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Developing institutional arrangements of Indigenous participation in the National Water Initiative

This LWA funded project developed a research program for the Indigenous Water Policy Group to cover identified information gaps and key issues. The themes included: identification of Indigenous water rights; interactions between water markets and the customary sector; examination of international experience, frameworks and models; Indigenous economic position in water use and markets; representation on environmental bodies; communication; and scrutiny of water services, (more)...

Powerful Choices: transition to a biofuel economy in Australia

The Powerful Choices study uses a biophysical-economics model of the Australian economy to explore the capability of discrete low-carbon technologies to maintain economic growth, ensure energy security and reduce CO2 emissions out to 2051. The approach applies physical laws of thermodynamics and mass balance to established economic structures to ensure that financial dynamics are constrained by physical reality. Renewable electricity (bio-electricity, wind, solar thermal and (more)...

Dynamic Non-Market Valuation of Ecosystem Services

This study combines non market valuation and bio economic modelling in a dynamic model of ecosystem services.  First, because non market valuation and bio economic models use different concepts of valuation, the values of ecosystem services are defined. Next, an analytical solution is derived which includes a dynamic Lancaster demand system and new methods for welfare analysis.  Finally, both revealed and stated preference methods are proposed for estimating the value of ecosystem (more)...

Workshop Report North Rockhampton

Economic, Environmental and Social Costs and Benefits of Buffel Grass and its Management

Buffel grass is valued in many regions for its contribution to livestock production, while also being regarded as a threat to biodiversity assets, often within the same region. As part of this research, we (CSIRO) ran a workshop in Rockhampton in November…

Economic assessment of selected investments of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (Phase1)

return on investment report

Return on investment report The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) required cost-benefit analyses to be undertaken on a number of its research investments from Phase 1 of the Program. Phase 1 of NPSI ran from July 2002 to June 2007. Eleven investments from Phase 1 were identified by NPSI as having potential for analysis, and these 11 investments were scanned by Agtrans using six (more)...

Irrigation Innovation in a Changing Climate Workshop Report

The aim of the workshop was to kick off a process to develop a ten-year irrigation innovation strategy. The workshop, held in Canberra on 16 September 2008, attracted about 100 participants from a broad cross-section of the irrigation industry. It included people from urban water organisations, garden irrigation supply companies, irrigators, policy makers, researchers, manufacturers and rural water supply organisations.

Irrigation innovation in a changing climate

Workshop report

Irrigation Australia Limited (IAL), the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) and the Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures (CRCIF) see the need for a paradigm shift in irrigation innovation. This need has been highlighted further by the climatic conditions of the early 21st Century, but it has been evident for some time. Such a shift would enable the irrigation industry to improve its water use (more)...

Aboriginal Management and Planning for Country

respecting and sharing traditional knowledge

Summary report on Subprogram 5 of the Ord-Bonaparte Program.

The Summary Booklet includes a CD-ROM with a PDF version of the full report.

A CD-ROM of the full report can also be obtained separately - order product code PR040788.