Natural Resource Management as a Form of Multi-level Governance: The Impact of Reform in Queensland and Tasmania

When trends intersect: The challenge of protecting freshwater ecosystems under multiple land use and hydrological intensification scenarios

“…Research and development activities have become fragmented and more disconnected from planning and implementation as scientists seek funding opportunistically rather than working within programmes with clearly articulated national public good goals and outcomes (see Dale et al, 2015). Although Australian universities and the peak Australian government-funded research organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), retain a strong research and development capacity in qualitative and quantitative water resource science, governance and management, this capacity is likely to erode if national funding support continues to decline (Dale et al, 2013b).…”