Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment
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Project Description:
Goal
Facilitate key stakeholders to develop a shared vision on the future of irrigation in the Goulburn Broken catchment, and to identify scenarios of major constraints and opportunities and of regional response options.
• Understand the social, economic and environmental consequences of various scenarios through impact assessment based on an integration of the best available knowledge.
• Facilitate key stakeholders to build consensus on preferred regional options for future irrigation, and recommend regional follow-up actions.
• Develop a methodology that can be applied elsewhere in Australia for sustainable irrigation planning at a catchment scale.
Outcomes & Benefits
• Forward thinking leadership in the region with innovative approaches to meeting the challenge of rapid changes
• Catchment and regional planning processes built on a vision shared by key stakeholders and informed by the integration of the best available knowledge
• Debates on environmental policy, eg the Living Murray and environmental flows, being informed by a rigorous assessment of triple bottom line impacts
• A confident community and region built on sustainable irrigation, achieving social, economic and environmental aspirations
Key Outputs
• Development of a shared vision on sustainable irrigation in the Goulburn Broken catchment, a process for ongoing review of the vision, and a process to support stakeholder groups in linking the vision with their strategic plan development
• Identification of scenarios of future irrigation in the region: major external and regional constraints and opportunities, and regional response options
• Assessment of social, economic and environmental consequences of the identified scenarios based on an integration of the best available knowledge
• Building consensus on preferred regional options for future irrigation, and recommendations on regional follow-up actions.
• Development of a methodology that can be applied elsewhere in Australia for sustainable irrigation planning at a catchment scale
Strategies
The project will facilitate key stakeholders and use the best scientific knowledge to identify and understand the key aspects that affect irrigation outcomes in the region, including
• External constraints and opportunities (eg irrigation water availability, property rights, climate changes, environmental policy, new science breakthroughs, markets).
• Regional assets and constraints (eg soils, hydrogeology, land capability, climate, ecology, infrastructure, skill and expertise, social capability).
• Desired outcomes as measured by indicators of sustainable irrigation (eg industries, economics, social equity, population, water quality and ecology, salinity, soil health).
• Possible regional options (including some radical changes) for future irrigation in the region (eg where, what and how to irrigate in the catchment, infrastructure, commodities and farming systems, regional policy instruments and institutional arrangements).
• Behaviour of the biophysical, economic and social systems that link regional options to outcomes, given the regional assets and scenarios of external constraints. |
Progress to Date:
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Publications:
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Title and Report
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| Robertson, D. Wang, Q.J. and Soste, L. (2007)
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Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment: Final Report Summary
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Robertson, D. Wang, Q.J., Soste, L. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Scenarios of the Future: Irrigation in the Goulburn Broken Region
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Wang, Q.J., Robertson, D., Soste, L. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Regional scenario planning in practice: Irrigation futures of the Goulburn Broken Region
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Robertson, D. Wang, Q.J., Soste, L., Chaffe, R. and Lyle, C. (2007)
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Scenarios Perspectives of future irrigation
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| URS Australia Pty Ltd and Irrigation Futures Project Team (2007)
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Handbook of flexible technologies for irrigation infrastructure
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Robertson, D. Wang, Q.J., Soste, L. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Scenario implications for catchment management
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Soste, L., Wang, Q.J., Robertson, D. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Scenario planning for individuals and businesses
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Wang, Q.J., Soste, L. and Robertson, D. (2007)
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Handbook of project plans
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Soste, L., Wang, Q.J., Robertson, D.E., Kelly, S. and Johnston, R. (2007)
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Project evaluations
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Soste, L., Robertson, D., Chaffe, R. and Wang, Q.J. (2007)
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Scenario implications for land use planning
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Pinniceard, C., Soste, L., Robertson, D. and Wang, Q.J. (2007)
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Business futures
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Fagan, A., Robertson, D. Wang, Q.J., Soste, L. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Water and food: futures thinking
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Irrigation Futures project team (2007)
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Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment Fact Sheet
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Wang, Q.J., Robertson, D., Soste, L. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Regional scenario planning in practice: Irrigation futures of the Goulburn Broken Region
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Robertson, D., Wang, Q.J., Soste, L. and Chaffe, R. (2007)
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Scenarios of the future: Irrigation in the Goulburn Broken Region
Department of Primary Industries Victoria
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| Essaw, D.W. (2008)
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Assumptions Underlying Integrated Water Resources Management Concept – A Review
CRC for Irrigation Futures
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Title and Published Conference Paper or Workshop Paper
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| Wang, QJ., Soste, L., Robertson, D., Handley, S. and Chaffe, R. (0)
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Scenario Planning for Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Region
Water Resources Conference
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| Wang, QJ., Soste, L., Robertson, D., Handley, S. and Chaffe, R. (0)
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Developing strategies for Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken region
2005 ANCID Conference
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| Wang, QJ., Soste, L., Robertson, D., Handley, S. and Chaffe, R. (0)
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Scenario planning for future irrigation in the Goulburn Broken region
ABARE Outlook 2006 Conference
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| Wang, QJ., Soste, L., Robertson, D., Handley, S. and Chaffe, R. (0)
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Scenario planning for irrigation futures of the Goulburn Broken Region
APEN International 2006 Conference
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Researchers:
Dr John Wolfenden Mr Glen Starkey
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