Water Management Climate Change Biosecurity What are Social amp Political Discourses The conversations or discussions that societypoliticians have about a particular issue Examples of environmental ID: 574491
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Social & Political Discourses
Water Management
Climate Change
BiosecuritySlide2
What are Social & Political Discourses?
The conversations or discussions that society/politicians have about a particular issue.
Examples
of environmental
discourses:
Water Management
Climate Change
Biosecurity
Biodiversity
M
arine
protection
areas
logging,
E
xtinction rates
C
oral Reefs
Whaling
Renewable Energy Slide3
Water Management…
Water management is the activity of planning, developing, distributing and managing the optimum use of water resources. To ensure a supply of clean, potable water will be available to people who need it, while balancing the needs of industry and the environment. The main issues involve how to ensure the continued supply into the future and how to fairly distribute it. Slide4
WATER MANAGEMENT DEBATE – MD Basin
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The 2 opposing discourses
Farmers
wanting a greater share to ensure the ability to effectively grow crops and supply food to Australians and many parts of the world
.
E
nvironmental
groups who would like to see an increase in water flows to the environment to improve its health and biodiversity.
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Why is the management of this area so important?
This is a very important issue as the Murray-Darling Basin produces over one third of Australia's food supply and supports over a third of Australia's total gross value of agricultural production. Slide7
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QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (hint hint!)
How
could
the
discourse
of
water
management influence contemporary societal relationships with outdoor environments?The discourses about the environmental issue of water management may influence society to better understand the importance of a continued supply of water and the need to use it more sustainably; this could lead to a change in everyday practices to be more water wise such as turning off taps and having shorter showers.