victoria (CES)


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

mailto:r.attwater%40uws.edu.au?subject=

mailto:info.ces%40ces.vic.gov.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Claudia

Surname Baldwin

Position Senior Lecturer

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Regional and Urban Planning

Organisation University of Sunshine Coast


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.

mailto:cbaldwin%40usc.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Cara

Surname Beal

Position Research Fellow

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Smart Water Research Centre

Organisation Griffith University


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.


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


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.

mailto:c.beal%40griffith.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Simon.Beecham%40unisa.edu.au?subject=



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


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.


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)


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).

mailto:kathryn.bellette%40flinders.edu.au?subject=

mailto:colin%40wsroc.com.au?subject=



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


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.


Title Ms

First Name Annette

Surname Bos

Position PhD Candidate

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation National Urban Water Governance ProgramSchool of Geography and Environmental Science

Organisation Monash University


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.

mailto:f.bonner%40uq.edu.au?subject=

mailto:annette.bos%40arts.monash.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name John

Surname Brennan

Position Manager Water efficiency Projects

Organisation Water Corporation (Western Australia)


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.


Title Ms

First Name Jean

Surname Brennan

Position Coordinator

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Water and Catchments

Organisation Marrickville Council


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 co-design and co-management of solutions.

Key Words Summary governance - urban, planning, sustainable management - urban, community capacity building

1. Project/Publication Community Sustainable Water Planningproject: a partnership between Marrickville Council and Monash University (component of project: OurRiver - Cooks River sustainability Initiative).

mailto:J.Brennan%40watercorporation.com.au?subject=

mailto:envuswim%40Marrickville.nsw.gov.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Tracy

Surname Britton


Organisation Griffith University and Wide Bay Water


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.


Title Dr

First Name Kathleen

Surname Broderick

Position CEO

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation NRM South


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.

mailto:Tracy.Britton%40student.griffith.edu.au?subject=

mailto:kbroderick%40nrmsouth.org.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Rebekah

Surname Brown

Position Research Director

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Centre for Water Sensitive Cities, Monash Sustainability Institute



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.

mailto:rebekah.brown%40arts.monash.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Shelley

Surname Burgin

Position Professor

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation School of Natural Sciences, Provost Hawkesbury Campus



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.

mailto:s.burgin%40uws.edu.au?subject=



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


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).

mailto:Jeff.Camkin%40uwa.edu.au?subject=



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


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


Title Mr

First Name Rob

Surname Catchlove

Position Director

Organisation Alluvium


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

mailto:john.cary%40vu.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Rob.catchlove%40alluvium.com.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Michael

Surname Cathcart

Position Broadcaster

Organisation Australian Broadcasting Corporation


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

mailto:cathcart%40unimelb.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Bethany

Surname Cooper

Position Recent PhD candidate

Organisation La Trobe University


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.


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


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.

mailto:b.cooper%40latrobe.edu.au?subject=

mailto:l.crase%40latrobe.edu.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Mary

Surname Crooks

Position Executive Director

Organisation Victorian Women’s Trust


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.

mailto:Mary%40vwt.org.au?subject=



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


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 Tully-Murray basin.

mailto:alland%40terrain.org.au?subject=



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


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.


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


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.

mailto:chris.daniels%40unisa.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Helen.Delaporte%40dse.vic.gov.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Phil

Surname Donaldson

Position Project Director

Organisation Lochiel Park


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.

mailto:donaldson.phil%40lmc.sa.gov.au?subject=



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


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)

mailto:corinna.doolan%40sydneywater.com.au?subject=



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


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.

mailto:stephen.dovers%40anu.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Michael

Surname du Plessis

Position Consultant

Organisation GreenIce


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


Title Dr

First Name Gareth

Surname Edwards

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation School of Geosciences (Geography)

Organisation University of Sydney


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.

mailto:michael%40greenice.com.au?subject=

mailto:gareth.edwards%40sydney.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Nick

Surname Emtage


Centre/Department/Program or Organisation School of Integrative Systems

Organisation The University of Queensland


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 (2008-2009).

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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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


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


Title Ms

First Name Dena

Surname Fam

Position Researcher

Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Institute for Sustainable Futures



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)

mailto:jfalk%40unimelb.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Dena.Fam%40uts.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Simon

Surname Fane


Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Institute for Sustainable Future



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.

mailto:simon.fane%40uts.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Megan

Surname Farrelly


Centre/Department/Program or Organisation Centre for Water Sensitive Cities



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.


Title Ms

First Name Catherine

Surname Ferrari

Position General Manager Communications Group

Organisation Water Corporation (Western Australia)


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

mailto:megan.farrelly%40monash.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Catherine.Ferrari%40watercorporation.com.au?subject=



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


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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Title Mr

First Name Julian

Surname Fyfe

Position Researcher

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Institute for Sustainable Futures



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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Title Ms

First Name Vivian

Surname Garde

Position Manager

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Community and Stakeholder Engagement

Organisation South East Water Ltd


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.

mailto:Vivian.Garde%40sewl.com.au?subject=



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


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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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


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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Title Dr

First Name Andrea

Surname Gaynor

Position Associate Professor

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Department of History

Organisation University of Western Australia (UWA)


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 nineteenth-century 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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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


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 Life-Blood of the Earth-Body.

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Title Dr

First Name Ute

Surname Goeft

Position Associate

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Natural Sciences

Organisation Edith Cowan University


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.


Title Dr

First Name Margaret

Surname Gooch

Position Manager (Social and Economic Research)

Organisation Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority


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.

mailto:u.goeft%40ecu.edu.au?subject=

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Title Prof

First Name Heather

Surname Goodall

Position Professor

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Social and Political Change Group



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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Title Prof

First Name Quentin

Surname Grafton

Position Professor and Co-Chair

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation ANU Water Initiative



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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Title Dr

First Name Sue

Surname Graham-Taylor

Position Historian

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation History Council of Western Australia

Organisation Western Australia Government


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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http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/swan_river



Title Ms

First Name Janice

Surname Gray


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Law

Organisation University of NSW


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.


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


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.

mailto:j.gray%40unsw.edu.au?subject=

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Title Prof

First Name Stephen

Surname Gray

Position Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Institute for Sustainability and Innovation



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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Title Dr

First Name Michelle

Surname Graymore


Organisation Deakin University


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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Title Mr

First Name Alan

Surname Gregory

Position Theme Leader

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Urban Water, Water for a Healthy Country Flagship

Organisation CSIRO


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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Title Ms

First Name Robyn

Surname Grey-Gardner

Position Senior researcher and consultant


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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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


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.


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)


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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Title Ms

First Name Kate

Surname Harriden

Position Researcher

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation New Flows Research

Organisation Co-convenor of household water research network


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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Title Prof

First Name Gay

Surname Hawkins

Position Professorial Research Fellow, Deputy Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies



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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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)


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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Title Dr

First Name Colin

Surname Hocking

Position Coordinator

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Irramoo Sustainable Community Centre



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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Title Prof

First Name Ralph

Surname Horne

Position Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre for Design

Organisation College of Design & Social Context , RMIT University


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 socio-economic 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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Title Ms

First Name Jasmine

Surname Hoye


Organisation GA Research


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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Title Dr

First Name Anna

Surname Hurlimann


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Urban Planning

Organisation University of Melbourne


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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Title Dr

First Name Karen

Surname Hussey


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Fenner School of Environment and Society,College of Medicine, Biology and Environment



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-energy-nexus 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 andSolutions (Co-edited with Grafton, Quentin)


Title Prof

First Name Jorg

Surname Imberger

Position Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre for Water Research



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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mailto:jorg.imberger%40uwa.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Ray

Surname Ison

Position Professor

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Geography and Environmental Science



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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Title Dr

First Name Sue

Surname Jackson

Position Senior Research Scientist

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Division of Ecosystem Sciences

Organisation CSIRO


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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http://www.terc.csiro.au/research.asp?Program=SOCVALUES



Title Dr

First Name Tamara

Surname Jackson

Position Post Doctoral Fellow -Water and Energy Analyst

Organisation Charles Sturt University


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.


