| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Risk and Sustainable Management Group; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I Policy; 1. A hundred-year policy experiment: the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia; 2. Water markets, property rights and managing environmental water reserves; 3. Why the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan failed, and what can be done to fix it; PART II Agricultural production; 4. Assessing the regional impacts of the Basin Plan and the Water for the Future program in the Murray-Darling Basin |
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5. Variability and uncertainty: implications for water policy impact analysis6. Investment as an adaptation response to water scarcity; PART III Environment; 7. Chewing on the CEWH: options for improving management of environmental water in the Murray-Darling Basin; 8. Maximising benefits from Murray-Darling Basin water resource management; PART IV Community; 9. Informing tough trade-offs in the Murray-Darling Basin; 10. Water allocation, social change and resilience; Conclusion; Poem; APPENDIX 1 MAPS OF THE BASIN; APPENDIX 2 BASIN WATER RESOURCE PLANNING AND POLICY TIMELINE |
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APPENDIX 3 GLOSSARYOF TERMSIndex |
| Summary |
Agriculture in the Murray Darling Basin of Australia represents a controversial 'policy experiment' comprising large capital investments, innovation and enterprise over a 100 year period. This book, which contains contributions from some of Australia's foremost economic, social science and public policy researchers and writers, examines the evolution of public policy frameworks that transformed water management from initial exploitation for irrigation as a dominant single use to a dynamic multiple use resource system. Water Policy Reform provides both analytical insights and examples of succes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Water-supply -- Australia -- Management
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Water resources development -- Australia
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Water resources development
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Water-supply -- Management
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chambers, Sarah
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Mallawaarachchi, Thilak
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| LC no. |
2011939357 |
| ISBN |
9781781000328 |
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1781000328 |
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178100031X |
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9781781000311 |
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9781280492907 |
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1280492902 |
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