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the documentation of the chain of outcomes in a water resource plan at some
point, leaving the broader matters on the right to external state, national or
international strategies to which the plan is subservient.
The chain of outcomes is not normally one dimensional, but rather is a
hierarchy with several lower level outcomes contributing to higher levels.
The Logic Framework Approach suggests drawing up this hierarchy (called
a 'results hierarchy') then mapping it into the four levels of the narrative
summary (see Figure 3.4).
A generic three level logic model developed for evaluating environmental
water management in Australia is shown in Figure 3.5. The implied causal
Goals
Objectives
Outputs
Components
Figure 3.4
Mapping of results hierarchy into logic model
(Adapted from diagram by R. Moses Thompson, International President and founder of
Team Technologies Inc., in Team Technologies 2005: 9.)
Targeted environmental and
socio-economic outcomes
Targeted water-
dependent ecosystem
outcomes
Consumptive
water use
outcomes
Targeted water systems outcomes
Uncontrolled
external
factors
Complementary
actions
Targeted
environmental
water regime
Targeted take of
water (volume,
reliability)
Water management mechanisms
Environmental water
management
mechanisms
Water management
mechanisms that
facilitate take of water
Figure 3.5
Generic logic model for environmental water management in Australia
(Source NWC 2011a. Used with permission)
