Jamie Pittock
Biographic Data
| ID | 107928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamie Pittock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamie |
| FAMILY NAME | Pittock |
| SIGNATURE | PITTOCK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6293-996X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rivers of the Asian Highlands: From Deep Time to the Climate Crisis
Rivers of the Asian Highlands introduces readers to the intersecting headwaters of Asia’s eight largest rivers, focusing on the upper reaches of two river systems: the Brahmaputra’s highland tributaries in the eastern Himalayan Mountains and the Dri Chu (upper Yangzi), which descends from the Tibetan Plateau’s east through the Hengduan Mountains. This book guides its readers through these two rivers’ physical, environmental, cultural, social, and…
When water policies derail livelihood aspirations: Farmers’ agency in everyday politics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Development of water infrastructure is conventionally prioritised as a pre-emptive intervention policy to address water challenges.In the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, turning a river into a reservoir is touted as a 'highly-modernist' water management approach to secure the yearround supply of freshwater for agricultural production.This paper investigates how contested water-livelihood relations emerged from the building of the Ba Lai sluice scheme in…
Understanding social issues in a new approach: The role of social media in displacement and resettlement
Resettlement provides both challenges and opportunities to people affected. However, mainstream resettlement studies are typically retrospective case-studies. Such studies can provide insights by assessing outcomes and impacts of resettlement but tell little about how resettlees bargain with resettlers. This article explores resettlees timely experiences and diverse behaviours during displacement and resettlement based on the collection and analy…
Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation
Rural adaptation encompasses place-based perceptions, behaviors, livelihoods, and traditional ways of life associated with local environments. These perceptions, norms, and practices are disturbed by coupled environment-development externalities. This study employs the Vietnamese Mekong floodplains as an exemplary case to illustrate how floods impact agrarian communities and how they have experienced flood alterations driven by hydropower develop…
Sustainability of what, for whom? A critical analysis of Chinese development induced displacement and resettlement (Didr) programs
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France
Successful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. A governance approach for determining priorities for actors for sustainable management was developed, based on a river basin diagnostic framework consisting of four social-institutional and four biophysical indicators. It was applied in river basins in Australia, Brazil, China and France. Actors diagnosed current and target capaci…
The dark side of ambition: Side-effects of China’s climate policy
China’s latest commitments to the Paris Agreement have attracted great attention. Scholars have questioned the feasibility of China’s pledges to peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve these goals, China has resorted to extreme emissions reduction actions. However, side-effects of China’s climate ambition have been largely overlooked. An intersectional and just transitions perspective is critical to examine li…
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes
A review of the impacts of pumped hydro energy storage construction on subalpine and alpine biodiversity: Lessons for the Snowy Mountains pumped hydro expansion project
The Australian government’s proposal to expand the Snowy Hydro Scheme to include a second pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) system, and support for feasibility studies for PHES in Tasmania, offer an opportunity to incorporate more intermittent renewable energy generation into the National Energy Market. However, the infrastructure construction required for PHES expansion may have negative effects for biodiversity in subalpine and alpine areas. T…
Adaptive flood governance in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A policy innovation of the North Vam Nao scheme, An Giang Province
Greenhouse gas implications of replacing fish protein with beef in the lower Mekong Basin
At least 88 new hydropower dams are planned between 2010 and 2030 in the lower Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia as a source of electricity with lower greenhouse gas emissions. Dams result in declines in fish populations that will need to be replaced with other sources of protein for food security. We make the first assessment of emissions should beef production substitute for lost fish in Cambodia and Laos. We assessed two sources of emission…
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
Are we there yet? The Murray-Darling Basin and sustainable water management
