The University of Queensland's Centre for Policy Futures invites you to attend a webinar on big data for water management presented by Dr Greg Edeson, Principal Policy Officer with the Office of the Great Barrier Reef at the Queensland Department of Science.

Date: Wednesday 25th November 2020

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Webinar: Zoom link will be provided upon registration

RSVP - policyfutures@uq.edu.au

In this webinar, Dr Greg Edeson will present 6 years’ research on the social and policy implications of big data for water management and climate adaptation.

He will look at how a community of irrigators improved environmental, economic and social outcomes through collaborative water management. Greg will examine how they used real-time data on river status, how this data was turned into usable information for them, and the types of engagement that enabled them to drive policy change while improving their triple bottom line outcomes.

Greg will discuss the implications of this work for policy design and implementation, including the tensions between Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons (how governments design policy) and Ostrom’s institutional governance (how communities design policy), and discuss approaches that can help resolve some of these tensions.

About the Speaker:
Dr Greg Edeson is a Principal Policy Officer in the reef policy team in the Office of the Great Barrier Reef at the Queensland Department of Science. He is also an Industry Fellow with QUT Institute for Future Environments.

Previously, Greg was Manager of Urban Water Policy at the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy. He has worked in rural and urban water policy and legislation, in economic development policy and strategic planning, in private sector R&D, for UNESCO and in research. He has a BSc (Resource & Environmental Management) from ANU, a Master of Sustainable Systems (Resilient Communities) from UQ and a PhD in Geography from UTAS, looking at the social and policy implications of big data for water management.

RSVP - policyfutures@uq.edu.au

Big Data, Big Decisions. How can we get policy value from real time environmental data?

Wed 25 Nov 2020 11:00am12:00pm

The University of Queensland's Centre for Policy Futures invites you to attend a webinar on big data for water management presented by Dr Greg Edeson, Principal Policy Officer with the Office of the Great Barrier Reef at the Queensland Department of Science.

Date: Wednesday 25th November 2020

Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm

Webinar: Zoom link will be provided upon registration

RSVP - policyfutures@uq.edu.au

In this webinar, Dr Greg Edeson will present 6 years’ research on the social and policy implications of big data for water management and climate adaptation.

He will look at how a community of irrigators improved environmental, economic and social outcomes through collaborative water management. Greg will examine how they used real-time data on river status, how this data was turned into usable information for them, and the types of engagement that enabled them to drive policy change while improving their triple bottom line outcomes.

Greg will discuss the implications of this work for policy design and implementation, including the tensions between Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons (how governments design policy) and Ostrom’s institutional governance (how communities design policy), and discuss approaches that can help resolve some of these tensions.

About the Speaker:
Dr Greg Edeson is a Principal Policy Officer in the reef policy team in the Office of the Great Barrier Reef at the Queensland Department of Science. He is also an Industry Fellow with QUT Institute for Future Environments.

Previously, Greg was Manager of Urban Water Policy at the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy. He has worked in rural and urban water policy and legislation, in economic development policy and strategic planning, in private sector R&D, for UNESCO and in research. He has a BSc (Resource & Environmental Management) from ANU, a Master of Sustainable Systems (Resilient Communities) from UQ and a PhD in Geography from UTAS, looking at the social and policy implications of big data for water management.

RSVP - policyfutures@uq.edu.au