Associate Professor James Ward

Associate Head: Teaching and Learning School of Natural and Built Environments

Mawson Lakes Campus (P2-35)
tel +61 8 830 23128
fax +61 8 830 25082

email James.Ward@unisa.edu.au

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Research Degree Supervisor

About me

I have a background in water engineering and environmental science, specialising in computer modelling of water and environmental systems. At UniSA, I coordinate two courses relating to hydraulics and environmental engineering, and give various guest lectures in other courses relating to water, environment, limits to growth and sustainability. My research interests include big-picture global sustainability issues such as limits to fossil fuel supplies and other finite resources, and implications for industrial society. However, I am increasingly drawn to studying technology for sustainable living, with an emphasis on urban and peri-urban food production through innovative water recycling and aquaculture. I am supervising four PhD projects, ... Read more

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Research

Research themes

Scarce resources
Transforming societies

Research focus

Multidisciplinary
Built Environment and Design
Civil Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience

Highlights

Urban agriculture,Peak oil / fossil fuel depletion,Water recycling and reuse,Renewable energy

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2016	Semananda, NP, Ward, JD & Myers, B 2016, 'Evaluating the efficiency of wicking bed irrigation systems for small-scale urban agriculture', Horticulturae, vol. 2, no. 4, article no. 13 pp. 1-18. Open access 1
2016	Ward, JD, Sutton, PC, Werner, AD, Costanza, R, Mohr, S & Simmons, C 2016, 'Is decoupling GDP growth from environmental impact possible?', PLoS one, vol. 2016, no.10, pp.1-14. Open access 12 10 322
2014	Mohr, S, Wang, J, Ellem, G, Ward, J & Giurco, D 2014, 'Projection of world fossil fuels by country', Fuel, vol. 141, pp. 120-135. 91 72 79
2014	Ward, JD, Ward, PJ, Mantzioris, E & Saint, C 2014, 'Optimising diet decisions and urban agriculture using linear programming', Food security, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 701-718. 5 5

Chapters

Year	Output
2011	Mills, JE, Tran, AL, Smith, EJ & Ward, J 2011, 'Educating engineers for sustainable practice', in P Roetman & C Daniels (eds), Creating sustainable communities in a changing world, Crawford House Publishing, Australia, pp. 233-238. Open access
2010	Simmons, C, Bauer-Gottwein, P, Graf, T, Kinzelback, W, Kooi, H, Li, L, Post, V, Prommer, H, Therrien, R, Voss, C, Ward, JD & Werner, A 2010, 'Variable density groundwater flow: from modelling to applications', in Howard Wheater, Groundwater Modelling in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas, Cambridge University Press, London, pp. 87-118. 1

