Greg Walkerden - Awards, Honours and Invitations
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National Award for Excellence in Stormwater
Education Urbanwater.info - HCCREMS’ Sustainable Stormwater Management Capacity Building Toolkit won this award at the 2006 Stormwater Industry Association’s National Excellence Awards Greg Walkerden played the lead role in design and development of the toolkit (its main components are a website and a short documentary on urban water management). Water Quality / Catchment Management Award Urbanwater.info - HCCREMS’ Sustainable Stormwater Management Capacity Building Toolkit won this award at the 2005 NSW Local Government Excellence in the Environment Awards Greg Walkerden played the lead role in design and development of the toolkit Sustainable Design, Planning and Building Award Wyong Council’s DCP 100 Quality Housing won this award at the 2004 NSW Local Government Excellence in the Environment Awards The DCP was developed by another group at Wyong Council. Greg Walkerden's contribution, as Environmental Systems Manager, was recommending, championing and supporting a requirement for substantial water tanks as a requirement in all new dwellings. This was a key water cycle management initiative, and one of the reasons this DCP stood out. Stormwater Management Award Wyong Council’s Tuggerah Lakes Adaptive Management Strategy won this award at the 2002 NSW Local Government Excellence in the Environment Awards The evolution of this strategy was a central responsibility of Greg Walkerden's while he was Environmental Systems Manager at Wyong Council. Built Environment Award LHCCREMS’s Urban Water Cycle Management Program won this award at the 2001 NSW Local Government Excellence in the Environment Awards. Greg Walkerden played a central role in the design and governance of this project. Stormwater Management Award LHCCREMS’s Urban Water Cycle Management Program won this award at the 2001 NSW Local Government Excellence in the Environment Awards. Greg Walkerden played a central role in the design and governance of this project. Rotary Environment Award 1999-2000 Awarded by the Rotary Club of Toukley. Citation: For his contribution to the future of the Central Coast Environment in producing the State of the Environment Report, Wyong Shire, 1998-1999. Natural Environment Award LHCCREMS’ Regional Biodiversity Conservation Strategy was the Division C Winner at the 1999 NSW Local Government Excellence in the Environment Awards. Greg Walkerden played a central role in the design and governance of this project. Case study in the 1997 New South Wales State of the Environment Report The Tuggerah Lakes and Catchment Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management Project was written up as an example of best practice in managing cumulative impacts. Greg Walkerden was the technical lead on the team from the Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University. |
Keynote address
‘Orchestrating Water Cycle Management: Practices and Metapractices’ Hydropolis: Stormwater Industry Association National Conference, Perth, October 2006 Invited paper ‘Sustainability: innovating for the common good’ Western Australian Local Government Association Annual Conference, August 2005, Perth Keynote address 'Water sensitive urban design: facilitating adoption by local Councils' Launch of the Water Sensitive Urban Design Capacity Building Project for Sydney, Sydney, 2002 Invited workshop 'State of the Environment Reporting in NSW' Invited by the Municipal Association of Victoria to present this workshop in Melbourne, in 2000. Invited workshops Eugene Gendlin's 'A Process Model': thinking at the edge Invited by the Focusing Institute in New York to lead evening workshop sessions on Prof. Eugene Gendlin’s (University of Chicago) philosophy, to compliment his daytime sessions on ‘Thinking at the edge’ (innovative thinking grounded in felt knowing) in New York in 2000, and invited back again for each of 2001 and 2002 when Gendlin was running further ‘Thinking at the Edge’ workshops. This invitation arose from a paper I wrote on his work. Keynote address 'Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management: a case study from Wyong' CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Annual Conference, 1997 This invitation arose from my work on the Tuggerah Lakes and Catchment Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management Project. Invited address 'Our environmental dilemma' Invited to speak on behalf of students at the Graduation Ceremony, Macquarie University, 1994. Academic Honours First place in two non-degree courses in Conflict Resolution, at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Macquarie University, in 1992. Department of Planning Prize for Environmental Studies Awarded for first place, overall, in the Graduate Diploma of Environmental Studies in 1991; placed first in a number of courses. Academic Honours Placed in the first 5 in over half of undergraduate courses in the Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Macquarie University, 1974-1979 (including a number of first places). |
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