Dr Jacqueline Williams
Senior Researcher, Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law
Qualifications
B.App.Sc, M.App.Sc, PhD (Natural Resource Management)
Contact
| Email: | jacqueline.williams@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Agricultural Economics 1 (W37) AgLaw Centre |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3587 (or +61 2 6773 3587 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 2580 |
| Mobile: | 0428 542 214 |
Jacky Williams is an Environmental Scientist with over 15 years applied experience in Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia having worked at local, regional, state and National levels encompassing forestry, catchment management and community based NRM. Jacky recently completed her PhD researching the success attributes of regional NRM for use as an evaluative tool and model for the current regional NRM systems in Australia. Jacky’s areas of expertise include regional NRM systems; NRM Institutions and governance; translation and harmonisation of regional NRM to property scale through Property Management Systems, and NRM policy development and implementation in particular land use, biodiversity and water quality.
Next generation natural resource governance
Our synthesis of prior studies indicates that the insufficient outcomes and high costs of natural resource governance is partly a function of our inability to create solutions to coupled ecological/social system problems. Our interventions provide ‘spot’ responses rather than the sustained management of integrated system. They rely on ‘spot’ targeting of only some of the transactions that shape the way in which the economic system interacts with natural systems. The mechanisms used are fragmented and too often compete in their approach or purposes.
The research plan
Our 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:
- reducing the number and improving the coordination of institutional structures for natural resource management;
- reducing the transaction costs of regulatory frameworks and ecosystem service markets, by integration and streamlined design;
- creating credible co-regulatory structures between industry and government, including reliable monitoring metrics and methods;
- assisting to improve private incentives for good stewardship, using performance certification and marketplace promotional support; and
- providing mechanisms to better allocate private and public investment to recognized environmental performers.
Affiliations
Full member of EIANZ (Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand)
Member of Biological Farmers of Australia
Member of Australian Blueberry Growers Association
Areas of Teaching
Sustainability
LLM 627 - Resource Management Risks and Responsibility
LLM 629 - Strategy and Sustainability
Research interests
Next generation natural resource governance
Natural resource management, governance, ecosystem services, sustainable agriculture, policy risk
Publications
Link to UNE's e-Publications for J. Williams publications list
Link to UNE's e-Publications for J.A. Williams publications list
Books/book chapters
- Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin (eds.) (2011) Defending the social licence of farming: Issues, Challenges & New Directions for Agriculture, CSIRO Publishing Collingwood.
- Jacqueline Williams (2011) A conceptual framework for sustainable agriculture in Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin (eds.) Defending the social licence of farming: Issues, Challenges & New Directions for Agriculture, CSIRO Publishing
- Jacqueline Williams and Luca Montanarella (2011) Soil Conservation in Europe In Jacqueline Williams and Paul Martin (eds.) Defending the social licence of farming: Issues, Challenges & New Directions for Agriculture, CSIRO Publishing.
- Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Amanda Kennedy (2011) Creating next generation rural landscape governance, Edward Elgar publication (Book chapter)
Journal articles
- Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Amanda Kennedy Professional Services and Rural Services Poverty Deakin Law Review Vol 16 No 1 2011
- Jacqueline Williams (2009) Review of Daniel Connell ‘Water Politics in the Murray Darling Basin’ Australasian Journal of Environmental Management Vol 16 p 48-49
- Jacqueline Williams & P.V. Martin Ecosystem services: a means to diffuse political land use decisions in peri-urban regions Ecosystems and Sustainable Development VII 279-291 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Vol 122, 2009 WIT Press
- Jacqueline Williams; Beeton R.J.S. & 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. At http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/news.asp?catID=9&ID=1211
- Martin, P. and Williams, J. (2010). Policy Risk Assessment. CRC for Irrigation Futures Technical Report Series No. 03/10. March 2010 at http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/news.asp?catID=9&ID=1209
- 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.
- 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. At http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/news.asp?catID=9&ID=1212
- 5. Jacqueline Williams (2009) "Traveston Crossing Dam 2020: Sustainable infrastructure delivery indicators project overview” Queensland Water Infrastructure Brisbane.
- Paul Martin, Jacqueline Williams and Christopher Stone: Transaction costs and water reform: the devils hiding in the details Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures Technical Report UNE CRCIF 9.1 http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/newsDownload.asp?ID=768&doc=CRCIF-TR0808-web.pdf
Conference presentations
- 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)
- 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