ISF reviewed the NSW Department of Industry's decision-making framework for allocating water in the Murray- Darling system during extreme water shortages. We developed and applied principles for effective decision-making, drawing from various other approaches applied in our previous collaborations developing such frameworks with industry decision-makers.
ISF made specific considerations for this decision-making framework process, outlined the proposed structure of the framework in discrete steps, and finally made recommendations for further improvements to the decision-making process. These included considerations for:
- the critical timing of the decisions and therefore the need for flexibility in the framework
- the criteria to be used for firstly ranking the critical demands, and secondly for prioritising the options (and packages of options)
- quantifying the critical demands to be considered in the decision process
- collaboration across agencies.
ISF provided a proposed structure and steps to describe the key components of the decision-making the process for allocating water during extreme water shortages.
Researchers
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Professor -
Associate Professor and Research Director
Year
- 2019
Location
- New South Wales
Client
- NSW Department of Industry - Water
