Dr Jacky Williams

Jacky Williams

Jacky Williams is a post-doctoral research fellow with the Australian Centre for Agriculture and Law at the University of New England, Armidale working for and with the CRCIF on the social, cultural, institutional and policy (SCIP) aspects of System Harmonization in Western Sydney and Macintyre Brook, Qld.

She is passionate about regional natural resource management; the social/political facets of achieving sustainability, and the role sustainable agriculture plays in delivering public good ecosystem services in rural and peri-urban Australia.

Jacky is involved in the WISER project as she is working on an ecosystem services framework for Western Sydney to assist facilitate an environmental markets approach and developing a policy risk manual in response to the institutional analysis we undertook of Western Sydney in 2007-08 as part of our SCIP research.

Her contributions include an institutional analysis of Western Sydney; an ecosystem services framework for Western Sydney, and a Policy Risk Manual to assist in the scenario development phase of WISER.

For Jacky it is an opportunity to share her knowledge and experience with WISER group and meet interesting people all working together to explore the complexities involved with sustainability. It is a great experience to be involved with a project that is bridging the gap between theory and the real world.