Challenges for evidence-based environmental management: What is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?

2017

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This paper explores the use of the Eco Evidence framework in answering the question "what is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation?" in environmental assessments.

Beginning with an overview of the Eco Evidence framework, this resource then provides a detailed summary of its potential applications and a relatively brief description of the method itself. It includes a worked example of the framework informing groundwater abstraction limits for environmental flow guidelines in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia.

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Nichols, S. J., Peat, M., & Webb, J. A. (2017). Challenges for evidence-based environmental management: What is acceptable and sufficient evidence of causation? Freshwater Science, 36(1), 240-249. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/690106

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