Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies
Institute for Sustainable Systems and Technologies
Dr
Paul VogelDr Paul Vogel is Chief Executive and Chairman of South
Australia’s independent environmental regulator, the Environment
Protection Authority. Before taking up his position in November 2002,
Paul was Director of Environmental Policy with the Department of the
Premier and Cabinet in Western Australia, and prior to that Director of
Environmental Systems with the (then) WA Department of Environmental
Protection.
Paul has extensive experience in policy and strategy development
in air quality, marine management, natural resource management, regional
service delivery, site contamination and sustainability.
Paul is Chairman of the South Australia’s Radiation Protection Committee
and represents SA at the Standing Committee of the Ministerial Council
on Environment Protection and Heritage. He also chairs a number of
national committees on environment protection.
He is an advocate of sustainability and is keenly interested in the
contribution that the integration of science, policy and law can make to
sustainability.
Sustainability is the catch-cry of governments and private sector
organisations.
“Balancing” competing and often conflicting social, environment and
economic objectives is complex and difficult for decision makers and
policy development, particularly so when criteria, processes and
frame-works are inadequate or totally lacking.
This paper explores some opportunities and challenges for South
Australia’s independent environmental regulator in the transition to
sustainability.
