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
Recovering declining birds in Australian landscapes
The Mount Lofty Ranges (MLR) of South Australia is nationally recognised as one of Australia’s biodiversity hotspots. Over 90% of native vegetation in the MLR was cleared by the mid-1800s and this clearing continued into the 1980’s resulting in only fragmented patches of native vegetation throughout the region. The region itself has become, through land-clearing, a remote island of native woodland 100’s of kilometres from similar habitat.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Climate sharing and energy security
This project is searching for ways to bring investment confidence back to the electricity sector.
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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).
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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.
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