Stakeholder Participation, Policy and Management

This project considered two key elements in protecting companies’ groundwater abstraction licences from sustainability reductions: (1) Stakeholder participation and (2) the use of science in decision-making. Work focused on the threats and opportunities offered to water companies as stakeholders in the water environment, including. The project also examined the degree to which the results of hydro-ecological model and methods provide information for decision-making on environmental impacts of abstraction. It identified gaps between outputs and the requirements of decision-makers and specified R&D to reduce uncertainty in decision making.