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Author:   John Quiggin ,  Thilak Mallawaarachchi ,  Sarah Chambers
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9781781000311

ISBN 10:   178100031
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword Introduction PART I: POLICY 1. A Hundred-Year Policy Experiment: The Murray-Darling Basin in Australia Tim Cummins and Alistair Watson 2. Water Markets, Property Rights and Managing Environmental Water Reserves Lin Crase 3. Why the Guide to the Proposed Basin Plan Failed, and What Can Be Done to Fix It John Quiggin 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 Nga 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 Quiggin 6. Investment as an Adaptation Response to Water Scarcity Thilak Mallawaarachchi, Anthea McClintock, David Adamson and John Quiggin PART III: ENVIRONMENT 7. Chewing on the CEWH: Options for Improving Management of Environmental Water in the Murray-Darling Basin Mike Young 8. Maximising Benefits from Murray-Darling Basin Water Resource Management Jeff Connor, Onil Banerjee, Darla Hatton MacDonald, Sorada Tapsuwan, Mark Morrison and Anthony Ryan PART IV: COMMUNITY 9. Informing Tough Trade-offs in the Murray-Darling Basin Jeff Bennett 10. Water Allocation, Social Change and Resilience Helen Ross, Sally Driml and Zohreh Zarezadeh Conclusion Appendices Index

Reviews

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. --Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland, AustraliaThis book is a must read for anyone interested in how to ensure sustainability while effectively addressing social and economic issues. The contributors are all well recognised in their areas of expertise and their chapters are highly informative. The book's focus is on policy reform in the Murray Darling Basin. It offers a ''window to the future'' and important insights for other parts of the world that also face the dilemma of the overextraction of water and what to do about it. I highly recommend it. --Quentin Grafton, The Australian National University [T]he book is a major addition to the literature on water policy and river basin management, and should be widely circulated, read and discussed. --Sailen Routray, Current Science

’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.’ -- Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland, Australia ’This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how to ensure sustainability while effectively addressing social and economic issues. The contributors are all well recognised in their areas of expertise and their chapters are highly informative. The book's focus is on policy reform in the Murray Darling Basin. It offers a ''window to the future'' and important insights for other parts of the world that also face the dilemma of the overextraction of water and what to do about it. I highly recommend it.’ -- Quentin Grafton, The Australian National University ’[T]he book is a major addition to the literature on water policy and river basin management, and should be widely circulated, read and discussed.’ -- Sailen Routray, Current Science

`. . . the book is a major addition to the literature on water policy and river basin management, and should be widely circulated, read and discussed.' -- Sailen Routray, Current Science `This book is a must-read for anyone interested in how to ensure sustainability while effectively addressing social and economic issues. The contributors are all well-recognised in their areas of expertise and their chapters are highly informative. The book's focus is on policy reform in the Murray-Darling Basin. It offers a window to the future and important insights for other parts of the world that are also facing the dilemma of the overextraction of water and what to do about it. I highly recommend it.' -- Quentin Grafton, The Australian National University `Managing the water of the Murray-Darling Basin has emerged as one of the greatest challenges for Australia's scientists, social scientists and policymakers. 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 the 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.' -- Hugh Possingham, The University of Queensland, Australia

'This book is a must read for anyone interested in how to ensure sustainability while effectively addressing social and economic issues. The contributors are all well recognised in their areas of expertise and their chapters are highly informative. The book's focus is on policy reform in the Murray Darling Basin. It offers a window to the future and important insights for other parts of the world that also face the dilemma of the overextraction of water and what to do about it. I highly recommend it.' - Quentin Grafton, The Australian National University '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.' - Hugh Possingham, University of Queensland, Australia

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Edited by John Quiggin, Thilak Mallawaarachchi and Sarah Chambers, The University of Queensland, Australia

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