Four Areas for collaborative projects within MDB
Four areas for collaborative projects were identified at SEGRA 2015 through the Rural and Remote Regions Research Agenda and the Murray-Darling Round Table.
Community water planning. This would be a multi-agency
project and could use a community focused participative approach similar to
that used by the NWC for Indigenous communities. Product would include
pictorial representation of supply and treatment systems.
Land use futures for the MDB. This would utilise a systems approach and cover issues such as
governance, capital and investment, disruptive technologies and use tools such
as (for example) the CSIRO land use change model, big data from TERN and the
‘Data Cube’.
Agriculture, industry and environment-Consumption verses
conservation. What is
the balance and who for? The approach could include overlay values mapping and
net chain analysis. On and off farm adaptation strategies would be embedded in
the approach.
The Basin in 50 years?Constructing futures using visualisation and
scenario setting and back casting to project changes to production and
conservation landscapes. This would have a policy maker thrust and encompass
trade policy.
Deliberations at the Rural and Remote Regions Research Agenda and the Murray-Darling Round Table at SEGRA 2015 focused the urgency for:
Promoting and actioning a collaborative client focused and needs driven research, engagement, and communications agenda that is based on sustainable relationships between customers, investors and providers to support the implementation of the ‘Basin Plan’ from the ‘bottom up’