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The changing landscape of a rural region: The effect of the Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir in the Osage River Basin of Missouri

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: Johnson, Melvin Arthur
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  • Published Location: United States -- Nebraska
  • ISBN: 9781109525854
  • Country: United States
  • State/Region: Missouri

The Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir project is of immense size. Many thousands of tons of raw materials were required to complete the construction of the dam and relocations. Millions of dollars were spent to acquire land, compensate those who were displaced, and to pay those who were employed in the planning, purchasing, coordinating ....

The changing nature of irrigation in northern China: Assessing the impacts of fiscal decentralization on village-level irrigation development

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: Boyle, Christine E.
  • Journal Name: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
  • Publisher: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Published Location: United States -- North Carolina
  • ISBN: 9781124941967
  • Country: China

In recent decades, debate over how to promote water conservation in irrigation has increased as water has become scarcer and competition for water has increased - between neighboring locales, between farms and cities, and between people and their environment. The irrigation debate is particularly salient as agricultural water use is dir ....

The irrigation industry in the Murray and Murrumbidgee Basins

  • Year: 2005
  • Author: Meyer WS (Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures, Glen Osmond)
  • Publisher: Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures
  • Published Location: Adelaide
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales

This study collates a hitherto scattered set of information on irrigation in the Murray and Murrumbidgee Basins and provides a 'bird's eye view' of irrigation in the south eastern part of Australia. Data indicating the size and position of irrigated production and its impact on both the regional resources and the dependent communit ....

The Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: CSIRO
  • Publisher: CSIRO
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

CSIRO, through the Water for a Healthy Country National Research Flagship, has completed a series of reports which assess the current and future water availability in the Murray-Darling Basin. CSIRO was contracted by the National Water Commission to provide the assessments, which led to the world's largest basin-scale investigation of the impact ....

The Northern Australia Sustainable Yields Project

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: CSIRO
  • Publisher: CSIRO
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Northern Australia

CSIRO's Northern Australia Sustainable Yields (NASY) project produced critical information on historical, recent and likely future water availability in a part of Australia that is renowned for its high rainfall, pristine tropical environments and relatively low development. This information will help governments, industry and communities consid ....

The south-west Western Australia Sustainable Yields Project

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: CSIRO
  • Publisher: CSIRO
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Western Australia

The south-west Western Australia Sustainable Yields (SWSY) Project has delivered a series of reports on the surface water, groundwater, and water yields and demands in south-west Western Australia. The project was funded by the Australian Government to provide water managers and users with robust estimates of current and future water yields for ....

The Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project

  • Year: 2009
  • Author: CSIRO
  • Publisher: CSIRO
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Tasmania

The CSIRO Tasmania Sustainable Yields Project (TasSY) has developed an assessment of the current and likely future extent and variability of surface water and groundwater resources in Tasmania. Results from this project will help governments, industry and communities consider the environmental, social and economic aspects of the sustainable use ....

Transaction costs, collective action and adaptation in managing complex social–ecological systems

  • Year: 2013
  • Author: Marshall, G.
  • Journal Name: Ecological Economics
  • Journal Number: Vol.88
  • Country: Australia

With the escalating uncertainties and surprises faced in responding to environmental and natural resource challenges has come growing recognition of the need to manage such issues as social–ecological systems and value the capacities that enable adaptation to these changes. Adaptations in environmental management often involve complex, includin ....

Utilising Diversity to Achieve Water Equity

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Lacey, Justine
  • Journal Name: Rural Society
  • Journal Number: Vol. 18, No. 3
  • Country: Australia

In the realm of water justice there are a myriad of competing equity claims. Water is highly valued for a range of uses but competition for the resource can create divisions among the community of users. Moreover some parts of the community such as women and the poor are denied adequate access to water. This type of social exclusio ....

Water efficiency improvements through environmental farming systems: a study conducted for the Pratt Water Murrumbidgee Valley Water Efficiency Feasibility Project

  • Year: 2004
  • Author: Hurditch W > Mitchell D
  • Publisher: Fifth Estate Consultancy
  • ISBN: 0642552819
  • Country: Australia

This study is concerned with an investigation of innovative farming methods that take advantage of natural processes, rather than of introduced land management practices, which are often environmentally damaging and expensive to maintain. Farming practices in the public domain will be listed with reference to existing literature. P ....

Water Governance in OECD Countries: A Multi-level Approach

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: OECD
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • ISBN: 9789264119284

There is enough water on Earth for all, even in areas where temporary shortages may exist. Managing water for all is not only a question of resources availability and money, but equally a matter of good governance. Water is essentially a local issue and involves a plethora of stakeholders at basin, municipal, regional, national and international ....

Water Governance in OECD Countries: A Multi-level Approach

  • Year: 2011
  • Author: OECD
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Published Location: Paris, France
  • ISBN: 9789264119284

There is enough water on Earth for all, even in areas where temporary shortages may exist. Managing water for all is not only a question of resources availability and money, but equally a matter of good governance. Water is essentially a local issue and involves a plethora of stakeholders at basin, municipal, regional, national and international ....

Water perspectives: outcomes of an expert workshop scoping social and institutional research questions in support of the implementation of the National Water Initiative

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC), Canberra
  • Publisher: Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation, Canberra
  • Country: Australia

A workshop convened by Land and Water Australia (LWA) (formally Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation (LWRRDC)) in May 2005 brought together a range of social science experts to discuss opportunities for social and institutional research, including the synthesis of existing knowledge, to contribute to the Na ....

Water planning

  • Year: 2006
  • