Dr Andrew Ross

Contacts
Andrew Ross is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University and the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. His major current work is on integrated cyclical water resource management, with an emphasis on improving water governance and institutions to support water reform. He is co-editing an international book on integrated groundwater management. Before joining the ANU he was policy director in the Australian Department of Environment and Heritage and the Treasury. He also worked for the OECD's Environmental Directorate.
Research interests
Integrated surface water and groundwater management
Water governance and environmental governance
Water banking and aquifer storage and recovery
Policy integration and implementation
Groups
- Researcher, Earth systems
- Researcher, Climate policy, economics, international negotiations & law
- Researcher, Climate, energy, water, food, forestry, biodiversity & land nexus
- Ross, A and Arshad, M (2013) " Underground water storage and banking: benefits, barriers and ways forward", paper presented to the International Symposium on Managed Aquifer Recharge, Beijing, 15-19 October.
- Ross, A 2012, 'Easy to say, hard to do: Integrated surface water and groundwater management in the Murray-Darling Basin', Water Policy, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 709-724.
- Arshad, M, Jakeman, A, Croke, B et al 2012, 'Assessing the Potential of Managed Aquifer Recharge: Preliminary Hydrological Findings from a Scoping Study in the Lower Namoi Valley, Australia', International Groundwater Conference (IGWC 2012), ed. P.S. Kulkarni, C. Mayilswami, M. Thangarajan, V.P. Singh, Mauland Azad College, India, pp. 58-70.
- Jakeman, A, Kelly, R, Ticehurst, J, Ross, A, et al 2012, 'Modelling for the complex issue of groundwater management **', International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2012), Conference Organising Committee, Rome Italy, pp. IS25-IS35.
- Rawluk, A, Curtis, A, Sharp, E , Ross, A, et al 2012, 'Managed aquifer recharge in farming landscapes using large floods: an opportunity to improve outcomes for the Murray-Darling Basin?', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, vol. iFirst, pp. 1-15.
- Ross, A (2012) "Collaborative groundwater governance: two cases from South Australia", Paper presented to the Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, Lund 18-20 April 2012
- Ross, A (2012) "Integrated water management in New South Wales and Colorado", Paper presented to the Lund Conference on Earth System Governance, Lund 18-20 April 2012
- Ross, A (2012) Water Connecting, People Adapting: Integrated Water Management in the Murray-Darling Basin, Colorado and Idaho, PhD thesis, Canberra, Australian National University.
- Ross, A. and P Martinez-Santos (2010), "The Challenge of Groundwater Governance: Case Studies from Spain and Australia", Regional Environmental Change 10 299-310.
- Ross, A (2008) Australia, In A. Jordan and A. Lenschow (Eds), Innovation in Environmental Policy: Integrating the Environment for Sustainability, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar.
- Ross, A & Dovers, S 2008, 'Making the Harder Yards: Environmental Policy Integration in Australia', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 245-260.