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A Diagnostic Procedure for Transformative Change Based on Transitions, Resilience, and Institutional Thinking
Provedor de dados: Ecology and Society
Autores: Ferguson, Briony C.; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; briony.ferguson@monash.edu; Brown, Rebekah R.; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; Rebekah.Brown@monash.edu; Deletic, Ana; Department of Civil Engineering; Monash Water for Liveability; Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities; Monash University; ana.deletic@monash.edu.
Urban water governance regimes around the world have traditionally planned large-scale, centralized infrastructure systems that aim to control variables and reduce uncertainties. There is growing sectoral awareness that a transition toward sustainable alternatives is necessary if systems are to meet society&amp;#8217;s future water needs in the context of drivers such as climate change and variability, demographic changes, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity. However, there is minimal understanding of how the urban water sector should operationalize its strategic planning for such change to facilitate the transition to a sustainable water future. We have integrated concepts from transitions, resilience, and institutional theory to develop a...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Institutions; Resilience; Strategic planning; Sustainability; Transformative change; Transition; Urban water.
Ano: 2013

Bringing competition to urban water supply
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Sibly,   Hugh; Tooth,   Richard.
This paper proposes a market-based reform that would introduce competition into the provision of urban water. This proposal calls for a decoupling of infrastructure control and ownership of water whereby the property rights to water would be transferred to private hands. The proposal involves periodically allocation (e.g. by auction) of existing water stock held in urban catchments to virtual suppliers who then compete in providing bulk water. This change when coupled with effective third party access and retail competition would lead to a competitive market for the provision of urban water. The approach aims to address concerns over inefficient pricing and infrastructure provision under the current arrangement.
Tipo: Article
Palavras-chave: Urban water; Water utilities; Efficient water pricing; Market power mitigation; Introducing competition; Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118541

Disposition of precipitation: Supply and Demand for Water Use by New Tree Plantations
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Nordblom,   Thomas L.; Finlayson,   John D.; Hume,   Iain H.
As the greatest rainwater users among all vegetative land covers, tree plantations have been employed strategically to mitigate salinity and water-logging problems. However, large-scale commercial tree plantations in high rainfall areas reduce fresh water inflows to river systems supporting downstream communities, agricultural industries and wetland environmental assets. A bio-economic model was used to estimate economic demand for water by future upstream plantations in a sub-catchment (the 2.8 million ha Macquarie valley in NSW) of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Given four tree-product values, impacts were simulated under two settings: without and with the requirement that permanent water entitlements be purchased from downstream entitlement...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Environmental Economics and Policy; Forest; Environmental services; Catchment; Water sources; Interception; Entitlement; Supply; Demand; Market; Economic surplus; Evapo-transpiration; Urban water; Irrigation; Wetlands.
Ano: 2011
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/101225

Political ecology of inter-basin water transfers in Turkish water governance
Provedor de dados: Ecology and Society
Autores: Islar, Mine; Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS); mine.islar@lucsus.lu.se; Boda, Chad; Lund University Center for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS); chad.boda@lucsus.lu.se.
We explore the emergence of two contemporary mega water projects in Turkey that are designed to meet the demands of the country&amp;#8217;s major urban centers. Moreover, we analyze how policy makers in the water sector frame problems and solutions. We argue that these projects represent a tendency to depoliticize water management and steer away from controversial issues of water allocation by emphasizing large-scale, centralized, technical, and supply-oriented solutions. In doing so, urgent concerns are ignored regarding unsustainable water use, impacts on rural livelihoods, and institutional shortcomings in the water sector. These aspirations build heavily on prevailing discourses of modernity, development, and economic growth, and how urban centers are...
Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports
Palavras-chave: Inter-basin water transfers; Political ecology; Turkey; Urban water; Water governance.
Ano: 2014

Regulation versus pricing in urban water policy: the case of the Australian National Water Initiative
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Byrnes,   Joel; Crase,   Lin; Dollery,   Brian.
The Australian National Water Initiative (NWI) builds on the foundations of earlier water reforms, attempts to correct earlier errors in both policy and its implementation, and seeks to better define some of the policy aims with the benefit of hindsight. However, despite the deliberate effort to improve on earlier reforms, the NWI still embodies a significant economic paradox. Although policymakers have shown their faith in the market insofar as allocating water between competing agricultural interests is concerned, they have not shown the same degree of faith in the ability of urban users to respond to price signals. This paper attempts to shed at least some light on this question by examining the responses of a number of State governments across...
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Water reform; Urban water; Water market; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/116964

Urban Water Restrictions: Unbundling Motivations, Compliance and Policy Viability
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Cooper,   Bethany; Crase,   Lin.
The welfare costs of urban water restrictions are now well recognised, even if not yet quantified with precision (see, for example, Edwards 2008). Notwithstanding the costs that attend this form of intervention, governments have proven reluctant to abandon them, at least until additional infrastructure is in place. Accordingly, some form of behavioural constraint over the use of water is now applied in almost every major urban centre in Australia. Against this background there is value in understanding the motivations for individuals to comply with water restrictions. There is also much to be gained from developing an appreciation of the preferences for different restriction regimes. There is also scope to address wider politico-economic considerations as...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Urban water; Water restrictions; Choice modelling; Contingent valuation; Compliance behaviour.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48039