MD-WERP Theme: Climate adaptation
MD-WERP theme 1 project: Synthesis and integration
Research Lead: Deakin University
Water management aims to balance community values, such as clean water and healthy ecosystems, with economic and cultural needs. To manage water resources effectively, governments need to balance different goals, and a popular framework called RAD (Resist, Accept, Direct) helps guide decisions. RAD encourages managers to choose whether to resist change, accept it, or guide it towards a more sustainable outcome.
Drawing on experiences from Australia’s Murray–Darling Basin, the researchers enhanced the RAD framework to include the outcomes of interventions, and regional and catchment-based assessments, while layering future climate scenarios to account for uncertainty.