1. Expand the table of stakeholders’ positions and interests to include the ecologically significant places that are affected by stormwater management decisions.

2. List major ‘places’ in the stakeholders column, and their ‘interests’ in the ‘interests’ column - where ‘interests’ reflect a judgement about the ecological outcomes that are appropriate for a place. These could reflect views about any or all of:

• sustaining dynamics,
• restoring ‘ecological health’,
• increasing ‘ecological permeability’, or
• enhancing ‘ecological services’.

3. In particular, in an urban stormwater context, consider what stake each receiving water body (wetland, creek, river, lake, groundwater store, estuary, ocean) has in how stormwater is managed in your locale. Consider the effects of:

• changes in how much water flows where, when (e.g. urbanisation often causes rapid influxes, higher storm peaks, and more persistent very low flows), and
• changes in what the water carries (e.g. increases in sediments, nutrients, pathogens, and seeds).

Catchment maps (NSW DEC)
with Water quality and river flow interim environmental objectives

see also Environmental Data

• Local State of the Environment Reports may identify locally occurring threatened species and communities, as may local conservation plans
• Threatened species (NSW Dept Environment and Conservation)
• Threatened species and threatened ecological communities (Commonwealth Dept Environment and Heritage)
• Threatened species and biodiversity program (NSW Fisheries)

Systems analysis is a good tool to use to think into dynamics in a disciplined way.

State of the Environment Reports provide a good introduction to the general dynamics:

• Australian State of the Environment Reports
• New South Wales State of the Environment Reports
• Local State of the Environment Reports from New South Wales

see also Environmental Data