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Academic Profile: Dr Dirk Roux, Monash South Africa

Dr Dirk Roux

Affiliation and contact details

Dirk is a Freshwater Conservation Specialist with South African National Parks and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash South Africa. His contact details are:

Email: dirkr@sanparks.org
Office phone: +27 44 871 0109
Cellphone: +27 82 496 214

Research areas

Dirk has twenty years of experience in studies and contract research related to the assessment and management of freshwater ecosystems, spanning the fields of limnology, aquatic toxicology, environmental monitoring and reporting, systematic conservation planning, policy and strategy development, and institutional learning and knowledge processes. His areas of research interest are:

  • Assessment, conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems
  • Cooperation, co-learning and integration across disciplinary as well as science, policy and practice domains

Publications

Selection of peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters

2011 (and In Press)

  • Nel JL, Reyers B, Roux DJ, Impson ND and Cowling RM. 2011. Designing a conservation area network that supports the representation and persistence of freshwater biodiversity. Freshwater Biology 56: 106-124.
  • Murray K. Roux DJ and Nel JL. In Press. Absorptive capacity as a guiding concept for effective public sector management and conservation of freshwater ecosystems. Environmental Management
  • Roux DJ, Murray K, Nel JL, Hill L, Roux H and Driver A. 2011. From scorecard to social learning: a reflective coassessment approach for promoting multiagency cooperation in natural resource management. Ecology and Society 16(1): 24. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss1/art24/
  • Stirzaker RJ, Roux DJ and Biggs HC. In Press. Learning to bridge the gap between adaptive management and organisational culture. Koedoe

2010

  • Reyers B, Roux DJ and O’ Farrell PJ. 2010. Can ecosystem services lead ecology on a transdisciplinary pathway? Environmental Conservation 37 (4): 501-511.
  • Reyers B, Roux DJ, Cowling RM, Ginsburg AE, Nel JL and O’ Farrell P. 2010. Putting conservation plans to work: Conservation planning as a transdisciplinary process. Conservation Biology 24 (4): 957-965.
  • Roux DJ, Stirzaker RJ, Breen CM, Lefroy EC and Cresswell HP. 2010. Framework for participative reflection on the accomplishment of transdisciplinary research programs. Environmental Science and Policy 13 (8): 733-741.
  • Stirzaker RJ, Roux DJ, Biggs HC and Cilliers P. 2010. Requisite simplicities to help negotiate complex problems. Ambio 39 (8): 600-607.

2009

  • Funke N and Roux D. 2009. Evaluating environmental policy integration and policy coherence across service sectors: The case of South Africa’s inland water biodiversity. Africanus 39 (2): 18-30.
  • Nel JL, Reyers R, Roux DJ and Cowling RM. 2009. Expanding protected areas beyond their terrestrial comfort zone: identifying spatial options for river conservation. Biological Conservation 142: 1605-1616.
  • Nel JL, Roux DJ, Abell R, Ashton PJ, Cowling RM, Higgins JV, Thieme M and Viers JH. 2009. Progress and challenges in freshwater conservation planning. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19: 474–485.
  • Rashleigh B, Hardwick D and Roux D. 2009. Fish assemblage patterns as a tool to aid conservation in the Olifants River catchment (East), South Africa. Water SA 35 (4): 517-524.

2008

  • Cowling RM, Egoh B, Knight AT, O’Farrel P, Reyers B, Rouget M, Roux DJ, Welz A and Wilhelm-Rechman A. 2008. An operational model for mainstreaming ecosystem services for implementation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (28): 9483-9488.
  • Reyers B, Ginsburg AE, Nel JL, O’ Farrell PJ, Roux DJ and Cowling RM. 2008. From conservation biology to conservation science: Moving beyond disciplinary divides. Pages 135-178 in: Burns, M. and Weaver, A. (Editors). Exploring Sustainability Science: A Southern African Perspective. Sun Press, Stellenbosch.
  • Roux DJ, Ashton PJ, Nel JL and MacKay HM. 2008. Improving cross-sector policy integration and cooperation in support of freshwater conservation. Conservation Biology 22 (6): 1382-1387.
  • Roux DJ, Murray K and Van Wyk E. 2008. Learning to learn for social-ecological resilience: Balancing strategy options in public sector organisations. Pages 599-625 in: Burns M and Weaver A (Editors). Exploring Sustainability Science: A Southern African Perspective. Sun Press, Stellenbosch.
  • Roux DJ, Nel JL, Ashton PJ, Deacon AR, de Moor FC, Hardwick D, Hill L, Kleynhans CJ, Maree GA, Moolman J and Scholes RJ. 2008. Designing protected areas to conserve riverine biodiversity: Lessons from a hypothetical redesign of the Kruger National Park. Biological Conservation 141: 100-117.
  • Vance-Borland K, Roux D, Nel J and Pressey B. 2008. From the mountains to the sea: Where is freshwater conservation in the SCB agenda? Conservation Biology 22 (3): 505-507.
  • Van Wyk E, Roux DJ, Drackner M and McCool SF. 2008. The impact of scientific information on ecosystem management: making sense of the contextual gap between information providers and decision makers. Environmental Management 41: 779-791.

