About the author
Bruce has worked for 28 years in the Western Australian Government, primarily in environmental and natural resource management. He also has a strong interest in organisational management, with an emphasis on people and community participation.
In 14 years from 1972 with the Environmental Protection Authority, Bruce pioneered programmes in coastal management, environmental planning, strategic control of air pollution and hazardous chemicals, and was strongly involved in the early years of environmental impact assessment in Australia. Bruce led the final phase and implementation of the Peel-Harvey Management Strategy, one of the biggest successful estuarine rescues in the world.
In the following nine years, he was the CEO of the Waterways Commission, and established the Swan River Trust (including the Swan River Management Strategy and new legislation for the Trust), three new waterways management authorities and numerous management programmes for rivers and estuaries. As part of this work, Bruce negotiated and established the Swan Canning Clean Up programme and led the establishment of integrated catchment management in the Metropolitan Region (now the Swan Region). Part of this work included leadership of several waterways studies and implementation of successful management measures.
This work continued in 1996 when Bruce joined the Water and Rivers Commission as the Director of Resource Investigations. During this period Bruce worked with community people in the 'NRM Regions' and government officers to develop a 'framework' for natural resource management in Western Australia. This is now being progressively implemented.
Since 1999, Bruce has been a private consultant working in natural resource management, environmental management and organisational management. During this time he has played a leadership role in developing several regional natural resource management strategies, been a member of the Western Australian Government Taskforce to review salinity, developed a strategic and operational framework for Greening Australia, carried out a number of organisational reviews and has recently been appointed to the Board of the Swan River Trust.
Bruce's main skills are linking focused scientific research to good management outcomes in natural systems and bringing people together to achieve common objectives. He enjoys working with people to improve the environment we live in and improve our use and management of the earth's precious natural resources.
Dr Bruce Hamilton
31 John Street
Gooseberry Hill, WA 6076, Australia
Phone: 00 61 8 9293 3197
Mobile: 0419 946 545
Email: hamilton@webace.com.au
