Focuses on how to shift from deterministic planning and decision making to a process where uncertainty is planned for using scenarios and pathways for incremental decisions and investments. It addresses the question of how to build a collaborative inter-agency approach where data is shared, understood and applied through scenarios, real option analysis and investment pathways. Wider understanding of future scenarios is needed to help co-ordinate and plan for droughts and flood, and harmonised data will support planning for climate-resilience integrated water-energy performance and related adaptive management.
Research questions: The HDRs working with QLD (DETSI) and NSW (DCEEW) will address: What is the anticipated range of realistic water impacts communities and industries can anticipate, and how can we improve their prediction? What is the role of interagency data including scenarios in regional water planning? How to create planning tools to achieve multiple outcomes spanning water and energy security, and GHG emissions across organisations and with the community?
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