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Integrated Catchment Management
Key Elements
- Julie Burke
Integrated Catchment Management:
What is it?› Management of a watershed
› Taking account of all competing interests:
Economic use of land and water
Environmental concerns
Social and cultural uses and values
› Taking advantage of knowledge in all disciplines:
Water engineering, economics, ecology, agricultural studies, forestry, sociology etc
Integrated Catchment Management: Key Elements
› driving issues
› identification of assets to be protected
› mechanisms to manage trade-offs and processes to manage negotiations
› measurable and simple objectives set
› Assessment of scenarios against objectives
› clear roles, responsibilities and accountabilities
› capacity of partners to carry out roles
› mechanisms to monitor, evaluate and improve the approach
In the Murray-Darling Basin, the Driving Issues are
› Water sharing › Water quality › Riverine Ecosystem Health › Biodiversity
Basin assets in the Broad (Goals)
› Healthy Rivers
› Healthy Ecosystems
› Productive and Innovative Industries
› Healthy regional communities
Some Specific Basin assets
› Adelaide’s drinking water
› Barmah-Millewa Forest and Narran Lakes (Ramsar sites)
› Murray Irrigation Districts
› Lake Victoria (cultural site)
Canberra
Sydney
Brisbane
NEW SOUTH WALES
QUEENSLAND
VICTORIA
SOUTHAUSTRALIA
Melbourne
Swan Hill
MilduraMorgan
Menindee
MenindeLakes
LakeVi ctoria
Albury
Forbes
Dubbo
Moree
Charleville
Bourke
MurrayMurrumbidgie
Lachlan
Darling Macquarie
Border
Balonne
Barwon
Warrego
Adelaide
200 km
Murray Bridge
Managing Trade-offs
› Need to limit degradation of assets› MDB will set limits on degradation of:
» Water quantity and flow» Water quality» Riverine health» Biodiversity
› MDBC calls these limits “targets”› These targets are a numerical form of objective
against which all scenarios can be tested
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End of valley target at site 1Protects downstream
Within-valley target at site 3:Protects wetland ecosystem
Within-valley target at site 2:Protects irrigation water supply
Within-valley target at site 4:Protects town water supply
4Major Town
Major Wetland
Managing Trade-offs – Targets to protect assets
5. Management target for sub-catchment:Revegetation of 20% of sub-catchment area
Irrigation District
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Achievement of the target is the OBJECTIVE Protection of the assets is the desired OUTCOME
Basin Basin objectiveobjective
Catchment Catchment objectivesobjectives
Assets identified and targets set at different scales
Basin -------------------------------- Commission
Catchment---------------------- States
Sub-catchment --------- CMOs
Scale determines who manages negotiations and agrees targets
Managing Negotiations
› Identify stakeholders relevant to the issues and the scale
› Involve them in setting of targets, scenario development and assessment
› Everyone must have access to the same information
Assigning Roles
› Assign and agree roles and responsibilities
› Ensure mechanisms for reporting against responsibilities to all stakeholders
› Accountability, not blame
Capacity Building
› Capacities must match roles and responsibilities
› Capacities include:› leadership› legal and institutional› financial › technical› knowledge base› cultural
Knowledge
Required at many stages› Assessment of concerns (audit)
› Understanding of processes and drivers (economic, environmental, social)
› Modeling of scenarios, including “do nothing”
› Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluation
› Monitor progress towards Objectives and Outcomes
› Monitor and evaluate the PROCESS
› Inform all stakeholders
› Learn from successes and failures to inform future actions
› all decisions are “interim” and must be tested
Issues
Assets
Trade-offs
Measurable and simple objectives
Scenario Assessment