Water Policy in Australia

The Impact of Change and Uncertainty
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-933115-98-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Issues in Water Resource Policy

In the last twenty years, policy makers in Australia have been forced to acknowledge that it is not possible to perpetually supply more water at a low cost. Consequently, the country has begun to focus on water resource management through legislative and institutional change attempting to allocate water in a more economically efficient and socially and environmentally acceptable manner.

This book provides insight into the challenges of institutional change, as well as valuable lessons on the design of property rights for complex resources. Contributors from across disciplines address pertinent issues, such as irrigation in the Murray-Darling basin, one of Australia's largest drainage divisions; the progression from common law riparian rights to share-based entitlements that encourage sustainable water use; and the potential outcomes of the recent National Water Initiative, a wide-ranging strategy to improve water management and simultaneously maintain healthy groundwater and river systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crase, Lin

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Wasserwirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An Introduction to Australian Water Policy

2. The Hydrological Setting

3. Historical Development of Water Resources in Australia: Irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin

4. Legal Frameworks of Australian Water: Progression from Common Law Rights to Sustainable Shares

5. Uncertainty, Risk and Water Management in Australia

6. The Institutional Setting

7. Coping with the Reforms to Irrigated Agriculture: The Case of Murray Irrigation

8. Hydroelectricity

9. Ecological Requirements: Creating a Working River in the Murray-Darling Basin

10. Urban Water Management

11. Acknowledging Scarcity and Achieving Reform

12. Urban Reuse and Desalination

13. Water Trading and Market Design

14. Adaptive Management

15. The Social and Cultural Aspects of Sustainable Water Use

16. Lessons from Australian Water Reform

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lin Crase is an associate professor in the School of Business at La Trobe University, where he is also associate head for the Albury-Wodonga campus.