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Rebekah Ruth Brown

Rebekah Ruth Brown

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Environmental Sciences
Australia
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
11952
World Ranking
4893
National Ranking
172

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Rebekah Ruth Brown is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research focuses on a variety of subfields including Water Science and Technology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
  • Water Resources and Sustainability
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts

Rebekah Ruth Brown has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Transforming Cities through Water-Sensitive Principles and Practices, 2020, One Earth
  • Water Sensitive Cities Index: A diagnostic tool to assess water sensitivity and guide management actions, 2020, Water Research
  • Study design, rationale and methods of the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate environmental and human health impacts of a water-sensitive intervention in informal settlements in Indonesia and Fiji, 2021, BMJ Open
  • A planetary health model for reducing exposure to faecal contamination in urban informal settlements: Baseline findings from Makassar, Indonesia, 2021, Environment International
  • Monitoring of diverse enteric pathogens across environmental and host reservoirs with TaqMan array cards and standard qPCR: a methodological comparison study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rebekah Ruth Brown include:

  • Tony Wong
  • Karin Leder
  • Briony Rogers
  • Rebekah Henry
  • Wikke Novalia

The scientist publishes often in venues such as:

  • Environment International
  • One Earth
  • Water Research
  • BMJ Open
  • The Lancet Planetary Health

Best Publications

  • Urban water management in cities: historical, current and future regimes.

    Rebekah Ruth Brown;Nina Keath;Tony Wong

  • Impediments and Solutions to Sustainable, Watershed-Scale Urban Stormwater Management: Lessons from Australia and the United States

    Allison H Roy;Seth J Wenger;Timothy Fletcher;Christopher John Walsh;Christopher John Walsh

  • Taking the “Waste” Out of “Wastewater” for Human Water Security and Ecosystem Sustainability

    Stanley B Grant;Stanley B Grant;Jean-Daniel Saphores;David L Feldman;Andrew J Hamilton

  • The water sensitive city: principles for practice.

    Tony Wong;Rebekah Ruth Brown

  • Delivering sustainable urban water management: a review of the hurdles we face.

    Rebekah Ruth Brown;Megan Farrelly

  • Rethinking urban water management: Experimentation as a way forward?

    Megan Farrelly;Rebekah Brown

  • Actors working the institutions in sustainability transitions: The case of Melbourne's stormwater management

    Rebekah Ruth Brown;Megan Farrelly;Derk Albert Loorbach

  • Impediments to Integrated Urban Stormwater Management: The Need for Institutional Reform

    Rebekah Ruth Brown

  • Fit-for-purpose governance: A framework to make adaptive governance operational

    Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Chris Zevenbergen;Chris Zevenbergen;Richard M Ashley

  • Interdisciplinarity: How to catalyse collaboration

    Rebekah Ruth Brown;Ana Deletic;Tony Hoong Fatt Wong

  • Governance experimentation and factors of success in socio-technical transitions in the urban water sector

    Joannette Jacqueline Bos;Rebekah Ruth Brown

  • Towards understanding governance for sustainable urban water management.

    S.J. van de Meene;S.J. van de Meene;R.R. Brown;M.A. Farrelly

  • Configuring transformative governance to enhance resilient urban water systems

    Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Jeroen Rijke;Megan Farrelly;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Chris Zevenbergen;Chris Zevenbergen

  • A strategic program for transitioning to a Water Sensitive City

    Briony Cathryn Ferguson;Niki Frantzeskaki;Rebekah Ruth Brown

  • Transitioning to Water Sensitive Cities: Historical Current and Future Transition States

    Rebekah Ruth Brown;Nina Keath;Tony Wong

  • Local Institutional Development and Organizational Change for Advancing Sustainable Urban Water Futures

    Rebekah Ruth Brown

  • A design framework for creating social learning situations

    Joannette Jacqueline Bos;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Megan Farrelly

  • The enabling institutional context for integrated water management: Lessons from Melbourne

    Briony Cathryn Ferguson;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Rebekah Ruth Brown;Niki Frantzeskaki;Fjalar Johannes de Haan

  • The needs of society: A new understanding of transitions, sustainability and liveability

    Fjalar J. de Haan;Briony C. Ferguson;Rachelle C. Adamowicz;Phillip Johnstone

  • An investigation of champion-driven leadership processes

    Andre Taylor;Christopher Cocklin;Rebekah Brown;Elisabeth Wilson-Evered

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana Deletic
Ana Deletic Queensland University of Technology
David Thomas McCarthy
David Thomas McCarthy Monash University
Tim D. Fletcher
Tim D. Fletcher University of Melbourne
Niki Frantzeskaki
Niki Frantzeskaki Utrecht University
Stephen P. Luby
Stephen P. Luby Stanford University
Chris Cocklin
Chris Cocklin James Cook University
Steven L. Chown
Steven L. Chown Monash University
Chris Zevenbergen
Chris Zevenbergen IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Christopher J. Walsh
Christopher J. Walsh University of Melbourne
Pascale Allotey
Pascale Allotey United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility

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