Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management is a much-needed text for water resources managers, water, catchment, estuarine and coastal scientists, and aquatic ecologists. The book first provides a summary of the Murray-Darling River system: its hydrology, water-related ecological assets, land uses (particularly irrigation), and its rural and regional communities; and management within the Basin, including catchments and natural resources, water resources, irrigation, environment, and monitoring and evaluation. Additionally, the recent major water reforms in the Basin are discussed, with a focus particularly on the development and implementation of the Basin Plan.
Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management then provides an analysis of the next set of policy and institutional reforms (environmental, social, cultural and economic) needed to ensure the Basin is managed as an integrated system (including its water resources, catchment and estuary) capable of adapting to future changes. Six major challenges facing the Basin are identified and discussed, particularly within the context of predicted changes to the climate leading to an increased frequency of drought and a hotter and dryer future. Finally, a ‘road map’ or ‘blueprint’ to achieve more integrated management of the Basin is provided, together with some ‘key lessons’ of relevance to others involved in the management of multijurisdictional river Basins.
Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management is a much-needed text for water resources managers, water, catchment, estuarine and coastal scientists, and aquatic ecologists. The book first provides a summary of the Murray-Darling River system: its hydrology, water-related ecological assets, land uses (particularly irrigation), and its rural and regional communities; and management within the Basin, including catchments and natural resources, water resources, irrigation, environment, and monitoring and evaluation. Additionally, the recent major water reforms in the Basin are discussed, with a focus particularly on the development and implementation of the Basin Plan.
Murray-Darling Basin, Australia: Its Future Management then provides an analysis of the next set of policy and institutional reforms (environmental, social, cultural and economic) needed to ensure the Basin is managed as an integrated system (including its water resources, catchment and estuary) capable of adapting to future changes. Six major challenges facing the Basin are identified and discussed, particularly within the context of predicted changes to the climate leading to an increased frequency of drought and a hotter and dryer future. Finally, a ‘road map’ or ‘blueprint’ to achieve more integrated management of the Basin is provided, together with some ‘key lessons’ of relevance to others involved in the management of multijurisdictional river Basins.
1. Introduction to the Murray–Darling Basin system, Australia
Barry T. Hart, Nick R. Bond, Neil Byron, Carmel A. Pollino, and
Michael J. Stewardson
Section 1: Rural communities and water-related assets
2. Rural and regional communities of the Murray–Darling Basin
Carmel A. Pollino, Barry T. Hart, Martin Nolan, Neil Byron, and Rod
Marsh
3. Hydrology of the Murray–Darling Basin
Michael J. Stewardson, Glen Walker, and Matthew Coleman
4. Water-based assets of the Murray–Darling Basin and their
ecological condition
Nick R. Bond, Shane Brooks, Samantha Capon, Jennifer Hale, Mark
Kennard, and Heather McGinness
5. Ecological condition of the Lower Lakes and Coorong
Justin Brookes, Kane Aldridge, Matthew Hipsey, Brendan Busch,
Qifeng Ye, Matt Gibbs, and David Paton
6. Water quality: Land use impacts on salinity, sediments, and
nutrients
Glen Walker and Ian P. Prosser
7. Water quality in the Murray–Darling Basin: The potential impacts
of climate change
Darren S. Baldwin
Section 2: Policy and management of the MDB
8. Current water resources policy and planning in the
Murray–Darling Basin
Megan Dyson
9. Current integrated catchment management policy and management
settings in the Murray–Darling Basin
John Riddiford
10. Active management of environmental water in the Murray–Darling
Basin
Hilary Johnson, Michael Peat, and Jody Swirepik
11. Monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management in the
Murray–Darling Basin
Ben Gawne, Katie A. Ryan, Matthew Coleman, Alex Meehan, Peter E.
