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Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance
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Handbook of Environmental and Sustainable Finance

by Vikash Ramiah, Greg N. Gregoriou
October 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
510 pages
17h 34m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 4

Environmental Water Governance in the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia

The Movement from Regulation and Engineering to Economic-Based Instruments

Claire Settre1,  and Sarah Ann Wheeler1,2     1Global Food Studies, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia     2School of Commerce, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Abstract

Water management in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), Australia, has undergone significant transition from command-and-control regulation to market-based governance. This has been achieved through decades of water policy reform and has demonstrated a departure from supply-based solutions to demand-based policies concerned with improving economic efficiency and environmental sustainability. This ...

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ISBN: 9780128036464