The purpose of this Workshop is to bring together academics, practitioners and graduate students with an interest in issues of river basin and water management. The aim will be to explore the possibilities for management of these complex social-technical-ecological systems – whether integrated, adaptive or collaborative – and the continuing challenges thereof, from theoretical, multi-disciplinary and practical perspectives, and in relation to basins of varying scale from the more-or-less local to the trans-boundary. The workshop will consider multiple perspectives on basin management - ecological, social, technical and economic - to address the inherent complexities, trade-offs and multiple disciplinary approaches involved in identifying effective solutions to the need to maintain healthy aquatic environments while delivering sustainable water services.