There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and … overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice …

principles. In particular, the concept of sustainability, carrying with it clear requirements for values, goals and ethics, has … begun to reshape economics. The broadest conception of sustainability is found if we understand sustainable development to …

Collective concerns about sustainable development and proposals about how to achieve sustainability have produced a … sustainability; and yet the lack of clear definitions has left a vacuum of corporate guidance. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR …) has become a synonym for corporate action towards sustainability, but companies continue to struggle to understand how to …

This paper reports on the construction of an International Water Poverty Index, part of the first phase of a research … project into building a locally based version of the index. The purpose of the Water Poverty Index is to express an … interdisciplinary measure which links household welfare with water availability and indicates the degree to which water scarcity impacts …

The periodical re-auction of a water monopoly concession causes the danger of underinvestment. If the life-time of … specific assets such as water pipes exceeds the contract length and transferring the ownership of assets is difficult, the … incumbent franchisee faces a hold-up problem. Using a simple auction model that considers the specifics of the piped water …

covers 84 Commonwealth, State and Territory government businesses involved in electricity, water, urban transport, rail …

-metropolitan areas over the last decade. It specifically examines electricity, gas, water and sewerage, urban transport, ports, railways …