In 2007, then Australian Prime Minister Howard said of the Murray-Darling Basin's rivers that action was required to end the 'The tyranny of incrementalism and the lowest common denominator' governance to prevent 'economic and environmental decline'. This paper explores the management of these rivers as an epicentre for three key debates for the future of Australia. Information on biodiversity, analyses of the socio-ecological system, and climate…
Social learning through rural communities of practice: Empirical evidence from farming households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Improving the role of river basin organisations in sustainable river basin governance by linking social institutional capacity and basin biophysical capacity
Responding to Global Challenges in Food, Energy, Environment and Water: Risks and Options Assessment for Decision‐Making
We analyse the threats of global environmental change, as they relate to food security. First, we review three discourses: (i) ‘sustainable intensification’, or the increase of food supplies without compromising food producing inputs, such as soils and water; (ii) the ‘nexus’ that seeks to understand links across food, energy, environment and water systems; and (iii) ‘resilience thinking’ that focuses on how to ensure the critical capacities of f…
The critical role of risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research
Culturally significant fisheries: Keystones for Management of Freshwater Social-Ecological Systems
Noble, M., P. Duncan, D. Perry, K. Prosper, D. Rose, S. Schnierer, G. Tipa, E. Williams, R. Woods, and J. Pittock. 2016. Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 21(2):22.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08353-210222
A Participatory Planning Process as an Arena for Facilitating Institutional Bricolage: Example from the Rwenzori Region, Uganda
One solution considered by researchers and policymakers to address environmental degradation is to explore change within environmental institutions. Three main approaches exist looking at how institutions change in response to social–environmental issues: institutional design, institutional fit, and institutional bricolage. While all three approaches are relevant, they face challenges when it comes to actually supporting the institutional change …
Federal Rivers: Managing Water in Multi-Layered Political Systems
Contents: Introduction 1. Federal Rivers: A Critical Overview of Water Governance Challenges in Federal Systems Dustin Garrick, George Anderson, Daniel Connell and Jamie Pittock 2. Climate Adaptation in River Management in a Post-stationary World Jamie Pittock PART 1: AMERICAS 3. Federalism and US Water Policy Andrea K. Gerlak 4. Water Scarcity, Conflict Resolution, and Adaptive Governance in Federal Transboundary River Basins Edella Schlager and…
Water Planning and Hydro-Climatic Change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
Lessons from adaptation to sustain freshwater environments in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Governance of Australia's Murray–Darling Basin (the Basin) is frequently lauded as an example to other river managers globally. Freshwater environments in the Basin are particularly vulnerable to water scarcity and change. In this paper, governmental responses are assessed to draw global lessons on climate change adaptation for rivers. A range of climate change adaptation measures for freshwater ecosystem conservation in the Basin are outlined na…
Australian Climate, Energy and Water Policies: Conflicts and synergies
Responding to the threat of climate change, conserving freshwater ecosystems and securing adequate energy and water supplies are among the greatest challenges facing modern societies. Yet recognition of the interdependencies between climate, energy and water policy—with resulting synergies and trade-offs—remains limited, leaving societies and governments alike vulnerable to the dangers of conflicted or unintended policy outcomes from sectoral dec…
Dams on the Mekong River: Lost fish protein and the implications for land and water resources
The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future
Water and energy are each recognized as indispensable inputs to modern economies. And, in recent years, driven by the three imperatives of security of supply, sustainability, and economic efficiency, the energy and water sectors have undergone rapid reform. However, it is when water and energy rely on each other that the most complex challenges are posed for policymakers. Despite the links and the urgency in both sectors for security of supply, i…
Dams on the Mekong River: Lost fish protein and the implications for land and water resources
A Participatory Planning Process as an Arena for Facilitating Institutional Bricolage: Example from the Rwenzori Region, Uganda
One solution considered by researchers and policymakers to address environmental degradation is to explore change within environmental institutions. Three main approaches exist looking at how institutions change in response to social–environmental issues: institutional design, institutional fit, and institutional bricolage. While all three approaches are relevant, they face challenges when it comes to actually supporting the institutional change …
The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future
