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COAG Water Initiative ![]()
Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Water Initiative.
COAG Agreement ![]()
Intergovernmental agreement on assessing water over-allocation and achieving environmental objectives in the Murray Darling Basin.
ABC Report
ABC report on COAG agreement.
Victorian White Paper
Our Water Our Future Report
National salinity committee
Coordination of the science to combat the nation's salinity problem.
Inquiry into Future Water Supplies
Inquiry into Future Water Supplies for Australia’s Rural Industries and Communities. Covers proposals for environmental allocations, water policy framework, water rights and trading, and water use efficiency.
Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council
Scientific Advice to the Natural Resource Management Ministerial Council.
Waterscapes Partners
Charles Sturt University
Large inland University with campuses at Wagga Wagga, Albury and Bathurst in NSW.
CSIRO Land and Water
A major reserach division within Australia's premier research body, the CSIRO.
Murray Darling Basin Commission
The Executive arm of the Murray Darling Basin Ministerial Council
CSIRO websites
CSIRO Sustainability Network
The sustainability network includes useful summaries of events, workshops and courses and has reviews, for example on ecosystem services (no.11) the population debate and ecological footprints (no.15) science in its social context (no. 17) and biodiversity (no. 32).
The Resilience Alliance
A multidisciplinary research group that explores the dynamics of complex adaptive systems in order to discover foundations for sustainability. Through an international program connecting regionalCase Studies with theory development, the RA strives to provide novel solutions to managing resilience and coping with change, uncertainty, and surprise in complex social-ecological systems.
Water for a Healthy Country
CSIRO Flagship Program - includes a node on the Murray
Emerging Science Areas
Leads you into descriptions of the ‘Emerging Science’ areas which include Social and Economic Integration and Complex Systems Science. Includes several papers including, Fairness in the allocation of water; angelands, pastoralists and governments - interlinked systems of people and management; mobilizing a university for important social science research.
Complex Systems Science
This is the site for Complex Systems Science. It includes links to working groups on agent-based modeling, complex spatial interactions, environmental risk network and ‘Smart Spaces’