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Dr Jacqueline Williams

Jacqueline Williams

Senior Researcher, Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law

Qualifications

B.App.Sc, M.App.Sc, PhD (Natural Resource Management)

Contact

Email:
Room: EBL W37 Room 5
Phone: 02 6773 3587 (or +61 2 6773 3587 overseas)
Fax: 02 6773 2580
Mobile: 0428 542 214

Jacky’s areas of interest include 25 years of community based Natural Resource Management NRM (both theory and practice) involving action oriented research and engaged scholarship with regional rural communities in Australia. This has included a focus on sustainability (agriculture, natural resources and teaching), NRM governance and citizen-science (including community programs such as waterwatch, biodiversity enhancement, community rainforest nurseries, farm forestry, organic growing, seed collection, community based fauna surveys, alternative in agriculture etc).

The main area of her research currently is ’The Next Generation Rural Landscape Governance for Australia: 2011 – 2014’.  The AgLaw Centre research proposes reforms to (1) improve the sustainability performance of farming, including conservation outcomes; (2) reduce the costs (including opportunity costs) of achieving this and (3) ensure that the costs and benefits are distributed fairly.

How can we maintain or improve the delivery of eco-system services from productive rural landscapes whilst:

  1. Reducing the number and improving the coordination of institutional structures for natural resource management;
  2. Reducing the transaction costs of regulatory frameworks and ecosystem service markets, by integration and streamlined design;
  3. Creating credible co-regulatory structures between industry and government, including reliable monitoring metrics and methods;
  4. Assisting to improve private incentives for good stewardship, using performance certification and marketplace promotional support, and
  5. Providing mechanisms to better allocate private and public investment to recognized environmental performers.

Affiliations

Member: IUCN Commission on Education and Communication

Member: Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand

Member: Biological Farmers of Australia

Member: Australian Blueberry Growers of Australia

ARC Assessor

Member: WRaIN Network

Areas of Teaching

Sustainability

LLM 627 - Resource Management Risks and Responsibility

LLM 629 - Strategy and Sustainability

Research interests

Jacky’s related interests include: governance; policy risk; transaction costs; citizen and native science; community based social marketing; agent based modelling; recognition systems for local knowledge and sustainable agriculture, collaborative learning and effective localism.

Publications

In Press

  • Jacqueline Williams, Amanda Kennedy and Donna Craig 2013: ‘Lost in Translation: threatened species law in Australia’ in Global Environmental Governance: 10th Colloquium Proceedings of the IUCN Environmental Law Academy Edward Elgar Cheltenham.
  • Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin 2013 ‘Developing Law and Governance Strategies for Peri-urban Sustainability’ in Urbanisation of Peri-urban Regions: Challenges and Opportunities for Security of Water, Food and Liveability of Future Cities Springer Science Netherlands.

  • Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin 2013 Water Governance: A policy risk perspective Water Resource Management Conference Proceedings 2013 Wessex Institute UK.

Books

  • Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin (2011) Defending the Social licence of Farming: Issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture CSIRO Collingwood.

Book chapters

  • Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Amanda Kennedy (2012) Creating next generation rural landscape governance in Environmental Governance and Sustainability Edward Elgar Cheltenham.
  • Jacqueline Williams (2011) A conceptual framework for sustainable agriculture. In Defending the Social licence of Farming: Issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture CSIRO Collingwood
  • Luca Montanarella and Jacqueline Williams (2011) Soil conservation in Europe In Defending the Social licence of Farming: Issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture CSIRO Collingwood

  • Paul Martin and Jacqueline Williams (2011) Renegotiating farmers social licence In Defending the Social licence of Farming: Issues, challenges and new directions for agriculture CSIRO Collingwood

Journal articles

  • Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Amanda Kennedy Professional Services and Rural Services Poverty Deakin Law Review Vol 16 No 1 2011
  • Williams, J.A. (2009) Review of Daniel Connell ‘Water Politics in the Murray Darling Basin’ Australasian Journal of Environmental Management Vol 16 p 48-49

  • Williams, J.A; Beeton RJS & McDonald, G.T, 2008 Success attributes of regional natural resource management Issue 3 Volume 3 International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 2008

