Dr Ted Christie: Environmental Dispute Resolution and Sustainable Solutions

Developing the Murray-Darling Basin Plan is a classic sustainable development issue for water resources management. The conflict that exists between competing land use interests over Basin Plan ESD outcomes is a feature of public interest environmental conflicts ! The key to manage and resolve this information conflict relates to the appropriateness of the methodology used to achieve ESD outcomes in developing the Basin Plan? READ MORE …

TAGS: Water Act 2007 (Cth); MDB Plan; MDB Royal Commission; MDB Authority; Basin Plan; SDL; ESLT; ESD; Sustainable Solutions; community concerns; Nick James; Multi-Objective Analysis Some uncertainty exists between the MDB Royal Commission findings for achieving ESD outcomes and the MDB Authority’s response to these findings. Specifically, whether Basin Plan outcomes provide a framework for achieving sustainable long-term solutions in accordance with the statutory meaning of ecologically sustainable development  in the Federal Water Act? Two issues are reviewed: Basin Plan decision-making and primacy under the Water Act; and the scientific methodology to derive ESD outcomes. Problem-solving solutions are outlined.  READ MORE ,,,