@article{alexandra_how_2021, title = {How {Do} the {Cultural} {Dimensions} of {Climate} {Shape} {Our} {Understanding} of {Climate} {Change}?}, volume = {9}, url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/9/4/63}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3390/cli9040063}, number = {4}, journal = {Climate}, author = {Alexandra, Jason}, year = {2021}, note = {Number: 4 ZSCC: 0000000 Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}, keywords = {Landscape architecture, Urban planning}, pages = {63}, } @article{alexandra_losing_2019, title = {Losing the authority – what institutional architecture for cooperative governance in the {Murray} {Darling} {Basin}?}, volume = {23}, issn = {1324-1583}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2019.1586066}, doi = {10.1080/13241583.2019.1586066}, abstract = {Water governance strongly depends on the institutional arrangements in place. The plethora of recent inquiries into the adequacy and integrity of governance arrangements in the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) indicates a crisis of trust, legitimacy and public confidence – in short, a loss of authority. With the prospect that current arrangements are losing the authority and legitimacy needed to govern the Basin, pressure is mounting for further reforms due to scandals exposed in the media throughout 2017 and 2018. These and subsequent inquiries have revealed serious concerns about probity, integrity, maladministration and the adequacy of compliance and enforcement regimes. The productive potential of this crisis is that draws attention to the need for reforms to governance institutions. This paper aims to explore the redesign of the institutional architecture in the MDB. Given the profound challenges of social and climate change that are demanding reconsideration of the underlying models used in adaptively governing large complex socio-ecological systems, the paper asks what arrangements are suited to the challenges of governing the Basin in the 21st century? This paper explores the nature of the redesign challenge, exploring principles, practices and features of MDB governance. The need for institutions with capacity for strategic navigation, goal seeking and the cultural co-construction of authority are suggested in the interests of cultivating debate about prospective reorganisation.}, number = {2}, urldate = {2023-05-09}, journal = {Australasian Journal of Water Resources}, author = {Alexandra, Jason}, month = jul, year = {2019}, note = {Publisher: Taylor \& Francis \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2019.1586066}, keywords = {Urban planning}, pages = {99--115}, } @article{martin_murray-darling_2023, title = {Murray-{Darling} {Basin} {Plan} mark {II}. {What} should stakeholders plan for?}, volume = {0}, issn = {1324-1583}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2023.2173049}, doi = {10.1080/13241583.2023.2173049}, abstract = {The revised Murray-Darling Basin Plan is scheduled for 2026. Given the Plans complexity, and issues involved in the revision it is worth asking what will be the main drivers of change? What changes can reasonably be anticipated? What preparations should stakeholders make for their engagement in the planning process? As we move towards the next Basin Plan, there are multiple wheels in motion that could shape the future. Several factors we anticipate being important are examined. Our aim is to stimulate stakeholders to think about and prepare for major contingencies that could affect their interests. We focus on those that will likely affect water availability, and changes in policy and water-governance by public agencies. We take the starting point that rivers are complex social-ecological systems, within which structural circumstances and forms of social capital will affect individuals’ and communities’ abilities to maximise what they achieve from their natural assets, and their resilience to unfavourable contingencies. We conclude with some observations about how stakeholders might strengthen their ability to respond to opportunities or threats. While the future is always uncertain and all planning processes are flawed, how stakeholders conceive of and respond to today’s challenges will substantially affect their capacity to be resilient.}, number = {0}, urldate = {2023-05-09}, journal = {Australasian Journal of Water Resources}, author = {Martin, Paul and Alexandra, Jason and Holley, Cameron and Thoms, Martin}, month = feb, year = {2023}, note = {Publisher: Taylor \& Francis \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2023.2173049}, keywords = {Urban planning}, pages = {1--12}, }