Policy makers are often interested in how estimates of the value of an environmental asset may be disaggregated into component pieces. This is particularly the case when they are seeking to transfer benefit estimates made in one situation to related circumstances. This is the case for the...

Policy makers are often interested in how values for an environmental asset may be disaggregated into component pieces and transferred from one site to another. This issue can be described in relation to environmental values for the Fitzroy basin in Central Queensland. It comprises several...

Policy makers are often interested in how values for an environmental asset may be is aggregated into component pieces and transferred from one site to another. This issue can be described in relation to environmental values for the Fitzroy Basin in Central Queensland. The Basin comprises...

The Fitzroy basin in Central Queensland is one of the largest in Australia. There is increasing demand for water resources, particularly for irrigating cotton and other broadacre crops. The Queensland Government, through the Water Allocation and Management Plan (WAMP) for the Fitzroy, is...

Choice Modelling surveys are reliant upon focus groups to propose, test and refine attributes, levels and descriptive characteristics, and to frame the issues for respondents appropriately. The survey design issues for a floodplain development valuation project are discussed among technical and...

This paper outlines the defining characteristics of the Fitzroy Basin in central Queensland, Australia. In particular, attention is drawn to the conflict between current irrigation uses for water in the basin and a growing need to recognise environmental values. Between the current levels of...