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Brian Davidson

Senior Lecturer, Department of Resource Management at University of Melbourne

Summary

Trained as an agricultural economist and having researched trade, policy and poverty concerns in Australia, I am now interested in valuing water resources. This work has been conducted in numerous countries and is centred on the catchment scale. This has led to a significant contribution to the work on 'system harmonisation in water resources'. System harmonisation is an attempt to take a positivist approach to integrated water resource management concerns. In it the hydrological, economic, sociological, environmental and political dimensions of water allocation are assessed in a comprehensive and all encompassing manner. In addition I teach the subject, Governing Environments to first year students at the University of Melbourne.

Experience

  • Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne 1998 – present
  • Lecturer, University of New England, Armidale 1992 – 1997
  • Visiting Professor, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan 1996 – 1996

Education

  • University of New England, PhD, 1996