Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub., c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Crawford, Christine
• Hundloe, T. J. A. (Torstein John Arneson)

Description

xi, 242 p. : col. ill., col. map; 25 cm.

Summary

"Disputes over water allocations are, second to climate change, the dominant environmental and public policy issues of the present era. We are called upon to resolve such controversies using the principles of sustainable development, which integrates ecology, economics, and ethics. This timely book establishes a template for resource allocation disputes, whether in Australia or overseas."--P. [4] of cover.

Subject

• Climatic changes > Australia
• Water demand management > Australia
• Water-supply > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-237) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to sustainability -- The principles of sustainability and economics -- Economic values of nature -- Practical measurements : water as an ecosystem good -- The world's great river basins -- Accounting for water -- An introduction to the Little Swanport catchment -- The river system and water management -- The Little Swanport estuary -- Estuarine responses to environmental flows -- A short history of the catchment settlement -- The people and use of natural resources -- Communities and values -- The catchment regional economy -- The Little Swanport water accounts -- The value of water.

ISBN

• 9780643101609 (pbk.)
• 0643101608 (pbk.)
• 9780643106635 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 0643106634 (epdf) (canceled/invalid)
• 9780643106642 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 0643106642 (epub) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

775657702

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library