| ISBN |
9780643093928 |
| Title |
Managing water for Australia : the social and institutional challenges / editors: Karen Hussey and Stephen Dovers. |
| Published |
Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2007. |
| Description |
xiii, 157 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographic references and index. |
| Contents |
Water reform in Australia : the National Water Initiative and the role of the National Water Commission--The role of communication and attitudes research in the evolution of effective resource management arrangements--Indigenous perspectives in water management, reforms and implementation--Environmental water allocations and their governance--Water planning : principles, pratices and evalutation--Water trading and pricing--Linking rural and urban water systems--Integrated assessment of impacts of policy and water allocation changes across social, economic and environmental dimensions--Delivering the National Water Initiative : the emergence of innovative legal doctrine--Delivering the national water Initiative : institutional roles, responsibilities and capacities--International perspectives on water policy and management : emerging principles, common challenges. |
| Summary |
The book addresses major challenges in implementing required reforms in Australian water policy and management, with particular focus on social sciences research and knowledge that can inform policy. The NWI (National Water Initiative) was launched in 2004, with a schedule of implementation through to 2014, and is now agreed to by the Commonwealth and all state and territory governments. It is the overarching policy framework guiding Australian water management. The NWI continues and significantly extends key policy reforms in Australia over the past two decades, and brings these together into one powerful agenda which incorporates, among other things, integrated catchment management, tradable water rights, full accounting of resources and use, regional plans, and environmental allocations. The NWI sets out an ambitious and difficult reform agenda, the magnitude of which is only now beginning to be realised. Assumptions regarding implementation are being unsettled by realisations of critical knowledge deficits. This book will offer a substantial, rigorous and highly topical contribution to the capacity to implement the reform agenda in the near and medium term. (Note: S Dovers was involved in both these processes and products.) |
| Copyright |
CSIRO 2007. |
| Subjects |
Water-supply -- Government policy -- Australia |
| Water-supply -- Australia -- Management |
| Water-supply -- Social aspects -- Australia |
| Water resources development -- Australia |
| Water use -- Australia |
| Other Names |
Hussey, Karen |
| Dovers, Stephen |
| Added Corporate Names |
CSIRO |
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