How much will it cost to restore Queensland’s rivers?

Theme: Environmental Management

Description: 

River restoration is a primary means of reaching important water quality goals for the Great Barrier Reef and Southeast Queensland, offsetting increased water quality pollution due to population growth, and contributing to a wide range of emerging global nature repairs targets.

However, there is an urgent need for estimates of river restoration cost to be updated to reflect more recent market conditions and variation in cost due to different river characteristics across Queensland. More robust cost data could enable scaling up of investment in river restoration to progress toward a range of social goals.

This project will compile recent river restoration cost data from a range of locations across Queensland to determine average river restoration costs, as well as river characteristics that influence deviations from this average.

Additional Information: 

The Michael St John Warne (1962 – 2024) Memorial Scholarship is administered by the Reef Catchments Science Partnership in the School of the Environment. The purpose of the scholarship is to support UQ honours students. Up to three (3) scholarships will be awarded. Each scholarship is worth $5,000 (half paid in February 2026 and half paid on submission of thesis). A top up writing scholarship of $1,000 is available to publish one (1) journal paper from your thesis research after submission.
See https://environment.uq.edu.au/michael-st-john-warne-memorial-scholarship for more information or email rcsp.info@uq.edu.au

Contact: Assoc. Prof. Ryan Turner