Water and energy are each recognized as indispensable inputs to modern economies. And, in recent years, driven by the three imperatives of security of supply, sustainability, and economic efficiency, the energy and water sectors have undergone rapid reform. However, it is when water and energy rely on each other that the most complex challenges are posed for policymakers. Despite the links and the urgency in both sectors for security of supply, i…
Sustainability of what, for whom? A critical analysis of Chinese development induced displacement and resettlement (Didr) programs
Australian Climate, Energy and Water Policies: Conflicts and synergies
Responding to the threat of climate change, conserving freshwater ecosystems and securing adequate energy and water supplies are among the greatest challenges facing modern societies. Yet recognition of the interdependencies between climate, energy and water policy—with resulting synergies and trade-offs—remains limited, leaving societies and governments alike vulnerable to the dangers of conflicted or unintended policy outcomes from sectoral dec…
Are we there yet? The Murray-Darling Basin and sustainable water management
In 2007, then Australian Prime Minister Howard said of the Murray-Darling Basin's rivers that action was required to end the 'The tyranny of incrementalism and the lowest common denominator' governance to prevent 'economic and environmental decline'. This paper explores the management of these rivers as an epicentre for three key debates for the future of Australia. Information on biodiversity, analyses of the socio-ecological system, and climate…
Culturally significant fisheries: Keystones for Management of Freshwater Social-Ecological Systems
Noble, M., P. Duncan, D. Perry, K. Prosper, D. Rose, S. Schnierer, G. Tipa, E. Williams, R. Woods, and J. Pittock. 2016. Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 21(2):22.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08353-210222
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
Water Planning and Hydro-Climatic Change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
National Climate Change Policies and Sustainable Water Management: Conflicts and Synergies
Even in the absence of climate change, freshwater ecosystems and the resources they provide for people are under great pressure because of increasing demand for water and declines in water quality. The imminent onset of climate change will exacerbate these impacts, placing even greater pressure on already stressed resources and regions. A plethora of national climate change policies have been adopted that emphasize structural adjustment in the en…
Adaptive flood governance in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A policy innovation of the North Vam Nao scheme, An Giang Province
When water policies derail livelihood aspirations: Farmers’ agency in everyday politics in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Development of water infrastructure is conventionally prioritised as a pre-emptive intervention policy to address water challenges.In the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, turning a river into a reservoir is touted as a 'highly-modernist' water management approach to secure the yearround supply of freshwater for agricultural production.This paper investigates how contested water-livelihood relations emerged from the building of the Ba Lai sluice scheme in…
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes
Greenhouse gas implications of replacing fish protein with beef in the lower Mekong Basin
At least 88 new hydropower dams are planned between 2010 and 2030 in the lower Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia as a source of electricity with lower greenhouse gas emissions. Dams result in declines in fish populations that will need to be replaced with other sources of protein for food security. We make the first assessment of emissions should beef production substitute for lost fish in Cambodia and Laos. We assessed two sources of emission…
Improving the role of river basin organisations in sustainable river basin governance by linking social institutional capacity and basin biophysical capacity
Responding to Global Challenges in Food, Energy, Environment and Water: Risks and Options Assessment for Decision‐Making
We analyse the threats of global environmental change, as they relate to food security. First, we review three discourses: (i) ‘sustainable intensification’, or the increase of food supplies without compromising food producing inputs, such as soils and water; (ii) the ‘nexus’ that seeks to understand links across food, energy, environment and water systems; and (iii) ‘resilience thinking’ that focuses on how to ensure the critical capacities of f…
The critical role of risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research
Lessons from adaptation to sustain freshwater environments in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Governance of Australia's Murray–Darling Basin (the Basin) is frequently lauded as an example to other river managers globally. Freshwater environments in the Basin are particularly vulnerable to water scarcity and change. In this paper, governmental responses are assessed to draw global lessons on climate change adaptation for rivers. A range of climate change adaptation measures for freshwater ecosystem conservation in the Basin are outlined na…
A valoração da pesca em águas continentais
A pesca tem sido, e provavelmente continuará sendo, uma importante fonte de alimento e renda para sociedade. Nesse trabalho os autores mostram que o valor econômico total da pesca nem sempre é reconhecido. O valor econômico total (VET) em rios pode ser dividido em valor de uso direto e valor de não-uso/valor de preservação. VET é a soma de todos os valores de uso e não uso, não importando como são derivados. Os autores mostram que há extrema difi…
National Climate Change Policies and Sustainable Water Management: Conflicts and Synergies
Even in the absence of climate change, freshwater ecosystems and the resources they provide for people are under great pressure because of increasing demand for water and declines in water quality. The imminent onset of climate change will exacerbate these impacts, placing even greater pressure on already stressed resources and regions. A plethora of national climate change policies have been adopted that emphasize structural adjustment in the en…
Dams on the Mekong River: Lost fish protein and the implications for land and water resources
The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future
Water and energy are each recognized as indispensable inputs to modern economies. And, in recent years, driven by the three imperatives of security of supply, sustainability, and economic efficiency, the energy and water sectors have undergone rapid reform. However, it is when water and energy rely on each other that the most complex challenges are posed for policymakers. Despite the links and the urgency in both sectors for security of supply, i…
Lessons from adaptation to sustain freshwater environments in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia
Governance of Australia's Murray–Darling Basin (the Basin) is frequently lauded as an example to other river managers globally. Freshwater environments in the Basin are particularly vulnerable to water scarcity and change. In this paper, governmental responses are assessed to draw global lessons on climate change adaptation for rivers. A range of climate change adaptation measures for freshwater ecosystem conservation in the Basin are outlined na…
Australian Climate, Energy and Water Policies: Conflicts and synergies
Responding to the threat of climate change, conserving freshwater ecosystems and securing adequate energy and water supplies are among the greatest challenges facing modern societies. Yet recognition of the interdependencies between climate, energy and water policy—with resulting synergies and trade-offs—remains limited, leaving societies and governments alike vulnerable to the dangers of conflicted or unintended policy outcomes from sectoral dec…
Federal Rivers: Managing Water in Multi-Layered Political Systems
Contents: Introduction 1. Federal Rivers: A Critical Overview of Water Governance Challenges in Federal Systems Dustin Garrick, George Anderson, Daniel Connell and Jamie Pittock 2. Climate Adaptation in River Management in a Post-stationary World Jamie Pittock PART 1: AMERICAS 3. Federalism and US Water Policy Andrea K. Gerlak 4. Water Scarcity, Conflict Resolution, and Adaptive Governance in Federal Transboundary River Basins Edella Schlager and…
Water Planning and Hydro-Climatic Change in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
A Participatory Planning Process as an Arena for Facilitating Institutional Bricolage: Example from the Rwenzori Region, Uganda
One solution considered by researchers and policymakers to address environmental degradation is to explore change within environmental institutions. Three main approaches exist looking at how institutions change in response to social–environmental issues: institutional design, institutional fit, and institutional bricolage. While all three approaches are relevant, they face challenges when it comes to actually supporting the institutional change …
Responding to Global Challenges in Food, Energy, Environment and Water: Risks and Options Assessment for Decision‐Making
We analyse the threats of global environmental change, as they relate to food security. First, we review three discourses: (i) ‘sustainable intensification’, or the increase of food supplies without compromising food producing inputs, such as soils and water; (ii) the ‘nexus’ that seeks to understand links across food, energy, environment and water systems; and (iii) ‘resilience thinking’ that focuses on how to ensure the critical capacities of f…
The critical role of risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research
Culturally significant fisheries: Keystones for Management of Freshwater Social-Ecological Systems
Noble, M., P. Duncan, D. Perry, K. Prosper, D. Rose, S. Schnierer, G. Tipa, E. Williams, R. Woods, and J. Pittock. 2016. Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 21(2):22.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08353-210222
Social learning through rural communities of practice: Empirical evidence from farming households in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta
