183 research outputs found
A case study of the Murray-Darling Basin : Final report for the International Water Management Institute
No full textDarla Hatton-MacDonald and Mike Youn
Do regional natural resource management leaders reflect the attitudes of the landholders?
No full textDarla Hatton MacDonald, Mark D. Morrison, John R. Ward, Andrea MacRa
Determining customer service levels - development of a methodology overarching report
No full textCustomer Service levels in the Australian water industry.Andrew Speers, Stewart Burn, Darla Hatton MacDonald, Blair Nancarrow, Geoff Syme and Mike Youn
Understanding and predicting household water use for Adelaide
No full textNicole Arbon, Mark Thyer, Darla Hatton MacDonald, Kym Beverley, Martin Lamber
Irrigator preferences for water recovery budget expenditure in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
No full textAbstract not availableAdam Loch, Sarah Wheeler, Peter Boxall, Darla Hatton-Macdonald, W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz, Henning Bjornlun
Water policy debate in Australia: understanding the tenets of stakeholders’ social trust
No full textThe increasing physical and economic scarcity of water due to increasing societal demands and climate change will require worldwide water policy reform. Water reform is an area of public policy fraught with polarised positions regarding community and environmental welfare. As opposition to water policy reform becomes entrenched, transaction costs increase. Nowhere is this more evident than the controversy surrounding, and irrigators’ opposition to, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan in Australia. This study sought to understand irrigators’ trust issues and why they feel the way they do towards water reform, though a best-worst survey methodology and regression analysis. The results suggest that irrigators believe they are shouldering a fair share of the water reform burden. Lack of trust in the national water agency and the federal government is associated with irrigator location, age and climate change disbelief. Findings support the recent push for more localised water decision-making to promote social trust.Sarah Ann Wheeler, Darla Hatton MacDonald, Peter Boxal
Evaluating policy options for managing diffuse source water quality in Lake Taupo, New Zealand
No full textEnvironmental policy makers are interested in ways to prevent environmental degradation without significantly limiting economic and social development. Increasingly, market-based instruments are being incorporated into the suite of policy tools to accomplish these aims. However, the lack of information on market-based instruments accessible to non-economists limits understanding of how and when a market-based instrument can be integrated into a traditional policy regime. This paper aims to address the lack of accessible information using a generic screening process for policy instruments demonstrated through application to a non-point source pollution problem in Lake Taupo, New ZealandJeffrey D. Connor, Darla Hatton MacDonald, Mark Morrison and Andrea Cas
Pricing water - a tool for natural resource management in the Onkaparinga catchment
No full textConsultancy Report 2 for the Onkaparinga Catchment Water Management Board. This second report focuses on pricing water to manage the catchment water resources in a sustainable manner. A key conclusion of this report is that there are significant opportunities to improve resource use through pricing policy changes.Darla Hatton MacDonald & Mike Young and Jeffery Conno
Improving the Catchment through Market Based Instruments
No full textIn this paper, six potential MBIs are discussed that have potential for improving environmental outcomes.Australia;water;urban water;market based instruments
An opportunity to improve water trading in the South East Catchment of South Australia
No full text© IWA PublishingThis paper outlines how an area-based water allocation system for irrigating crops could be converted to a system of shares, structured so as to allow the development of a low cost trading market for water and salinity shares. It stresses the need for separation of entitlements of water from land and the separation of water rights into their various components. By moving to this type of allocation system, combined with some safeguard provisions, trade in groundwater could be facilitated in the South East Water Catchment located in the State of South Australia. Separation of salinity and other environmental impacts from water volume trading will allow market assessment of highest and best use to include consideration of environmental impacts. Although the focus of the paper is on groundwater allocation and management, the principles and concepts outlined are applicable to surface water systems.Michael D. Young and Darla Hatton MacDonal
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