Reporters on deadline, please email me rebecca.nelson[@]unimelb.edu.au with ‘urgent’ in the subject heading.

Commentary (authored)

  1. Rebecca Nelson, ‘Multi-Level Governance and the Environment in the Pandemic Era’ (11 October 2022) Eurac Research EUreka! Blog. Link.
  2. Stephen Kearney, April Reside, James Watson, Rebecca Nelson, Rebecca Spindler and Vanessa Adams, “National Parks Are Not Enough – We Need Landholders to Protect Threatened Species on Their Property” (11 February 2022) The Conversation. Link.
  3. Rebecca Nelson, “Queensland Has An Important Network of Private Conservation Areas, but They’re Dangerously Exposed to Mining” (2 February 2022) The Conversation. Link.
  4. Pete Dupen and Rebecca Nelson, “A Major Coal Mine Expansion Was Knocked Back Today, but Where’s the Line in the Sand?” (5 February 2021) The Conversation. Link.
  5. Rebecca Nelson, “Federalism and Environmental Frontiers” IACL-AIDC Blog (7 November 2019) https://blog-iacl-aidc.org/new-frontiers-of-federalism/2019/11/7/federalism-and-environmental-frontiers.
  6. Rebecca Nelson, “Managing the Hidden Water Beneath Our Feet” (13 October 2019) Pursuit (University of Melbourne).
  7. Afshin Akhtar-Khavari, Elizabeth McPherson, Erin O’Donnell, Katie Woolaston, Julian Yates, Alessandro Pelizzon and Rebecca Nelson, “Why do Australia’s environmental laws fail to save our species from extinction?” (13 July 2019) World Commission on Environmental Law Blog, International Union for the Conservation of Nature, Link.
  8. Emma White and Rebecca Nelson, “What Happens to Small Towns Whose Water Becomes Big Business for Bottled Brands?” (17 May 2018) ABC News, reprinted from an article of the same name, published in The Conversation (16 May 2018). Link.
  9. Rebecca Nelson, “California Should Speed Up Groundwater Conservation” (7 April 2015), New York Times (New York, New York). 1pp. Link.
  10. Rebecca Nelson, “Grounds for Water Collaboration”, Alliance21 Blog, 5 April 2013, 1pp.
  11. Andrew Fahlund and Rebecca Nelson, “In Search of a Groundwater Policy on Behalf of Rivers”, Water Currents National Geographic Newswatch, 26 Dec 2012, 3pp. Link.
  12. Buzz Thompson and Rebecca Nelson, “Integrated Regional Management: Solving the Groundwater Challenge” (Oct 2010) Woods Institute for the Environment Solution Brief, Stanford University, 4pp. Link.

Media interviews and commentary

  • Interview with Nina Kammleiter, “Der emotionale Aspekt des Neinsagens wird unterschätzt” (1 September 2022) Süddeutscher Zeitung (Munich, Germany), Link.
  • Courtney Holmes, “Arizona’s Growing Rural Groundwater Crisis” (25 May 2022) ABC-15, Phoenix, Arizona (Television and online), Link.
  • Jess Davis and Andy Burns, “As rivers and dams dry up, groundwater emerges as new battleground in fight for water” (13 October 2019) ABC News. Digital version and TV version (at 14:25).
  • Michael Slezak, “Adani Plans to Protect Desert Springs Are Worthless, Water Experts Say” (19 June 2018) ABC News, Link.
  • Craig Miller, “Californians Take Drought Lessons From Down Under” (2 Nov 2015) KQED Science (San Francisco, California). Link.
  • Kevin Fagan, “Drought Survival: What Australia’s Changes Can Teach California” (25 Sept 25, 2015) San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California). Link
  • Jeremy Hobson, “Lessons from Australia’s 17-Year Drought” (23 April 2015) Here and Now, National Public Radio (Boston, Massachusetts). Link.
  • A Martinez, “Australia’s Millennium Drought” (24 April 2015) Take Two, KPCC Southern California Public Radio. Link
  • Michelle Nijhuis, “Amid Drought, New California Law Will Limit Groundwater Pumping for First Time” (17 Sept 2014), National Geographic News (online). Link
  • Craig Miller, “Drought Lessons from Down Under” (30 June 2014), KQED Science/National Public Radio (San Francisco, California). Link
  • Emily Parkinson, “Fear Grows over CSG Impact” (7 April 2014), Australian Financial Review 4.
  • David Sneed, “Paso Groundwater District Supporters Eye Options if Current Plan Dies” (15 Mar 2014) The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, California), A1. Link.
  • “The Future is Bright: Law Council Award and Scholarship Winners: Mahla Pearlman AO Award” (Jan-Mar 2014) Law Council Review 28.
  • David Sneed and Julie Lynem, “Search for Solutions – County Ordinances, Water Districts and Other Methods Could Help Save a Dwindling Resource – If Stakeholders Can Commit to the Effort” (June 20, 2013) The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, California), A1.
  • Jim Force, “Californian Clues to Successful Groundwater Management” (April 2013) Water21 (Magazine of the International Water Association) 21-23.
  • Cally Carswell, “Farming on the Fringe” (2013) High Country News (18 Feb 2013) 12-18. Link
  • Sophie Ellis, “Law and the Water of Life”, (2012) 52 Young Lawyers Journal 8, Law Institute of Victoria.
  • Phil Lasker, “CEDA Says Australia the Loser in CSG Row”, ABC News, 4 Sept 2012. Link
  • David Mark, “US and Australia Groundwater Experts in Sydney to Discuss Similarities and Differences”, ABC Rural NSW Country Hour, 21 June 2012. Link
  • Tia Ghose, “Study Disputes Need to Conserve Farm Water”, California Watch, 29 Nov 2011.
  • Jamie Hansen, “Groundwater Lacks State Oversight in California – That Can Lead to Overuse”, Bay Citizen, 13 July 2011.
  • Felicity Barringer, “Divvying Up the Water Down Under”, New York Times Online: Green – A Blog about Energy and Environment, 21 Mar 2011. Link.
  • Hannah Tattersall, “Practical Idealism”, AFR Boss Magazine, April 2009, p. 22.
  • “Novel Program to Bring Educated Australians Home”, Connect Asia, 3 Dec 2008, ABC Radio Aust.
  •  “Monash Award Winner Takes to the Water”, The World Today, 26 Nov 2008, ABC Radio National. Link.