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Environmental economics and the Murray-Darling river system
Get PDFMuch 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,
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
Eva Murray, author of Well Out to Sea , has been a resident of Matinicus Island
No full textEva Murray, author of Well Out to Sea , has been a resident of Matinicus Island since she moved there to teach at the island\u27s one-room schoolhouse in 1987. She discusses the differences between writing from an island and writing about an island as well as her efforts to dispel some stereotypes and myths about Matinicus through her writing
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
Complex Adaptive System Modelling of River Murray Salinity Policy Options
Get PDFThis paper reports on complex adaptive system (CAS) simulation of the River Murray Basin in Australia to compare capacity of institutional options to maintain functioning of key river system within a "bandwidth" that limits irreversible system state changes and highly adverse consequences. The modelling framework characterise diverse irrigation agents who profit from water diversion and cause external salinity impacts, water and salt process that form the link between irrigator actions and agricultural profits and external costs, and a river manager who sets institutional rules. Emphasis is on the CAS nature of the system and on institutional rules to accommodate choosing actions differently based on con dition of the system has been referred to as state contingent management (Wills, 2003) or threshold based management (Roe and Van Eeten, 2001). Key findings are that policy focus on the source of salinity by reducing drainage are much more cost effective than strategies to mitigate salinity once it occurs and that state contingent dilution provision when it has high benefit and low opportunity cost is also a cost effective way to manage salinity.Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
Donald S. Murray Oral History
No full textAn oral history interview of military veteran Donald S. Murray originally conducted under the auspices of the Library of Congress Veterans History Project
OH001 Sam Basham Oral History
Get PDFSam Basham, a resident of Mayfield, Kentucky, discusses his experiences in the United States Army during the First World War. Basham describes life as a soldier on the home front. The topics discussed include camp life, basic training, relationships between officers and enlisted men and post war issues
Book review: The infographic: a history of data graphics in news and communications by Murray Dick
No full textIn The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications, Murray Dick offers a new cultural history of the infographic, tracing its emergence and development in Britain from the eighteenth century. The book succeeds in offering an account of an evolving media form, showing the infographic to be a contradictory tool, one developed to persuade select upper-class audiences that slowly became a form of mass communication, writes Sam di Bella
Book review: The Infographic: a history of data graphics in news and communications by Murray Dick
No full textIn The Infographic: A History of Data Graphics in News and Communications, Murray Dick offers a new cultural history of the infographic, tracing its emergence and development in Britain from the eighteenth century. The book succeeds in offering an account of an evolving media form, showing the infographic to be a contradictory tool, one developed to persuade select upper-class audiences that slowly became a form of mass communication, writes Sam di Bella
Henry (Hank) Merkley, Hatch Murray, Gerty Ashby and Rachel Ellen Merkley Murray.
No full textPortrait of Henry (Hank) Merkley, Hatch Murray, Gerty Ashby (daugher of Sam Ashby) and Rachel Ellen Merkley Murray
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