Research Impacts

Research Impacts

Our researchers contribute to regional, national and international research fora. Our research impacts on government policy and the management of issues affecting social and environmental sustainability.

Examples

Examples of research impacts include:

Research by Associate Professor Mark Morrison and Professor Jeff Bennett (ANU) on community values of river health have informed economic analyses of river management options by the New South Wales and Victorian governments.

Professor Allan Curtis was one of the architects of the evaluation framework established for the $120million Australian government National Landcare Program 2003/07.

The Murrumbidgee Catchment Management Authority is implementing recommendations from Dr Robyn Watts and Dr Amy Jansen's research developing catchment assessment techniques to determine priorities in river restoration.

Ecological studies led by Dr Iain Taylor supported the successful nomination of the Fivebough and Tuckerbil Swamps at Leeton in New South Wales as a wetland of international significance (Ramsar site).

Professor Margaret Alston and Ms Jenny Kent's research on the social impact of drought informed the public discourse that led to changes in legislation for the provision of drought relief in rural areas.

Montague Island Nature Reserve, NSW, is being managed to enhance habitat values for penguins and other vertebrates as a result of long­term research by Professor Nicholas Klomp and postgraduate students.

Research by Dr Gary Luck is guiding the development and implementation of recovery and management plans for the threatened Bush­stone Curlew and Plains Wanderer.

Research publications from Dr Manohar Pawar's communities' informal care and welfare practices in Asia-Pacific countries project has been translated into two languages and has been used in professional practice through the international Labour Organisation programs.

Dr Joanne Millar's ACIAR funded research in Lao PDR has assisted the Lao Government to work effectively with upland villages in order to improve their livelihoods and environmental management via livestock production.