Edward Morgan

Biography

Dr Ed Morgan is a transdisciplinary Research Fellow at the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith University.
His research focuses on developing, implementing and evaluating policy, planning and governance for landscape and natural resource management, sustainable livelihoods, ecosystem-based climate change adaptation and environmental protection.
His current research is focused on
1. Planning and governance in payments for ecosystem services, including carbon finance in Papua New Guinea.
2 Policy and planning for WASH and climate adaptation in the Pacific
3. Developing a better understanding of the role of transformation in adaptation to climate change.

He also has a significant engagement role within the Policy Innovation Hub, developing training to for researchers on how to have policy impact, acting as a broker between government and researchers to improve policy impact across the University and supporting a range of Policy Innovation Hub projects.

He has previously been involved in a transdisciplinary participatory action research project to develop and implementing landscape planning and governance for forest protection, to support sustainable community development and climate change mitigation and adaptation in case studies in the Amazon, Melanesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This work included working with community, government and NGOs, through workshops, surveys and interviews, to develop community-scale landscape plans to help empower communities to both protect their forest and harness the benefits of ecosystem services of the forest.
Previous work for the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities explored how research can support the integration of land use planning and water resource management. He also investigating community knowledge and preferences for water sensitive urban design (WSUD) and green infrastructure, to support Brisbane City Council's stormwater asset management.
His PhD research investigated the interface between science and policy and how to turn knowledge and research into policy and community action. The project drew insights into the science-policy interface and the use of knowledge and co-learning in sustainability, environmental governance and natural resource management.

He is interested in evaluating and improving planning and governance to support transdisciplinary, participatory action research around issues of sustainability, natural resource management and environmental governance in both developing and industrialised countries, and particularly the role of knowledge can play in addressing environmental challenges.