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2018	Ahmed, N, Ward, JD, Thompson, S, Saint, CP & Diana, JS 2018, 'Blue-green water nexus in aquaculture for resilience to climate change', Reviews in fisheries science and aquaculture, vol. 26, no.2, pp. 139-154.
2018	Pollard, G, Ward, J & Roetman, P 2018, 'Typically Diverse: The Nature of Urban Agriculture in South Australia', Sustainability, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1-18. Open access 15
2017	Platts, AB, Cameron, DA & Ward, J 2017, 'Validation of a model for two horizontal ground coupled heat exchangers based on field testing', Energy and buildings, vol. 138, pp. 11-25. 2 2
2017	Pollard, G, Koth, B & Ward, JD 2017, 'Aquaponics in urban agriculture: social acceptance and urban food planning', Horticulturae, vol. 3, no. 2, article no. 39, pp. 1-15. Open access 1
2017	Pollard, G, Roetman, P & Ward, J 2017, 'The case for citizen science in urban agriculture research', Future of Food: Journal on Food, Agriculture & Society, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 9-20. Open access
2017	Ward, J & Symons, J 2017, 'Optimising crop selection for small urban food gardens in dry climates', Horticulturae, vol. 3, no. 2, article no. 33, pp. 1-12. Open access
2016	Brown, C, Ward, J & Mirecki, J 2016, 'A revised brackish water aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) site selection index for water resources management', Water resources management, vol. 30, no. 7, pp. 2465-2481. 5 4
2016	Semananda, NP, Ward, JD & Myers, B 2016, 'Evaluating the efficiency of wicking bed irrigation systems for small-scale urban agriculture', Horticulturae, vol. 2, no. 4, article no. 13 pp. 1-18. Open access 1
2016	Ward, JD, Sutton, PC, Werner, AD, Costanza, R, Mohr, S & Simmons, C 2016, 'Is decoupling GDP growth from environmental impact possible?', PLoS one, vol. 2016, no.10, pp.1-14. Open access 12 10 322
2015	Platts, AB, Cameron, DA & Ward, J 2015, 'Improving the performance of ground coupled heat exchangers in unsaturated soils', Energy and buildings, vol. 104, pp. 323-335. 7 4
2015	Ward, J 2015, 'Can urban agriculture usefully improve food resilience? Insights from a linear programming approach', Journal of environmental studies and sciences, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 699-711. 2 1
2014	Ahmed, N, Ward, JD & Saint, CP 2014, 'Can integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) produce "more crop per drop"?', Food security, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 767-779. Open access 8 8 1
2014	Mohr, S & Ward, J 2014, 'Helium production and possible projection', Minerals, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 130-144. Open access 5 5 11
2014	Mohr, S, Giurco, D, Yellishetty, M, Ward, J & Mudd, G 2014, 'Projection of iron ore production', Natural resources research, vol.24, no. 3, pp. 317-327. 6 6 21
2014	Mohr, S, Wang, J, Ellem, G, Ward, J & Giurco, D 2014, 'Projection of world fossil fuels by country', Fuel, vol. 141, pp. 120-135. 91 72 79
2014	Nel, WP & Ward, JD 2014, 'Towards a rational sustainability framework', Sustainability Science, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 515-520. 1 2 1
2014	Ward, J, Ward, P, Saint, CP & Mantzioris, E 2014, 'The urban agriculture revolution: implications for water use in cities', Water: journal of the Australian Water Association, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 69-74. Open access
2014	Ward, JD, Ward, PJ, Mantzioris, E & Saint, C 2014, 'Optimising diet decisions and urban agriculture using linear programming', Food security, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 701-718. 5 5
2012	Ward, JD, Mohr, SH, Myers, BR & Nel, WP 2012, 'High estimates of supply constrained emissions scenarios for long-term climate risk assessment', Energy policy, vol. 51, pp. 598-604. 15 14 4
2011	Ward, J, Werner, A, Nel, W & Beecham, S 2011, 'The influence of constrained fossil fuel emissions scenarios on climate and water resource projections', Hydrology and earth system sciences, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 1879-1893. Open access 5 6
2011	Werner, A, Alcoe, D, Ordens, C, Hutson, J, Ward, JD & Simmons, C 2011, 'Current practice and future challenges in coastal aquifer management: flux-based and trigger-level approaches with application to an Australian case study', Water resources management, vol. 25, no. 7, pp. 1831-1853. 22 21
2011	Werner, AD, Ward, JD, Morgan, LK, Simmons, CT, Robinson, N I & Teubner, MD 2011, 'Vulnerability indicators of sea water intrusion', Ground Water, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 48-58. 69 65
2010	Xie, Y, Simmons, C, Werner, A & Ward, JD 2010, 'Effect of transient solute loading on free convection in porous media', Water Resources Research, vol. 46, pp. 1-16. Open access 13 10
2009	Reeuwijk, MV, Mathias, S, Simmons, C & Ward, JD 2009, 'Insights from a pseudospectral approach to the Elder problem', Water Resources Research, vol. 45, no. 4, Paper W04416. Open access 25 19
2009	Ward, JD, Simmons, C, Dillon, P & Pavelic, P 2009, 'Integrated assessment of lateral flow, density effects and dispersion in aquifer storage and recovery', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 370, no. 1-4, pp. 83-99. 32 30
2008	Nield, D, Simmons, C, Kuznetsov, A & Ward, JD 2008, 'On the evolution of salt lakes: Episodic convection beneath an evaporating salt lake', Water Resources Research, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 1-13. Open access 19 14
2008	Ward, JD, Simmons, C & Dillon, P 2008, 'Variable-density modelling of multiple-cycle aquifer storage and recovery (ASR): Importance of anisotropy and layered heterogeneity in brackish aquifers', Journal of Hydrology, vol. 356, no. 1-2, pp. 93-105. 25 23

Conferences

Year	Output
2012	Chileshe, N, Rofe, MW, Rameezdeen, R, Sivam, A, Weber, D, Karuppannan, S, Ward, J & Butland, R 2012, Proceedings of the 6th International conference and workshop on the built environment in developing countries, Casual Productions, Australia.
2011	Ward, JD, Werner, A, Nel, W & Beecham, S 2011, 'Finite fossil fuel resources as an upper constraint to global warming impacts', Escaping Silos - SSEE 2011 International Conference, Society of Sustainability and Environmental Engineering, pp. 1-10.
2008	Mudd, G & Ward, JD 2008, 'Will sustainability constraints caus 'peak minerals'?', Conference on Sustainability Engineering & Science: Blueprints for Sustainable Infrastructure, pp. 1-10.
2008	Ward, JD, Simmons, C & Dillon, P 2008, 'Density considerations in the modelling of aquifer storage and recovery (ASR) ', in Lambert, Martin; Daniell, TM; Leonard, Michael, Proceedings of Water Down Under 2008, pp. 853-862.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Delft University Of Technology	NETHERLANDS
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	UNITED KINGDOM
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
North Carolina State University - Raleigh	UNITED STATES
United States Army Corps of Engineers	UNITED STATES
University Michigan	UNITED STATES
University of Auckland	NEW ZEALAND
University of Denver	UNITED STATES
University of Montreal	CANADA
University of Newcastle	AUSTRALIA
University of North Florida	UNITED STATES
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Southern Denmark	DENMARK
University of Stellenbosch	SOUTH AFRICA
University of Technology	IRAQ
University of Technology Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Warwick	UNITED KINGDOM
Victoria University	AUSTRALIA
Wuhan University	CHINA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Lead Author, Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) 6 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)	2018
National President Sustainable Population Australia	2018
Invited speaker Wellbeing Economy Festival, Pretoria	2017
Member Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WE-All)	2017
National President Sustainable Population Australia	2017
Finalist, Science Excellence Awards SA, Peoples Choice Award Department of State Development	2015

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
An enhanced heat transfer system for ground heat exchange in unsaturated soils	Current
Developing resilient living walls for South Australia	Current
Development of a low-tech, low-cost alternative to aquaponics, integrating agriculture and aquaculture	Current
Different kinds of worth: comparing the food production capabilities and social value of community and home food gardens	Current
Scenario modelling of the ecosystem services of a sustainable and desirable future	Current
Assessment of the efficiency and effectiveness of wicking bed irrigation systems for urban agriculture	Completed

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Associate Professor James Ward

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