Adaptive management of natural resources: Are we there yet?

October 25, 2012 | 17:00 h - 18:30 h

A personal reflection, with examples from current water resources management in Australia.

The Lecture will be held by Catherine Allan, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sociology and Planning, Charles Sturt University, Thurgoona, Australia.

Facilitator: Saravanan Subramanian, Senior Researcher at ZEF

Pleas note: Change of venue! The lecture will be held at:

Seminar room VIII (Ground Floor) at the Geography Department of the University of Bonn ("Geozentrum"), Meckenheimer Allee 176, 53115 Bonn

Date: Thursday, October 25, 5 p.m.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the Water Lecture on October 25!

On behalf of the Water Lectures organizers and with best regards,

Alma van der Veen

About the speaker

Catherine is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sociology and Planning at Charles Sturt University, Albury Wodonga campus, Australia. She is also a member of the Sustainable Water Strategic Research Area of the Institute of Land, Water and Society (http://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/ ).

Catherine’s research focus is regional scale adaptive management, in particular the social learning, evaluation and institutional aspects of this complex but fascinating topic. Adaptive management and social learning cut across many disciplinary areas, including water governance, which has been one of Catherine’s focal areas for the past four years, with particular interest in the Murray-Darling Basin. Visit http://athene.csu.edu.au/~callan/ for details of Catherine’s research and publications.

Catherine’s sabbatical time in 2012 is to allow her to consolidate her thinking around the theoretical and practical issues of integrating various ways of framing and understanding the world in ways that enhance systemic action for improved sustainability.

Some selected works:

Allan, C. (2012). Rethinking the ‘Project’: Bridging the Polarized Discourses in IWRM. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, ifirst, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/1523908X.2012.702012

Allan, C., & Stankey, G. H. (Eds.). (2009). Adaptive environmental management: a practitioner's guide. Dordrecht: Springer.

Allan, C., & Wilson, B. P. (2009). Meeting in the Middle- desirable not easy. Environmental Policy and Governance. 19(6), 388-399. doi: 10.1002/eet.521

Allan, C., & Curtis, A. (2005). Nipped in the Bud: Why regional scale adaptive management is not blooming. Environmental Management, 36(3), 414-425.

About the Water Lecture

The Water Lecture series is a joint series organized by the Center for Development Research (ZEF), the Hydrological Research Group at the Geography Department (University of Bonn), the Global Water System Project (GWSP), the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) and the United Nations University (UNU) in Bonn.