Collaborative water planning: context and practice. Literature review

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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 pressures to which they are subject.

Chronicles the history of water management in Australia, highlighting water policy and Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) reform in this area.

Discusses the treatment of values in NRM and water planning.

Focuses on issues of Indigenous participation in water planning in Australia.

Explains a range of tools that may be used to reveal trade-offs, or situations that involve decisions where each choice that may be made has both advantages and disadvantages.

Explores the notion of collaboration in water and natural resource planning and management, arguing that there is limited empirical evidence of the benefits of such an approach and an absence of an established framework from which to analyse and assess such evidence.