The Institute for Land, Water and Society is one of four Centres of Research Excellence within Charles Sturt University, Australia. Its principal focus is on integrated research which contributes to improved social and environmental sustainability in rural and regional areas.
What's new:
Monitoring of ecosystem responses to the delivery of environmental water in the Murrumbidgee system
Commonwealth Environmental Water engaged ILWS in June 2011 to monitor the ecological response to the environmental water release that took place in June 2011. Monitoring commenced before the event and will continue until February 2012. The first report on the findings is available here.
Managing household electricity demand more effectively
Research for a recently awarded PhD thesis has found that understanding how households make decisions about their electricity use could be the key to savings for governments, generators and consumers. “Because there is an increasing demand for electricity, and increasing environmental concerns about how it is generated, distributed and used, there is a need to develop more effective demand management strategies that increase the efficiency of residential electricity consumption,” said ILWS researcher and recent PhD graduate Dr Jodie Kleinschafer. More
Indigenous knowledge for more sustainable land management
Although Indigenous people presently manage around 20 per cent of the Australian continent, Professor Max Finlayson believes there is an opportunity to do more. He is co-author of a paper, Synthesis: Australian approaches for managing ‘country’ using Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge, which is published in the new special issue of the journal Ecological Management & Restoration - Indigenous Land and Water Management . The journal examines Australian approaches to managing ‘country’ using Indigenous and non-Indigenous knowledge while placing them in an international context. More
Postgraduate scholarships – Wetland research in the Lachlan Valley
ILWS is seeking 4 highly motivated candidates to undertake postgraduate wetland research in the Lachlan Valley in 2012 . More
Events:
Mistletoe Menance exhibition Albury Library Museum until February 12, 2012