Australia's leading class action litigator and Chairman of Australian law firm Maurice Blackburn, Mr Bernard Murphy will be the keynote speaker at a conference on social and environmental accounting being held at CSU in Albury-Wodonga.

A major report co-authored by a senior CSU researcher has found a moderate improvement to the environments of the Murray River and associated Coorong wetlands in South Australia is worth $7.5 billion to Australian households.

The state of ever-changing rural societies in Australia and overseas are topics for three books being launched at CSU on Monday 18 October.

New collaborative research shows that the Australian Government risks breaching international law if it does not fully protect wetlands listed under an international treaty in its forthcoming Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

CSU experts are well placed to comment on the guide for the Murray Darling Basin plan and its future possible effects on the people, plants, animals and communities that live together in the Basin.

The recent heavy rainfalls which have caused widespread flooding throughout parts of Victoria will benefit the environment enormously according to a leading CSU researcher.

Why is it that, while most scientists are in agreement on climate change, the media says otherwise?

Each community in the Murray Darling Basin should have a greater say in how they react to the decreasing availability of water around them, according to a group of CSU researchers who work extensively with these communities on issues such as drought and soil salinity.

Climate change will make it even more difficult to manage wetlands sustainably in the Murray-Darling Basin, according to Australian and international wetlands experts who will meet in Canberra next week for an intensive workshop hosted by CSU.