Choice Modelling surveys are reliant upon focus groups to propose, test and refine attributes, levels and descriptive characteristics, and to frame the issues for respondents appropriately. The survey design issues for a floodplain development valuation project are discussed among technical and...

This paper outlines the defining characteristics of the Fitzroy Basin in central Queensland, Australia. In particular, attention is drawn to the conflict between current irrigation uses for water in the basin and a growing need to recognise environmental values. Between the current levels of...

The Fitzroy basin in Central Queensland is one of the largest in Australia. There is increasing demand for water resources, particularly for irrigating cotton and other broadacre crops. The Queensland Government, through the Water Allocation and Management Plan (WAMP) for the Fitzroy, is...

Policy makers are often interested in how values for an environmental asset may be is aggregated into component pieces and transferred from one site to another. This issue can be described in relation to environmental values for the Fitzroy Basin in Central Queensland. The Basin comprises...

Policy makers are often interested in how estimates of the value of an environmental asset may be disaggregated into component pieces. This is particularly the case when they are seeking to transfer benefit estimates made in one situation to related circumstances. This is the case for the...

Policy makers are often interested in how values for an environmental asset may be disaggregated into component pieces and transferred from one site to another. This issue can be described in relation to environmental values for the Fitzroy basin in Central Queensland. It comprises several...

Policy makers are often interested in transferring benefit estimates made in one situation to related circumstances. This transfer of values may be inaccurate if significant differences exist between the sites in question, or if different population groups are involved. To identify where benefit...

Prolonged drought and climate change uncertainty has made a sustainable balance between uses of water much more urgent. Previous strategies have revolved around regulatory approaches to reduce the consumptive pool, and leave more water in the rivers for the environment. These approaches have had...

Although the formation of a regional working group has overcome many difficulties in the Fitzroy Basin with regard to wtaer reform issues, problems with on-going monitoring of the system and its environmental outcomes have been recognised. It is suggested that a new stakeholder monitoring group...