Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy
Dr Anna Roberts (formerly Ridley), co-researcher, Victorian Department of Primary Industries
Dr Ridley's 26-year career within Department of Primary Industries in the extensive livestock and cropping industries has concentrated on developing profitable farming systems which minimise environmental impacts.
She has strong knowledge of the natural resource management problems in southern Australia including nutrient/water quality issues, soil acidification, dryland salinity and biodiversity decline and a national reputation in participatory farming systems research.
Her work is the cutting edge internationally in development and implementation of decision frameworks to prioritise investment and the choice of policy tools for catchment management.
Phone: (+61 2) 6030 4581
Email: anna.ridley@dpi.vic.gov.au
Geoff Park, knowledge broker, North Central CMA
Mr Park is responsible for the development of collaborative partnerships between researchers, policy makers, extension staff and landholders that lead to improved knowledge exchange and on-ground biodiversity outcomes.
He is also currently theme leader (knowledge broking) for the CERF Landscape Logic program.
His background is in landscape ecology, teaching and community education and he was involved in the establishment of the Victorian Landcare Centre at Creswick (from 1992-1998) and in various roles with the North Central CMA since then.
He has a long standing interest and involvement with communities working to improve biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. Geoff is also currently working on a range of projects that improve community and landholder access to NRM knowledge and spatial tools that aim to improve on-ground environmental outcomes.
Phone: 0418 138 632
Email: geoff.park@nccma.vic.gov.au
