This 181-page final report describes the results of social research designed to inform the Northern Territory Government's water allocation plan being developed for the Howard River Catchment.
This 181-page final report begins by defining social and cultural values in the context of Australian water resource management. It introduces the water management administration system of the Northern Territory and describes the Howard River water planning area: its biophysical characteristics, dominant land uses and socio-economic features.
The purpose of the first five chapters of the report is to outline the specific activities that occur in the region.
The report also identifies the most popular locations and describes their history, current management arrangements and the environmental changes and other pressures identified by stakeholders during the course of the study. Significant Aboriginal cultural sites are also identified and the utilisation of water sites in the study area is described.
The last chapter of the report provides an analysis of the stakeholder assessment of impacts of water use scenarios.
One objective of this project required that we gain an understanding of the way in which potential changes to water use in the greater Darwin area might affect the social and cultural values of the Howard River catchment.
To achieve this we conducted a community consultative workshop spanning two days in late April and mid May, 2008. The purpose of the workshop was to examine a set of water use scenarios, and build a picture of how each scenario may affect those present at the workshop.
A separate report on the workshop process and outcomes (Straton et al. 2008) has been produced.
Read the workshop summary report in Evaluating scenarios for the Howard catchment: summary report for workshop participants.
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