Literature Review

Collaborative water planning: retrospective case studies. Volume 4.2

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)...

Collaborative water planning: context and practice. Volume 2

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: context and practice. Literature review

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)...

The Impact of Irrigation on Soil Structure

Good soil structure is an essential element of healthy and sustainable agro-ecosystems. It promotes the development of extensive plant root systems and efficient use of water and nutrients and, in doing so, buffers plants against drought and other adversity. Irrigation places a number of stresses on soil structure. This review examines the nature of soil structure, its role in plant growth, the nature of stresses on soil structure which come from irrigation and management approaches to (more)...