Research Director, Professor Peter Davies

Professor Peter Davies is the Director of the Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management at the University of Western Australia.

Research Areas: Relationship between human activities in catchments and ecological health of rivers, streams and wetlands. Environmental impact assessment of riverine systems. Ecological water requirements, particularly of systems downstream from impoundments. Methods for ecological evaluation.

Country Experience: Australia, Indonesia, PNG, NZ, Vietnam, Pacific, Burkina Faso, Mali, South Africa.

Indicative references

• Davies, P.M. & Bunn, S. E. (submitted). Primary productivity in tropical streams and rivers. In (D. Dudgeon ed). Tropical Rivers, Elsevier Press.

Professor Helen Ross

Professor Helen Ross is an interdisciplinary social scientist (environmental psychologist and anthropologist) and Professor of Rural Community Development in the School of Natural and Rural Systems Management, the University of Queensland. She is Chair of the Social, Policy and Planning Advisory Panel and a member of the Scientific Expert Panel for the Moreton Bay Waterways and Catchments Partnership. She is also co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Environmental Management.

Research Areas: Social dimensions of natural resource management particularly focused on integrating human and environmental systems, community participation, and negotiating different stakeholder interests in the environment (conflict resolution). This includes institutional arrangements. Strong background in social impact assessment and in methods used for public participation.

Country Experience: Australia, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Southeast Asia.

Indicative references

• Sarker, A., Baldwin, C. and Ross, H. (accepted 3 December 2007) Managing Groundwater as a Common-Pool Resource: An Australian case study, Water Policy.

• C.J. Robinson, H. Ross and M. Hockings (2006) Development of co-operative management arrangements in the Great Barrier Reef: an Adaptive Management Approach. CRC Reef Research Technical Report no. 55. CRC Reef Research, Townsville.

• Ross, H. and McGee T. K. 2006. Conceptual Frameworks for Social Impact Assessment Revisited: Interpretation of a Cumulative Effects Case Study on Lead Contamination and Economic Change. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal 24,2, 139-149.

• Bellamy, J., H. Ross, S. Ewing and T. Meppem (2002) Integrated Catchment Management: learning from the Australian experience for the Murray-Darling Basin. Murray-Darling Basin Commission.

• Ross, H., Poungsomlee, A., Punpuing, S. and Archavanitkul, K. (2000). ‘Integrative analysis of city systems: Bangkok Man and the Biosphere Program study. Environment and Urbanisation, 12, 2, 151-161.

Professor Stuart Bunn

Professor Stuart Bunn is the Director, Centre for Riverine Landscapes, Griffith University, and Deputy Chair of the Scientific Expert Panel for the Moreton Bay Waterways and Catchments Partnership. He is a member of the science team of the Global Water Systems Project.

Research Areas: River and catchment health, marine and freshwater biology, environmental flows.

Country Experience:  Australia, Cambodia, New Zealand, PNG, South Africa, Thailand.

 
Indicative references

(see http://www.griffith.edu.au/environment-planning/australian-rivers-institute/staff/professor-stuart-bunn)

• Bunn, S. and Davies, P.M. 2007 Aquatic food webs. In: Lovett, S. & Price, P. (eds.) In: Lovett, S. & Price, P. (eds.) Principles for riparian lands management. pp 47-62.  Land and Water Australia, Canberra.

• Arthington, A.H., Bunn, S.E., Poff, N.L. & Naiman, R.J. (2006).  The challenge of providing environmental flow rules to sustain river ecosystems. Ecological Applications 16, 1311-1318.

• Bunn, S.E. & Arthington, A.H. (2002). Consequences of altered flow regimes for aquatic biodiversity. Environmental Management 30: 492-607.

Dr Terence Chan

Dr Terence Chan is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Water Studies Centre at Monash University.  He is an environmental engineer and scientist.

Research Areas: ecological risk assessment, hydrodynamic-ecological modelling, aquatic ecosystems, biogeochemistry.

Country Experience: Australia, Solomon Islands.

Dr. Suzanne Hoverman

Dr. Suzanne Hoverman is a Human Geographer with specialisation in public participation in natural resource and environmental management in both developed and developing countries.  She is currently a research fellow with The University of Queensland and lectures in Environment and Community.

Research areas:  Integration across knowledge systems of government, community and science;  governance systems for natural resource management; monitoring and evaluation of natural resource management and governance.

Country Experience: Solomon Islands, Tonga, Indonesia (Java and East Kalimantan), Ethiopia, Australia.

