About ACSC
State and Commonwealth Governments are charged with the responsibility to develop and implement policy that manages the sustainability of Australia's natural resources for the good of the economy and our heritage for generations of Australians to come. Consequently, there is a fundamental imperative to provide research, original science and innovation that informs and then supports policy development and implementation. In the primary fields of water resources and catchment management, there is a range of significant key research questions that require short and long term focus. These too provide opportunity in a University environment to engage in innovation that attracts attention from peers worldwide and so provides the basis to build a research group of real international standing.
The ACSC's research agenda is to underpin the profitability and sustainability of water and catchment management at the local, state, national and international scales through research of national and international distinction.
The Centre will seek new solutions to the problems associated with the over-use of existing resources and the universal degradation of fresh water quality.
The ACSC will establish a bold 20-year research program so that by 2025, Queensland has a thriving regional economy based on world-leading practices in regional water and catchment management, including the most efficient and sustainable stewardship of our natural resources.
The Centre will develop an integrated research focus in sustainable catchment management. Research initiatives will be identified and developed that build on current research strengths and capabilities, encouraging new synergies, to deliver cutting-edge research that informs government policy and policy implementation.
The research efforts of the ACSC are encapsulated in the following four research groups: