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Webinar: How Sensor and Social Networks have enabled Adaptive Water Management
The economic, social and environmental benefits of adaptive water management
About
With constraints on human and financial resources, and the need to improve production and environmental outcomes in irrigation communities in data-rich situations, some governments and communities are increasingly looking towards adaptive co-management models. This webinar explores an example where such a model was developed with very positive outcomes including government cooperation and fewer water restrictions being imposed.
Presenters
Philip Smethurst
CSIRO
Dr Philip Smethurst graduated from the University of Melbourne and University of Florida with expertise in soil, hydrology, agriculture, forestry, and plant nutrition. Philip's experimentation and mo... Read more
Brigid Morrison
University of Tasmania
Brigid is a well-regarded natural resource management advisor in Tasmania. Most recently she works in a split professional and academic role, to link natural resource reliant industries with research ... Read more
Andrew Aldridge
Andrew Aldridge is a second generation Dairy farmer currently share farming 440 cows located at Branxholm in the picturesque North East of Tasmania, along with his wife Jenny and their 4 young boys. A... Read more