Improving the role of river basin organisations in sustainable river basin governance by linking social institutional capacity and basin biophysical capacity
Are we there yet? The Murray-Darling Basin and sustainable water management
In 2007, then Australian Prime Minister Howard said of the Murray-Darling Basin's rivers that action was required to end the 'The tyranny of incrementalism and the lowest common denominator' governance to prevent 'economic and environmental decline'. This paper explores the management of these rivers as an epicentre for three key debates for the future of Australia. Information on biodiversity, analyses of the socio-ecological system, and climate…
A review of the impacts of pumped hydro energy storage construction on subalpine and alpine biodiversity: Lessons for the Snowy Mountains pumped hydro expansion project
The Australian government’s proposal to expand the Snowy Hydro Scheme to include a second pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) system, and support for feasibility studies for PHES in Tasmania, offer an opportunity to incorporate more intermittent renewable energy generation into the National Energy Market. However, the infrastructure construction required for PHES expansion may have negative effects for biodiversity in subalpine and alpine areas. T…
Adaptive flood governance in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: A policy innovation of the North Vam Nao scheme, An Giang Province
Greenhouse gas implications of replacing fish protein with beef in the lower Mekong Basin
At least 88 new hydropower dams are planned between 2010 and 2030 in the lower Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia as a source of electricity with lower greenhouse gas emissions. Dams result in declines in fish populations that will need to be replaced with other sources of protein for food security. We make the first assessment of emissions should beef production substitute for lost fish in Cambodia and Laos. We assessed two sources of emission…
A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges
An effective placement of irrigation efficiency in water management will contribute towards meeting the pre-eminent global water challenges of our time such as addressing water scarcity, boosting crop water productivity and reconciling competing water needs between sectors. However, although irrigation efficiency may appear to be a simple measure of performance and imply dramatic positive benefits, it is not straightforward to understand, measure…
The dark side of ambition: Side-effects of China’s climate policy
China’s latest commitments to the Paris Agreement have attracted great attention. Scholars have questioned the feasibility of China’s pledges to peak emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. To achieve these goals, China has resorted to extreme emissions reduction actions. However, side-effects of China’s climate ambition have been largely overlooked. An intersectional and just transitions perspective is critical to examine li…
Governing the Murray-Darling Basin: Integrating social and biophysical indicators for better environmental outcomes
Social Memory in the Mekong’s Changing Floodscapes: Narratives of Agrarian Communities’ Adaptation
Rural adaptation encompasses place-based perceptions, behaviors, livelihoods, and traditional ways of life associated with local environments. These perceptions, norms, and practices are disturbed by coupled environment-development externalities. This study employs the Vietnamese Mekong floodplains as an exemplary case to illustrate how floods impact agrarian communities and how they have experienced flood alterations driven by hydropower develop…
Sustainability of what, for whom? A critical analysis of Chinese development induced displacement and resettlement (Didr) programs
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France
Successful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. A governance approach for determining priorities for actors for sustainable management was developed, based on a river basin diagnostic framework consisting of four social-institutional and four biophysical indicators. It was applied in river basins in Australia, Brazil, China and France. Actors diagnosed current and target capaci…
Understanding social issues in a new approach: The role of social media in displacement and resettlement
Resettlement provides both challenges and opportunities to people affected. However, mainstream resettlement studies are typically retrospective case-studies. Such studies can provide insights by assessing outcomes and impacts of resettlement but tell little about how resettlees bargain with resettlers. This article explores resettlees timely experiences and diverse behaviours during displacement and resettlement based on the collection and analy…
Geography (21 works) · Business (14 works) · Environmental resource management (14 works) · Environmental Science (14 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Environmental planning (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Water resources management and optimization (9 works) · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies (9 works)