Dr Avril Horne is a water policy specialist, with a rare combination of experience across economics, hydrology and policy. With fifteen years’ experience across a range of interdisciplinary projects, she has spent time in consulting, government and academia.
As Assistant Director in the water group at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, she was heavily involved in the development of the water trading rules for the Murray Darling Basin Plan. Avril returned to academia in 2014, and is currently working on projects developing tools and systems to assist efficient and adaptive environmental water management; allocation mechanisms and institutional arrangements for environmental water; and reallocation policies between water sectors. Avril is the lead editor for “Water for the Environment: from policy and science to implementation and management”, a book that includes contributions from over 50 leading scientists and practitioners internationally.Research interests- environmental water management and allocation- water resource management and policy- water allocation- tradeoff decisions in water resource management- water markets and trade
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Sustainable water resources development in northern Australia: the need for coordination, integration and representation
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Arc Discovery Early Career Researcher (Decra)
Infrastructure Engineering
Education
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
University of Melbourne
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING
Monash University
BACHELOR OF ARTS
Monash University