Associate Professor Rebekah Brown

Associate Professor Rebekah Brown

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  I focus on multiple aspects of urban water management, from institutional development and organisational change through to the governance of decentralised urban water systems and the use of alternative water sources by water management organisations.

 

Associate Professor Brown specialises in the broad governance and transition management dimensions of urban water resources. She leads Monash University’s National Urban Water Governance Program and currently engages with interdisciplinary issues relating to institutional development, organisational change and regime transformation in relation to urban environments becoming more sustainable.

Rebekah has specialised in urban water and sustainability issues over the last 17 years, initially as a consulting civil engineer and later as a research social scientist. Graduating at the top of her year in civil engineering, she was awarded the Australian Ove Arup & Partners Fellowship for Excellence in Engineering Studies and spent the next eight years advising on water management and design in major infrastructure projects such as the Channel Tunnel Rail Link (UK) and the Bangkok Yannawa Wastewater Scheme (Thailand). Deciding to pursue her social science research interests, in 2003 she was awarded a PhD by the University of New South Wales focused on the relationship between organisational change and technological innovation for environmental sustainability in the water sector.