ORCID Profile
0000-0003-0029-8719
Current Organisation
NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 18-11-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2022.115862
Abstract: The services that rivers provide and how they affect the landscape plays a dominate role in urban planning and development. Urban riverscapes, which consist of stream channels, their floodplains, biotic communities, and manmade features, are complex social-ecological and hydrogeomorphic systems. Yet, despite recognition of their place and value, rivers are often degraded in urban settings. Successfully managing urban riverscapes requires improved methods to assess them and to more effectively link stressors to values, and to incorporate these considerations in planning. Assessment of urban riverscapes' physical condition and function-a hydrogeomorphic assessment-is necessary to make these links, and inform more appropriate management strategies for sustainable and valued riverscape systems. The framework and methods used for such an assessment should be appropriate to the urban context, insofar as they are applicable to a range of streams from lightly degraded to highly utilized or constructed. Above all, the framework must prioritize the connection of human communities to riverscapes. In this article, we outline a framework for urban riverscape assessment which considers four facets of urban riverscapes: human values, hydrology, geomorphology, and ecology. The four facets, assessed across multiple nested scales, provide a flexible basis for context-driven hydrogeomorphic assessment, which is vital to informing better planning and management of urban riverscapes. The framework can be integrated with other facets (e.g. geochemical, aquatic ecology) depending on the scope of the assessment. By linking intrinsic, relational, and use-based values to physical conditions, watershed managers can select relevant and measurable indicators that directly inform interventions in the riverscape, catchment, or urban zones to improve riverscape function and urban vitality through planning mechanisms. This assessment framework facilitates dialogue between managers, practitioners, scientists, and the community enabling technical and non-technical inputs to the development of assessment criteria, and a shared vision to inform targets and goals.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-05-2020
DOI: 10.1002/WAT2.1445
Abstract: River ch ions are people working for better water and river management in a range of capacities, and who are particularly influential and effective in driving progress. The ch ionship concept is not new, but tends to emphasize the bold and highly visible leader. This archetypal ch ion is at odds with the more humble and quieter forms of leadership that we frequently encounter in our work and communities. These less‐visible ch ions are in danger of being overlooked. A more inclusive characterization of ch ionship can enrich existing conceptualizations. We argue that many river ch ions lead quietly and are effective because they build and use social capital to influence others. They are well‐connected and can help to bridge scales of management. We advocate that ch ionship must be recognized and supported within and beyond institutions. This can be enacted by rewarding people for their time in ways that are meaningful and appropriate (i.e., not only financially) and by prioritizing connection between people. We offer specific ex les of how this can be done in a river management setting. By recognizing and supporting river ch ions in all their forms, we can maximize their value as a critical component of participatory water and river management systems. This article is categorized under: Water and Life Conservation, Management, and Awareness. Engineering Water Planning Water. Human Water Water Governance.
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2021
DOI: 10.1071/MF20065
Abstract: Sustainable, science-based freshwater-ecosystem management requires strong and integrated systems and policies for governance and knowledge management. Often the focus is on availability of technical information, whereas deeper knowledge development, sharing and implementation also require social networks that cross disciplinary and organisational boundaries. This research investigated emergence and development of river-rehabilitation practices based on principles of geomorphic river recovery through periods of institutional, political and policy change. Document analysis and oral testimony indicated that informal or emergent social networks, forming communities of practice, have been critical for developing, sharing and implementing river-recovery principles through these phases of change. However, social networks and the tacit knowledge held by networks and in iduals are insecure and may be vulnerable to loss if investments are not made in relationships and the ‘relational resources’ that provide resilience during periods of change. We see social relationships as critical to realisation of integrative, science-based freshwater-ecosystem management and governance in the long term and across local, state, national and international scales. This must be supported by policy that recognises the value of cross-organisational connection and provides institutional stability, while offering sufficient flexibility and openness for collaborative and adaptive governance in management of freshwater ecosystems.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-11-2017
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 22-01-2021
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0244719
Abstract: A fundamental premise of river management is that practitioners understand the resource they are working with. In river management this requires that baseline information is available on the structure, function, health and trajectory of rivers. Such information provides the basis to contextualise, to plan, to be proactive, to prioritise, to set visions, to set goals and to undertake objective, pragmatic, transparent and evidence-based decision making. In this paper we present the State-wide NSW River Styles database, the largest and most comprehensive dataset of geomorphic river type, condition and recovery potential available in Australia. The database is an Open Access product covering over 216,600 km of stream length in an area of 802,000 km 2 . The availability of the database presents unprecedented opportunities to systematically consider river management issues at local, catchment, regional and state-wide scales, and appropriately contextualise applications in relation to programs at other scales (e.g. internationally)–something that cannot be achieved independent from, or without, such a database. We present summary findings from the database and demonstrate through use of ex les how the database has been used in geomorphologically-informed river management. We also provide a cautionary note on the limitations of the database and expert advice on lessons learnt during its development to aid others who are undertaking similar analyses.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2020
Location: Australia
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