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Complementary Projects to be Delivered Within the Urban Water Governance Program

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1. Advancing Organisational Receptivity to Alternative Water Sources

Linkage to NUWGP: This project specifically addresses organisational receptivity for water recycling in urban areas.

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2. Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration (FAWB): Policy and Organisational Receptivity

Linkage to NUWGP: Opportunity for expanding the risk perception inquiry to other forms of urban water management (i.e. not just one class of structural measures for stormwater management).

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3. Urban Water Sustainability Case Studies

Linkage to NUWGP: This project is expected to provide further advancement of knowledge and implementation in the practice of sustainable urban water management in both countries.

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4. Understanding the Factors that Influence Domestic Water Consumption within Melbourne

Linkage to NUWGP: Informing the 'design' of community capacity development strategies for sustainable water management practices and enabling contrasts to be made between actual community receptivity and perceived receptivity by technocrats.

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5. Advancing Sustainable Water Futures for Melbourne: Analysis of Expert Opinion on Structural and Non-Structural Approaches

Linkage to NUWGP: Opportunity to learn more about how stakeholders make decisions relating to structural and non-structural urban water management strategies, and the views currently held by Victorian water managers on the most appropriate strategies. This project is also an opportunity to inform future capacity building programs.

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6. Community Sustainable Water Planning

Linkage to NUWGP: Informing the design of local policy initiatives for advancing more sustainable forms of water management.

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Student Research Projects

Postgraduate Research

Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Governance

PhD Candidate: Susan Van de Meene
susan.vandemeene@arts.monash.edu.au

Drawing on theories of sustainable governance, institutional development and organisational change, in this project Susan Van De Meene focuses on the innovation of an Institutional Capacity Assessment Framework. It is expected that this framework will effectively inform the design of various capacity building efforts for advancing sustainable urban water management in Melbourne and other locations. This project has been assisted by funding from the Victorian Government through the Department of Sustainability and Environment as part of the Our Water Our Future Initiative.

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The Champion Phenomenon

PhD Candidate: André Taylor
andretaylor@iprimus.com.au

André Taylor is undertaking a research project on the leadership dimensions of urban water management. Specifically, investigating ways to enhance the so-called 'Champion Phenomenon'. This phenomenon is known to greatly accelerate the adoption of more sustainable forms of urban water management, but we know very little about it.

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Management of Urban Stormwater

PhD Candidate: Peter Morison
peter.morison@arts.monash.edu.au

In this project, Peter Morison will examine the policy design and institutional implementation of stormwater programs that are primarily focused on enabling organisational change at the local government level. In addition to reviewing and assessing the outcomes of these stormwater programs, the research will draw on contemporary inter-governmental program design and evaluation literature.

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Honours Research

'Technology diffusion' study of alternative water sources in Melbourne

Honours Student: Richard Roberts
mrob3@student.monash.edu

This honours research project looks at the theory of technology diffusion, and the barriers and incentives for the implementation of alternative water sources in Melbourne, specifically looking at the technologies.

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