The Murray–Darling Basin is Australia's food bowl and home to many iconic water bodies
that are culturally and ecologically highly valued. The recent Millennium Drought (from mid …

We review recent water reforms and the consequences of water recovery intended to
increase stream flows in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB), Australia. The MDB provides a …

Top scholars synthesize and analyze scholarship on this widely used tool of policy analysis
in 27 articles, setting forth its accomplishments, difficulties, and means of implementation …

Cities around the world are struggling to access additional water supplies to support their
continued growth because their freshwater sources are becoming exhausted. Half of all …

The concept of institutional path dependence offers useful ways of understanding the
trajectories of water policy reforms and how past institutional arrangements, policy …

Efficiently allocating water across competing demands and allowing for its reallocation as
circumstances change and environmental concerns gain higher priority are challenges …

Increasing demand for water coupled with reduced water availability in many regions of the
world is leading to growing water scarcity and calls for implementation of a range of …

Australia currently provides a leading example of a government buying back water for the
environment. The Australian Government is at the midpoint of a $3.1 billion programme of …

Economy-wide models such as computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are powerful
tools that provide insights on policy impacts on standard economic indicators. With the …

This chapter provides background information useful for a quantitative global assessment of
the impact of water scarcity on growth using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) …