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Principles for scientists working at the river science-policy interface

Thompson et al
December 7, 2022 - ,
In the face of mounting environmental and political challenges in river management, accurate and timely scientific information is required to inform policy development and guide effective management of waterways.
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Framing two environmental flow trials in the Murray-Darling Basin, south-eastern Australia

Allan and Watts
September 4, 2022 - ,
We make sense of the world around us through mental knowledge structures called ‘frames’. Frames, and the metaphors that help to form and maintain them, can be studied through examining discourse.
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The politicisation of science in the Murray-Darling Basin

Stewardson et al
June 12, 2021 - ,
A paper in this issue, examining 'Science integrity, public policy and water governance in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’, suggests that a large group of scientists, who work on water management in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB)
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Adaptive management of environmental flows

Webb et al
March 7, 2018 - ,
Adaptive management enables managers to work with complexity and uncertainty, and to respond to changing biophysical and social conditions. Amid considerable uncertainty over the benefits of environmental flows, governments are embracing adaptive management as a means to inform decision making.
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Revealing adaptive management of environmental flows

Allan and Watts
September 5, 2017 - ,
Managers of land, water, and biodiversity are working with increasingly complex social ecological systems with high uncertainty.
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Developing biological indicators for the assessment of environmental flows

Watts et al
December 7, 2001 - ,
Recent reviews of the principles underlying the management of large rivers stress the need for a better understanding of the relationships between elements of the flow regime and ecological processes.
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The Mid-Murray region contains diverse and rich natural environments. Its waterways provide water for domestic use, and support diverse agriculture, tourism and recreational activities and, Aboriginal cultural values and practices.

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