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Papers and Publications

  • Brown, R., Farrelly, M. and Keath, N. (2007) Summary Report: Perceptions of Institutional Drivers and Barriers to Sustainable Urban Water Management in Australia. Report No. 07/06, National Urban Water Governance Program, Monash university, December 2007, ISBN: 978-0-9804298-2-4
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  • Monash University (2007) Moving to the Water Sensitive City, Submission to the VCEC review of the Metropolitan Melbourne Retail Water Sector, October 2007
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  • Brown, R. and Clarke, J. (2007). The transition towards Water Sensitive Urban Design: The Story of Melbourne, Australia, Report of the Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration, Monash University, Melbourne.
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  • Brown, R (2006). Conference Synopsis, Proceedings of the Water and Sustainable Development: Tools for Change Conference , 3rd May 2005, Melbourne.
    For conference information and presentations see: www.mav.asn.au/mavinfo.nsf/info/toolschange
  • Brown, R.R . and Ryan, R. (2001). Evaluation of the Stormwater Management Planning Process , Environment Protection Authority EPA 2000/88, Sydney. ISBN0-7313-2756

Industry Reports

  • Brown, R., Farrelly, M. and Keath, N. (2007) Summary Report: Perceptions of Institutional Drivers and Barriers to Sustainable Urban Water Management in Australia. Report No. 07/06, National Urban Water Governance Program, Monash university, December 2007, ISBN: 978-0-9804298-2-4
    PDF (2988KB)
  • Monash University (2007) Moving to the Water Sensitive City, Submission to the VCEC review of the Metropolitan Melbourne Retail Water Sector, October 2007
    PDF (468KB)
  • Brown, R. and Clarke, J. (2007). The transition towards Water Sensitive Urban Design: The Story of Melbourne, Australia, Report of the Facility for Advancing Water Biofiltration, Monash University, Melbourne.
    PDF (1201KB)
  • Brown, R (2006). Conference Synopsis, Proceedings of the Water and Sustainable Development: Tools for Change Conference , 3rd May 2005, Melbourne.
    For conference information and presentations see: www.mav.asn.au/mavinfo.nsf/info/toolschange
  • Brown, R.R . and Ryan, R. (2001). Evaluation of the Stormwater Management Planning Process , Environment Protection Authority EPA 2000/88, Sydney. ISBN0-7313-2756

Book Chapters

  • Brown, R . (in press ). 'Principles for Institutional and Social Data Collection'. In Fletcher, T and Deletic, A. (ed), Data Requirements for Integrated Urban Water Management , UNESCO International Hydrological Programme VI, Paris, Chapter 2.0
  • Brown, R . ( in press ). 'Social and Institutional Data'. In Fletcher, T and Deletic, A. (ed), Data Requirements for Integrated Urban Water Management , UNESCO International Hydrological Programme VI, Paris, Chapter 3.0
  • Brown, R., Taylor A., and Mouritz, M. (2006). Institutional Capacity and Policy, In Wong, T.H.F. (ed), Australian Runoff Quality, Engineers Australia, Canberra, Chapter 5.
    For more information see: www.arq.org.au/
  • Brown, R.R, Ryan, R. and McManus, R. (2001). An Australian Case Study: Why A Transdisciplinary Framework Is Essential For Integrated Urban Stormwater Planning. InTejada-Guibert J A and Maksimovic C (eds) Frontiers in Urban Water Management: deadlock or hope? , International Hydrological Program-V, Technical Documents in Hydrology, No.45, UNESCO , Paris, p251-259.

Journal Articles

  • Brown, R. (in press). Local Institutional Development and Organisational Change for Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Futures, Environmental Management .
  • Coppock, M. and Brown, R. (2007). Advancing Sustainable Water Futures for Melbourne: Analysis of Expert Opinion on Structural and Non-Structural Approaches, Water Practice and Technology 2(2).
  • Brown, R. and Davies, P. (2007) Understanding Community Receptivity to Water Re-use: Ku-ring-gai Council Case Study, Water Science and Technology, 55(4), 283-290.
  • Clarke, J. and Brown, R. (2006). Understanding the factors that influence domestic water consumption within Melbourne, Australian Journal of Water Resources , 10 (3), 261-268.
  • Brown, R., Sharp, E. and Ashley, R. (2006). Implementation Impediments to Institutionalising the Practice of Sustainable Urban Water Management,Water Science and Technology, 54(6-7), 415-422.
  • Nelson, A., Babon, A., Berry, M. and Keath, N. (2006) Engagement, but for what kind of marriage?: community members and local planning authorities.Community Development Journal , Advance Access published on September 5, 2006.
  • Brown, R.R. (2005). Impediments to Integrated Urban Stormwater Management: The Need for Institutional Reform. Environmental Management , 36(3), 455-468.
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  • Rauch, W., Seggelke, K., Brown, R., and Krebs, P. (2005) Integrated Approaches to Urban Storm Drainage: Where do we stand? Environmental Management, 35(4), 396-409.
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Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

