This document analyses aspects of natural resource and environmental policies in Australia, focusing on water resource management, salinity and climate change mitigation. The state and central governments have not made use of their taxation powers in these domains. The cap-and-trade system for water rights in the Murray Darling basin aims at better integration of economic and environmental reform. Still higher benefits could be reaped from trading if the various restrictions on trade were lifted, and if water pricing reform were accelerated in rural areas, so as to reflect economic and environmental costs. The rules for allocating flows for the environment also need to be clarified. To address dryland salinity, more co-ordination between th...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2009 Dr. Anita FoersterA comprehensive national program o...
Water markets have increasingly been adopted as a reallocation tool around the world as water scarci...
The water reforms undertaken in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia since 2007 have been viewed as a...
Effective regulation of freshwater remains one of the biggest challenges facing our societies. In ti...
Climate change and water management are two of the most important public policy issues facing Austra...
The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia provides a leading example of a region that has establis...
Australia has embraced the idea of competion and markets as a paradigm for water management. Deliver...
Shortfalls in water supplies are perhaps the greatest practical NRM policy concern in Australia toda...
The twentieth century was a watershed for the development of environmental policy and law, with the ...
Few policy areas in recent history have the attention of the Australian public and polity a much as ...
Water resource management is a complex process, which requires suitable policy tools that are able t...
Water resource management is a complex process, which requires suitable policy tools that are able t...
AbstractThis paper reviews historical and existing drought and water policy in Australia in order to...
The Australian government’s acceptance of global climate change as a critical pressure on our nation...
In view of the drive in policy circles to develop northern Australia and the concomitant dependence ...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2009 Dr. Anita FoersterA comprehensive national program o...
Water markets have increasingly been adopted as a reallocation tool around the world as water scarci...
The water reforms undertaken in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia since 2007 have been viewed as a...
Effective regulation of freshwater remains one of the biggest challenges facing our societies. In ti...
Climate change and water management are two of the most important public policy issues facing Austra...
The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia provides a leading example of a region that has establis...
Australia has embraced the idea of competion and markets as a paradigm for water management. Deliver...
Shortfalls in water supplies are perhaps the greatest practical NRM policy concern in Australia toda...
The twentieth century was a watershed for the development of environmental policy and law, with the ...
Few policy areas in recent history have the attention of the Australian public and polity a much as ...
Water resource management is a complex process, which requires suitable policy tools that are able t...
Water resource management is a complex process, which requires suitable policy tools that are able t...
AbstractThis paper reviews historical and existing drought and water policy in Australia in order to...
The Australian government’s acceptance of global climate change as a critical pressure on our nation...
In view of the drive in policy circles to develop northern Australia and the concomitant dependence ...
Deposited with permission of the author. © 2009 Dr. Anita FoersterA comprehensive national program o...
Water markets have increasingly been adopted as a reallocation tool around the world as water scarci...
The water reforms undertaken in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia since 2007 have been viewed as a...