Publications

Bottom up methods to assess vulnerability of water supply

Fowler, K. J. A., McMahon, T. A., Westra, S., Horne, A., Guillaume, J. H. A., Guo, D., Nathan, R., Maier, H. R., & John, A. (2024). Climate stress testing for water systems: Review and guide for applications. WIREs Water, 11(6), e1747. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1747

Fowler, K., Ballis, N., Horne, A., John, A., Nathan, R., & Peel, M. (2022). Integrated framework for rapid climate stress testing on a monthly timestep. Environmental Modelling & Software, 150, 105339. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105339

John, A., Horne, A., Nathan, R., Fowler, K., Webb, J. A., & Stewardson, M. (2021). Robust Climate Change Adaptation for Environmental Flows in the Goulburn River, Australia. Frontiers in Environmental Science, Volume 9 - 2021. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2021.789206

Environmental water in a variable and changing climate

John, Horne, Nathan, Stewardson, Webb, Wang, and Poff (2020) Climate change and freshwater ecology: Hydrological and ecological methods of comparable complexity are needed to predict risk. WIREs Clim Change. 2020;e692. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.692

John, Nathan, Horne, Stewardson, Webb; (2020) How to incorporate climate change into modelling environmental water outcomes: a review. Journal of Water and Climate Change, 1 June 2020; 11 (2): 327–340. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wcc.2020.263

Nathan, McMahon, Peel and Horne (2019) Assessing the degree of hydrologic stress due to climate change, Climatic Change. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-019-02497-4

Horne, Nathan, Bond, Poff, Webb (2019) Modeling Flow-Ecology Responses in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Sustainable Riverine Management, BioScience, Volume 69, Issue 10, October 2019, Pages 789–799, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz087

Wang, J., Nathan, R., & Horne, A. (2018). Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Outcomes in the Context of Natural Climate Variability. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 144(12). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001008

Wang, J., Nathan, R., Horne, A., Peel, M. C., Wei, Y., & Langford, J. (2017). Evaluating four downscaling methods for assessment of climate change impact on ecological indicators. Environmental Modelling and Software, 96, 68–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.016

Wang, J., Horne, A., Nathan, R., Peel, M., & Neave, I. (2018). Vulnerability of Ecological Condition to the Sequencing of Wet and Dry Spells Prior to and during the Murray-Darling Basin Millennium Drought. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 144(8). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000963

Water policy and adaptation

O’Donnell, Garrick and Horne (2019) Reallocation through irrigation modernization: The 'once-in-a-hundred-year' opportunity of the North-South Pipeline, Australia, Water Security, 6.

Moore, Rutherfurd, Peel, & Horne. 'Sub-Prime' Water, Low-Security Entitlements and Policy Challenges in Over-Allocated River Basins: the Case of the Murray–Darling Basin. Environmental Management 66, 202–217 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-020-01303-7

John, A., Horne, A., Nathan, R., & Lang, S. (2024). High flow management as climate change adaptation for freshwater ecosystems in regulated rivers. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 28(2), 240–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2024.2392322

Socio ecological systems and values

Grupper, M.A., Horne, A.C., Webb, J.A. and Olden, J. (2025), Identifying and Approaching Barriers to Environmental Flow Implementation Using Social–Ecological Systems Thinking. WIREs Water, 12: e1764. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1764

Kosovac, A., Shermon, A., O’Donnell, E., Horne, A., & Mesikämmen, E. (2024). Water courses and discourses: A media content analysis of environmental water reporting in Australia. Environmental Science & Policy, 154, 103703. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103703

Kosovac A, Horne AC, O’Donnell E. Community perceptions of environmental water: a review. Environmental Conservation. 2023;50(2):73-82. doi:10.1017/S0376892923000036

Judd, M., Boese, M., Horne, A. C., & Bond, N. R. (2023). Perceptions of climate change adaptation barriers in environmental water management. Ecology and Society, 28(1). doi:10.5751/ES-13883-280121

O’Donnell, E. L., Horne, A. C., Godden, L., & Head, B. (2019). Cry me a river: building trust and maintaining legitimacy in environmental flows. Australasian Journal of Water Resources, 23(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2019.1586058

Improving environmental water management

Dai, X., Webb, J. A., Horne, A. C., Rumpff, L., & Palmer, M. A. (2025). Linking the multiple types of monitoring to the adaptive management cycle to support environmental flows. Journal of Environmental Management, 373, 123694. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123694

Horne, Webb, Stewardson, Richter, Acreman (Eds) (2017) Water for the Environment: from Policy and Science to Implementation and Management. Elsevier, Cambridge MA.

Arthington, Bhaduri, Bunn, Jackson, Tharme, Tickner, Young, Acreman, Baker, Capon, Horne, Kendy, McClain, Poff, Richter, Ward (2018) The Brisbane Declaration and Global action agenda on environmental flows (2018), Frontiers Ecological Science.

Horne A, O’Donnell E, Loch A, Adamson D, Hart B and Freebairn J (2018) Environmental water efficiency: Maximizing benefits and minimizing costs of environmental water use and management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water

Kaur, S., Horne, A., Nathan, R., Szemis, J. ., Gibson, L., Costa, A. M., Webb, J.A., Stewardson, M.A. (2019). Examining trade-offs in piggybacking flow events while making environmental release decisions in a river system. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 145(6). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0001048

Horne, A. C., Szemis, J. M., Webb, J. A., Kaur, S., Stewardson, M. J., Bond, N., & Nathan, R. (2018). Informing Environmental Water Management Decisions: Using Conditional Probability Networks to Address the Information Needs of Planning and Implementation Cycles. Environmental Management, 61(3), 347–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-017-0874-8

Horne, A. C., Kaur, S., Szemis, J. M., Costa, A. M., Nathan, R., Webb, J. A., … Boland, N. (2018). Active Management of Environmental Water to Improve Ecological Outcomes. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 144(12). https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000991

Kaur, S., Horne, A., Stewardson, M., Nathan, R., Costa, A. M., Szemis, J. ., & Webb, J. A. (2017). Challenges in determining frequency of high flow spells for varying thresholds in environmental flows programs. Journal Ecohydraulics, 2, 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/24705357.2016.1276418

Horne, A., Kaur, S., Szemis, J., Costa, A., Webb, J. A., Nathan, R., … Boland, N. (2017). Using optimization to develop a “designer” environmental flow regime. Environmental Modelling & Software, 88, 188–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.11.020

Understanding hydrological impacts of climate change

John, A., Nathan, R., Horne, A., Fowler, K., Stewardson, M., Peel, M., & Angus Webb, J. (2023). The time of emergence of climate-induced hydrologic change in Australian rivers. Journal of Hydrology, 619, 129371. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129371

Morden, R., Horne, A., Nathan, R., Bond, N. R., & Olden, J. D. (2023). Monthly flow indicators can be used to infer daily stream flow behaviour across Australia. Journal of Hydrology, 617, 129078. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129078

Fowler, K., Peel, M., Saft, M., Nathan, R., Horne, A., Wilby, R., et al. (2022). Hydrological shifts threaten water resources. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR031210. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR031210

Morden, R., Horne, A., Bond, N. R., Nathan, R., & Olden, J. D. (2022). Small artificial impoundments have big implications for hydrology and freshwater biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20(3), 141-146. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2454

John, A., Fowler, K., Nathan, R., Horne, A., & Stewardson, M. (2021). Disaggregated monthly hydrological models can outperform daily models in providing daily flow statistics and extrapolate well to a drying climate. Journal of Hydrology, 598, 126471. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126471