2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
6/07/2017 | 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | LINKING SCIENCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL WATER POLICY USING ECO EVIDENCE: A CASE STUDY FROOM THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN AUSTRALIA | 305B
LINKING SCIENCE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL WATER POLICY USING ECO EVIDENCE: A CASE STUDY FROOM THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN AUSTRALIA
Eco Evidence is an evidence synthesis method designed to collate, categorize and assess the (sometimes conflicting) scientific evidence base to inform environmental decision-making. This study aims to evaluate the utility of Eco Evidence for informing environmental water policy. We applied Eco Evidence with federal practitioners responsible for developing policy to support refuges for waterbirds during dry periods in the Murray-Darling Basin. We tested 5 hypotheses related to the effects of wetland availability on waterbird abundance. The literature evidence supported 3 of 5 hypotheses. Our results illustrate the importance of maintaining several refuge types to support residual populations of waterbirds during dry periods. Maintaining these refuges with environmental water will help achieve a basin policy target to increase waterbird abundance by 20 to 25% over 10 years from 2014. Our results also illustrate how the utility of Eco Evidence can be enhanced by incorporating a range of information into the evidence synthesis framework (from conceptual model development through to hypothesis testing). We propose several principles to conduct credible, salient and legitimate evidence synthesis to inform policy.
- C34 Science and Policy
- S05 Social-Ecological Freshwater Systems
- S17 Integrating Published Literature into the Science and Policy Arenas Influencing Our Freshwater Futures: Evidence-Based Methods to Fit the Purpose
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Michael Peat
(), University of Canberra, Michael.Peat@canberra.edu.au;
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Susan Nichols
(), University of Canberra, Australia, Sue.Nichols@canberra.edu.au;
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