Figure 2 Choices that can be made about the nature of a situation such as water governance and catchment management situations
(adapted from SLIM 2004).
Description
This cartoon shows three people peering into a box labelled ‘situation’ through a magnifying glass which contains the labels
‘complex’, ‘uncertain’, ‘controversial’ and ‘interdependent’. The person on the left is shown as thinking ‘we’re stuck in
a swamp’, the middle as ‘this is a can of worms’ and the character on the right is thinking ‘what a mess!’.