Dr Silva Larson, PhD (Econ), is a Chartered Environmentalist and has more than twenty years of experience with environmental, social, strategic and vulnerability assessments, in particular with policies and in the water and mining industry. For the last seven years, she has been working as a Socio-economic Researcher with the CSIRO Division of Ecosystem Sciences. She also holds an Adjunct position with the James Cook University School of Business in Queensland, Australia, and has published widely on the subjects of institutional arrangements, human wellbeing and policy assessment. Her recent publications include a number of journal papers, as well as chapters in books such as North Australian Political Economy: Issues and Agendas (edited by R. Gerritsen, CDU Press 2010); Adaptive Capacity: Building Environmental Governance in an Age of Uncertainty (edited by D. Armitage and R. Plummer, Springer 2010) and Transforming Markets in the Built Environment: Adapting for Climate Change (edited by S. Roaf, Earthscan 2010). In 2007 Silva co-edited Sustainable Resource Use: Institutional Dynamics and Economics (Earthscan), which featured a chapter by last years' Nobel Prize in Economics winner Dr Elinor Ostrom.Silva enjoys working in the rural and remote regions of both developed and developing countries, and her current projects include subjective wellbeing assessments across northern Australia, as well as in five countries of the Mekong River Basin, China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam.