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November 28, 2008
In Connectivity in the Australian Humanities Review Jessica K. Weir says that:
The need for profound change in our intellectual traditions is a part of the current re-examination of water management in the Murray-Darling Basin. The language of water management has changed to recognise the ‘environmental needs’ of the river, described as environmental water allocations or environmental flows...Vast extractions of water from the Murray River have only been achieved by water managers mobilising knowledge frameworks that narrowly perceive river water as a resource for human consumption.
Weir says that we need to push the current re-examination of water management further, and move the focus to our life-sustaining connections with rivers; this is what I am calling ‘connectivity thinking’. Connectivity is a way of being in the world and is intended as a conceptual framework that focuses on relationships, flows and connections. The basic premise is that we are unavoidably part of the world (and are, therefore, unavoidably responsible for it)
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