River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France.

ABSTRACT: Successful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. A governance approach for determining priorities for actors for sustainable management was developed, based on a river basin diagnostic framework consisting of four social-institutional and four biophysical indicators. It was applied in river basins in Australia, Brazil, China and France. Actors diagnosed current and target capacity for these indicators, and estimated synergistic influences of interacting indicators. The results reveal different priorities and transformative pathways to achieve basin plan outcomes, specific to each basin and actor groups. Priorities include biodiversity for the Murray-Darling, local water management needs for the São Francisco and Yellow ri

SUBMITTER: Bouckaert FW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9200927 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature