Stormwater capacity building toolkit

1. An online resource navigator
2. A catchment audit protocol
3. An organisational change model
4. A short documentary marketing the benefits of innovative urban water management to Councillors and senior local government managers.

Catchment Action Plan: developing draft recommendations

Facilitation of Catchment Action Plan Theme Team workshops, developing draft recommendations for the Catchment Action Plan.  The targets were developed by four working groups:

1. land,
2. biodiversity,
3. rivers, and
4. estuary / marine. 

Each working group comprised members of state agencies and local government.  (Greg Walkerden took this process to the first stage while a key employee was away on leave.)

Opportunities to improve primary production practices in the catchment of the Great Barrier Reef

An action research project investigating opportunities to improve primary producers’ management of water quality in the catchment of the Great Barrier Reef  for the Reef Water Quality Protection Plan. The project involved visiting graziers and farmers to explore their management practices, and facilitating a workshop with them, looking particularly for practices that improve water quality, that make business sense, and have high potential for substantially wider take up.

• We are undertaking this project jointly with Prof. Alistair Gilmour, on behalf of the Australian Research Institute in Education for Sustainability, at Macquarie University. 
• Our local partners are the Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM Board.

Lecturer, ‘Generating and Executing Ideas’, Masters of Real Estate

Lecturer in charge  in 2004 and 2005 of  REST0011 ‘Generating and Executing Ideas’, a course in innovation and change management in the Masters of Real Estate.

• Advice to the Gosford and Wyong Councils Water and Sewage Authority on environmental aspects of project proposals to the Australian Water Fund.
• Strategic planning workshops for the Hunter Central Coast Regional Environmental Management Strategy.
• Facilitating the inaugural meeting of the Hunter-Central Rivers Region Marine & Coastal Expert Panel, designed to develop its input to the Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Action Plan.

Water cycle management and State of the Environment Reporting

• Water cycle management risk assessment, and an Auburn Council water cycle management system audit.
• Guidance on options for integrating State of the Environment Reporting into Council’s management systems.
• Input on indicators for State of the Environment Reporting.

(This work was part of a larger project undertaken by Blumenberg Consulting.)

Catchment management and State of the Environment Reporting

• A catchment audit of Coogee Beach catchment, identifying issues and opportunities, and an approach to negotiating improvements with stakeholders.
• Guidance on how to integrate State of the Environment Reporting into City Planning.
• Input on indicators for State of the Environment Reporting.

(This work was part of a larger project undertaken by Blumenberg Consulting.)