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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Murray-Darling Basin"”.
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Water management policies and their impact on irrigated crop production in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia
… water management policies in the Australian Murray-Darling Basin, one of the world largest river basins and Australia’s most fertile region. By comparing different pricing and non-pricing water management policies with the help of the Water Integrated Market Model, it is found that the impact …
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Water as property: the social impact of water reform on agriculturalists in the Murray-Darling Basin New South Wales
This thesis contributes to sociology and social policy discussions on water reform in New South Wales, Australia. While the study draws on political economy theory in examining water as ‘property’ under economic rationalism policies, it makes an ethnographic contribution to rural sociology as it …
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Living near permanent water in the upper Murray-Darling Basin Implications from the micromorphology of buried soils near artesian springs
… peoples that lived along Eulo Ridge in the upper Murray Darling Basin, Australia are hampered by poor environmental data and chronological frameworks. To address such issues, steep sided gullies (arroyos), soil micromorphology and pedology, and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating …
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Integrated river basin management for the Ganges: lessons from the Murray-Darling and Mekong River Basins (a Bangladesh perspective).
This thesis examines the applicability of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) model of Integrated River Basin Management to the Ganges Basin by utilising the lessons from the Mekong experience of adopting the MDB model. The Ganges is one of the major rivers in the world and the sharing of its water has …
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Characterization of the impacts of the physiological response of vegetation to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide
… net radiation. The anomalous warming over the Murray-Darling Basin in 2002 was also investigated and was found to be unlikely caused by the physiological effect of CO2. The robustness of the results and their general agreement with the literature indicate that the physiological forcing requires …
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Hydrologic-economic modeling of irrigated agriculture in the Lower Murrumbidgee Catchment : investigations into sustainability
… Murrumbidgee Catchment. The study area is in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia and includes a major irrigation district threatened by salinization from rising watertables. We first simulate socially optimal management over a 15-year planning horizon. The socially optimal solution internalizes …
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A trans-national analysis of equitable utilisation and minimisation of environmental harm under environmental laws at international, federal and national levels
… among relevant actors. However, many river basins are still not allocated equitably and suffer from environmental damage. By using comparative, doctrinal, and empirical research methods, this thesis evaluates the two principles at the international level in Tigris and Euphrates River Basin, …
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Water Governance: The Politics of the Emergence of Reflexive-Discursive Water Policy in California, Australia and Israel
… water: South/Central California, Australia‟s Murray-Darling Basin, and Israel. All are democratic, economically-diverse neoliberal political-economies, enduring worsening water scarcity. They have adopted new approaches, from the early 1980s, to the use and allocation of water resources, …
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Improving water allocation law and policy in New Zealand: Lessons from Australia
… across political state boundaries within the Murray Darling Basin. The Australian approach of co-operative federalism has played a key role in supporting the implementation of the reforms in the National Water Initiative 2004 and Water Act 2007 (Cth). The implementation of the reforms are also …
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Scale and justice in water allocation
… issue facing water management within the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, namely Domestic and Stock (D&S) dams. The management of D&S dams currently falls outside the formal water entitlement framework for the Basin and presents a scenario of perceived injustice in that water share …
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Effect of polyacrylamides on the physical properties of some light-textured soils.
… on the coarser textured soils in the Murray-Darling Basin.