Non-market valuation (NMV) can be effective to understand the value people place on
ecosystem goods and services for which there are no market prices. Over the last 20 years …

Allocation of water specifically to the environment (often dubbed 'environmental water'or
'environmental flows') can be contentious within government, among irrigators and between …

There is significant interest in global trends in Indigenous land titling but relatively less
attention given to Indigenous water tenure despite significant reform of water governance …

Policy makers will increasingly have to turn to water demand management in the future to
respond to greater water scarcity. Water markets have long been promoted as one of the …

Some scholars promote water governance as a normative concept to improve water
resources management globally, while others conceive of it as an analytical term to describe …

Abstract The Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) Plan in Australia legislated in 2012 represents the
largest recovery of water, from consumptive use to environmental use in the world–with the …

This paper presents a conceptual framework for both assessing the role of economic
instruments, and reshaping them in order to enhance their contribution to the goals of …

Australia's ability to address Indigenous claims for water rights and to advance both national
Indigenous and water policy is hampered by a lack of information on Indigenous water …

Water allocation regimes that adjudicate between competing uses are in many countries
under pressure to adapt to increasing demands, climate‐driven shortages, expectations for …

Water security is typically defined in terms of water available at a quality and quantity to meet
human needs. This definition now includes ecological needs. We argue these definitions …