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implemented as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Management strategy removed over 470,000 tonnes of salt from the water … supply, reducing the salinity of water flowing to Adelaide by about 200 EC units. However, the costs of salinity mitigation …The Murray-Darling Basin faces increasing pressure on water quantity and quality. In 2006-07, salt interception schemes …
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The supply of water for irrigation is subject to climatic and policy uncertainty. The object of the present paper is to … Murray–Darling Basin may be adapted to incorporate a state-contingent representation of uncertainty. Estimates showing the … potential value of improved water use are also derived. …
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It is likely that climate change will be associated with reductions in inflows of water to the Murray–Darling Basin In … incorporates a state-contingent representation of uncertainty. The severity of the impact depends, in large measure, on the extent …
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abatement investment and taxes when the cost of the environmental regulation varies spatially under uncertainty. It contributes … environmental regulation uncertainty. An increase in the cost of the environmental regulation moves a risk-averse firm closer to the …. Uncertainty about environmental regulations in the form of the abatement investment and taxes also leads a risk-averse firm to …
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The biological nature of agricultural production processes induce a higher degree ofuncertainty surrounding the economic performance of farm enterprises. This has contributedto the development and acceptance of forms of public intervention aimed at reducing incomevariability that have no...
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thetiming of choice and the uncertainty in the future about price and decoupled payments. Aggregate policyimpact is identified …
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In the past year, climate change has moved from political controversy to political consensus; at least, in relation for price-based policies the need to limit emissions. Uncertainties remain but with both major parties proposing to develop an emissions trading regime, it is timely to highlight...
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We present a definition of increasing uncertainty, in which an elementary increase in the uncertainty of any act … rise to a dual definition of comparative aversion to uncertainty. We characterize this definition for a popular class of … generalized models of choice under uncertainty. …
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The economic impacts of altering quarantine policies are divided into two main areas: trade evaluations, utilising a partial equilibrium approach to determine the benefits of market liberalisation; or pest management economics, used to determine the on-ground impacts of introduced species. This...
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in additional to that arising from seasonal fluctuations. It follows that uncertainty is an inherent feature of water … management in Australia. In addition, the policy process itself generates uncertainty. As new knowledge about water systems … process inevitably creates uncertainty for both new and existing water users. It follows that the allocation of risk and …
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