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Peter Cullen - Water and Sustainable Landscapes
About Peter Cullen
Peter Cullen - Program in Adelaide
Professor Peter Cullen - Water and Sustainable Landscapes
Residency dates were 11 March - 11 June, 2004.
The focus of Professor Peter Cullen's residency was creating
sustainable natural resource use through science and social change;
building on and extending the valuable work already underway in
this area by DWLBC, CSIRO and SA Water.
Professor Cullen's appointment concentrated on:
- defining how science can better inform, promote and guide
social change in order to develop sustainable future landscapes
for South Australia
- developing a vision for sustainable landscape change in South
Australia
- building the capacity of the South Australian stakeholders
to exchange ideas and develop creative approaches to sustainable
natural resource management.
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About Peter Cullen
Professor Peter Cullen has worked in the field of natural resource
management for over 35 years. He was awarded the Prime Minister's
Prize for Environmentalist of the Year in 2001 for his
work on the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality.
Peter is a graduate in Agricultural Science from the University
of Melbourne and his major professional work has been in the areas
of nutrient dynamics, eutrophication, lake ecology and environmental
flows. He is a member of the International Water Academy and a
Director of both Land and Water Australia and Landcare Australia
Limited. Peter was also founding Chief Executive of the Cooperative
Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, where he served from 1993-2002.
Peter is now a Professor Emeritus of the University of Canberra,
where he was Dean of Applied Science. He was a member of the Community
Advisory Committee of the Murray-Darling Basin Ministerial Council
and is Chair of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Lake Eyre
Basin Ministerial Forum.
Peter is known internationally as the leader of the Wentworth
Group of Concerned Scientists, which is responsible for developing
the Blueprint for a Living Continent.
Professor Cullen successfully bridges the gap between science
and landholders, an essential pre-requisite to achieving landscape
change. Recent thinking in the area of sustainable landscapes
has suggested that the key to sustainable management of the landscape
lies in social change. Informed land management provides a way
forward in addressing the potential decline of future landscapes.
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Peter Cullen - Program in Adelaide
The Adelaide Thinkers in Residence program for Professor Cullen
was developed by the Department of Premier and Cabinet and the
following partners:-
Partners:
Professor Cullen worked closely with the South Australian Government
and community to embrace the management of natural resources.
Peter's thoughts and intellectual input in the area of sustainable
landscapes will encouraged the exchange of ideas, developed informed
thinking and built South Australia's capacity in future landscape
management while also assisting in the cultivation of strategic
directions for partners.
The broad focus of the residency was water quality and catchment
management in the variety of rural landscapes, ranging from deserts
in the far north of the State, wet areas of the south-east, as
well as the highly stressed landscapes forming the South Australian
part of the Murray-Darling Basin. The most critical issue was
the health of the River Murray and its importance in the continued
viability of the economy and social structure of the state.
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