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| Title: | Developing Environmental Service Policy for Salinity and Water: Experiments with Regulations and Markets Linking Watersheds with Downstream Water Users |
| Authors: | Nordblom, Tom
Reeson, Andrew
Whitten, Stuart
Finlayson, John D.
Kelly, Jason A.
Hume, Iain H. |
| Authors (Email): | Nordblom, Tom (tom.nordblom@dpi.nsw.gov.au)
Reeson, Andrew (Andrew.Reeson@csiro.au) |
| Keywords: | experimental economics
land use
rival water uses
MBI |
| Issue Date: | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | Contributed Paper |
| Abstract: | Shortfalls in water supplies are perhaps the greatest practical NRM policy concern in
Australia today, looming larger in many minds than the great international debates on
greenhouse gasses, climate change and biodiversity. Because forest land cover uses more
water than any other, wide expansion of upstream tree plantations can significantly reduce
water yields upon which downstream urban, agricultural and wetlands depend. We consider
the economic efficiency and equity (profitability and distributional) consequences of upstream
land use change. The ‘environmental services’ of concern in our study are the mean annual
quantities and qualities (volumes and salt concentrations) of water flowing from upper parts
of a catchment to the downstream interests holding entitlements to that water.
We consider the presence or absence of high salinity concentrations (C) in a tributary to the
water supply of urban and other high-security users; the presence or absence of policy
and/or markets giving strong incentives for upstream tree plantations (P); and the presence
or absence of a policy that water entitlements (E) must be purchased from existing
entitlement holders before new upstream tree plantations are allowed. A factorial experiment
examining all eight ‘yes/no’ combinations of these conditions is defined to explore the
associated distributions of upstream and downstream impacts. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/6249 |
| Institution/Association: | Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - 2008>2008 Conference (52nd), February 5-8, 2008, Canberra, Australia |
| Total Pages: | 2 |
| Collections: | 2008 Conference (52nd), February 5-8, 2008, Canberra, Australia
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