Bronwyn Powell

Bronwyn Powell, is an environmental scientist (MEnvSc) and project manager working in the aid and community development sectors.  Her research interests are in the community dimensions of natural resource management in Australia and overseas. Bronwyn is currently Executive Manager at International Water Centre.

Research Areas: Social dimensions of natural resource management, particularly catchment management, participatory approaches and rural development.

Country Experience: Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor Leste

Indicative references

• Wairiu, M. and B. Powell, Situational Analysis Report for the Solomon Islands. International WaterCentre and the Australian Water Research Facility, Brisbane, Australia, 2006.

• Powell, B. and G. Costin, Situational Analysis Report for Timor Leste. International WaterCentre and the Australian Water Research Facility, Brisbane, Australia, 2006.

Dr Caroline Sullivan

Dr Caroline Sullivan is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Oxford University Centre for Water Research, where she leads the Water Management and Policy group.  She is also a Research Fellow at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, where she formerly worked for 8 years. She is member of the scientific committee of the Freshwater Cross-cutting Network of DIVERSITAS.

Research Areas: Environmental Economics, Adaptive Water Management, Water Development, Water Poverty Indicator and mapping, Indigenous People, Non-Timber Forest Products, Transboundary Water Management, Development Ethics, Participatory Rapid Assessment techniques

Country Experience: India, Nepal, China, Sri Lanka, Laos, Thailand, Pakistan, Brunei, South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda, Senegal, Ghana, Egypt, Mediteranean islands, Slovenia, Guyana, Grenada, Ecuador (all research) plus USA, Australia and W. Europe for research collaboration activities and conferences.

Indicative references 

(see http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/csullivan.html)

• Sullivan, C.A. (in press, 2008) Poverty and the Ethics of Water Development in Llamas et al, Water management, ethics, and governance Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam

• Sullivan C.A. and Meigh, J.R. (2007) Integration of the biophysical and social sciences using an indicator approach: Addressing water problems at different scales Journal of Water Resources Management 21:111-128

• Sullivan C.A., Meigh J.R and Lawrence, P. (2006) Application of the Water Poverty Index at Different Scales: a Cautionary Tale. Water International, Volume 31, Number 3, Pg. 412-426, September 2006

• Sullivan, C. A.(2006) Do investments and policy interventions reach the poorest of the poor? in Llamas R and P. Rogers, Water Crisis: Myth or reality. Balkema Publishers, Rotterdam

• Sullivan, C.A. (2002). Calculating a water poverty index. World Development. 30: 195-1210.

Peter Speldewinde

Peter Speldewinde is a research associate at the Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management.  He has recently completed a PhD examining the relationship between dryland salinity and human health.

Research Areas: ecosystem-human health relationships.

Country Experience: Australia.

• Jardine, A., Speldewinde, P., Carver, S. and Weinstein, P. (2007) Dryland salinity and ecosystem distress syndrome: human health implications.  EcoHealth 4(1):10-17

• Jardine, A., Speldewinde, P., Lindsay, M.D.A., Cook, A., Johansen, C.A. and Weinstein, P. (2008)  Is there an association between dryland salinity and Ross River Virus Disease in Southwestern Australia.  EcoHealth 5(1): 58-68

Professor Charles Vorosmarty

http://www.csrc.sr.unh.edu/Personnel/Resume?PERSON_ID=95

Dr Mike Grace 

Dr Mike Grace is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Analytical Chemistry in the School of Chemistry at Monash University. He is Director of the Water Studies Centre at Monash, a member of the Steering Committee for the Better Bays and Waterways Program for the Victorian State Government and a designated expert on biogeochemistry for the Australian Society for Limnology.

Research Areas: Nutrient and metal biogeochemistry, stream metabolism, use and measurement of ecosystem functions for stream health assessment, ecological risk assessment, application of new analytical methods for speciation and investigation of nutrient dynamics, waterway management.

Country Experience: Australia, Canada, Indonesia, USA.

Indicative references

• See http://www.chem.monash.edu.au/staff/grace/publications.html 

Danielle Pedi

Danielle Pedi is IWC Programs Coordinator and has experience in planning, management and evaluation of environmental and international development projects.  With a BA in Political Science and an MSocSci in International Urban and Environmental Management, she has a keen interest in the governance, policy and planning aspects of natural resource management, and in particular the role of community-based approaches.  

Research Areas: Sanitation, environmental projects, ecotourism

Country Experience: Australia, Timor Leste, USA.
 

Indicative references

• WaterAid and International WaterCentre. Pedi, D. (Ed.) (2008) Sharing Experiences: Sustainable sanitation in South East Asia and the Pacific. Brisbane, Australia.