The Catchment Management Authorities in New South Wales have programs that arecollectively investing $436 million over four years to achieve catchment-wide naturalresource/environmental improvements. In this paper, we consider the question of howto best allocate these resources so as to increase...

This paper outlines the impacts of ignoring the costs to the community of increased rural waterlogging and salinity. It identifies the cost of no further action, and the costs and benefits of undertaking a land and water management plan. The processes of developing and evaluating the plan are...

Multicriteria analysi, wetlands, economics

Efficient management of water in unregulated river systems is essential in meeting current and future needs of water users and the environment. As an integral part of the new water management process, volumetric conversions convert current area based licences into volume based licences....