Reforming water law and governance : from stagnation to innovation in Australia / Cameron Holley, Darren Sinclair, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

Holley, Cameron, editor.

Sinclair, Darren, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Environmental management.

Climatic changes.

Environmental law, International.

Environmental law.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

viii, 298 pages : color illustrations, 1 color map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, [2018]

Summary:

This book identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading laboratory of water law and governance: Australia. In particular, the book analyses Australia's 20-year experience implementing a hybrid governance system of markets, hierarchical regulation, and collaborative integrated water planning. Australia is acknowledged as a world leader in water governance reform, and an examination of its relatively mature water law and governance system has great significance for many international academics and jurisdictions. This book synthesises practical lessons and theoretical insights from Australia, as well as recommendations from comparative analysis with countries such as the United States to provide useful guidance for policymakers and scholars seeking to apply water instruments in a wide range of policy contexts. The book also advances our understanding of water and broader environmental governance theory and is a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and students working in law, regulation and governance studies especially in the field of water and environmental law.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Replenishing Australia's water future : from stagnation to innovation / Cameron Holley, Darren Sinclair

The unwinding of water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin : a cautionary tale for transboundary river systems / Emma Carmody

Multi-jurisdictional water governance in Australia : muddle or model? / Bradley C. Karkkainen

Environmental water transactions and innovation in Australia / Katherine Owens

Water entitlements as property : a work in progress or watertight now? / Janice Gray, Louise Lee

Regulatory and economic instruments : a useful partnership to achieve collective objectives? / Adam Loch, C. Dionisio Perez-Blanco, Dolores Rey, Erin O'Donnell, David Adamson

Water markets and regulation : implementation, successes and limitations / Cameron Holley, Darren Sinclair

Public participation in water resources management in Australia : procedure and possibilities / Bruce Lindsay

A governance solution to Australian freshwater law and policy / Jennifer McKay

Lessons from Australian water reforms : Indigenous and environmental values in market-based water regulation / Elizabeth Macpherson, Erin O'Donnell, Lee Godden, Lily O'Neill

Regulating cumulative impacts in groundwater systems : global lessons from the Australian experience / Rebecca Louise Nelson

Compromising confidence? : water, coal seam gas and mining governance reform in Queensland and Wyoming / Poh-Ling Tan, Jacqui Robertson

Governing the freshwater commons : lessons from application of the trilogy of governance tools in Australia and the Western United States / Barbara Cosens.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9789811089763

9811089760

OCLC:

1027189246