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Philip Wallis

Research Fellow, Monash Sustainability Institute at Monash University

Summary

Dr Philip Wallis is a Research Fellow at Uniwater, a joint initiative of The University of Melbourne and Monash University. Dr Wallis is located in the Monash Sustainability Institute where he participates in a number of research areas, including demand management and efficiency in water and electricity sectors, water governance, catchment-scale ecological assessment, and soil carbon sequestration. In 2010 he became an inaugural Fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust.

Experience

  • Research Fellow, Monash University 2007 – present

Education

  • Monash University, PhD, Chemistry, 2008
  • Monash University, Bachelor of Environmental Science (Hons), 2004

Publications

  • Water governance in a climate change world: appraising systemic and adaptive effectiveness, Water Resources Management 2011
  • Catalytic activity of choline modified Fe(III) montmorillonite, Applied Clay Science 2011
  • Mapping local-scale ecological research to aid management at landscape scales, Geographical Research 2011
  • Planning as performance: the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, In: Basin Futures: Water Reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, ANU ePress, pp.399-411, 2011
  • Appreciating institutional complexity in water governance dynamics: a case from the MDB, Australia, Water Resources Management 2011
  • Partial Exchange of Fe(III) Montmorillonite with HDTMA Cation Increases Catalytic Activity, Langmuir 2010
  • Assessing and improving the catalytic activity of K-10 montmorillonite, Green Chemistry 2007
  • Oxidative coupling revisited: solvent-free, heterogeneous and in water, Green Chemistry 2006

Research Areas

  • Environment Policy (160507)
  • Environmental Sociology (160802)

Grants and Contracts

  • National Water Governance Research Initiative (2011)
    • Role: Co-ordinator
    • Funding Source: NCCARF

Honours

Fellow of the Peter Cullen Trust (2010)

Available for

  • Multidisciplinary Research Collaboration