Avril Horne

Dr Avril Horne is a water policy specialist, with a rare combination of experience across economics, hydrology and policy. With twenty years’ experience across a range of interdisciplinary projects, she has spent time in consulting, government and academia. Avril returned to academia in 2014, and has built a lab group that works on water resource management under uncertainty. She has been involved in projects developing tools and systems to assist efficient and adaptive environmental water management; allocation mechanisms and institutional arrangements for environmental water; and reallocation policies between water sectors. Avril is the lead editor for “Water for the Environment: from policy and science to implementation and management”, a book that includes contributions from over 50 leading scientists and practitioners internationally. She is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Social, Economic and Environmental Sciences (ACSEES) for the Murray Darling Basin Authority and on a number of project advisory committees for the Victorian Government. Research interests - Decision making under uncertainty - environmental water management and allocation - water resource management and policy - water allocation - tradeoff decisions in water resource management - water markets and trade