  • Brown, R. (2007) Keynote Address - 'The Key Socio-technical Change Factors for Advancing Water Sensitive Futures: An Australian Case Study'.Proceedings of the 5th South Pacific Stormwater Conference, 16th -18th May, Auckland, New Zealand.
    For conference info go to: www.nzwwa.org.nz/
  • Brown, R and Keath, N. (2007). Social Theory and Research on Institutional Change Processes Towards Sustainable Urban Water Management in Australia,Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 3rd-7th July 2007, University of Granada, Spain.
    For conference info go to: http://i07.cgpublisher.com/index.html
  • Brown, R and Keath, N. (2007). Understanding the institutional barriers and drivers associated with making the transition to more sustainable urban water management, Proceedings of the 13th International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference and the 5th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference, 21-23 August, 2007, Sydney, Australia.
    For conference info go to: www.rainwater2007.com/
  • Brown, R. and Farrelly, M. (2007). Institutional impediments to advancing sustainable urban water management: a typology. Proceedings of the 13th International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference and the 5th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference, 21-23 August, 2007, Sydney, Australia.
    For conference info go to: www.rainwater2007.com/
  • Morison, P. and Brown, R (2007). Cooperate or coerce? Intergovernmental approaches to mainstreaming Water Sensitive Urban Design. Proceedings of the 13th International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference and the 5th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference, 21-23 August, 2007, Sydney, Australia.
    For conference info go to: www.rainwater2007.com/
  • Roberts, R. and Brown, R. (2007). Alternative Water Sources: The keys to unlocking the inhibitors of innovation and diffusion in metropolitan Melbourne.Proceedings of the 13th International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference and the 5th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference , 21-23 August, 2007, Sydney, Australia.
    For conference info go to: www.rainwater2007.com/
  • Van de Meene, S. and Brown, R. (2007). Towards an Institutional Capacity Assessment Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Management Institutions.Proceedings of the 13th International Rainwater Catchment Systems Conference and the 5th International Water Sensitive Urban Design Conference , 21-23 August, 2007, Sydney, Australia.
    For conference info go to: www.rainwater2007.com/
  • Brown, R. and Clarke, J. (in press). The transition towards Water Sensitive Urban Design: a socio-technical analysis of Melbourne, Australia, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference NOVATECH 2007, 25.
  • Brown, R. and Davies, P. (2006). Understanding Community Receptivity to Water Re-use: Ku-ring-gai Council Case Study, In Deletic A and Fletcher T (eds)Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design and the 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling , 3-7 April 2006, Melbourne, pp 119-126.
    For more information and to order a copy of the proceeding, see: www.wsud.org/seminar.htm
  • Clarke, J.M. and Brown, R.R. (2006). Understanding the Factors that Influence Domestic Water Consumption within Melbourne.In:Deletic, A. and Fletcher, T. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design and the 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, 3-7 April 2006, Melbourne.
    For more information or to order a copy of the proceeding, see: www.wsud.org/seminar.htm
  • Coppock, M.H. and Brown, R.R. (2006). Advancing Sustainable Water Futures for Melbourne: Analysis of Expert Opinion on Structural and Non-structural Approaches.In:Deletic, A. and Fletcher, T. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design and the 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, 3-7 April 2006, Melbourne.
    For more information and to order a copy of the proceeding, see: www.wsud.org/seminar.htm
  • Keath, N. and White, J. (2006) Building the capacity of local government and industry professionals in sustainable water sensitive urban design. In: Deletic, A. and Fletcher, T. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design and the 7th International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling, 3-7 April 2006, Melbourne.
    For more information and to order a copy of the proceeding, see: www.wsud.org/seminar.htm
  • Brown, R.R. (2005). Facilitating Local Organisational Development For Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Futures. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-26 August 2005.
    PDF (343KB)
  • Brown, R.R., Sharp, L. and Ashley, R.M. (2005). Implementation Impediments to Institutionalising the Practice of Sustainable Urban Water Management. Keynote Address in the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-26 August 2005.
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  • Taylor, A.C. and Fletcher, T.D. (2005). 'Triple-Bottom-Line' Assessment of Urban Stormwater Projects. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-26 August 2005.
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  • Brown, R.R. (2004). Local Institutional Development and Organisational Change for Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Futures. Keynote Address in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Cities as Catchments, 21st- 25th November 2004, Adelaide, Australia.
    PDF (486KB)
  • Taylor, A.C. and Weber, T. (2004). Using Effective Policy Frameworks to Drive Water Sensitive Urban Design. Proceedings of the International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design: Cities as Catchments, 21st-25th November 2004, Adelaide, Australia.
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