Sue Jackson is a Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO’s Division of Ecosystem Sciences.  She is interested in the ways in which indigenous and non-indigenous natural resource governance and management systems interact.  Sue undertook her PhD in geography at Macquarie University in Sydney examining the impact of native title on environmental management and planning in north Australia.  The majority of her research career has been undertaken in tropical regions of Australia, first with the Centre for Indigenous Natural and Cultural Resource Management at the then Northern Territory University and then with CSIRO’s Tropical Ecosystem Research Centre in Darwin.  Sue is a member of Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) Research Executive and leads the Values and Assets theme.  She appreciates the diversity of the TRaCK researcher community and very much enjoys collaborating with researchers from other organisations with a strong interest in tropical rivers.  Since 2008 she has led or contributed to several TRaCK projects associated with socio-economic values of tropical rivers, particularly those held by Indigenous people, public participation and deliberation in water planning, socio-economic adaptations to climate change in addition to studies of water governance.  Sue contributed to three chapters in the recently released book Aquatic Biodiversity of the wet-dry tropics of northern Australia: patterns, impacts and future (in press, Charles Darwin University Press), and is an author of over 90 scientific papers, book chapters, conference proceedings and reports.

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