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Collaborative water planning: context and practice. Literature review

Volume 1

This literature review is the first in a series of three foundational documents prepared for the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) Collaborative Planning Project (Volume 1). It provides a review and analysis of the literature to provide the conceptual foundation underpinning the project. This review: Outlines the biophysical characteristics of northern Australian rivers and catchments, their human history, current land and water use, and development (more)...

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Collaborative water planning: context and practice. Volume 2

Literature review: best practice strategies and techniques in the resolution of public disputes over natural resources

This volume characterises the nature of conflict in natural resource management, advocating a new role for government as a catalyst for conflict management in water and natural resource planning and management.

It emphasises the importance of designing appropriate systems to manage and, where possible, resolve conflict. Criteria for success, the nature of the system components, and case studies which exemplify these criteria and system components, are also presented.

Collaborative water planning: retrospective case studies. Volume 4.2

Water planning in the Ord River of Western Australia

Water planning is a process to allocate and sustainably manage water to meet our future water requirements. Good water plans provide for river health and community needs. Public consultation is integral to an effective water resource planning process. The occurrence of severe water resource management problems throughout many southern regions of Australia has focused recent attention on water planning processes as a means of balancing competing uses of water, addressing over-allocation of (more)...

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Collaborative water planning: retrospective case studies. Water planning in the Gulf of Carpentaria

Volume 4.1

This report reviews the water planning process in the Gulf of Carpentaria undertaken between 2003 and 2007 by the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Water. The context of the water planning process for the region is briefly summarised, through reference to the social and economic profile compiled as part of the planning process and other profiling processes for the region. The history of cultivation of water resources in the Gulf is then examined. A description of the (more)...

Evaluating scenarios for the Howard catchment: summary report for workshop participants and stakeholders

This report has not yet been finalsied

The Howard River catchment covers approximately 1, 500km2 in the rural Darwin region of the Northern Territory (NT). Over the past decade, increased demand from Darwin residents and residential and agricultural development in the rural Darwin region has increased competition for groundwater, thus generating tensions between different user groups, including those concerned about the health of groundwater dependent ecosystems. The NT (more)...

On TRaCK

This is a regular serial to be published by the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) Program. In 2007, TRaCK was established as a research hub under the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Program - the Australian Government’s commitment to world-class public good environmental research. A consortium led by Charles Darwin University, CSIRO, Griffith University, Land & Water Australia, the North Australia (more)...

Water regime dependence of fish in the wet-dry tropics

This project has improved understanding of the potential ecological impacts of changes in dry season flow regimes of tropical river ecosystems caused by water resources development in these catchments. The project investigated variation in fish distribution and ecological requirements across a natural flow regime gradient using field sites, and document indigenous knowledge on fish in the Daly River. This information has been used to develop models, based on BBNs, to predict the impact of different (more)...