This paper explores the ways water governance adapts to changing social values and
political imperatives by examining the case of water policy reforms in Australia's Murray …

Increasing food demand has exerted tremendous stress on agricultural water usages
worldwide, often with a threat to sustainability in agricultural production and, hence, food …

The Chilean system of tradable water rights and water markets has been well known and
controversial in international water policy circles since the 1990s. Chile's 1981 Water Code …

Major natural disasters are events where day‐to‐day governance activities are disrupted
and a large range of different actors–governmental and non‐governmental–are required to …

Recent water reform in Australia has focused on seeking to balance the needs of the
environment and consumptive users through improved flow regimes. This is in response to …

It is well-established that market governance can be provided by both public (state) and
private organizations. However, the concept of private governance has been used, this …

Increasing river environment degradation from historical growth in withdrawal is leading to
reallocation of water from irrigation in many basins. We examine how potential reduction in …

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 …

Water governance strongly depends on the institutional arrangements in place. The plethora
of recent inquiries into the adequacy and integrity of governance arrangements in the …

The governance of water is of increasing concern to policy makers. Several property rights
systems, which allow for control of water by the individual, community, or state have been …