Title Dr

First Name Lesley

Surname Jolly

Position Adunct Academic



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

mailto:tajackson%40csu.edu.au?subject=

mailto:l.jolly%40mailbox.uq.edu.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Nina

Surname Keath


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation National Urban Water Governance Program



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)

mailto:nina.keath%40arts.monash.edu.au?subject=



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


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.

mailto:ganesh.keremane%40unisa.edu.au?subject=



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


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.

mailto:anthony.kiem%40newcastle.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Richard

Surname Kingsford

Position Centre Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre



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.

mailto:richard.kingsford%40unsw.edu.au?subject=



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



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 - cross-cultural, 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.

mailto:kuntala.lahiri-dutt%40anu.edu.au?subject=



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


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).

mailto:steffen.lehmann%40unisa.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Abby Mellick

Surname Lopes

Position Senior Lecturer in Design

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Communication Arts



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).

mailto:a.lopes%40uws.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Darryl

Surname Low Choy

Position Professor

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Urban & Environmental Planning Program, School of Environment



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.

mailto:d.lowchoy%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



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


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)


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


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’

mailto:damian.lucas%40environment.nsw.gov.au?subject=

mailto:shelley.luxton%40derm.qld.gov.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Amanda

Surname Lynch

Position Head of the Monash University Climateprogram and a Professor in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Regional Climate Group, School of Geography and Environmental Sciences



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.


Title Ms

First Name Linda

Surname MacPherson

Position Owner/Managing Director

Organisation New Water Resources


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

mailto:amanda.lynch%40arts.monash.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Linda%40NewWaterReSources.com?subject=



Title Dr

First Name John

Surname Marsden

Position Director

Organisation Marsden Jacob Associates


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

mailto:economists%40marsdenjacob.com.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Edward

Surname McDonald

Position Principal Anthropologist

Organisation Ethnosciences


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.

mailto:dredward%40iinet.net.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Janine

Surname McDonald

Position Capacity Building and Communications Project Manager

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Department of Water



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.

mailto:Janine.McDonald%40water.wa.gov.au?subject=



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



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.

mailto:jennifer.mckay%40unisa.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name John

Surname McKibbin

Position PhD Candidate and Research Consultant




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 analytically-informed 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

mailto:john.l.mckibbin%40uts.edu.au?subject=



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



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.

mailto:lynne.mcloughlin%40environment.nsw.gov.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Reid

Surname McNamara

Position Manager, Education, Water for Life Education Program

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation NSW Office of Water



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.


Title Ms

First Name Toni

Surname Meek

Position Manager, Community Engagement

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Yarra Valley Water


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

mailto:Reid.McNamara%40dwe.nsw.gov.au?subject=

mailto:toni.meek%40yvw.com.au?subject=



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


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 socio-cultural 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).

mailto:millerf%40unimelb.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Monica

Surname Minnegal

Position Anthropologist

Organisation Melbourne University


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).

mailto:mmam%40unimelb.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Cynthia

Surname Mitchell

Position Professor of Sustainability




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.

mailto:Cynthia.Mitchell%40uts.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Brad

Surname Moggridge

Position Indigenous Water Research Specialist

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation CSIRO Land and Water


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.

mailto:Bradley.moggridge%40csiro.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Ruth

Surname Morgan




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’

mailto:ruthmorgan%40mac.com?subject=



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



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).


Title Ms

First Name Candice

Surname Moy


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).

mailto:Peter.Morison%40monash.edu?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Blair

Surname Nancarrow

Position Social Scientist

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Syme & Nancarrow Water


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.



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


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’


Title Ms

First Name Jessica

Surname North

Position ARIES Coordinator

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Australian Research Institute for Environment and Sustainability (ARIES)


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).

mailto:anitra.nelson%40rmit.edu.au?subject=

mailto:ARIEScoordinator%40gse.mq.edu.au?subject=



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


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

mailto:emilyo%40uow.edu.au?subject=



Title Hon.

First Name Mark

Surname Parnell

Position Parliamentary leader

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation The Australian Greens (SA)


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.


Title Ms

First Name Marian

Surname Patrick




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 SystemsTransboundary 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.

mailto:Parnell%40parliament.sa.gov.au?subject=

mailto:marianp%40student.ecu.edu.au?subject=



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

mailto:gillian.paxton%40csiro.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Emily

Surname Potter


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Faculty of Arts and Education, School of Communication and Creative Arts

Organisation Deakin University


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.

mailto:emily.potter%40deakin.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Joseph Michael

Surname Powell

Position Historian

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Faculty of Arts



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.


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


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/

mailto:joe.powell%40arts.monash.edu.au?subject=

mailto:susan.pritchard%40strathfield.nsw.gov.au?subject=

http://www.ourriver.com.au/cooks-river/



Title Dr

First Name Kane

Surname Race


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Department of Gender and Cultural Studies



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).

mailto:kane.race%40usyd.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name John

Surname Radcliffe

Position Former Commissioner (2005-2008)

Organisation National Water Commission


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.


Title Ms

First Name Vivienne

Surname Read

Position Owner/Director

Organisation Emerging Options


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

mailto:john.radcliffe%40csiro.au?subject=

mailto:viv%40emergingoptions.com.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Cathy

Surname Robinson

Position Research Scientist

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Sustainable Ecosystems, Social and Economic Sciences program

Organisation CSIRO


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)

mailto:Catherine.Robinson%40csiro.au?subject=



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


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.

mailto:j.rolfe%40cqu.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Helen

Surname Ross

Position Professor of Rural Community Development



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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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




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

mailto:victoria.ross%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Alice

Surname Roughley

Position Socio-environmental consultant

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S)



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 1978-2002.

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.

mailto:Alice.Roughley%40anu.edu.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Sharon

Surname Ryall

Position Centre Research Manager

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Australian Wetlands & Rivers Centre



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.


Title Ms

First Name Marie

Surname Seeman

Position Former Masters student

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Social and Cultural Studies, Sociology and Anthropology


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.

mailto:sharon.ryall%40unsw.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Ashok

Surname Sharma

Position Principal Research Scientist,Integrated Urban Water Systems

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Land and Water

Organisation CSIRO


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.

mailto:Ashok.Sharma%40csiro.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Sylvie

Surname Shaw

Position Lecturer in Religion and Spirituality Studies



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.)

mailto:sylvie.shaw%40uq.edu.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Jenifer

Surname Simpson

Position Writer, Researcher

Organisation New Water Resources


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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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



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).

mailto:Martha.Sinclair%40monash.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Zoë

Surname Sofoulis




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.

mailto:z.sofoulis%40uws.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Anneliese

Surname Spinks

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Systematic Social Analysis of Residential Water

Organisation CSIRO


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.


