Climate and Environment

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Biomimicry of termite engineering as solution for water and soil conservation (with Haidi Badawi), ICE 2008, XXIII International Congress of Entomology, Durban July 2008 (2008)
The aim of this study is to present humanity and termites as design partners in...
 

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Multidiscipline Approach for Studying the Climate and Molecular Phylogeographic Analysis of Termites (with Haidi Badawi), ICE 2008, XXIII International Congress of Entomology, Durban July 2008 (2008)

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Global warming issue and increasing vulnerability of biodiversity are the main issues...

 

Food and Water Security Strategy

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WBFS Model: Strategic Water and Food Security Planning on National Wide Level, IGU-2008 Water sustainability commission (2008)

Global warming has impacted the four dimensions of the food security problem, namely: availability (including...

 

GIS and Quality of Life

GIS and water quality

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Development of a GIS-based decision support tool and assessment of Nile River water quality (with Assem Afify and Alaa Abdin), Int. J. Water (2008)
Abstract: The objective of this paper is to develop and present a GIS-based and software...
 

Groundwater Modelling

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Gnangara Decision Support System: Stochastic climatic- social-economic analysis for sustainable groundwater management (with Don McFarlane), World Water week (2008)
The combination of global warming, low rainfall, reduced recharge/run off and increasing water extraction/demand has...
 

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Modelling of a groundwater system to assess links between reduced rainfall and groundwater levels (with Annette Barton), 2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting Cairns, Australia, 29 July - 1 August 2008 (2008)
The Warrion region in south west Victoria, Australia, has been subjected to land cover changes,...
 

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Integration of Groundwater Models within an Economical Decision Support System Framework (with Redha Beddek, Bret Barnett, and Tanya Kennedy), MDSIM 05 (2005)
EXTENDED ABSTRACT Groundwater is a vital resource in Australian agriculture. Increased demand for water resulting...
 

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A System Dynamic Approach and Irrigation Demand Management Modelling (with Hector Malano and Shahbaz Khan), EERE 2004 Environmental Engineering Research Event 6-9 December 2004, Wollongong, NSW (2004)
Irrigation, over extraction and land clearing has had major impacts on river environment particularly in...
 

Integrated Water Resources

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Future landscape scenarios in the lower River Murray, south-eastern Australia and their implications for river salinity and floodplain health (with Rebecca Doble, jeff Connor, Matthew Stenson, Ian Jolly, Matthew Miles, and Glen Walker), 2nd International Salinity Forum (Salinity, water and society—global issues, local action) (2008)
 

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Integrated systems evaluation of climate change and future adaptation strategies for the Lower River Murray, Australia (with Jeff Connor and Rebecca Doble), 2nd International Salinity Forum (Salinity, water and society—global issues, local action) (2008)
 

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WBFS Model: Strategic Water and Food Security Planning on National Wide Level, IGU-2008 Water sustainability commission (2008)

Global warming has impacted the four dimensions of the food security problem, namely: availability (including...

 

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GIS And Multi-Criteria Evaluation: Robust Tools for Integrated Water Resources Management (with Khaled Kheireldin and Atef Hamdy), IWRA (2006)
Abstract: Integrated water resources planning and management are considered a very complex issue. It is...
 

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GIS and Multi-Criteria Evaluation for Integrated Water Resources (with Khaled Kheireldin), ISCO 2004 - 13th International Soil Conservation Organisation Conference – Brisbane, July 2004 (2004)
Abstract Integrated Water Resources planning and Management is considered a very complex issue. It is...
 

Irrigation system

is underground the new water-storage solution?, The Official Journal of Irrigation Australia (2007)
 

River Salinity

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Forecasting lower Murray River salinity under climatic uncertainty and reduced dilution flow (with Jeff Connor, Rebecca Doble, Matt Stenson, Mac Kirby, and Glen Walker), 2nd International Salinity Forum (Salinity, water and society—global issues, local action) (2008)
 

System Modelling

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System Thinking and Multi-Agency Decision Framework for Integrated Water Resource Management, Adelaide University (2008)

Global warming and drought conditions lead to reduced water availability. Competing and conflicting water uses...

 

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System dynamics and auto-calibration framework for NSM model: Murrumbidgee River (with Hector Malano and Teri Etchells), Int. J. Water, (2007)
Water sharing management is the major problem for water resources and irrigation management decision makers....
 

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Using system dynamics to model water-reallocation (with Hector Malano and Teri Etchells), Environmentalist (2007)
Abstract Improving the efficiency of water allocation has long been recognised as a key problem...
 

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System Dynamics Optimisation Approach to Irrigation Demand Management (with Hector Malano, Teri Etchells, and Shahbaz khan), MODSIM 05 (2005)
 

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A System Dynamic Approach and Irrigation Demand Management Modelling (with Hector Malano and Shahbaz Khan), EERE 2004 Environmental Engineering Research Event 6-9 December 2004, Wollongong, NSW (2004)
Irrigation, over extraction and land clearing has had major impacts on river environment particularly in...
 

Water and Biomimicry

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Biomimicry of Termite Engineering As Innovative Solution for Water and Soil Conservation, Resources, Conservation & Recycling (2008)

ABSTRACT Nature has so much to offer to the current challenges facing societies and world,...

 

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Biomimicry of termite engineering as solution for water and soil conservation (with Haidi Badawi), ICE 2008, XXIII International Congress of Entomology, Durban July 2008 (2008)
The aim of this study is to present humanity and termites as design partners in...
 

Water Banking

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Water Banking –Crop Mixes Approach to Improve River Productivity and Environmental Performance (with Hector Malano), WATER DOWN UNDER 2008 Adelaide April (2008)
 

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Water Banking –Landuse Approach to Improve River Productivity and Environmental Performance, National Nile Basin Comission Journal (2008)
This paper presents the use of water banking concept (using aquifers as a natural underground...
 

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Water Banking-conjunctive water use management Approach to Improve River Environmental Performance, E-CReW 2007, Environmental and Resource Economics (2007)

Water demand is driven by cropping activities which result in higher river flows in the...

 

Water System Sustainability Indicator

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USING A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH TO MODEL SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS FOR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN AUSTRALIA (with Hector Malano and Shahbaz Khan), NATURAL RESOURCE MODELING (2006)
 

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Sustainability Indicator for the Coleambally Irrigation System (with Hector Malano and Shahbaz Khan), 18th VUEESC Conf.18th Victorian Universities Earth & Environmental Sciences Conference (2004)

Abstract An indicator defined as a function of the total water diversion through the Coleambally...