Davies, Adam Sluggett, Andy Lowes, Neville Crossman, and Colin
Mues
Section 3: Climate change impacts in the MDB
12. Climate change in the Murray–Darling Basin
Penny Whetton and Francis Chiew
13. Adaptation and policy responses to climate change impacts in
the Murray–Darling Basin
Anthony (Tony) Slatyer
Section 4: Policy and management responses to other future
challenges
14. Future environmental water management
Andrew K. Sharpe, Darren S. Baldwin, Fiona Dyer, and Iwona
Conlan
15. Empowering First Nations in the governance and management of
the Murray–Darling Basin
Sue Jackson, Rene Woods, and Fred Hooper
16. Challenges to improved integrated management of the
Murray–Darling Basin
Rebecca Nelson
17. The role of future science and technologies in water
management
Chantal Donnelly, Leo Lymburner, Ulrike Bende-Michl, Andrew Frost,
and Eva Rodriguez
18. The way forward: Continuing policy and management reforms in
the Murray–Darling basin
Barry T. Hart, Jason Alexandra, Nick R. Bond, Neil Byron, Rod
Marsh, Carmel A. Pollino, and Michael J. Stewardson
Professor Barry Hart is Director of the environmental consulting
company Water Science Pty Ltd. He is also Emeritus Professor at
Monash University, where previously he was Director of the Water
Studies Centre. Prof Hart has established an international
reputation in the fields of ecological risk assessment,
environmental flow decision-making, water quality and catchment
management and environmental chemistry. He is well known for his
sustained efforts in developing knowledge-based decision making
processes in natural resource management in Australia and
south-east Asia. Prof Hart is currently a board member of the
Murray-Darling Basin Authority and a non-executive Director of
Alluvium Consulting Australia Pty Ltd. He is also Deputy Chair of
the Scientific Inquiry into Hydraulic Fracturing of Onshore
Unconventional Reservoirs in the Northern Territory, which
commenced in December 2016.He has received several awards,
including the Limnology Medal (1982) from the Australian Society
for Limnology, the Environmental Chemistry Medal (1996) and Applied
Chemistry Medal (1998) from the Royal Australian Chemical
Institute, a Centenary Medal for services to water quality
management and environmental protection (2003) and was made a
Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2012. Dr Neil Byron was
the Commissioner responsible for environment, agriculture and
natural resource management issues in the Productivity Commission
from April 1998 to March 2010. He presided over twenty-six public
inquiries and directed the PC's environmental economics program.
Since 2008, he has been an Adjunct Professor in Environmental
Economics at the ANU then at the University of Canberra. In 2014/15
he chaired an independent review of Biodiversity Legislation in NSW
which led to the drafting of a new Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Neil is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
From 2008 to 2011 he was a non-executive Director of a plantation
forestry company in New Zealand and has been a Director of
Earthwatch Institute Australia since 2010. Prof Nick Bond’s primary
interests are in the effects of flow variability on riverine
ecosystems, especially the landscape scale effects of floods and
droughts. His research combines empirical field studies with
innovative quantitative modelling approaches. He has extensive
experience working on river management and environmental flow
issues in Australia and internationally, and has authored or
co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and numerous peer
reviewed technical reports. His research focus is supported by
active engagement with regional, national, and international water
and natural resource management agencies to support evidence-based
planning and decision making. Dr Carmel Pollino is a Principal
Research Scientist at Land and Water, CSIRO. She has 20 years of
experience working on water issues in Australia and throughout
Asia.
Carmel has a PhD in environmental science and a Masters in
environmental law. She works across the science and policy
interface, leading significant areas of research in Environmental
Flows, Hydrology, Ecology and Integrated River Basin Planning.
Carmel is the lead and also a contributor to global working groups
on biodiversity, water and impact planning, and has published
widely in these domains. Over the last 24 years, Prof. Michael
Stewardson’s research has focused on interactions between
hydrology, geomorphology and ecology in rivers
(http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/display/person14829). This
has included physical habitat modelling, flow-ecology science, and
innovation in environmental water practice. Michael has
participated in Australia’s water reforms through advisory roles at
all levels of government. More recently, his research has focused
on the physical, chemical and biological processes in streambed
sediments and their close interactions in regulating stream
ecosystem services. He leads the Environmental Hydrology and Water
Resources Group in Infrastructure Engineering at The University of
Melbourne (http://www.ie.unimelb.edu.au/research/water/).
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