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Putting Plans into Practice, Environmental Water Allocation R&D Program

The degradation of Australia’s wetlands has brought into sharp focus the need to manage factors such as altered flow and water regimes. Exchanging knowledge between wetland managers and wetland scientists and putting it into practice is an essential part of this management. Yet environmental watering of wetlands is a relatively new type of intervention, especially where engineering infrastructure is used. It is largely restricted to south eastern Australia. Thus, while there is considerable (more)...

Final Report 2 – Regional scenario planningin practice: Irrigation futures of theGoulburn Broken Region

Scenario planning is an approach to strategic planning. It acknowledges the uncertainties and ambiguities of the future and seeks to identify ways to strengthen the strategic position of an organisation in that uncertain environment. Van der Heijden (1996) identifies that good strategic planning should be based on four common-sense elements: understanding of the aims and purpose of the entity; an assessment of the organisation’s characteristics, including its (more)...