Abstract:
This report is concerned with R&D requirements and priorities to ensure the refinement, development and integration of methods and frameworks to facilitate their use in water allocation and water reform. It presents two main strands of R&D. 1. R&D required to improve individual methods of environmental flow assessment, based on the recommendations of the reviews contained in LWRRDC Occasional Paper Number 27/98, Comparative Evaluation of Environmental Flow Assessment Techniques: Review of Methods (Arthington & Zalucki 1998a). 2. R&D required to improve existing holistic methodologies and the proposed best practice framework for environmental flow assessment.