Title Ms

First Name Celine

Surname Steinfeld


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Science

Organisation University of New South Wales


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.

mailto:Anneliese.Spinks%40csiro.au?subject=

mailto:celine.steinfeld%40unsw.edu.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Louise

Surname Stelfox

Position Project Manager

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Department of Water



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.

mailto:Louise.STELFOX%40water.wa.gov.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Rodney

Surname Stewart

Position Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre for Infrastructure Engineering & Management



Affiliation 2 Position Project Leader


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 meteringto the future of urban water planning

mailto:r.stewart%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Veronica

Surname Strang

Position Professor

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Department of Anthropology

Organisation University of Auckland


Overall Research Summary Research focuses on the social and cultural aspects of human-environmental 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.

mailto:v.strang%40auckland.ac.nz?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Helen

Surname Stratton

Position Program Leader

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Smart Water Centre



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.

mailto:h.stratton%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Yolande

Surname Strengers

Position Postdoctoral Fellow

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre for Design

Organisation Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology


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


Title Ms

First Name Bronwyn

Surname Sutton

Position Marketing Director

Organisation Kenmore DMP, Victoria


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.

mailto:yolande.strengers%40rmit.edu.au?subject=

mailto:bronwyn%40kenmore-dmp.com?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Geoff

Surname Syme

Position Professor of Planning

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre of Planning



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.

mailto:g.syme%40ecu.edu.au?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Nor Azlin

Surname Tajuddin




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.

mailto:10558281%40student.uwa.edu.au?subject=



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



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)

mailto:P.Tan%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Andre

Surname Taylor

Position Consultant

Organisation Andre Taylor Consulting


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.


Title Dr

First Name Don

Surname Thomson

Position Director

Organisation Landscape & Social Research Pty Ltd


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.

mailto:andre%40andretaylor.com.au?subject=

mailto:Don.thomson%40mac.com?subject=



Title Ms

First Name Nicole

Surname Thornton

Position PhD Candidate and Research Consultant




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).

mailto:Nicole.Thornton%40uts.edu.au?subject=



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


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.

mailto:sandy.toussaint%40uwa.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Kerry

Surname Trayler

Position Principal Scientist

Organisation Swan River Trust


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.

mailto:info%40swanrivertrust.wa.gov.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Patrick

Surname Troy

Position Visiting Fellow

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation The Fenner School of Environment & Society



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.

mailto:patrick.troy%40anu.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Michael

Surname Valli




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 socio-economic 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.


Title Dr

First Name Kitty

Surname Van Vuuren

Position Lecturer

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Journalism & Communication



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.

mailto:mikejvalli%40gmail.com?subject=

mailto:k.vanvuuren%40uq.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Karen

Surname Vella

Position Lecturer

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Environment



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. )

mailto:k.vella%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Title Prof

First Name Iain

Surname Walker

Position Research Group Leader

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Social & Behavioural Sciences Group

Organisation CSIRO


Affiliation 2 Position Adjunct Professor of Psychology

Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Murdoch Universityand 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.

mailto:iain.a.walker%40csiro.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Philip

Surname Wallis


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Monash Sustainability Institute



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.

mailto:Phil.Wallis%40msi.monash.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Tony

Surname Webb

Position Senior Lecturer in Agricultural Supply Chain Management

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation School of Natural Sciences



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

mailto:tony.webb%40uws.edu.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Jessica

Surname Weir


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Native Title Research Unit (NTRU)

Organisation Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies


Affiliation 2 Position Visiting Fellow

Affiliation 2 Centre/Department/Program/Organisation The Fenner School of Environment and SocietyAustralian 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


Title Ms

First Name Jane

Surname West

Position Communications & Marketing Manager

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Sydney Water Corporation


Overall Research Summary Specialises in: Strategic positioning & brand management, issues management, internal communications, external communications, marketing, major events.

Key Words Summary communications, market research

mailto:jess.weir%40aiatsis.gov.au?subject=

mailto:JANE.WEST%40sydneywater.com.au?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Ian

Surname White

Position Senior Policy Officer

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Department of Environment and Resource Management

Organisation Queensland Government


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).

mailto:ian%40mywaterwisehome.com?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Rachelle

Surname Willis

Position Infrastructure Planning Engineer

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Total Water Cycle Management

Organisation Allconnex Water


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.

mailto:rachelle.willis%40allconnex.com.au?subject=

mailto:rachelle.willis1%40gmail.com?subject=



Title Dr

First Name Mara

Surname Wolkenhauer

Position Science Projects Manager

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership


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 South-east 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.

mailto:mara.wolkenhauer%40healthywaterways.org?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Michael

Surname Woodward


Centre/Department/Program/Organisation College of Medicine, the Environment and Biology



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.


Title Dr

First Name Zhifang

Surname Wu

Position Research Associate

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws



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

mailto:u4321269%40anu.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Zhifang.wu%40unisa.edu.au?subject=



Title Mr

First Name Grant

Surname Young

Position Director

Centre/Department/Program/Organisation Zumio - social design


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 socially-aware and networked economy.

Key Words Summary community engagement, participatory planning, behaviour change, communication, organisational change, market research

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Chapter 4Directory of Social and Cultural Research

on Urban Water – Organisations


4. Directory of Social and Cultural Research on Urban Water - Organisations

RESEARCH ORGANISATION RECORD

Organisation/Department Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia


Website URL http://www.assa.edu.au/

Phone Number 61 2 62491788

Fax Number 61 2 62474335

Physical Address 28 Balmain CrescentActon, ACT 2601

Postal Address GPO Box 1956Canberra ACT 2601Australia

Research Summary (excerpt from website)

The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) is an autonomous, non-governmental 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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http://www.assa.edu.au/

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Centre/Program ACTEW Corporation Ltd.

Organisation/Department ACT Government


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 366Canberra City ACT 2601


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


Centre/Program Allconnex Water


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 8042Gold Coast MC 9726


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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http://www.actew.com.au/

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http://www.allconnex.com.au/Pages/default.aspx



Centre/Program Alluvium (Consultancy)


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 StSouth Melbourne 3205 VICand 3/62 Walker StTownsville 4810 QLD

Postal Addresses PO Box 204 South Melbourne 3205 VICPO Box 1581 Townsville 4810 QLD


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


Centre/Program ANU Water Initiative

Organisation/Department Australian National University

Website URL http://www.water.anu.edu.au/


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


mailto:info%40alluvium.com.au?subject=

http://www.alluvium.com.au/Home.aspx

http://www.water.anu.edu.au/

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Centre/Program Water and Environmental Sustainability ASRI (Areas of Strategic Research Investment)

Organisation/Department Flinders University


Website URL http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/info-for-researchers/asri/#Water


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


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



http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/info-for-researchers/asri/#Water




Organisation/Department Australian Academy of Science


Website URL http://www.science.org.au/


Fax Number 61 2 6201 9494

Physical Address Ian Potter HouseGordon StreetCanberra ACT 2601

Postal Address GPO Box 783Canberra ACT 2601


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


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http://www.science.org.au/

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Organisation/Department Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering


Website URL http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=136


Fax Number 61 3 9864 0930

Physical Address Level 1/ 1 Bowen CresentMelbourne Vic 3004

Postal Address GPO Box 4055Melbourne VIC 3001Australia


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


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http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=136

