Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws
Online Survey - Public Perceptions on Current Water Management Issues NEW!
We are currently conducting an online survey as part of research looking into public and stakeholder perceptions on existing water policies, legislation, and various water management issues.
Please follow the following link for more information and to begin the
survey
http://www.unisa.edu.au/waterpolicylaw/projects/online_survey.asp
The Centre is a multi-disciplinary endeavour established in the School of Commerce. It is a research concentration of the Hawke Research Institute for Sustainable Societies. It comprises lawyers, engineers and scientists as well as researchers from other divisions of the University of South Australia. It aims to engage with, and be a focal point for, research into the legal, economic, social and cultural evaluation of Australian and International water policies and law.
Click on the logo above for the 2005 brochure about the Centre (PDF 1495Kb – download Adobe Acrobat). The 2004 brochure (PDF 165kb) can also be viewed.
(The Centre was until January 2004 known as the Water Policy and Law Group, a brochure of which is also available here) (PDF 243Kb – download Adobe Acrobat)
A poster (PDF (49kb) of the centre is also available.
Background
The Centre for Comparative Water Policies and Laws comprises a large number of full-time Masters and Doctoral researchers. See under Researcher Profiles
The research and industry involvement underpinning the School of Commerce programs gives our graduates a head start in finding employment in business and marketing across Australia and overseas.
The Centre was established in 1998 in the former School of Law and Legal Practice, as the Water Policy and Law Group (WPLG). The group was successful in completing major studies for the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation. In addition major consultancies were undertaken on dam safety assurance programs for the Victorian Government and the city of Adelaide on stormwater protection.
Prior to this Professor McKay had completed studies for National Landcare on Floodplain Management and Emergency Management Australia on flood risk.
At the Research Policy Committee meeting on 1 July 2005 the Centre was deemed to be a recognised Research Group of the University of South Australia. Here are the hyperlinks to where it can be found on the UniSA research pages
http://www.unisa.edu.au/res/concen/divlist.asp#bue
http://www.unisa.edu.au/res/concen/institutes.asp#groups
Community Benefits
Community Benefits Members of the group have been of assistance to various State Government and Federal Government bodies and have undertaken consultancies for these bodies. They have had Steering Committee members appointed from a wide variety of State Government bodies such as PIRSA, the Department of Heritage and Environment (SA) and the Department of Sustainability and Environment (VIC), the Murray-Darling Basin Initiative (ACT). the Productivity Commission (Cth), and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. In addition, international grants and consultancies have been repeatedly received from the University of California and the World Bank.
Research Focus
Water laws and policies, water allocation policies, tradeable water rights, water markets, corporatisation and privatisation of water utilities, water reuse laws and policies and environmentally sustainable development.
Theme Leaders
The Theme leaders are the first port of call for any future projects. The theme leaders are all working on a set of projects with students and reports of the outcomes and other activities are available on the theme leaders person home page, the student home page and under project reports with various hyperlinks.
| Water finance and public private partnerships | Prof Mervyn Lewis |
| Planning and environmental law | Dr Simon Marsden |
| International comparative water policy students | Diwakara Halaniak and |
| Corporate governance models and sustainability | Prof Jennifer McKay |
| International comparative policy India | Diwakara Halaniak and |
| International comparative policy China | Wu Zhifang |
| International comparative policy and law Middle East | Rim El Kadi |
Contact
For further information please contact:
Professor Jennifer McKay
Professor and Group Convenor, WPLG
Division of Business
University of South Australia
Tel.: +61 8 8302 0887
Fax: +61 8 8302 0512
Email:
jennifer.mckay@unisa.edu.au
Web:
http://people.unisa.edu.au/Jennifer.McKay