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There is considerable scope for developing vulnerability assessments to assess policy trade-offs and particular need to represent the interactions between society and ecological systems. A range of vulnerability assessment models exist, with the requirement that such assessments be enlarged and revised to include the capacity to consider coupled human-environment systems. A revised assessment architecture is proposed, that incorporates: i) links with broad human and biophysical conditions; ii) perturbations and stressors that emerge from these processes and condition; and iii) the coupled system in which vulnerability rests (Turner et al. 2003). Although comprehensive, such a methodology clearly illustrates is the complexity of managing water in a coupled human-environment system, and the need for freshwater policy to consider vulnerability if sustainable management and informed policy trade-offs are to be achieved.

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