2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
5/25/2021 | 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM | Intentional Stakeholder Engagement for Improved Environmental Flow Outcomes | Virtual Platform
Intentional Stakeholder Engagement for Improved Environmental Flow Outcomes
Rivers are dynamic socio-ecological systems supporting societies and ecosystems in a multitude of ways, giving rise to a variety of user groups and competing interests. Environmental flows intended to protect riparian environments have seen calls for increased public participation to include communities and First Nations. In this paper, we describe how adaptive management of environmental flows allows an opportunity to incorporate a diversity of stakeholder views through an iterative process, but stakeholder engagement must be intentionally integrated into the adaptive management cycle. Stakeholder engagement in environmental flows allows for the creation of a shared understanding of a river and opens up collaborative and innovative management strategies that address multiple axes of uncertainty. Engagement is already happening in an ad-hoc manner in environmental flows, but this paper articulates a holistic framework that unifies these projects and other methods into a complete strategy. We have identified the primary steps in an environmental flows adaptive management cycle and stated the ideal roles of various stakeholders, illustrating potential engagement tools through case study examples. Restructuring environmental flows methods to adequately include stakeholders requires a shift from being deliverable driven to focusing on people-oriented outcomes.
- Flow
- Interdisciplinary
- Policy
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Meghan Mussehl
(), University og Melbourne, mmussehl@student.unimelb.edu.au;
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Avril Horne
(), The University of Melbourne, avril.horne@unimelb.edu.au;
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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.
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