The value of water in a drying climate / editors, Tor Hundloe, Christine Crawford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hundloe, T. J. A. (Torstein John Arneson)

Crawford, Christine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water-supply--Australia.

Water-supply.

Water demand management--Australia.

Water demand management.

Climatic changes--Australia.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Are we making the best use of water? How do we judge this?

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Prologue; 1 Introduction; River basin history; The case today; A paradigm shift: a new view of river catchments; Sustainability science; 2 Introduction to sustainability; Our common future; Working with the dynamics of nature; Economics and sustainability; The various forms of capital; More detail on the value of nature; Society and sustainability; To our next step; 3 The principles of sustainability and economics; Sustainability and economics; What is economics?; The competitive economy; Correcting market failure; More than efficiency

The future compared to the presentIncome distribution in valuing projects and policies; A dollar is not a dollar; 4 Economic values of nature; A heroic attempt; Don't attempt the impossible, do the practical; Doing what we can; 5 Practical measurements: water as an ecosystem good; A catchment as a hypothetical country; Why catchment producers trade; Water as an example of an ecosystem good; Water in more detail; 6 The world's great river basins; Imagine a river basin; The Nile River; The Amazon River; The Yangtze (Chang Jiang) River; The Mississippi River; The Yenisei River; The Huang He

The Ob RiverThe Paraná River; The Congo (Zaire) River; The Lena River; The Murray-Darling River system; The Volga River; The Indus River; The Ganges River; The Tigris and Euphrates rivers; The Mekong River; In conclusion; 7 Accounting for water; The basis of integrated measurement and management; Water accounting and budgets; Our goals for water accounting in Little Swanport; Water accounting advances; Uses for water accounts; Catchment-based water accounts; The natural state of a catchment?; 8 An introduction to the Little Swanport catchment; Our team and what we do; A little history

The troubled waters of the Little SwanportNot top down: nuts and bolts; 9 The river system and water management; River ecology: landforms and river flow; Flows; Water quality; Ground water; Aquatic ecology; Riparian vegetation; Water management: protected environmental values; Water management plan; Environmental water requirements; Holistic flows framework; 10 The Little Swanport estuary; Changes in the estuary over the last 7000 years; Estuary sedimentology; Catastrophic changes over the last 100 years; The estuary today; Physical and chemical characteristics; Estuarine ecology

Native oystersIntroduced species; Pathogen levels in the estuary; Future; 11 Estuarine responses to environmental flows; Field observations; Nutrient budget; Ecosystem box model; Results and discussion; Conclusions; 12 A short history of the catchment settlement; The first Tasmanians: the Palawa; Early European explorers; European colonisation and settlement; Settling the lower catchment; Settling the upper catchment; Land grants and land uses; Places of historical interest; 13 The people and use of natural resources; The adjacent towns; The catchment landscapes; The land uses

A real mix of land uses

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613680730

9780643106642

0643106642

9781280769962

1280769963

9780643106635

0643106634

OCLC:

795895200