Dr Erin O'Donnell

Katherine Owens, Emma Carmody, Quentin Grafton, Erin O'Donnell, Sarah Wheeler, Lee Godden, Richard Allen, Rosemary Lyster, Pasquale Steduto, Qiang Jiang, Richard Kingsford, John Quiggin

Journal article | 2022 | WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-WATER

Increasingly, irrigation infrastructure upgrades have been regarded in global policy as a solution for both water scarcity and low..

Property in water?

Cristy Clark, Erin O'Donnell

Book Chapter | 2022

Racialized water governance: the 'hydrological frontier' in the Northern Territory, Australia

Erin O'Donnell, Sue Jackson, Marcia Langton, Lee Godden

Journal article | 2022 | AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES

Increased scrutiny and contestation over recent water allocation practices and licencing decisions in the Northern Territory (NT) ..

Relational Personhood: A new conception of legal personhood with insights from disability rights and environmental law

Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Erin O'Donnell, Joanne Watson, Rosemary Kayess

Journal article | 2021 | Griffith Law Review

People with disability have demanded the recognition of full legal personhood in order to realise their rights and to overcome dom..

Rivers as living beings: rights in law, but no rights to water?

Erin O'Donnell

Journal article | 2021 | GRIFFITH LAW REVIEW

Since 2017, some of the most beloved and iconic rivers in the world have been recognised in law as legal persons and/or living ent..

Yoongoorrookoo: The emergence of ancestral personhood

Martuwarra RiverofLife, Alessandro Pelizzon, Poelina Anne, Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Cristy Clark, Sarah Laborde, Elizabeth MacPherson, Katie O'Bryan, Erin O'Donnell, John Page

Journal article | 2021 | Griffith Law Review

Since the momentous release of the Montecristi Constitution of Ecuador in 2008, which recognised Nature, or Pacha Mama, as a subje..

Cultural Water for Cultural Economies

Erin O'Donnell, Lee Godden, Katie O'Bryan

Report | 2021

Traditional Owners and First Nations assert that their rights to water, like rights to land, have never been ceded (Gilbert, 2015;..

Re-setting our relationship with rivers

Erin O'Donnell

Book Chapter | 2021

Legal rights for the Turag: rivers as living entities in Bangladesh

Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Erin O'Donnell

Journal article | 2020 | ASIA PACIFIC JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

In 2019, Bangladesh joined the ever-growing list of countries to recognize rivers as living entities with legal rights. The Bangla..

Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature

Erin O'Donnell, Anne Poelina, Alessandro Pelizzon, Cristy Clark

Journal article | 2020 | Transnational Environmental Law

The rapid emergence of rights of Nature over the past decade across multiple contexts has fostered increasing awareness, recogniti..

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Environmental and Resources Law

Justice and the Law

Civil Engineering

Environmental Policy, Legislation and Standards

Environmental Management

Applied Economics

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Society and Community

Marine Systems and Management

Policy and Administration

Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Systems and Management

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6 buku tentang krisis iklim yang menawarkan harapan baru

Euan Ritchie, Erin O'Donnell, Gregory Moore, Kristen Lyons, Peter Christoff, Stefan Kaufman

Pemutihan karang, banjir, kebakaran hutan , penurunan dan kepunahan keanekaragaman hayati – saat kita menyaksikan dampak perubahan iklim, ..

July 13, 2022

conversation Article

6 books about the climate crisis that offer hope

Euan Ritchie, Erin O'Donnell, Gregory Moore, Kristen Lyons, Peter Christoff, Stefan Kaufman

Coral bleaching, floods, bushfire, biodiversity decline and extinction – as we witness the effects of climate change, amid a stream of repo..

May 17, 2022

conversation Article

Australia’s rivers are ancestral beings

Alessandro Pelizzon, Erin O'Donnell, Anne Poelina

During National Water Week, it’s time for all of us to examine our relationship to water – our rivers, wetlands, lakes, aquifers, estuaries..

October 18, 2021

pursuit Article

Regressive changes to Northern Territory water laws could undermine Indigenous rights

Erin O'Donnell, Marcia Langton, Sue Jackson

Water management in the Northern Territory just keeps making headlines. The recent decision to grant an unprecedentedly large groundwater l..

September 2, 2021

conversation Article

Returning water rights to Aboriginal people

Erin O'Donnell, Lee Godden, Katie O’Bryan, Will Mooney, Lauren Chester, Grant Rigney

“We’ve been managing the river as custodians from the beginning of time, but governments are not asking us how we did that.” Water justice ..

April 6, 2021

pursuit Article

Melbourne’s real-world impact on climate change

Jacqueline Peel, Don Henry AM, Erin O'Donnell, Cathy Oke

In late 2015, 196 countries signed the Paris Agreement, making a commitment to tackle climate change and global warming. The landmark, lega..

March 18, 2021

pursuit Article

Victoria just gave 2 billion litres of water back to Indigenous people. Here's what that means for the rest of Australia

Troy McDonald, Erin O'Donnell

For the first time in Victoria’s history, the state government has handed back water to traditional owners, giving them rights to a river s..

November 29, 2020

conversation Article

Flushing is our next weapon against COVID-19, if you're happy to have your sewage scrutinised

Anna Kosovac, Erin O'Donnell, Stuart Khan

We may have a surprising new ally in the bid to contain the COVID-19 outbreak: your sewage. Australia’s government recently announced th..

April 24, 2020

conversation Article

The global problem of thirsty cities

Erin O'Donnell, Avril Horne, Dustin Garrick

Urban populations have quadrupled since 1960, and just over half of the current global population now lives in cities. By 2050, two out of ..

June 7, 2019

pursuit Article

Giving environmental water to drought-stricken farmers sounds straightforward, but it's a bad idea

Erin O'Donnell, Avril Horne

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack last week suggested the government would look at changing the law to allow water to be taken from t..

September 17, 2018

conversation Article

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Ending Aqua Nullius: Sustainable and Legitimate Water Law in Settler States

Ending Aqua Nullius: Sustainable and Legitimate Water Law in Settler States

Independent Peer Review of Baseline Report

Options for a framework for accessing and using Aboriginal Water Reserves

Aboriginal Access to Water Roadmap for Economic Development and Self-Determination

Accessing water to meet Aboriginal economic development needs

Going beyond the crisis response: building trust and maintaining legitimacy for all stakeholders in environmental water flows and water governance

Case study development on approaches to water (re) allocation and lessons learned

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Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency

Property in water?

Racialized water governance: the 'hydrological frontier' in the Northern Territory, Australia

Relational Personhood: A new conception of legal personhood with insights from disability rights and environmental law

Rivers as living beings: rights in law, but no rights to water?

Yoongoorrookoo: The emergence of ancestral personhood

Cultural Water for Cultural Economies

Re-setting our relationship with rivers

Legal rights for the Turag: rivers as living entities in Bangladesh

Stop Burying the Lede: The Essential Role of Indigenous Law(s) in Creating Rights of Nature

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6 buku tentang krisis iklim yang menawarkan harapan baru

6 books about the climate crisis that offer hope

Australia’s rivers are ancestral beings

Regressive changes to Northern Territory water laws could undermine Indigenous rights

Returning water rights to Aboriginal people

Melbourne’s real-world impact on climate change

Victoria just gave 2 billion litres of water back to Indigenous people. Here's what that means for the rest of Australia

Flushing is our next weapon against COVID-19, if you're happy to have your sewage scrutinised

The global problem of thirsty cities

Giving environmental water to drought-stricken farmers sounds straightforward, but it's a bad idea

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Senior Lecturer, Law

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PhD in Law