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Organisation/Department Australian Academy of the Humanities


Website URL http://www.humanities.org.au/


Fax Number 61 2 6248 6287

Physical Address 3 Liversidge Street, Acton, ACT 2601

Postal Address GPO Box 93, Canberra ACT 2601


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


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http://www.humanities.org.au/

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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


Physical Address Tourist Drive 7Canberra City ACT 2601

Postal Address ABARE-BRSGPO Box 1563Canberra ACT 2601


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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http://www.daff.gov.au/abare-brs



Centre/Program Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER)

Organisation/Department School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong


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 WollongongWollongong NSW 2522 Australia


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



http://www.uow.edu.au/science/eesc/ausccer/index.html




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/


Fax Number 61 3 9013 2674

Physical Address Level 1, 221 Bouverie Street The University of MelbourneVictoria 3010Australia


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 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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http://www.acsis.unimelb.edu.au/

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Centre/Program Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments

Organisation/Department University of Southern Queensland


Website URL http://www.usq.edu.au/acsc


Fax Number 61 7 4631 5581

Physical Address Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments (ACSC)University of Southern QueenslandToowoomba QLD 4350Australia


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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http://www.usq.edu.au/acsc



Centre/Program Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability (ARIES)

Organisation/Department Macquarie University


Website URL http://www.aries.mq.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 2 9850 7972

Postal Address Graduate School of the EnvironmentMacquarie UniversityNorth Ryde NSW 2109Australia


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



2. Research Contact Name Jessica North

2. Research Contact Position ARIES Coordinator


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http://www.aries.mq.edu.au/

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Organisation/Department Australian Water Association


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


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 Email EA to Chief Executive - Clare [email protected] or 61 2 9467 8402


Centre/Program Australian Water Quality Centre (AWQC)

Organisation/Department Business Unit of the South Australian Water Corporation (SA Water)


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, AdelaideSouth Australia 5000

Postal Address PO Box 1751, Adelaide South Australia 5001


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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http://www.awa.asn.au/

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http://www.awqc.com.au/awqc/



Centre/Program Australian Wetlands and Rivers Centre

Organisation/Department University of NSW


Website URL http://www.wetrivers.unsw.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 2 9385 1558

Physical Address Room 508School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney NSW 2052


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


2. Research Contact Name Professor Richard Kingsford



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http://www.wetrivers.unsw.edu.au/

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Centre/Program Barbara Hardy Centre for Sustainable Urban Environments

Organisation/Department University of South Australia


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 EnvironmentsUniversity of South AustraliaOffice: BJ3-61, City East Campus

Postal Address Barbara Hardy Centre - City EastUniversity of South AustraliaGPO Box 2471Adelaide SA 5001


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


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http://www.unisa.edu.au/barbarahardy/

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Centre/Program Centre for Cultural Research

Organisation/Department University of Western Sydney


Website URL http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr


Fax Number 61 2 9685 9610

Physical Address Building EM, Parramatta CampusUniversity of Western Sydney

Postal Address Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney Building EM, Parramatta Campus Locked Bag 1797 Penrith NSW 2751 Australia


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


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http://www.uws.edu.au/centre_for_cultural_research/ccr

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Centre/Program Centre for Design

Organisation/Department RMIT University


Website URL http://www.rmit.edu.au/cfd


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 2476Melbourne 3001 VIC Australia


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


2. Research Contact Name Professor Ralph Horne



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http://www.rmit.edu.au/cfd

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Centre/Program Centre for Sustainable Regional Communities

Organisation/Department La Trobe University


Website URL http://www.latrobe.edu.au/csrc/


Fax Number 61 3 5444 7998

Physical Address La Trobe University Bendigo campusEdwards RoadFlora Hill, VIC 3550

Postal Address La Trobe UniversityPO Box 199Bendigo, VIC 3552AUSTRALIA


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



2. Research Contact Name Dr Brad S Jorgensen

2. Research Contact Position Senior Research Fellow


mailto:csrc%40latrobe.edu.au?subject=

http://www.latrobe.edu.au/csrc/



Centre/Program Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP)

Organisation/Department Crawford School of Economics and Government, College of Asia and the Pacific


Website URL http://cweep.anu.edu.au/


Physical Address Crawford School of Economics and GovernmentCollege of Asia and the PacificJ.G. Crawford Building (Bld 132)Lennox Crossing, ANU

Postal Address CWEEP, Crawford School of Economics and GovernmentAustralian National UniversityCanberra, ACT 2601Australia


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



mailto:cweep%40anu.edu.au?subject=

http://cweep.anu.edu.au/

mailto:Quentin.Grafton%40anu.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Centre for Water Research (CWR)

Organisation/Department University of Western Australia


Website URL http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/homepage.php


Fax Number 61 8 6488 3053

Physical Address University of Western Australia M02335 Stirling HighwayCrawley 6009Western Australia

Postal Address University of Western Australia M023Crawley 6009 WAAustralia


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


http://www.cwr.uwa.edu.au/homepage.php

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Centre/Program Centre for Water Sensitive Cities

Organisation/Department Monash Sustainability Institue, Monash University


Website URL http://www.watersensitivecities.org.au/


Fax Number 61 3 9905 9348

Physical Address Monash Sustainability InstituteBuilding 74 –Monash UniversityWellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800


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



2. Research Contact Name Prof. Rebekah Brown



3. Research Contact Name Prof. Ana Deletic



mailto:watersensitivecities%40monash.edu?subject=

http://www.watersensitivecities.org.au/

mailto:tony.wong%40aecom.com?subject=

mailto:Rebekah.Brown%40monash.edu?subject=

mailto:Ana.Deletic%40monash.edu?subject=



Centre/Program City Futures Centre

Organisation/Department Faculty of the Built Environment, University of NSW


Website URL http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/cf/


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 WalesSydney, NSW 2052Australia


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



2. Research Contact Name Dr Simon Pinnegar

2. Research Contact Position Deputy Director


mailto:cityfutures.contact%40unsw.edu.au?subject=

http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/cf/

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Centre/Program Claise Brook Catchment Group


Website URL http://www.cbcg.org.au/


Postal Address P.O. Box 218, North Perth, WA 6906


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


Centre/Program Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability, Victoria (CES)

Organisation/Department Office of the Commissioner for Environmental Sustainability


Website URL http://www.ces.vic.gov.au


Fax Number 61 3 8636 2099

Physical Address Office of the Commissioner for Environmental SustainabilityLevel 16, 570 Bourke StreetMelbourne, VIC Australia 3000


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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http://www.cbcg.org.au/

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http://www.ces.vic.gov.au



Centre/Program Consortium for Health and Ecology

Organisation/Department Edith Cowan University


Website URL http://www.ecu.edu.au/research/research-showcase/environment-and-sustainability/consortium-for-health-and-ecology


Fax Number 61 8 9400 5509

Physical Address Joondalup Campus, Edith Cowan University

Postal Address Edith Cowan University 270 Joondalup Drive Joondalup WA 6027


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


mailto:p.horwitz%40ecu.edu.au?subject=

http://www.ecu.edu.au/research/research-showcase/environment-and-sustainability/consortium-for-health-and-ecology

http://www.ecu.edu.au/research/research-showcase/environment-and-sustainability/consortium-for-health-and-ecology

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Centre/Program Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute (CUSP)

