Adaptive management is central to improving outcomes of environmental water delivery. The Australian Government's Murray−Darling Basin (MDB) Plan 2012 explicitly states that adaptive management should be applied in the planning, prioritisation and use of environmental water. A Long Term Intervention Monitoring (LTIM) program was established in 2014 to evaluate responses to environmental water delivery for seven Areas within the MDB, with evaluation also undertaken at the Basin scale. Adaptive management at the Area scale was assessed using two approaches: (a) through a reflective exercise undertaken by researchers, water managers and community members and (b) through an independent review and evaluation of the program, where relevant reports were reviewed and managers and researchers involved in the LTIM program were interviewed. Both assessment approaches revealed that the scale of management actions influenced the extent to which learnings were incorporated into subsequent actions. Although there were many examples where learnings within an Area had been used to adaptively manage subsequent environmental water deliveries within that Area, there was inconsistent documentation of the processes for incorporating learnings into decision making. Although this likely limited the sharing of learnings, there were also examples where learnings from one Area had influenced environmental water management in another, suggesting that sharing between concurrent projects can increase learning. The two assessments identified ways to improve and systematically document the adaptive management learnings. With improved processes to increase reflection, documentation and sharing of learnings across projects, there is an opportunity to improve management of environmental water and ecosystem outcomes.

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从澳大利亚大型环境流量计划的多个流域同时进行适应性管理中学习

适应性管理对于改善环境水输送的结果至关重要。澳大利亚政府的《 2012年默里-达令河流域计划》（MDB）明确指出，在规划，确定优先次序和使用环境水时应采用适应性管理。2014年建立了长期干预监测（LTIM）计划，以评估多边开发银行内七个地区对环境供水的响应，并在流域范围内进行评估。区域规模的适应性管理采用两种方法进行评估：（a）通过研究人员，水管理者和社区成员进行的反思性练习，（b）通过对该计划的独立审核和评估，在此情况下对相关报告进行了审核，管理人员和参加了LTIM计划的研究人员。两种评估方法都表明，管理行动的规模会影响将学习内容纳入后续行动的程度。尽管有很多实例将某个区域内的知识用于适应性地管理该区域内的后续环境水输送，但有关将这些知识纳入决策过程的文档却不一致。尽管这可能会限制学习的共享，但也有一些示例，一个地区的学习影响了另一个地区的环境水管理，这表明并发项目之间的共享可以增加学习。两项评估确定了改进和系统记录适应性管理学习方法的方法。通过改进流程来提高项目间的反思，记录和学习成果的共享，就有机会改善对环境水和生态系统成果的管理。