You are invited to a workshop on:
Systemic and adaptive water governance:
Reconfiguring institutions for social learning and more effective water managing?
A seminar exploring the role of social learning in water policy and law
Friday 5 December 2008
10 am – 4pm
Speakers and topics are:
§ Chris Biesaga (Murray Darling Basin Commission) – Water markets, no substitute for water governance
§ Daniel Connell (ANU, Crawford School of Economics) – National Water Initiative –a misunderstood revolution in Australian Water Management
§ Anita Foerster (Melbourne Law School) – Concept Paper for a Water Research Program
§ Lee Godden (Melbourne Law School) – Regulatory Approaches: Planning, Impact Assessment and the National Water Act 2007
§ Ray Ison (Monash Sustainability Institute and The Open University) – Systemic and adapative water governance: complex problems and social learning.
§ Kerry Olsson (National Water Commission) – The role of evaluation and monitoring in water policy (tbc)