When we think about making decisions on how we shape our cities, that deep connection and stewardship of water is really important,” says Briony Rogers, a civil engineer at the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and director of MSDI Water, the institute’s water research hub in Melbourne, Australia.
Rogers’ work on ‘water-sensitive’ cities brings together her interest in applying civil engineering to shape the environment humans live in, and her love of the beaches and forests that surround her in Melbourne.
Author(s): Cooper, J.E.J., Plummer, K.E., Middlebrook, I. & Siriwardena, G.M. January 2024, Journal of Applied Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14583