by peter@uwcs.com.au | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured, Projects, Publications
Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises New journal paper published by Nature Sustainability by the ANU team lead by Quentin Grafton and our colleagues. The world faces multiple water crises, including overextraction, flooding, ecosystem degradation and...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Oct 20, 2024 | Featured, Projects, Publications
Utilising mixed methods of defining joint probability of catchment and coastal flooding to increase certainty and utility of flood risk analysis Peter J Coombes and Robert Swan presenting at the Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium HWRS2024 on Tuesday 19 November...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Sep 1, 2024 | Featured, Projects, Publications
The influence of regulation on preference for utility infrastructure investment to generate income for Australian water corporations New Journal paper from Peter J Coombes explores the influence of regulation, legislation and monopoly processes on preference for...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Jun 22, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Projects, Publications
Rainwater harvesting and systems thinking for a better world – release of YouTube Channel The Essential Rainwater Harvesting Course was created by Peter Coombes of Urban Water Cycle Solutions (https://urbanwatercyclesolutions.com) and Michelle Avis of Verge...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Jan 13, 2024 | Blog, Featured, Projects, Publications
Benefits, costs and enabling conditions to achieve ‘water for all’ in rural and remote Australia I am honoured to announce the publication in Nature Water of our multidisciplinry research collaboration into an important issue of access to good quality water in rural...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Oct 20, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Projects, Publications
Urban flood risks, water law and insurance: The intersection of emerging science, practice and authority By Professor Peter J Coombes Published in Precedent issue 178 – September/October 2023, Journal of the Australian Lawyers Alliance This article discusses...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Aug 28, 2023 | Blog, Featured, Projects, Publications
SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE ON CHARACTERISING RESILIENCE IN URBAN WATER MARKETS Peter J Coombes Published at OzWater 22 in Brisbane The accumulated data and systems analysis from the last two decades was utilised with systems analysis of options to gain insights into the...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Projects, Publications
Systems Frameworks of Big Data: Averages, Economics and Policy Peter J Coombes at the GK Symposium 12 – 13 June 2019 at Noahs at Newcastle Beach Bottom up systems analysis highlights the illusion of averages and economic opportunities for development of...
by peter@uwcs.com.au | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog, Featured, Projects, Publications
Making of the paper: Planning resilient water resources and communities: the need for a bottom up systems approach Michael E Barry and Peter J Coombes Impact of Averages on Water Modelling This paper was awarded the GN Alexander Medal by the Engineers Australia...
