Crises and institutional change: emergence of cross-border water governance in Lake Eyre Basin, Australia

摘要: Managing large river basins for sustainability is a contentious social–ecological arena challenging traditional scientific and rational planning approaches to water related natural resources governance. “Crises” are inevitable but double-edged: creating threats uncertainties, also new opportunities shape trajectories of change avoid adverse consequences. A case study the remote cross-border Lake Eyre Basin (LEB), in arid central Australia, shows how over two decades series political–administrative “crises” emerged, posing significant environmental social dilemmas governance, while opening up institutional change. This article examines role crises emergence evolution governance LEB, they were perceived, challenges posed, responses, capacity outcomes. Finally, it reflects on emergent as more systemic adaptive basins.