Resilient Landscapes

Global population growth and climate challenges are increasing the pressure on our landscapes.

Research is important to understand these pressures and to determine the role, value and function of ecosystems under different conditions and for different users. Research topics of interest are:

Ecosystem service provision and valuing ecosystem services.
Estimating ecosystem resilience to drought.
Planning for landscape management and cultural amenities.

Active projects

Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)

The Future Fuels CRC aims to develop solutions for current infrastructure and equipment to use low carbon fuels today and well into the future.

Optimising the national benefits from restoring environmental flows

This research project aims to use such evidence to examine how the national benefits from returning water to the environment in Australia’s MDB could be optimised.

Improving groundwater allocation and use in the western USA

Key insights include the importance of attending to the development of institutional arrangements that enable individual users to trade water.

Climate sharing and energy security

This project is searching for ways to bring investment confidence back to the electricity sector.

Completed projects

Transitioning to a water secure future in the Basin

This study aims to identify and analyse the impediments in water markets in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB).

Adapting for an uncertain future: farmer behaviour in water-stressed basins

This project aims to develop a greater understanding of farm behaviour and adaptation to water stress, to allow a new approach to water policy in a range of water catchments.