This paper reviews historical and existing drought and water policy in Australia in order to
gain a sense of the strengths and weaknesses in enabling effective adaptation to climate …

Economic analysis of climate scenarios and alternative water policies is critical for
development and implementation of appropriate water policies and programs. Mathematical …

Water shortages in the Murray-Darling Basin are placing considerable stress on many
environmental assets in the Basin. From the 1950s to the 1990s, the share of available …

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 …

The “Big Dry”, a prolonged dry period in Australia from 1997 to 2009, dried out much of the
Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) and resulted in large agricultural losses and degraded river …

With growing water demand for cities and irrigation, periods of low inflow increasingly lead
to “operative” droughts when supply is insufficient to meet all consumptive and …

Historically, water resource policy in the Murray–Darling Basin (Basin) has taken a pro-
farmer orientation leaving the environment to become the residual claimant. Around 1990 …

This paper explores the role that incremental water charging (temporary levies on water use)
can play in reducing the environmental costs that arise during drought events. The paper …

This paper focuses on the use of three economic approaches to water management in
Australia that can increase the efficiency of water use and water security, thus providing a …

Water trading has become a key water scarcity risk-management tool for irrigators. Effective
and enduring water trade systems require approaches that can cope with dynamic …