In this paper, six potential MBIs are discussed that have potential for improving environmental outcomes.

Report to the South East Catchment Water Management Board. Water policy in the South East has just completed a period of review and revision. The result has been a pro-rata rollout of most of the unallocated water in the unconfined aquifer of five Prescribed Wells Areas. With this roll-out...

This report provides the Murray-Darling Basin Commission with its first two-year review of the interstate water trading trial. The approach taken for the review involved analysis of the Commission's register of trading arrangements, examination of the associated filing systems and records,...

The report summarises the results of a non-market valuation study of Habitat and Agriculture in the Upper South East (Upper SE) of South Australia. A non-market valuation technique known as choice modelling was used to elicit values in the form of willingness to pay from people in the Upper SE,...

Customer Service levels in the Australian water industry.

The aim of this report is to investigate policy options to encourage cost effective large scale revegetation in the River Murray Corridor that increases biodiversity, wind erosion and salinity benefits in ways that are considered to be equitable by the community.

Report to the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation. This document presents a review of NRM decision support techniques. It draws upon previous studies in the fields of management science, operations research, environmental economics and natural resource management. The...

Report to the High Level Steering Group on Water. The High Level Steering Group on Water endorsed the project 'Best Practice in Identifying, Costing and Charging for Externalities' in October 1999. The project's objective was to develop a pragmatic set of guidelines to assist jurisdictions in...

The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility of different policy options for encouraging the large scale NRM actions required for achieving stated regional resource condition targets for NRM. To achieve this, the concept of systematic regional planning is developed to identify geographic...

This report describes the design, development and trial of catchment care. Catchment Care is an auction-based system which aims to increase the cost effectiveness of funds for private on-ground natural resource management actions.