2007 and some of my earlier papers

  • Roux DJ, Murray K and Van Wyk E. 2007. Principles Enabling Learning Environments for Good Ecosystem Governance. In: Turton AR, Hattingh J, Maree GA, Roux DJ, Claassen M and Strydom WF (Editors). Governance as a Trialogue: Government-Society-Science in Transition. Water Resources Development and Management Series. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p 253-280. (ISBN: 978-3-540-46265-1)
  • Nel JL, Roux DJ, Maree G, Kleynhans CJ, Moolman J, Reyers B, Rouget M and Cowling RM. 2007. Rivers in peril inside and outside protected areas: A systematic approach to conservation assessment of river ecosystems. Diversity and Distributions 13: 341-352.
  • Roux DJ, Rogers KH, Biggs HC, Ashton PJ and Sergeant A. 2006. Bridging the science-management divide: Moving from unidirectional knowledge transfer to knowledge interfacing and sharing. Ecology and Society 11(1). Available online: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art4/
  • Roux D, de Moor F, Cambray J and Barber-James H. 2002. Use of landscape-level river signatures in conservation planning:  a South African case study. Conservation Ecology 6(2). Available online: http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss2/art6
  • Rogers K, Roux D and Biggs H. 2000. Challenges for catchment management agencies: Lessons from bureaucracies, business and resource management. Water SA 26 (4): 505-511. Available online: http://www.wrc.org.za/archives/watersa%20archive/2000/October/1300.pdf
  • Roux DJ, Kleynhans CJ, Thirion C, Hill L, Engelbrecht JS, Deacon AR and Kemper NP (1999) Adaptive assessment and management of riverine ecosystems: The Crocodile/Elands River case study. Water SA 25(4): 501-511.
  • Roux DJ, Kempster PL, Kleynhans CJ, van Vliet HR and du Preez HH. 1999. Integrating stressor and response monitoring into a resource-based water-quality assessment framework. Environmental Management 23 (1): 15-30.
  • Roux DJ, Jooste SHJ and MacKay HM. 1996. Substance-specific water quality criteria for the protection of South African freshwater ecosystems: methods for derivation and initial results for some inorganic toxic substances. South African Journal of Science 92 (4): 198-206.
  • Roux D, Jooste S, Truter E and Kempster P. 1995. An aquatic toxicological evaluation of fenthion in the context of finch control in South Africa. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 31: 164-172.
  • Roux DJ, Van Vliet HR and Van Veelen M. 1993. Towards integrated water quality monitoring: assessment of ecosystem health. Water SA 19 (4): 275-280.

Selection of contract reports

  • Roux, D.J., Murray, K., Hill, L., Biggs, H.C., Breen, C.M., Driver, A.L., Levendal, M., Rogers, K.H., Roux, H., Kistin, E. 2009. A reflective assessment process for promoting multi-agency cooperation. Towards achieving cross-sector policy objectives for conserving freshwater ecosystems. Report No. TT420-09. Water Research Commission. Pretoria. 141 pp
  • Roux DJ, Murray K and Van Wyk E. 2009. Enabling Effective Learning in Catchment Management Agencies: A Philosophy and Strategy. Report No TT 421/09. Water Research Commission, Pretoria. 67 pp.
  • Roux DJ, Murray K and Van Wyk E. 2009. Enabling Effective Learning in Catchment Management Agencies: Research Report. Report No 1689/1/09. Water Research Commission, Pretoria. 106 pp.
  • Roux, D.J., Murray, K., Hill, L. 2010. A learning strategy framework for natural resource management organizations. Report No TT 427/09. Water Research Commission, Pretoria. 26 pp.
  • Roux, D.J., Murray, K., Hill, L. 2010. Learning strategy Framework for the Inkomati Catchment Management Agency. Report No TT 426/09. Water Research Commission. Pretoria. 21 pp.
  • Roux DJ, Hill L and Strydom W. 2008. Assessing the Impact of Research Funded by the Water Research Commission in Support of the River Health Programme. Report No TT360/08. Water Research Commission, Pretoria. 58 pp.
  • Roux DJ, Nel JL, MacKay HM and Ashton PJ. 2006. Cross-Sector Policy Objectives for Conserving South Africa’s Inland Water Biodiversity. Report No TT 276/06. Water Research Commission, Pretoria. 100 pp. Available online: http://www.waternet.co.za/rivercons/publish.html
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