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5/21/2018 | 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM | IMPROVING OUTCOMES OF ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS THROUGH ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT: AUSTRALIA’S LONG-TERM INTERVENTION MONITORING PROJECT | 320

IMPROVING OUTCOMES OF ENVIRONMENTAL FLOWS THROUGH ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT: AUSTRALIA’S LONG-TERM INTERVENTION MONITORING PROJECT

Legislators have identified adaptive management as a way to improve outcomes from environmental flows. The Australian Government’s ‘Long-Term Intervention Monitoring’ (LTIM) Project is evaluating responses to Commonwealth Environmental Water in the Murray-Darling Basin. Adaptive management is nested with monitoring, evaluation and reporting undertaken for 7 ‘selected areas’, with results also synthesised at the basin scale. In 2017 we met to compare approaches, share successes and learn from failures. The parallel implementation of adaptive management in seven projects provides the potential for more rapid learning than is possible with any single project. All selected areas are using adaptive management to improve environmental water outcomes over short time scales. However, as the scale of the decision increases, adaptive management becomes harder. Incomplete and inconsistent documentation of decision making processes is also a barrier to better disseminating learnings from individual selected areas to the rest of the LTIM project. Large-scale monitoring and adaptive management of environmental flows is in its infancy. There is potential for rapid advances to improve social, economic, and ecological outcomes from environmental water. However, improved ‘reflection’ to share the learning from individual projects remains the key to achieving this.

Environmental Regulation
Collaborations
Monitoring

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Angus Webb (), The University of Melbourne, angus.webb@unimelb.edu.au;
Dr Angus Webb is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He originally trained as a marine ecologist before moving into the study and restoration of large-scale environmental problems in freshwater systems. Much of his research centers on improving the use of the existing knowledge and data for such problems. To this end he has developed innovative approaches to synthesizing information from the literature, eliciting knowledge from experts, and analyzing large-scale data sets. He is heavily involved in the monitoring and evaluation of ecological outcomes from the Murray-Darling Basin Plan environmental watering, leading the program for the Goulburn River, Victoria, and advising on data analysis at the basin scale. Angus is currently a co-editing a major new text book on environmental flows science and management. He was awarded the 2013 prize for Building Knowledge in Waterway Management by the River Basin Management Society, and the 2012 Australian Society for Limnology Early Career Achievement Award.