Organisation/Department Curtin University


Website URL http://sustainability.curtin.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 8 9266 9031

Physical Address 3 Pakenham StFremantle WA 6160

Postal Address Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) InstituteGPO Box U1987Perth WA 6845Australia


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


mailto:cusp%40curtin.edu.au?subject=

http://sustainability.curtin.edu.au/

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Centre/Program Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (DECCW) (from March 2011 - Office of Heritage and Environment)

Organisation/Department NSW Government


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


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


2. Research Contact Name Reid McNamara

2. Research Contact Position Manager, Education, Water for Life Education Program, Office of Water


mailto:info%40environment.nsw.gov.au?subject=

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/community/whocares.htm

mailto:lynne.mcloughlin%40environment.nsw.gov.au?subject=

mailto:reid.mcnama%40dwe.nsw.gov.au?subject=



Centre/Program Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment

Organisation/Department Water Resources Division, Tasmanian Government


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


Fax Number 61 3 6233 6055

Postal Address Water Resources DivisionGPO Box 44Hobart TAS 7001


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


http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Home/1?Open

http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/ThemeNodes/DREN-4VH8C4?open



Centre/Program Department of Water

Organisation/Department Western Australian Government


Website URL http://www.water.wa.gov.au/


Fax Number 61 8 6364 7601

Physical Address The Atrium168 St George’s Terrace, Perth,WA

Postal Address P O Box K822 Perth WA 6842Australia


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 ProjectsWater Resource Management Executive


2. Research Contact Name Mike McKenna (or Rachael Duffield)

2. Research Contact Position Program Manager


mailto:atrium.reception%40water.wa.gov.au?subject=

http://www.water.wa.gov.au/

mailto:verity.klemm%40water.wa.gov.au?subject=

mailto:mike.mckenna%40water.wa.gov.au?subject=



Centre/Program Department of Environment and Resources

Organisation/Department Queensland Government


Website URL http://www.derm.qld.gov.au


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 4001Australia


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


mailto:info%40derm.qld.gov.au?subject=

http://www.derm.qld.gov.au

mailto:Shelley.Luxton%40derm.qld.gov.au?subject=



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 2320Australia


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


2. Research Contact Name Vivienne Read

2. Research Contact Position Principal



mailto:chris%40emergingoptions.com.au?subject=

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Centre/Program Environmental Biotechnology Cooperative Research Centre


Website URL http://www.ebcrc.com.au


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


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


mailto:ebcrc%40ebcrc.com.au?subject=

http://www.ebcrc.com.au

mailto:d.garman%40ebcrc.com.au?subject=



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/


Fax Number 61 3 9695 2610

Physical Address 200 Victoria Street,Carlton, 3053

Postal Address GPO Box 4395, Melbourne, 3001


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


Organisation/Department Environmental Protection Authority, Western Australia


Website URL http://www.epa.wa.gov.au/


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


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

https://epanote2.epa.vic.gov.au/4A2565E60021FA61/webfeedback?openform

http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/ and http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/water/

mailto:policy%40epa.wa.gov.au?subject=

http://www.epa.wa.gov.au/



Centre/Program eWater Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)

Organisation/Department University of Canberra


Website URL http://www.ewatercrc.com.au


Fax Number 61 2 6201 5038

Physical Address Innovation Centre, Building 22,University of Canberra, ACT 2601



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

mailto:contact%40ewater.com.au?subject=

http://www.ewatercrc.com.au



Centre/Program Fenner School of Environment and Society

Organisation/Department Australian National University


Website URL http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 2 6125 0746

Physical Address Building 48 (Forestry), Linneaus Way,Australian National UniversityCanberra

Postal Address Fenner School of Environment and SocietyBuilding 48Australian National UniversityCanberra, ACT 0200, Australia


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



mailto:fennerschool%40anu.edu.au?subject=

http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/

mailto:stephen.dovers%40anu.edu.au?subject=



Organisation/Department GA Research


Website URL http://www.garesearch.com.au/index.htm


Fax Number 61 2 9552 4899

Physical Address Level 2137 Pyrmont StreetPYRMONT NSW 2009


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

mailto:research%40garesearch.com.au?subject=

http://www.garesearch.com.au/index.htm



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/


Fax Number 61 7 4772 6093

Physical Address 2-68 Flinders StreetTownsville QLD 4810

Postal Address PO Box 1379Townsville QLD 4810 AUSTRALIA


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

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/corp_site/about_us/feedback

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/



Centre/Program Institute for Advanced Studies

Organisation/Department University of Western Australia


Website URL http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 8 6488 1711

Physical Address Old Irwin Street Building,The University of Western AustraliaCrawley Campus

Postal Address The University of Western Australia35 Stirling HighwayCrawley, PerthWestern Australia 6009


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

mailto:iasuwa%40admin.uwa.edu.au?subject=

http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/



Centre/Program Institute for Social Science Research

Organisation/Department University of Queensland


Website URL http://www.issr.uq.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 7 3346 7646

Physical Address Room 403A, Level 4, General Purpose North 3 (Building 39A)Campbell RoadSt Lucia Queensland 4072 Australia

Postal Address Institute for Social Science ResearchUniversity of QueenslandQLD 4072 Australia


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


mailto:issr%40uq.edu.au?subject=

http://www.issr.uq.edu.au/

mailto:brian.head%40uq.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Institute for Sustainability and Innovation

Organisation/Department Victoria University


Website URL http://www.vu.edu.au/institute-for-sustainability-and-innovation-isi


Fax Number 61 3 9919 7696

Physical Address Building 4 (via gate 2)Werribee CampusHoppers LaneWerribee 3030

Postal Address PO Box 14428Melbourne, VIC 8001Australia


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



2. Research Contact Name Prof. John Cary

2. Research Contact Position Contact for Social and behavioural aspects of water use stream at ISI



http://www.vu.edu.au/institute-for-sustainability-and-innovation-isi


mailto:John.Cary%40vu.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy

Organisation/Department Murdoch University


Website URL http://www.istp.murdoch.edu.au/


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


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


mailto:G.Albrecht%40murdoch.edu.au?subject=

http://www.istp.murdoch.edu.au/

mailto:G.Albrecht%40murdoch.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Institute For Sustainable Futures (ISF)

Organisation/Department University of Technology


Website URL http://www.isf.uts.edu.au/


Fax Number 61 2 9514 4941

Physical Address Level 11UTS Building 10235 Jones StreetUltimo NSW 2007

Postal Address PO Box 123Broadway NSW 2007Australia


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


mailto:isf%40uts.edu.au?subject=

http://www.isf.uts.edu.au/

mailto:Cynthia.Mitchell%40uts.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program International Water Centre (IWC)

Organisation/Department Partnership with the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership and the International RiverFoundation


Website URL http://www.watercentre.org/


Fax Number 61 7 3103 4574

Physical Address International Water CentreLevel 16, 333 Ann Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000

Postal Address International Water CentrePO Box 10907, Adelaide St, Brisbane, QLD 4000


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


mailto:info%40watercentre.org?subject=

http://www.watercentre.org/




Centre/Program Iramoo Sustainable Community Centre

Organisation/Department Victoria University


Website URL http://www.iramoo.org/


Fax Number 61 3 9919 2770

Physical Address St Albans CampusMcKechnie Street, St Albans Building 1JMelbourne Vic 8001

