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  • Towards a systems approach for river basin management—Lessons from Australia's largest river

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    Author(s)
    Thompson, RM
    Bond, N
    Poff, NL
    Byron, N
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    Bond, Nick R.
    Year published
    2019
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    Abstract
    Globally, large river systems have been extensively modified and are increasingly managed for a range of purposes including ecosystem services and ecological values. Key to managing rivers effectively are developing approaches that deal with uncertainty, are adaptive in nature, and can incorporate multiple stakeholders with dynamic feedbacks. Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), has been extensively developed for shipping passage, irrigation, hydroelectric development, and water supply. Water development in the MDB over the last century resulted in overallocation of water resources and large-scale ...
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    Globally, large river systems have been extensively modified and are increasingly managed for a range of purposes including ecosystem services and ecological values. Key to managing rivers effectively are developing approaches that deal with uncertainty, are adaptive in nature, and can incorporate multiple stakeholders with dynamic feedbacks. Australia's largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), has been extensively developed for shipping passage, irrigation, hydroelectric development, and water supply. Water development in the MDB over the last century resulted in overallocation of water resources and large-scale environmental degradation throughout the Basin. Under the pressure of a significant drought, there was insufficient water to supply critical human, environmental, and agricultural needs. In response, a massive programme of water reform was enacted that resulted in considerable institutional, social, and economic change. The underlying policy was required to be enacted in an absence of certainty around the scientific basis, with an adaptive management focus to incorporate new knowledge. The resulting institutional arrangements were challenged by a need to generate new governance arrangements within the constraints of existing state and national structures. The ongoing reform and management of the MDB continues to challenge all parties to achieve optimization for multiple outcomes, and to communicate that effectively. As large-scale water reform gains pace globally, the MDB provides a window of insight into the types of systems that may emerge and the challenges in working within them. Most particularly, it illustrates the need for much more sophisticated systems thinking that runs counter to the much more linear approaches often adopted in government.
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    Journal Title
    River Research and Applications
    Volume
    35
    Issue
    5
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3242
    Copyright Statement
    © 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Towards a systems approach for river basin management-Lessons from Australia's largest river, River Research and Applications, AOV 2018, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1002/rra.3242. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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    This publication has been entered into Griffith Research Online as an Advanced Online Version.
    Subject
    Environmental management
    Ecology
    Environmental engineering
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/383525
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