Full Title
Lake Hume Water Quality Study
Contact Person
Darren Baldwin
Project Team
Lin Crase and Brian Furze (La Trobe University)
Funding Body
Goulurn-Murray Water
Duration
completed March 2006
Outcomes
Howitt, J.A., Baldwin, D.S. and Hawking, J. (2005). A Review of the Existing Studies on Lake Hume and its Catchment. Report prepared for Goulburn-Murray Water, May, 131pp.
Crase, L. and Furze, B. (2006). Lake Hume Land and On-Water Management Plan: Establishing the Social/Community and Economic Context. Report prepared for MDFRC for Goulburn-Murray Water, May, 51pp.
Summary
Lake Hume is a two-phase study.
Phase 1 was a literature review on water quality issues relevant to Lake Hume, the synthesis and interpretation of available data sets, and a written report.
Phase 2 was a socio-economic analysis of various management interventions (in conjunction with La Trobe University). The primary functions of this work were to:
- Establish and explore the range of social relationships between the resources of Lake Hume and the communities that interact with them.
- Articulate the social ramifications of altering these relationships.
- Catalogue the economic relationships inherent in the management status quo.
- Enumerate the economic implications of altered resource management.