Postal Address PO Box 14428Melbourne Vic 8001


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


mailto:engage%40iramoo.org?subject=

http://www.iramoo.org/

mailto:Colin.Hocking%40vu.edu.au?subject=



Organisation/Department Kenmore DMP (consultancy)


Website URL http://www.kenmore-dmp.com/


Physical Address 13/20 Duerdin Street, Clayton North VIC 3168



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


mailto:info%40kenmore-dmp.com?subject=

http://www.kenmore-dmp.com/



Organisation/Department Marrickville Council (with partner Councils - Ashfield, Bankstown, Canterbury, City of Sydney, Hurstville, Rockdale and Strathfield)


Website URL http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/marrickville/internet/me.get?site.home


Fax Number 61 2 9335 2029

Physical Address 2-14 Fisher Street, Petersham NSW 2049

Postal Address The General ManagerMarrickville CouncilPO Box 14Petersham NSW Australia 2049DX 3910 Annandale NSW


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 co-design 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


2. Research Contact Name Susan Prichard

2. Research Contact Position Environmental Project OfficerOur River - Cooks River Sustainability Initiative


mailto:council%40marrickville.nsw.gov.au?subject=

http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/marrickville/internet/me.get?site.home

mailto:envuswim%40Marrickville.nsw.gov.au?subject=

mailto:susan.pritchard%40strathfield.nsw.gov.au?subject=



Organisation/Department Marsden Jacob Associates (consultancy)


Website URL http://www.marsdenjacob.com.au


Fax Number 61 3 9882 1300

Physical Address Level 3, 683 Burke RoadCamberwell VIC 3124, AUSTRALIA



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


mailto:economists%40marsdenjacob.com.au?subject=

http://www.marsdenjacob.com.au



Organisation/Department Melbourne Water

Email http://feedback.melbournewater.com.au/

Website URL http://www.melbournewater.com.au/


Fax Number 61 3 9235 7200

Physical Address 100 Wellington Parade East Melbourne, VIC 3002Australia

Postal Address PO Box 4342 Melbourne, VIC 3001 Australia


84Hundred [8400] Healthy Waterways campaign: The campaign aims to raise public awareness of the natural, social and recreational values of waterways within thePort 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


http://feedback.melbournewater.com.au/

http://www.melbournewater.com.au/

mailto:robert.considine%40melbournewater.com.au?subject=

mailto:anne.randall%40melbournewater.com.au?subject=

mailto:Judy.Blackbeard%40melbournewater.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Monash Sustainability Institute

Organisation/Department Monash University


Website URL http://www.monash.edu.au/research/sustainability-institute/


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


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 multi-level 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


mailto:enquiries%40msi.monash.edu.au?subject=

http://www.monash.edu.au/research/sustainability-institute/

mailto:dave.griggs%40monash.edu?subject=



Centre/Program Murray Darling Basin Authority


Email http://www.mdba.gov.au/contact#contact-form

Website URL http://www.mdba.gov.au/


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


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

http://www.mdba.gov.au/contact#contact-form

http://www.mdba.gov.au/



Centre/Program Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre (Mildura)



Website URL http://www.mdfrc.org.au/


Fax Number 61 3 50236248

Physical Address Brian Grogan BuildingLa Trobe UniversityBenetook Ave Mildura

Postal Address PO Box 3428Mildura VIC 3502 Australia


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


mailto:info%40mdfrc.org.au?subject=

http://www.mdfrc.org.au/




Centre/Program Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre (Wodonga)



Website URL http://www.mdfrc.org.au/


Fax Number 61 2 60597531

Physical Address Building 8University DriveWodonga

Postal Address PO Box 991Wodonga VIC 3690Australia


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




http://www.mdfrc.org.au/




Centre/Program National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF)

Organisation/Department Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus


Website URL http://www.nccarf.edu.au/


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


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



2. Research Contact Name Frank Stadler

2. Research Contact Position Research Coordinator


mailto:nccarf%40griffith.edu.au?subject=

http://www.nccarf.edu.au/

mailto:j.palutikof%40griffith.edu.au?subject=

mailto:f.stadler%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program National Native Title Tribunal



Website URL http://www.nntt.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx


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


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


mailto:enquiries%40nntt.gov.au?subject=

http://www.nntt.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

mailto:Jim.Rhoads%40nntt.gov.au?subject=



Centre/Program National Urban Water Governance Program

Organisation/Department Monash University


Website URL http://www.urbanwatergovernance.com/


Fax Number 61 3 9905 2948

Physical Address Monash Sustainability InstituteBuilding 74 –Monash UniversityWellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800

Postal Address National Urban Water Governance Program, Monash University, Clayton VIC, 3800Australia


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


mailto:nuwgp%40arts.monash.edu.au?subject=

http://www.urbanwatergovernance.com/

mailto:Rebekah.Brown%40monash.edu?subject=



Centre/Program National Water Commission (NWC)



Website URL http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp


Fax Number 61 2 6102 6006

Physical Address 95 Northbourne Avenue, CANBERRA ACT 2600



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

mailto:enquiries%40nwc.gov.au?subject=

http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/7-home-page.asp

http://www.nwc.gov.au/www/html/3025-future-directions-.asp?intSiteID=1



Centre/Program Native Title Research Unit (NTRU)AIATSIS



Website URL http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/overview.html


Fax Number 61 2 6249 7714

Physical Address Lawson Cres, Acton, Canberra

Postal Address GPO Box 553Canberra ACT 2601


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


mailto:ntru%40aiatsis.gov.au?subject=

http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/overview.html

mailto:jess.weir%40aiatsis.gov.au?subject=



Centre/Program Natural Resources, Environment, The Arts and Sports

Organisation/Department Northern Territory Government


Website URL http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/index.html


Physical Address Goyder Building25 Chung Wah Terrace,Palmerston

Postal Address PO Box 496 Palmerston NT 0831


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


Organisation/Department New Water Resources (consultancy)


Website URL http://newwaterresources.com/New_Water_Resources/Home.html


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


mailto:epaboard.nreta%40nt.gov.au?subject=

http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/index.html


http://newwaterresources.com/New_Water_Resources/Home.html




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


Website URL http://www.environment.gov.au/water/policy-programs/northern-australia/index.html


Fax Number 61 2 6275 9371

Physical Address John Gorton BuildingKing Edward TerraceParkes, Canberra ACT 2600

Postal Address GPO Box 787Canberra ACT 2601Australia


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


mailto:northern.assessment%40environment.gov.au?subject=

http://www.environment.gov.au/water/policy-programs/northern-australia/index.html

mailto:georgina.usher%40environment.gov.au?subject=



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 500East Melbourne, VIC 3002Australia


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


http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/contact

http://www.ourwater.vic.gov.au/

mailto:Helen.Delaporte%40dse.vic.gov.au?subject=



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 15087City East 4002


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

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/Contact+us

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/



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


Fax Number 61 7 4031 7550

Physical Address Level 1, 51 The EsplanadeCairns, QLD 4870 and Building 61, James Cook UniversityTownsville, QLD 4810

Postal Address PO Box 1762Cairns, QLD 4870


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)

http://www.rrrc.org.au/about/feedback.html

http://www.rrrc.org.au/mtsrf/index.html



Centre/Program Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (RNSISS)

Organisation/Department University of Queensland and other universities


Website URL http://www.siss.edu.au/home



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, human-environment interaction, research management, integrated approaches

