Water Policy Reform

Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray–Darling Basin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Av John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Sarah Chambers

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Agriculture in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia represents a controversial 'policy experiment' comprising large capital investments, innovation and enterprise across a hundred-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 successes and failures in developing water policy in a complex and politically-contested environment. As such, this work attempts to develop a comprehensive management plan for the Basin and provides novel and invaluable lessons for an increasingly global problem. This well-researched study will interest both economists and those with public policy interest in academia and the public sector, including development agencies concerned with sustainable water resource management. Contributors: D. Adamson, O. Banerjee, J. Bennett, S. Chambers, J. Connor, L. Crase, T. Cummins, S. Driml, T. Goesch, P. Gooday, D. Hatton MacDonald, T. Mallawaarachchi, A. McClintock, M. Morrison, N. Nguyen, D. Pannell, J. Quiggin, H. Ross, A. Ryan, P. Schrobback, S. Tapsuwan, A. Watson, M. Young, Z. Zarezadeh

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Utgivningsdatum2012-03-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781000311

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Contents:ForewordIntroductionPART I: POLICY1. A Hundred-Year Policy Experiment: The Murray–Darling Basin in AustraliaTim Cummins and Alistair Watson 2. Water Markets, Property Rights and Managing Environmental Water Reserves Lin Crase3. Why the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan Failed, and What Can Be Done to Fix It John Quiggin PART II: AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION4. Assessing the Regional Impacts of the Basin Plan and the Water for the Future Program in the Murray–Darling BasinNga Nguyen, Tim Goesch and Peter Gooday 5. Variability and Uncertainty: Implications for Water Policy Impact Analysis Thilak Mallawaarachchi, David Adamson, Sarah Chambers, Peggy Schrobback and John Quiggin6. Investment as an Adaptation Response to Water ScarcityThilak Mallawaarachchi, Anthea McClintock, David Adamson and John Quiggin PART III: ENVIRONMENT7. Chewing on the CEWH: Options for Improving Management of Environmental Water in the Murray–Darling BasinMike Young 8. Maximising Benefits from Murray–Darling Basin Water Resource ManagementJeff Connor, Onil Banerjee, Darla Hatton MacDonald, Sorada Tapsuwan, Mark Morrison and Anthony Ryan PART IV: COMMUNITY9. Informing Tough Trade-offs in the Murray–Darling Basin Jeff Bennett10. Water Allocation, Social Change and Resilience Helen Ross, Sally Driml and Zohreh Zarezadeh ConclusionAppendicesIndex

’Managing the water of the Murray Darling Basin has emerged as one of the greatest challenges for Australia's scientists, social scientists and policy makers. This book brings together some of Australia's leading economists and social scientists to discuss ideas and solutions for a national problem that is both intriguing and exasperating. Readers will enjoy the candid discussion of both the distant and recent history of this issue, plus the innovative solutions. From a philosophical perspective the reader may wish to muse on the relative merits of different degrees of free market and private property approaches vs top-down control as they pertain to the past, present and future of Australia's largest river basin.’