Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for menindee lakes in australia’s murray-darling basin

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The authors examined elements of adaptive governance for current decision making related to a major wetland system, the Menindee Lakes (457 km² Water NSW 2022), which was a system of natural lakes made into dams to store water (total storage volume of 1731 GL) by a large weir across the Darling River in the 1960s (Appendix 1, Fig A1.3). Subsequently the Australian Government directed the state governments to identify water efficiency projects that could "offset" reduced water recovery targets by achieving "equivalent environmental outcomes" with less recovered water (MDBA 2012). The authors examined . . .

 



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