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Professor Mark Milke

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Department: Civil and Natural Resources Engineering

Email: mark.milke@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3692154

Office: Civil & Natural Resources Engineering E440

Languages: English, Spanish

My teaching aim is to turn engineering students into graduates prepared for life-long learning as professional engineers.
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Fields of Research

  • Solid waste (rubbish) management
  • Environmental engineering
  • Systems, decision, and risk analysis
  • Groundwater
  • Engineering education

Researcher Summary

My research spans a wide range of topics in solid waste management, civil engineering systems, and engineering education. I look to where society will need research, before a need is recognised.
A complete restart is needed on freshwater management. I worked with Management Scientists on research leading to the book Smart Markets for Water Resources: A Manual for Implementation. We show how an auction system can be work to set prices that reflect variable environmental impacts, and so protect the environment in an economically efficient way. I am working with Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu on a trial in the Ngai Tuahuriri catchment.
Little research exists at the intersection of solid waste management and risk. Early in 2010, I started research on management of solid waste after disasters. The PhD student became a world leader on the topic and was seconded to the Canterbury effort in 2011-2012. I continue with research into illegal dumping.
I have moved increasingly into civil engineering systems because complex problems require systems tools and systems thinking. I am Co-Editor-in-Chief for the international research journal Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, and have edited a number of special issues including one on resilience. I have research underway looking at ways to facilitate better disaster response through linked improvements in infrastructure and social resilience.
I have been a NZ ChartProfEng since 2007, and believe that research is needed to improve how engineering learning is updated. There is little point in new research into climate change when it takes 20 years for practice to change because of weak lifelong learning.  I have a strong desire to lead research into changing education for professionals to allow for more rapid change in practice.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Education: Professional Studies
  • Engineering and Technology: Engineering Management; Resource/Environment Engineering
  • Environmental Studies: Environmental Science

Resources

  • Staff webpage
  • Smart Water Market

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

(Displaying research/scholarly/creative work for last six years)
Journal Articles
  • Avendano‐Uribe B., Lukosch H. and Milke M. (2022) Playing With Uncertainty: Facilitating Community‐Based Resilience Building. Urban Planning 7(2): 278-294. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/up.v7i2.5098.
  • Avendano-Uribe B., Milke M. and Castillo-Brieva D. (2022) Participatory modelling: precedents and prospects for civil engineering. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 39(2): 93-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2022.2083111.
  • Guo BHW., Milke M. and Jin R. (2022) Civil engineering students’ perceptions of emergency remote teaching: a case study in New Zealand. European Journal of Engineering Education 47(4): 679-696. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2022.2031896.
  • Brown CO., Hayes JL. and Milke MW. (2021) Planning to adapt: identifying key decision drivers in disaster response planning. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 38(1): 20-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2021.1887155.
Edited Volumes
  • Milke M; Qin H (Ed.) (2021) Decision-Making for Extremes: A Collection of Papers from the Eleventh International Forum on Engineering Decision-Making. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems 38(1)1-83.
Chapters
  • Milke M. and Mihelcic J. (2021) Solid-Waste Management. Environmental Engineering Fundamentals, Sustainability, Design: 541-595.John Wiley & Sons.
Conference Contributions - Published
  • Delatte N. and Milke M. (2020) Moving to resilience and robustness and implications for engineering design. In Proceedings of International Structural Engineering and Construction 7(2): RAD-03-1-RAD-03-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.14455/ISEC.2020.7(2).RAD-03.
Reports
  • Milke M. and Matuschka T. (2022) Kate Valley Landfill, Peer Review Panel, Annual Report No. 17.Commissioned by Environment Canterbury, Hurunui District Council. 30.
  • Milke M. and Matuschka T. (2021) Kate Valley Landfill, Peer Review Panel, Annual Report No. 16.Commissioned by Environment Canterbury, Hurunui District Council. 28.

Student Supervision

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  • PhD - Avendano B: Integrating social and infrastructural resilience: Overcoming the tensions between two interconnected worlds

Affiliations

  • American Geophysical Union (AGU) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • New Zealand Hydrological Society (NZHS) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • New Zealand Risk Management Society (Professional Organisation): Member
  • Waste Management Institute of New Zealand (WasteMINZ) (Professional Organisation): Member
  • Water New Zealand - The New Zealand Water & Wastes Association (Professional Organisation): Member

Research Groups

  • Waterways Centre for Freshwater Management

Future Research

  • engineering education
  • decision analysis
  • civil/environmental engineering failure analysis
  • landfill gas emissions
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