An ecosystem services framework to support statutory water allocation planning in Australia

摘要: ABSTRACTDuring the past decade concept of ecosystem services (ES) – benefits that nature provides to humans has increasingly been embraced as a promising avenue towards sustainable resource management. Initially pitched incentive-based biodiversity conservation, ES is now being applied diversity environmental resources in multitude policy, planning and management contexts. In context water planning, rivalling Integrated Water Resource Management paradigm. Despite omnipresence language, significant challenges remain terms implementation governance. This paper reports on lessons learnt from collaborative development an Framework within statutory allocation Australia. The consists seven components, three which match key steps existing Australian guidelines. Central table for wat...