Prestigious journal article highlights our interdisciplinary research
Leading researchers at the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities have identified five key principles to facilitate collaboration between biophysical and social scientists to help solve the world’s urgent sustainability problems.
The invited comment, published this week in a special issue on Interdisciplinarity in the esteemed Nature journal, illustrates the highly successful collaborative approach researchers are taking to bridge the divide between the biophysical and social sciences to achieve solutions-focussed research outcomes that deliver real-world impact.
Professor Rebekah Brown, Professor Ana Deletic and Professor Tony Wong have revealed how a shared mission and constructive dialogue between researchers, policy makers and industry have been crucial to supporting the development of water management strategies which have now been successfully adopted in cities across Australia, as well as in Singapore, China and Israel.
Professor Wong is the Chief Executive of the CRCWSC and Professor Deletic is Integrated multi-functional urban water systems (C4.1) Project Leader while Professor Brown is Director of the Monash Sustainability Institute and a former Program A Leader.
Professors Brown, Deletic and Wong are continuing their successful interdisciplinary approach with new impact-focussed research projects in sustainable water management supported by the Australia-Indonesia Centre and the Asian Development Bank.