Ronlyn Duncan

Biography

Ronlyn Duncan Faculty of Environment, Society and Design at Lincoln University. Did PhD in Environmental Studies. Plenary member of Land and Water Forum. current research addresses the implementation of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy and New Zealand’s water policy and management reforms, both of which involve setting quantitative water quality and quantity limits. These reforms present unique opportunities to examine science policy interactions and raise important questions about how and where knowledge is produced and translated into policy and the challenges of making decisions about contingent and unknowable futures.

Research Interest

Collaborative water governance and management, Knowledge governance and the co-production of science and policy, Grappling with uncertainty in environmental decision-making, The role of standards, measurement and modelling in environmental regulation, Water quality policy and its implementation to address diffuse water pollution, A social practice approach to understanding water management.