Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of increasing water scarcity and uncertainty over future dam inflows. This paper considers the design of optimal demand management and supply...

Australian urban water utilities face a significant challenge in designing appropriate demand management and supply augmentation policies in the presence of significant water scarcity and climate variability. This article considers the design of optimal demand management and supply augmentation...

This study introduces two advances to the aggregate productivity index methodology typically employed by ABARES. First, it accounts for the effects of climate variability on measured productivity by matching spatial climate data to individual farms in the ABARES farm surveys database. Second, a...

The ABARE (now ABARES) survey of irrigation farms in the Murray–Darling Basin began in 2006–07 and provides a comprehensive farm-level panel dataset, which, to date, has seen limited econometric analysis (Ashton et al. 2009). At present, three complete years of irrigation survey data are...

It is commonly noted that Australian water rights, specifically those prevailing within the Murray-Darling Basin,represent a significant departure from hydrological reality (see for example Young and McColl 2009). Where waterrights depart from the physical realities of water supply networks,...

It is commonly noted that Australian water rights, specifically those prevailing within the Murray-Darling Basin, represent a significant departure from hydrological reality (see for example Young and McColl 2009). Where water rights depart from the physical realities of water supply networks,...

The intertemporal management of irrigation water involves a consumption-storage decision, where the benefits of using water today are evaluated against the uncertain benefits of storing water for future use. Traditionally in Australia, state governments have centrally managed the major water...

The ABARE (now ABARES) survey of irrigation farms in the Murray–Darling Basin began in 2006–07 and provides a comprehensive farm-level panel dataset, which, to date, has seen limited econometric analysis (Ashton et al. 2009). At present, three complete years of irrigation survey data are...

There are significant benefits in integrating a biological spread model into economic assessment of the cost of pest incursions (such as varroa mite or Mexican feather grass) on agricultural industries. To illustrate the potential usefulness of an integrated approach, a generic bioeconomic model...

A model of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area with two linked components: the farms in the area and the off farm water delivery system is developed. Two versions of the model are formulated. The first version represents the practice of uniform pricing by water authorities where the differences in...