Research Contact Name Prof. Robert J. Stimson

Research Contact Position Network Convenor



Centre/Program SA Water

Organisation/Department South Australia government


Website URL http://www.sawater.com.au/sawater/


Fax Number 61 8 7003 1118

Physical Address SA Water, 250 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000



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

mailto:r.stimpson%40uq.edu.au?subject=

http://www.siss.edu.au/home

mailto:r.stimson%40uq.edu.au?subject=

mailto:customerservice%40sawater.com.au?subject=

http://www.sawater.com.au/sawater/



Centre/Program SA Water Centre for Water Management and Reuse also Urban Water Resources Group (UWRG)

Organisation/Department University of South Australia


Website URL http://www.unisa.edu.au/water/default.asp


Fax Number 61 8 8302 5086

Physical Address Mawson Lakes CampusUniversity of South AustraliaMawson Lakes, SA 5095



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



mailto:simon.beecham%40unisa.edu.au?subject=

http://www.unisa.edu.au/water/default.asp

mailto:simon.beecham%40unisa.edu.au?subject=



Organisation/Department Seqwater

Email http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/contact-us

Website URL http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/home


Physical Address 240 Margaret Street Brisbane QLD 4000

Postal Address PO BOX 16146City East, QLD, 4002


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

http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/contact-us

http://www.seqwater.com.au/public/home



Organisation/Department Sinclair Knight Merz (consultancy)


Website URL http://www.skmconsulting.com


Fax Number 61 2 9928 2500

Physical Address 100 Christie StreetSt Leonards, Sydney NSW

Postal Address PO Box 164St Leonards NSW 2065Australia


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


2. Research Contact Name David Ronskley

2. Research Contact Position Contact – SKM Sydney


mailto:DRonksley%40skm.com.au?subject=

http://www.skmconsulting.com

mailto:cclifton%40skm.com.au?subject=

mailto:DRonksley%40skm.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Smart Water Research Centre

Organisation/Department Griffith University

Email http://www.smartwaterresearchcentre.com/contact

Website URL http://www.smartwaterresearchcentre.com/


Physical Address Griffith University Gold Coast CampusEdmund Rice Drive, QLD 4222



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


2. Research Contact Name Larry Little

2. Research Contact Position CEO


http://www.smartwaterresearchcentre.com/contact

http://www.smartwaterresearchcentre.com/

mailto:j.rolfe%40cqu.edu.au?subject=

mailto:l.little%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Social and Behavioural Sciences Group (formerly ARCWIS)

Organisation/Department Social and Economic Sciences Program, Division of Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO


Website URL http://www.csiro.au/science/Social-Economic-Sciences.html


Fax Number 61 8 9383 7193

Physical Address Cnr Underwood Ave and Brockway Rd,Floreat WA 6014

Postal Address Ecosystem Sciences, CSIROPrivate Bag 5Wembley WA 6913Australia


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



http://www.csiro.au/science/Social-Economic-Sciences.html




Centre/Program South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQHW)

Organisation/Department Healthy Waterways


Website URL http://www.healthywaterways.org


Fax Number 61 7 3103 4573

Physical Address Level 4 Hitachi Building239 George StreetBrisbane

Postal Address PO Box 13086George StreetBrisbane QLD 4003


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


mailto:hwwinfo%40healthywaterways.org?subject=

http://www.healthywaterways.org




Centre/Program Swan River Trust

Organisation/Department Western Australian Government


Website URL http://www.swanrivertrust.wa.gov.au/Content/Home.aspx


Fax Number 61 8 9325 7149

Physical Address Level 1, Hyatt Business Centre20 Terrace RoadEast Perth WA 6004

Postal Address Swan River TrustPO Box 6829East Perth WA 6892Australia


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

mailto:info%40swanrivertrust.wa.gov.au?subject=

http://www.swanrivertrust.wa.gov.au/Content/Home.aspx



Organisation/Department Sydney Coastal Councils Group


Website URL http://www.sydneycoastalcouncils.com.au/system-approach-to-regional-climate-change-adaptation-strategies-in-metropolises/index.php


Fax Number 61 2 9265 9660

Physical Address Level 14, 456 Kent StreetSydney NSW 2000

Postal Address GPO Box 1591 Sydney NSW 2001AustraliaDX 1251 Sydney


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.


mailto:info%40sydneycoastalcouncils.com.au?subject=

http://www.sydneycoastalcouncils.com.au/system-approach-to-regional-climate-change-adaptation-strategies-in-metropolises/index.php

http://www.sydneycoastalcouncils.com.au/system-approach-to-regional-climate-change-adaptation-strategies-in-metropolises/index.php

mailto:geoff%40sydneycoastalcouncils.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Sustainability Division

Organisation/Department Sydney Water

Email http://sydneywater.custhelp.com/app/ask

Website URL http://www.sydneywater.com.au/


Physical Address 1 Smith St Parramatta NSW 2150

Postal Address Sydney WaterPO Box 399Parramatta NSW 2124


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


http://sydneywater.custhelp.com/app/ask

http://www.sydneywater.com.au/

mailto:corinna.doolan%40sydneywater.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Sustainability Research Centre

Organisation/Department University of Sunshine Coast


Website URL http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Research/SustainabilityResearchCentre/


Physical Address Office 1.28AInnovation Centre - ML 28University of the Sunshine CoastSippy Downs DriveSippy Downs QLD

Postal Address Sustainability Research Centre - ML28University of the Sunshine CoastMaroochydore DC QLD 4558Australia


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

mailto:joliver1%40usc.edu.au?subject=

http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Research/SustainabilityResearchCentre/

http://www.usc.edu.au/University/AcademicFaculties/Science/Research/SustainabilityResearchCentre/



Organisation/Department Terrain Natural Resource Management


Website URL http://www.terrain.org.au


Fax Number 61 7 4061 4677

Physical Address Level 1, 88 Rankin Street, Innisfail

Postal Address PO Box 1756, Innisfail QLD 4860


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



mailto:info%40terrain.org.au?subject=

http://www.terrain.org.au

mailto:alland%40terrain.org.au?subject=



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


Physical Address 1 Lochiel Parkway, Campbelltown SA 5074



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


http://ci02.keyvision.net/programs/pod.send_email?xtype=EPOD&xid=10076685

http://ci02.keyvision.net/programs/groups.group_summary?sid=&xinput=10076685

mailto:donaldson.phil%40lmc.sa.gov.au?subject=



Centre/Program The Watershed

Organisation/Department Marrickville Council


Website URL http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/environment/thewatershed.htm


Physical Address The Watershed Shopfront:218 King StreetNewtown NSW 2042



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


mailto:watershedinfo%40marrickville.nsw.gov.au?subject=

http://www.marrickville.nsw.gov.au/environment/thewatershed.htm

mailto:watershedinfo%40Marrickville.nsw.gov.au?subject=



Centre/Program Think water, act waterSustainability Programs & Projects

Organisation/Department Department of Environment, Climate Change, Energy & Water, ACT Government


Website URL http://www.thinkwater.act.gov.au/


Fax Number 61 2 6207 6255

Physical Address Macarthur House12 Wattle StreetLyneham ACT 2602

Postal Address GPO Box 158Canberra City ACT 2601


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 water-efficient 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

mailto:ACTSmart%40act.gov.au?subject=

http://www.thinkwater.act.gov.au/



Centre/Program Tropical Ecosystems Research Centre (TERC)

Organisation/Department CSIRO


Website URL http://www.terc.csiro.au/


Fax Number 61 8 8944 8444

Physical Address 564 Vanderlin Drive, Berrimah, 0828, NT.

