Jason Alexandra

TL;DR: Six major themes in the ecology and conservation of landscapes are assessed, including recognizing the importance of landscape mosaics, recognizing interactions between vegetation cover and vegetation configuration, and 13 important issues that need to be considered in developing approaches to landscape conservation.

TL;DR: The concept of institutional path dependence offers useful ways of understanding the trajectories of water policy reforms and how past institutional arrangements, policy paradigms and development patterns constrain current and future choices and limit institutional adaptability as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The treatment of climate change in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) reforms over the past decade was examined in this paper. But no reductions in future water availability due to climate change were formalized in the 2012 Basin Plan.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the ways water governance adapts to changing social values and political imperatives by examining the case of water policy reforms in Australia's Murray Darling Basin and find that water market reforms have generally been regarded as successful, enabling the reallocation of water for environmental and extractive uses, contributing to flexibility and adaptive capacity.

TL;DR: Australia can build capacity for integrated and adaptive resource management by rigorously examining and learning from recent experience—bioregional conservation planning, natural resource management, landcare, and water reform—and invest in building professional and community capacity.