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Environmental economics and the Murray-Darling river system
No full textMuch concern about the negative environmental consequences of agricultural development in Australia, including salinisation, waterlogging and algal blooms, has focused on the problems of the Murray–Darling Basin. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the environmental problems of the Murray–Darling Basin from an economic perspective, and a selective survey of the relevant economic literature, including theoretical analysis, modelling and contributions to the development of water policy. In attempting to understand the complex problems of the Murray–Darling Basin, an eclectic approach drawing on externality, sustainability and property rights perspectives seems most appropriate.Environmental Economics and Policy, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Using accessible resistance exercise to build emotional and physical strength- embodying pedagogies for accessible health and physical development (physical education) teacher education
No full textMurray, University of Stirling and Roehampton; Kristy Howells, Canterbury Christ Church University; Pamela Murray, University of Worcester; Jemma Gerstenberger, Michael McCormack and Leah Harrower-Cassells, University of Stirling; PE Primary Specialists, University of Roehampton
Background: This program and pedagogical approach facilitate opportunities for participants to experience active learning integrating physical, cognitive and social domains when accommodating their own constraints through a developmental series of resistance movement problems. It is presented for colleagues for both professional and personal physically active learning and living toolkits.
Learning activities: In essence, a skill theme approach (Graham et al., 2020) is complemented with explicit means to develop efficacy and agency across an educational resistance movement progression (Murray, 2013, 2014). These have been researched across primary, secondary (Murray and Napper-Owen, 2021) curricular and school wide school systems, and higher education settings (Murray, Murray and Howells, 2023).
Accessibility of workshop: This workshop may be experienced (and hopefully enjoyed) in a variety of ways, from fully immersed activity to engagement and reflection drawn vicariously.
Workshop Outcomes: The program is set collegially upon holistic learning domains. 1. Attendees will explore contextualised developmentally appropriate principles of
practice from planning through implementation and then have opportunity to consider in their respective settings. 2. Colleagues will be able to try these and then reflect upon these, sharing insights in our online interactive padlet. This keep sake is populated with the program and links to the supporting and current research. 3. Attendee participation will be most gratefully acknowledged with a transcript certification of the “I Can Resist PCK” workshop
Buying Back the Living Murray: At What Price?
No full textIn June 2004 the Council of Australian Governments approved the Intergovernmental Agreement on Addressing Water Overallocation and Achieving Environmental Objectives in the Murray-Darling Basin (‘IGMDB’). The IGMDB set out arrangements for a ‘Living Murray’ that includes a budget of $500 million to return 500 billion litres of water per year to the Murray River by 2009. Unfortunately, two years later and only 11 billion litres have been returned as environmental flows as a result of the initiative. In response, the Australian Government in April 2006 proposed a new scheme to purchase water entitlements from farmers who undertake water-savings measures. We examine this proposal in relation to the general economic principles for the allocation of scarce water. We contend that the latest initiative, although helpful, suffers from two fundamental problems in terms of water pricing. First, the current market price for water entitlements does not include the value of water ‘in situ’, or the benefits it generates separate from its value in consumption. Second, the constraint imposed that water users undertake infrastructure investments when selling their entitlements unnecessarily raises the cost of returning water to the Murray River. We conclude that the latest scheme to achieve the laudable goals of the ‘Living Murray’ is not cost effective and that the ratio of litres of water returned to dollars spent could be much higher if the pricing policies were changed.Living Murray, scarce water, water entitlements, water pricing, pricing policies
Letter from J. K. Murray to the Bureau of Indian Affairs Regarding Three Affiliated Tribes Enrollment of Children, September 11, 1956
No full textThis letter, dated September 11, 1956, from J. K. Murray to the United States (US) Bureau of Indian Affairs and copied to US Senator William Langer and US Representative Usher Burdick reports that a number of people have struggled to get their children enrolled with the Three Affiliated Tribes. Murray conveys that the Three Affiliated Tribes Tribal Business Council has said that they are not enrolling any more people after July 1, 1957. Murray appeals to the Bureau for assistance. There\u27s a stamp on the letter indicating that the Bureau received the letter on September 17, 1956.
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Letter from Laura Page Knudsen for Representative Burdick to J. K. Murray Regarding Three Affiliated Tribes Enrollment of Children, September 14, 1956https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/1324/thumbnail.jp
Murray-et-al-2021
No full textThis repository contains original code from author Jack C Henry for the figures of the Murray et al., 2021 manuscript published in Cell Reports
Margaret Murray (1863–1963): Pioneer Egyptologist, Feminist and First Female Archaeology Lecturer
No full textMargaret Murray, who was born 150 years ago, was one of the first archaeologists to be employed at UCL and one of the most distinguished, although her role in the history of archaeology is often underestimated. This article provides a brief outline of the career and contribution of a highly productive and innovative, if sometimes controversial, scholar, who also participated in the wider social movements of her time, particularly the campaign for women’s suffrage
Taking Stock: Seventeen Years after the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement
No full textThere has now been almost two decades of natural resource management by signatory states under the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement Despite significant public expense, the success of initiatives to improve the Basin’s environmental remains ambiguous. This confusion is partly due to poorly distinguished investment outcomes, a blurring of the transparency of public spending and a lack of accountability of decision makers. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that significant environmental improvements could have been achieved at a much lower cost if decisive action been taken early. The research report outlines the myriad of Murray-Darling Basin related policies and its funding. It also notes the achievements and impediments to program success.water reform, water policy, cost efficiency, Murray-Darling Basin, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use,
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