Technical or government reports

  • Martin, P., Williams, J., Stone, C. and Alter, T. (2010). Researcher Lessons from Community Partnership and Trans-disciplinary Research in a Peri-urban Setting: The WISER Experience in Western Sydney. CRC for Irrigation Futures Technical Report Series No. 05/10. May 2010.
  • Martin, P. and Williams, J. (2010). Policy Risk Assessment. CRC for Irrigation Futures Technical Report Series No. 03/10. March 2010
  • Williams, J., Martin, P. and Stone, C. (2010). Using Ecosystem Services as a Means to Diffuse Political Land Use Decisions in Peri-Urban Regions. CRC for Irrigation Futures Technical Report Series No. 06/10. June 2010
  • Paul Martin, Jim Binney, Amanda Kennedy, Jacqueline Williams, and John Page Evaluation of the Risks and Benefits of Granting Rights in Land, report commissioned from the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law and Marsden Jacobs Associates by the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, August 2010.
  • Martin, P.V; Williams, J.A; Stone, C (2008) “Transaction costs and water reform: the devils hiding in the details” CRC for Irrigation Futures Technical Report 08/08.
  • Williams J.A. 2009 ‘Traveston Crossing Dam 2020: Sustainable Infrastructure delivery: indicators projects overview”. Report for Queensland Water Infrastructure, Brisbane.

  • Williams, J.A; Sauer, I; Love, C; English, G; Jackson, M; Cherry, J; Sansom, G; Wood, B; Russell, A; Williams, J; O’Sullivan, J; Ecker, S; (2008) “A National Framework for Sustainable Agriculture” Report prepared for DAFF from Canberra Stakeholders Workshop August 2007.

Conference paper/presentations

  • Williams J A; Martin PV 2012 ‘Water Governance: a policy risk perspective’ Sustainable Irrigation International Conference, Adelaide 10th to 13th November 2012.
  • Williams J A; Kennedy A & Craig D 2012 ‘Lost in translation; threatened species law in Australia’ Global Environmental Law at a Crossroads10th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law July 1-5th 2012 University of Maryland USA
  • Williams J A & Higginson S 2012 ‘Mining coming to a farm near you’ 2nd National Rural and Regional Law & Justice Conference Coffs Harbour May 2012
  • Williams J A & Martin PV 2012 ‘Developing Law and Governance Strategies for Peri-urban Sustainability’ Presentation to International Workshop on Urbanisation of Peri-urban Region’s Udaipur India February 2012
  • Williams JA 2011 ‘Environmental and social impacts of Mining’ Mining Forum Dorrigo Environment Watch/EDO, Dorrigo September 2011
  • Paul Martin and Jacqueline Williams The Water Act 2007: Hubris without legal safeguards? IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, South Africa, 7th July 2011 (for forthcoming publication)
  • Williams J A 2011’ Institutional Pathways to Sustainable Agriculture/Next gen governance research’: Northern Rivers CMA and NRM Northern Collective Coffs Harbour March 2011
  • Martin, P.V., Williams, J.A., and Kennedy, A.L., ‘Professional networks and rural services poverty’, paper presented at the National Rural / Regional Law and Justice Conference, 19-21 November 2010, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia.
  • Martin, P.V.; Williams, J.A.; 2010 “Policy risk assessment of peri-urban water strategies: a case study of Western Sydney” One Water Many Futures Australian Irrigation Conference and Exhibition June 8th to 10th Sydney.
  • Martin, P.V.; Williams, J.A.; Stone, C.; Alter, T 2010 “Learnings for system harmonization: the WISER experience ” One Water Many Futures Australian Irrigation Conference and Exhibition June 8th to 10th Sydney.
  • Martin, P.V., Williams, J.A, and Kennedy, A.L., "Creating next generation rural landscape governance" paper presented at the Seventh Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law 2009, 5 November, Wuhan, China.
  • Camkin, J; Starky. G; Bristow. K; Martin, P.V.; Williams, J.A.; Maheshwari, B.; Simmons, B.; Davidson, B.; Malano, H.; Hafeez, M.; McKay, J.  2010 “The role of engagement, collaboration and co-learning in delivering system harmonization” One Water Many Futures Australian Irrigation Conference and Exhibition June 8th to 10th Sydney
  • Williams, J.A and Arnald, A 2010 “Caring for our soils: lessons for Iceland and Australia” Soils, Climate and the Melting North European JRC Reykjavik, Iceland June 3rd-4th 2010.
  • Williams, J.A. and Martin, P.V (2009) “Ecosystem services: a means to diffuse political land use decisions in peri-urban regions” Seventh International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning, Siena Italy.
  • Paul Martin and Jacqueline Williams The missing leg in rural innovation research Primary Industries Innovation Centre Symposium New Pathways to the Adoption and Diffusion of Primary Industries Innovations University of New England 24-25 November 2008.