Postdoc Fellow

Phone: +61 (0)2 612 50663
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Katrina.Proust@anu.edu.au

Professional Activities

How individuals and communities can improve their understanding of the interconnected systems within which we live. Integrating historical research with investigations in feedback dynamics to identify the factors that shape relationships between humans and our environment

PhD thesis: "Learning from the Past for Sustainability: Towards an Integrated Approach" 2004 http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20050706.140605/index.html

Academic Highlights

Selected Publications

'Ignoring the Signals: Irrigation Salinity in New South Wales, Australia', 2003, "Irrigation and Drainage", 52:39-49.

'Hugh McKinney', Bright Sparcs database of Australian scientists and engineers, http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P004573b.htm

'Hugh McKinney: A Colonial Engineer', 2005, "Australian Journal of Irish Studies, 5:1-18.

Fazey, I., K. Proust, B. Newell, B. Johnson and J.A. Fazey, 2006, Eliciting the Implicit Knowledge and Perceptions of On-Ground Conservation Managers of the Macquarie Marshes, "Ecology and Society", 11(1):25. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art25

Katrina Proust and Barry Newell, 2006, "Catchment and Community, Towards a management-focused dynamical study of the ACT water system" for ACTEW Corporation, Canberra.

Katrina Proust, Stephen Dovers, Barney Foran, Barry Newell, Will Steffen, Patrick Troy, 2007, "Climate, Energy and Water: Accounting for the Links". Discussion paper for Land & Water Australia.

Barry Newell, Katrina Proust, Robert Dyball and Phil McManus, 2007, Seeing Obesity as a Systems Problem, "NSW Public Health Bulletin" (submitted).