ILWS - Institute of Land, Water and Society
Connections- ILWS Newsletter 2011
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This issue of the Institute’s newsletter is filled to the brim with all the latest news including a round-up of the many visitors to the Institute over the last few months which includes a visit from a group of Indians here on a wetlands study tour. As well there’s a Feature story on Institute adjunct Michael Vanderzee and his role as CEO of the Winton Wetlands Committee of Management which is restoring what was Lake Mokoan in NE Victoria and details of an ILWS organised Ecosystems Workshop, with a particular focus on the Murray darling Basin, held in Canberra in August.
This issue includes updates from each of the Institute’s Strategic Research Areas: Social research for Regional Natural Resource Management,
Social Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation,
Improving Rural Livelihoods and Environments in Developing Countries,
Innovative Perspectives on Energy,
Ecosystems Services,
Sustainable Water.
As well there is a feature story on the Sustainable business development in regional Australia SRA, a profile piece on Dr Glen Duncan, details of research being undertaken by our postgraduates and more...
This bumper issue of ‘Connections’ is our 25th . Special features include stories on two of the Institute’s Strategic Research Areas - Ecological and Social Responses to Native Plant Regeneration in Dynamic Rural Landscapes, and the new Improving Rural Livelihoods and Environments in Developing Countries. As well there are profiles on new sociology associate professor Vaughan Higgins; Prof Kishor Sharma from the School of Business; and Dr Jan Pokorny, a Czech scientist who visited the Institute earlier in the year. Of special mention would have to be our PhD students. The Institute welcomes another five PhD students and congratulates this year’s graduates…all 17 of them!
This issue includes comments frommembers on the floods we have been experiencing as well as a special feature on the Institute’s Ecosystems Services Strategic Research Area. This issue’s profile piece is on ecologist Dr Skye Wassens, who is based at Wagga, with an extensive report on the research she is doing on frogs in the Lowbidgee. As well there are stories on new PhDs, new post-graduate appointments, Institute visitors and Institute events including the launch of A/Prof David Watson new book “Mistletoes of Southern Australia.”