Postal Address PMB 44, Winnellie, Northern TerritoryAustralia, 0822


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


2. Research Contact Name Dr Sue Jackson

2. Research Contact Position Senior Research Scientist, Manages Research on Water


mailto:barbara.mckaige%40csiro.au?subject=

http://www.terc.csiro.au/

mailto:barbara.mckaige%40csiro.au?subject=

mailto:sue.jackson%40csiro.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Urban Research Centre

Organisation/Department University of Western Sydney


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 CentreUniversity of Western SydneyLocked Bag 1797Penrith NSW 2751Australia


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, human-environment interaction, community engagement

Research Contact Name Prof Phillip O’Neil



mailto:urcadmin%40uws.edu.au?subject=

http://www.uws.edu.au/urban_research_centre/urc

mailto:P.ONeill%40uws.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Urban Research Program

Organisation/Department Griffith University


Website URL http://www.griffith.edu.au/environment-planning-architecture/urban-research-program


Fax Number 61 7 3735 4026

Physical Address Environment 1 Building (N55)Room 0.28, Griffith University, Nathan campus

Postal Address Urban Research ProgramGriffith University, Nathan campus170 Kessels RoadNathan QLD 4111


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



mailto:urp%40griffith.edu.au?subject=

http://www.griffith.edu.au/environment-planning-architecture/urban-research-program

mailto:j.dodson%40griffith.edu.au?subject=



Centre/Program Urban Water Security Research Alliance (UWSRA)

Organisation/Department Queensland Government, CSIRO, University of Queensland, Griffith University


Website URL http://www.urbanwateralliance.org.au/index.html


Fax Number 61 7 3405 0373


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


2. Research Contact Name Don Begbie

2. Research Contact Position Alliance Director


mailto:urbanwateralliance%40csiro.au?subject=

http://www.urbanwateralliance.org.au/index.html

mailto:Chris.Davis%40uts.edu.au?subject=

mailto:Don.Begbie%40qwc.qld.gov.au?subject=



Organisation/Department Victorian Women’s Trust


Website URL http://www.vwt.org.au


Fax Number 61 3 9642 0016

Physical Address The Victorian Women’s Trust, 1st Floor, 388 Bourke StreetMelbourne VIC 3000



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



Organisation/Department Water Corporation (Western Australia)


Website URL http://www.watercorporation.com.au/


Physical Address 629 Newcastle StreetLeederville WA 6007

Postal Address Locked Bag 2Osborne Park Delivery Centre WA 6916


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

mailto:women%40vwt.org.au?subject=

http://www.vwt.org.au

mailto:Mary%40vwt.org.au?subject=

mailto:cust_centre%40watercorporation.com.au?subject=

http://www.watercorporation.com.au/



Centre/Program Water for Life

Organisation/Department NSW Office of Water, Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water


Website URL http://www.waterforlife.nsw.gov.au/education/research


Physical Address Level 17, 227 Elizabeth St Sydney NSW 2000

Postal Address GPO Box 3889 Sydney NSW 2001Australia


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


mailto:info%40waterforlife.nsw.gov.au?subject=

http://www.waterforlife.nsw.gov.au/education/research




Organisation/Department Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA)


Website URL http://www.wqra.com.au/


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 SquareAdelaide SA 5000Australia


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


2. Research Contact Name Michelle Akeroyd

2. Research Contact Position Chief Executive Officer (Acting)


mailto:david.halliwell%40wqra.com.au?subject=

http://www.wqra.com.au/

mailto:Moore.wqra%40gmail.com?subject=

mailto:michelle.akeroyd%40wqra.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) Program

Organisation/Department The Sydney Metropolitan Catchment Management Authority


Website URL http://www.wsud.org/


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 2124Australia


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


mailto:info%40wsud.org?subject=

http://www.wsud.org/

mailto:info%40wsud.org?subject=



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 3000Suite 1, Level 30, 9 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000

Postal Address PO Box 13172, Law Courts Post Office VIC 8010GPO Box 915, Sydney NSW 2001


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)


https://www.wsaa.asn.au/Pages/default.aspx

mailto:Adam.Lovell%40wsaa.asn.au?subject=



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


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

http://www.waterwatch.org.au/contacts.html

http://www.waterwatch.org.au/





Organisation/Department Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd (WSROC)


Website URL http://www.wsroc.com.au/


Fax Number 61 2 9671 7741

Physical Address Level 1, WSROC House49 Campbell Street Blacktown, NSW 2148

Postal Address GPO Box 63Blacktown, NSW 2148


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


mailto:admin%40wsroc.com.au?subject=

http://www.wsroc.com.au/

mailto:colin%40wsroc.com.au?subject=



Centre/Program Wide Bay Water

Organisation/Department Fraser Coast Regional Council


Website URL http://www.widebaywater.qld.gov.au/home


Fax Number 61 7 4125 5118

Physical Address Wide Bay Water Corporation29-31 Ellengowan StUrangan, Hervey Bay QLD 4655

Postal Address PO Box 5499 Hervey Bay Queensland Australia 4655


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


mailto:kelvino%40widebaywater.qld.gov.au?subject=

http://www.widebaywater.qld.gov.au/home

mailto:kelvino%40widebaywater.qld.gov.au?subject=



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, MitchamVIC 3132 Australia

Postal Address Yarra Valley WaterPrivate Bag 1Mitcham VIC 3132Australia


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

https://www.yvw.com.au/Home/Aboutus/Contactus/Findus/index.htm

http://www.yvw.com.au



Centre/Program Zero Waste SA Research Centre

Organisation/Department University of South Australia, Government of South Australia


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 BuildingCorner Fenn Place and Hindley StCity West CampusUniversity of South Australia, Adelaide

Postal Address Zero Waste SA Research Centre sd+bUniversity of South AustraliaGPO Box 2471Adelaide SA 5001 Australia


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



2. Research Contact Name Pamela Hart

2. Research Contact Position Administrative Officer


mailto:pamela.hart%40unisa.edu.au?subject=

http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/research/ZeroWasteSAResearchCentre/default.asp#contact

http://www.unisa.edu.au/artarchitecturedesign/research/ZeroWasteSAResearchCentre/default.asp#contact

mailto:Steffen.Lehmann%40unisa.edu.au?subject=

mailto:pamela.hart%40unisa.edu.au?subject=


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Attitudes Behavioural changeCatchmentClimate Change AdaptationCoastal, estuarine, marine, CommunicationCommunity capacity buildingCommunity educationCommunity EngagementComplianceCoordinationCross-CulturalCultural values, beliefs and practicesDecentralisedDecentralised – recyclingDecentralised – supplyDecentralised– sanitationDemand managementDesalinationEnd use studies Equity and Access Gender and consumptionGovernanceGovernance – climate change adaptationGovernance – marine

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Policy and regulationPricingPricing – policy and regulationProfessional DevelopmentPublic Acceptance/TrustRecyclingRegionalResearch communication/translationResearch managementResearch planningResidential useRestrictionsRightsRural and/or remoteSanitationSmart MeteringStakeholder consultationStormwaterSupplyUrban UtilityWastewaterWater QualityWater SecurityWater sensitive urban design


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