Procedures for ensuring community involvement in multijurisdictional river basins: a comparison of the Murray-Darling and Mekong river basins |
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Authors: | Chenoweth Jonathan L Ewing Sarah A Bird Juliet F |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Geography, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905 Israel, IL;(2) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, 3010 Victoria, Australia, AU;(3) Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne, 3010 Victoria, Australia, AU |
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Abstract: | Community involvement is fundamental to the management of multijurisdictional river basins but, in practice, is very difficult
to achieve. The Murray-Darling basin, in Australia, and the Mekong River basin in Southeast Asia are both cooperatively managed
multijurisdictional river basins where the management authorities have expressed an aim of community involvement. In the Murray-Darling
basin vigorous efforts have promoted a culture of community consultation throughout each of the state jurisdictions involved,
although true participation has not necessarily been achieved. In the Mekong basin the community is much more diverse and
the successes so far have been largely at the local level, involving action in subsections of the basin. These case studies
suggest that community involvement in the form of community consultation across large multijurisdictional river basins is
achievable, but more comprehensive participation is not necessarily possible. |
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Keywords: | : River basin management Community involvement Murray-Darling Mekong |
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