South Australia’s River Murray: Social and cultural values in water planning

Mooney, Carla; Tan, Poh-Ling

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.04.010

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“…We adopted a modified PAR methodology in three case study regions, namely the Tiwi Islands, Northern Territory; the Regulated Murray River, South Australia; and the Condamine groundwater area, Queensland (see Hoverman and Ayre, 2012;Mooney and Tan, 2012;Tan et al, 2012, this issue). The locations of these case studies are indicated in Fig.…”

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The value and limitations of Participatory Action Research methodology

Mackenzie

Tan

Hoverman

et al. 2012

Journal of Hydrology

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The value and limitations of Participatory Action Research methodology

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Hoverman

et al. 2012

Journal of Hydrology

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“…2. Understanding the need for cut-backs in human use requires social learning as observed in our study in the Queensland [20] and South Australia [21]. Several complementary factors are identified as fundamental to social learning including the ability to negotiate and agree on rules and roles, strong leadership and facilitation, and 'triple-loop' learning processes that enable the questioning of assumptions and the reconsideration of beliefs and values.…”

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“Localism” as an approach to community participation in Australian water planning

Tan¹

2012

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Sharing of water between competing uses of surface and groundwater systems across Australia is based on water plans. Based on adaptive management, planning involves the use of participatory processes to achieve a balance between consumptive and in-stream uses of water. Tensions between different stakeholders and values are particularly evident where overallocated water systems are required to be returned to an environmentally sustainable level of extraction, as shown in current processes for a Basin Plan in the Murray-Darling. Parliamentary enquiries have called for the incorporation of "local" approaches in water planning to ease these tensions. Two recent projects identify barriers and bridges to collaborative water planning, and in a variety of contexts, trial practical tools to address issues identified by stakeholders and agencies. Major findings include identification of factors that improve community confidence of plans. These results have implications for water planning in other countries especially where the science is contested, social values are uncertain and communities diverse.

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“…The plan followed the standard NRM structure and approach, relegating assumed minimal Indigenous interests as cultural or archaeological with just three sentences on page one and two brief bullet points on page 2. In 2010, a "Cultural Water Study" was done at Sugar Shack (Mooney and Tan 2012). However, Ngarrindjeri/Nganguraku wanted to use an Indigenous-led, nation (re)building approach for wetland plan development and to author a wetland management plan for the entire Sugar Shack floodplain, at a landscape scale, that could effectively incorporate Ngarrindjeri/Nganguraku worldviews.…”

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A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health

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Rigney²,

Muller³

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ABSTRACT. Indigenous involvement in Australian water management is conventionally driven by a top-down approach by nonIndigenous government agencies, that asks "how do we engage Indigenous people?" and has culminated in the ineffective "consult" and "service delivery" processes evident in mainstream water management planning. This is a hopeful paper that identifies the critical importance of a "nation-based" approach for effective Indigenous engagement in water planning and policy through the work undertaken by the Ngarrindjeri Regional Authority (NRA) in the Murray Futures program. The NRA is an Indigenous government in the "settled-south" of Australia. Over past decades, the NRA has developed a range of political technologies that act as tools for redeveloping Ngarrindjeri Nationhood after colonial disempowerment and dispossession. These tools enable better collaboration with nonIndigenous governments, especially in natural resource management policy and practice. In turn, this has better enabled the NRA to exercise a decision-making and planning authority over the lands and waters in its jurisdiction, therefore, more effectively exercising its ongoing duty of care as Country. This paper presents a case study of the Sugar Shack Complex Management Plan, codeveloped by the NRA and the South Australian Government in 2015, to demonstrate the benefits that accrue when Indigenous nations are resourced as authorities responsible for reframing water management and planning approaches to facilitate the equitable collaboration of Indigenous and nonIndigenous worldviews. As a marker of the success of this strategy, the Ngarrindjeri Yarluwar-Ruwe Program, in partnership with the South Australian government, recently won the Australian Riverprize 2015 for delivering excellence in Australian river management. The Ngarrindjeri "Vision for Country" quoted above encapsulates the Ngarrindjeri philosophy of being (Ruwe/Ruwar) at the center of Ngarrindjeri innovations in water management. Its ancient but radical message has far-reaching implications for Australian water planning. Originally developed as part of the whole-of-country strategy expressed in the Ngarrindjeri Nation Yarluwar-Ruwe Plan (Ngarrindjeri Nation 2007), it asserts a sovereign vision for healthy Ngarrindjeri country, based on valuing Ngarrindjeri lifeways, values, and knowledge. Ngarrindjeri country is in the "settled south" of Australia, at the end of the iconic River Murray (Murrundi), the longest river in Australia and third longest navigable river in the world.Freshwater flows through the Murray-Darling system into Ngarrindjeri lands are, for Ngarrindjeri, the life blood of the living body of Murrundi. The mouth of the Murray and its nearby region is a place of great spiritual and cultural significance known and formally registered as the "Meeting of the Waters" where the salt and fresh waters mix. For Ngarrindjeri, the reproduction of wellbeing is inextricably linked to interconnectivity, estuarine mixing, and the overall health of Murrundi as a living bod...

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South Australia’s River Murray: Social and cultural values in water planning

Cited by 42 publications

References 7 publications

The value and limitations of Participatory Action Research methodology

The value and limitations of Participatory Action Research methodology

“Localism” as an approach to community participation in Australian water planning

A new direction for water management? Indigenous nation building as a strategy for river health

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