Alex Gardner

Associate Professor, Law School, University of Western Australia

A specialist in water resources law, Associate Professor Alex Gardner will be using his expertise to help NCGRT in the important area of statutory water management planning to achieve the sustainable use of groundwater.

Associate Professor Gardner is one of Australia’s leading academic natural resources and environmental lawyers and has an environmental law practice that focuses on water resource issues. He is the lead author of the recently publised Water Resources Law, LexisNexis Butterworths, July 2009.

He has been a consultant to community groups, government agencies and industry in Western Australia and was a member of the Advisory Council to the Environmental Protection Authority of Western Australia.

Since 2005 Professor Gardner has served as a senior sessional member of the State Administrative Tribunal and also advised WA’s State Department of Water on the reform of water resources legislation.

He will be a chief investigator with Professor Neil Gunningham and Professor Jennifer MacKay on NCGRT’s sub-program looking at policy, institutional, law and governance issues.

They will investigate various legal issues involving groundwater, including ways to achieve ecological and resource security, overallocation and overused systems, and assigning risks for changes in allocations. The project will also address questions of governance relating to planning.

Chief Investigator Program 5. Email Alex Gardner