Publications about environmental water issues
The importance of headwater streams - No 25 - December 2009
Examines the headwaters of Australian rivers, which can constitute 75 per cent or more of a stream length in a drainage basin.
A national synthesis of river restoration projects - No 23 - November 2009
Recommends the collection and synthesising of information on Australian river restoration efforts - a national database would be useful to a wide range of audiences.
Floodplain ecosystems: resilience, value of services and principles for diverting water - No 22 - October 2009
Examines the application of resilience thinking to the social and economic elements of floodplain systems, including the role of managers and social and political connectivity.
Resilience and thresholds in river ecosystems - Waterlines report 21 - September 2009
Explores the principles underpinning resilience thinking, and their potential application for improving the management of Australian river ecosystems.
Improving environmental sustainability in water planning - Waterlines report No 20 - September 2009
Explores the reasons why a consistent national approach to achieving environmental sustainability in water planning has been difficult.
Gap analysis and strategy development for national level estuary environmental flows policies - Waterlines report No 17 - July 2009
Provides a clear picture of the existing practice, legislation, regulation protocols, institutional and governance models and management regimes regarding estuary environmental flow management.
Pulsed flows: Environmental costs and benefits and best practice - Waterlines report No 16 - May 2009
Examines whether pulsed flows achieve ecological benefits, and if so, how they might be implemented in river management.
Recovery pathways after flow restoration in rivers - Waterlines report No 15 - February 2009
Identifies and describes current work on recovery pathways after flow restoration in rivers, so that knowledge gaps and directions for future investment can be identified.
Bayesian modelling for risk-based environmental water allocation - Waterlines report No 14 - February 2009
Reviews the application of Bayesian models for use in the determination and management of environmental flow allocations.
Identification and management of refuges for aquatic organisms - Waterlines report No 11 - November 2008
Summarises what is known about threats and refuges for different ecosystems, refuges for diverse aquatic taxa, refuges for biodiversity, principal refuges and rehabilitation and restoration in the refuge context. The report also identifies knowledge gaps and sets out principles for managing refuges for freshwater biota.
Subsurface groundwater-dependent ecosystems - Waterlines report No 8 - October 2008
Part of a series of Waterlines papers exploring issues relating to aquatic ecosystems in Australia, and identifying significant current gaps in knowledge associated with environmental water management.