Scenario planning is an approach to strategic planning. It acknowledges the uncertainties and ambiguities of the future and seeks to identify ways to strengthen the strategic position of an organisation in that uncertain environment. Van der Heijden (1996) identifies that good strategic planning should be based on four common-sense elements:
understanding of the aims and purpose of the entity;
an assessment of the organisation’s characteristics, including its (more)...
This document was developed by the Irrigation Futures project team as a contribution to Goulburn-Murray Water’s irrigation reconfiguration processes. It has been included as a chapter in the Shepparton Regional Atlas as a part of Goulburn-Murray Water’s Strategic View of Assets and Service Needs. This document summarises the scenarios and their implications for irrigation infrastructure planning.
URS Australia was commissioned by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) to prepare a handbook of technologies that are available to provide flexibility in irrigation delivery systems to deal with the varying irrigation demands which may occur in the future. The project follows on from a process of scenario planning which was used by the Department to develop a vision for the future of irrigated agriculture in the Goulburn-Broken Catchment of (more)...
The Goulburn Broken Catchment is known as the food bowl of Australia. It covers 2.4 million hectares and has a population of around 200,000 people (Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2005). Irrigated agriculture is a major business engine in the Goulburn Broken region, producing more than $1.2 billion at the farm gate in 2001-2002 from about 280,000 hectares of irrigated agricultural land. Investment in on-farm and processing infrastructure is about A$100 million per annum (Michael Young (more)...
Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment
The Goulburn Broken Catchment is known as the food bowl of Australia. It covers 2.4 million hectares and has a population of around 200,000 people (Department of Sustainability and Environment 2005). Irrigated agriculture is a major business engine in the Goulburn Broken region, producing more than $1.2 billion at the farm gate in 2001-2002 from about 280,000 hectares of irrigated agricultural land. Investment in on-farm and processing (more)...
Irrigation Futures of the Goulburn Broken Catchment
The Goulburn Broken Catchment is known as the food bowl of Australia. It covers 2.4 million hectares and has a population of around 200,000 people (Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2005). Irrigated agriculture is a major business engine in the Goulburn Broken region, producing more than $1.2 billion at the farm gate in 2001-2002 from about 280,000 hectares of irrigated agricultural land. Investment in on-farm and processing (more)...
This Attachment to the Final Report provides a compilation of all the post-implementation reviews carried out within the Irrigation Futures project. The reviews are intended to provide further guidance to next-users on what worked (or didn’t work) at various Stages of the project and why. Next-users can use these insights to modify their plans as required.
The Irrigation Futures scenarios highlight that the future for agriculture is highly uncertain. Market preferences, competition and access, government policy, water availability, technology will all change and potentially place significant pressure on the viability of agricultural businesses. To stay competitive in a global market place, agriculture will need to be increasingly flexible and adaptable. One element that will support the development of flexibility and adaptability in agriculture is (more)...
No single methodology is used to calculate crop evapotranspiration (ETc) in Australia. This reduces confidence in the various estimates of crop water use, which are an important piece of base information that underpins much water policy.
The National Action Plan on Salinity relies on an accurate understanding of ground water recharge rates in both irrigated and dryland farming systems. Estimates of recharge rates are directly affected by estimates of crop water use as both are elements of (more)...
