The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is a World Heritage Area and contains extensive areas of
coral reef, seagrass meadows and fisheries resources. From adjacent catchments …

Integrative research has been the dominant theme in this Special Issue, demonstrated by
contemporary examples of effective collaborations and solutions for the successful …

Abstract The Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia, is threatened by declining water quality
largely derived from agricultural run-off. Water quality planning aims to mitigate pollutant run …

A major challenge to integrating local knowledge into collaborative environmental
governance processes stems from the underlying differences between positivist science and …

Managers are moving toward implementing large-scale coastal ecosystem restoration
projects, however, many fail to achieve desired outcomes. Among the key reasons for this is …

The United States and Australia confront the challenge of meeting multi-faceted Indigenous
water requirements within the wider context of intensified competition for freshwater supplies …

Governments in Australia and internationally are experimenting with policy instruments to
facilitate the adoption of farming practices with reduced environmental impacts. The Great …

Increasing pressure on shared water resources has often been a driver for the development
and utilisation of water resource models (WRMs) to inform planning and management …

Collaborative approaches to natural resource management are playing a key role in
addressing complex environmental problems. Much of what is known about collaborative …

Australia's Murray–Darling basin (MDB) water plan is an ambitious attempt to balance
ecological, social and economic benefits, where a key aspect of the reform process has …