ProfPierre Mukheibir

Current post graduate students:

Hassam Abbasi: Exploring end-use water demand and drought resilience in small towns of regional NSW

Dominique Barahira: Energy systems modelling: Introduction of electrical cooking stoves and EVs in Rwanda 

Somayeh Koohestani: Delivering livability outcomes for urban densification under a climate constrained context.

Completed PhD students:

James Macken: (2026) Drawing coherence between sets of foresight scenarios.

The research presents the Coherent Futures Framework to draw coherence between sets of scenarios. It offers greater impact from scenarios, broader and deeper understanding of drivers shaping the future, enabling collaboration across organisations, and acting as an on-ramp to ongoing foresight practices. 

Chandni Bedi: (2025) Enhancing Liveability through Participatory Governance and Sustainable Urban Water Management – A Novel SaRVO Approach in the City of Gurugram.

The study sought to create inclusive urban liveability metrics for water management by assessing diverse stakeholders’ perceptions of waters’ liveability and value. It also identified differential perceptions and preferences in urban (including slums or informal settlements) and peri-urban areas and determines their priorities.

Anh Nong: (2023) Participatory Adaptive Integrated Urban Water Management – The Tensions
The research informs the shift to an integrated, adaptive, and participatory approach to urban water management by exploring its planning and implementation challenges.

Reba Paul: (2020) Energy Sensitive Urban Water Planning in Developing Countries: Unlocking the Potential of Distributed Recycled Water Systems to Reduce the Overall Energy Intensity for Urban Water Services.
The findings of this research (using Bengaluru, India, as a case study) demonstrates the potential of distributed recycled water systems to reduce the overall energy intensity for urban water services, thereby making urban water service systems potentially more cost efficient, sustainable and resilient.

Jack Thomson: (2020) The First and Last Mile: Rural communities’ management of evolving disaster risk and the implications for preparedness in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
This thesis examined rural communities’ management of evolving disaster risk in development contexts. It concluded that there are at least two implications for DRR policy and programming. First, it questioned established strategies based on incremental adaptation in situ. Second, it underscored the imperative but challenged improving the predictive capacity of early warning in Complex Adaptive Systems.

Rachel Watson: (2017) The costs and benefits of local recycled water systems and their role in contributing to sustainable urban water servicing
This thesis demonstrates the interactions between impacts and the context (environment, social, regulatory and institutional setting) are a critical component of explaining what investment occurs and therefore what role distributed recycled water systems (or any alternative) can have in urban water servicing.

Ariane Lui: (2016) Smart water-use feedback: Options, preferences, impacts, and implications for implementation
This thesis investigates the opportunity for more detailed information and feedback on household water consumption by: (i) conceptualising the different options for the presentation of detailed feedback enabled via SW metering (ii) uncovering householder interests and preferences; (iii) measuring the various impacts of detailed feedback on householders and their consumption of water; and (iv) developing an implementation framework.

Verena Streitferdt: (2016) Optimising energy efficiency finance in emerging economies in Southeast Asia
This thesis investigates the relationship between public and private sector efforts to optimise energy efficiency finance initiatives in an emerging country context, using Thailand as a case study.