A5085463808- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Hydraulic flow and structures
- African Studies and Ethnography
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Environmental law and policy
- Academic Research and Education Studies
Griffith University
2018-2022
The Ohio State University
2015-2020
The University of Western Australia
2010-2019
This paper addresses the ontological differences between modern water, dominant way of thinking about water in industrialised West, and Living Waters, a concept used by Aboriginal Australians to talk water(s) bodies. Working collaboratively with experts state government planners Kimberley region Western Australia we developed two social-ecological conceptual models compare propositions character water. One model represents paradigm, upon which systems management are based, other customary...
Abstract In the context of current global ecological and climate crisis, there are increasing calls in environmental sustainability literature to recognize validity value Indigenous knowledge systems. At same time, limitations utilitarian frameworks decision‐making becoming clearer many researchers practitioners, who see a need engage with underlying ethical questions sustainability, such as ‘What is be sustained, for benefit which forms life?’ interface between these two urgent imperatives,...
Environmental flow assessments (e-flows) are widely used within water allocation planning to address the threat rivers and human communities posed by extraction. However, conceptual models underpinning e-flows tend include only biophysical interactions, eschewing socio-cultural complexity, local knowledge, governance arrangements. These critical where Indigenous people have strong connections with knowledge contribute planning. We a transdisciplinary approach develop model of ecological...
Since the momentous release of Montecristi Constitution Ecuador in 2008, which recognised Nature, or Pacha Mama, as a subject rights, rights Nature movement across world has gained exponential momentum, with numerous jurisdictions worldwide now recognising some form legal subjectivity vested upon Nature. In particular, since 2017, river personhood dominated news headlines around one most recognisable forms Nature's novel subjectivity. The emergence for nature, however, been far from...
Transdisciplinary research (TDR) can help generate solutions to environmental challenges and enhance the uptake of outputs, thus contributing advance sustainability in social-ecological systems. Our aim is support investment decisions TDR; more specifically, funders, researchers, users decide when why it most likely be worth investing TDR approaches. To achieve our aim, we: 1) define use a decision tree comparing with alternative modes (i.e., basic, applied, disciplinary, multi-disciplinary,...
Lake Como receives inflows of vastly varying scales. The majority the lake's water comes from alpine to north, and much smaller supply large amounts pollutants in south. We combined various data sets with a three‐dimensional hydrodynamic model investigate processes affecting fate these potential applications for management responses both pollution climate change effects. During stratified period inflow waters northern sources intrude metalimnion, undergo deflection due Earth's rotation,...
African floodplains are an excellent example of coupled human–natural systems because they exhibit strong interactions among multiple social, ecological, and hydrological systems. The intra-annual interannual variations in seasonal flooding have direct indirect impacts on ecosystems human lives livelihoods. Coupled natural system (CHANS) is a broad conceptual framework that used to study which components interact. While there other frameworks social-ecological systems, the CHANS offers clear...
This article shows how local knowledge may be valuably integrated into a scientific approach in the study of large and complex hydrological systems where data collection at high resolution is challenge. claim supported through hydrodynamics lake qualitative collected from professional fishers was combined with theory to develop hypothesis that then verified by numerical modeling. First fishermen’s narratives were found describe accuracy internal wave motions evident water column temperature...
Abstract Co-production across scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems has become a cornerstone of research to enhance knowledge, practice, ethics, foster sustainability transformations. However, the profound differences in world views complex contested histories nation-state colonisation on territories, highlight both opportunities risks for people when engaging with co-production. This paper investigates conditions under which co-production can lead improved adaptive environmental...
This paper examines the production of local and remote knowledge about flows a large Italian lake (Lake Como) on basis dual ethnographic engagement with fishermen computer modellers. The focus is relationship between these two ways knowing lake, in relation to itself places where produced. I first argue that despite being seemingly located at different edges environmental spectrum—the computer-mediated—the fishermen's scientists' knowledges emerge from similar forms skilled their respective...
Laborde, S., J. Imberger, and S. Toussaint. 2012. A wall out of place: a hydrological sociocultural analysis physical changes to the lakeshore Como, Italy. Ecology Society 17(1): 33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-04610-170133
Fieldwork rarely goes to plan. In geography, anthropology, earth sciences and other research activities that rely on field data, trade‐offs are required between planning execution. This article addresses the adaptation of projects changing fieldwork conditions. It is based a case study interdisciplinary international “Coupled Human Natural Systems” situated in Far North Cameroon. The project underwent drastic changes because escalating insecurity site, caused by Boko Haram, terrorist group...
A Research Practice Like Escher’s Drawing HandsReflections on Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries Lake Como, Italy Sarah Laborde (bio) It is increasingly recognized that addressing societal issues necessitates engagements across different knowledge groups, within and beyond the academic sector. In environmental field, contemporary debates encompass questions of livelihood, social- cultural dynamics, techno- scientific practices. has been argued entanglements connections between these various...