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Biography
Dr Wikke Novalia is an interdisciplinary social scientist working in the fields of environmental governance and institutional change. She also had professional engineering and research experience in the water industry across Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, the Netherlands and Australia.
Dr Novalia's research investigates the interplay of environment, technology and society in the context of improving processes of urban & infrastructure planning, governance, and community participation for realising sustainable development outcomes. Her works include case studies of change processes, transformative agency, incumbency, deinstitutionalisation, and crisis across Indonesian and Australian cities. She blends theories from multiple fields to unpack the role of agency and institutions in driving or hindering transformative adaptation, needed to tackle urgent and complex societal challenges.
She has been involved in interdisciplinary partnerships between Indonesia and Australia in delivering a large urban water research program in Jakarta and Bogor and in developing an action research program in Citarum catchment. She is the chief investigator of a new research, funded by the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research, aiming to enhance local capacity for leapfrogging Citarum communities towards better environmental and health outcomes. She is also a co-investigator in a research on legal pathways to support indigenous rights in water governance and another industry-funded research to explore collaborative partnership models for enhancing Water-Energy-Food Nexus.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Environmental Sociology, Doctoral degree, MONASH UNIVERSITY
Award Date: 20 Jan 2019
Water Management, Master's degree, Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft University of Technology)
Research area keywords
- Sustainability Transitions
- Urban Governance
- urban resilience
- institutional change
- Agency Theory
- urban politics
- Developing Countries
- Transformative adaptation
- Water Governance
- Environmental Governance
Network
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CRECS: Enhancing local capacity for implementing transboundary revitalisation policies for the Citarum River
Novalia, W., Rogers, B., Yosafat, Y. & Suwarso, R.
8/03/21 → 7/03/23
Project: Research
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MSDI Collaborative Fund: Capacity building for SDG transformation: A Pilot program for Revitalisation of the Citarum River, West Java, Indonesia
Holden, J., Ramirez, D., Rogers, B., Raven, R., Satur, P., French, M., Bedi, G. & Novalia, W.
27/10/19 → 27/10/21
Project: Research
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Evaluating participatory modeling methods for co-creating pathways to sustainability
Moallemi, E. A., de Haan, F. J., Hadjikakou, M., Khatami, S., Malekpour, S., Smajgl, A., Smith, M. S., Voinov, A., Bandari, R., Lamichhane, P., Miller, K. K., Nicholson, E., Novalia, W., Ritchie, E. G., Rojas, A. M., Shaikh, M. A., Szetey, K. & Bryan, B. A., Mar 2021, In: Earth's Future. 9, 3, 19 p., e2020EF001843.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile6 Citations (Scopus) -
Incumbency and political compromises: opportunity or threat to sustainability transitions?
Novalia, W., Rogers, B. C. & Bos, J. J., Sep 2021, In: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. 40, p. 680-698 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Theorising the role of crisis for transformative adaptation
Novalia, W. & Malekpour, S., Oct 2020, In: Environmental Science and Policy. 112, p. 361-370 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
9 Citations (Scopus) -
Transformative agency in co-producing sustainable development in the urban south
Novalia, W., Rogers, B., Bos, A., Brown, R. R., Soedjono, E. & Copa Torrez, V., 2020, In: Cities. 102, 14 p., 102747.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Water Sensitive Cities Index: A diagnostic tool to assess water sensitivity and guide management actions
Rogers, B. C., Dunn, G., Hammer, K., Novalia, W., de Haan, F. J., Brown, L., Brown, R. R., Lloyd, S., Urich, C., Wong, T. H. F. & Chesterfield, C., 1 Nov 2020, In: Water Research. 186, 13 p., 116411.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open Access11 Citations (Scopus)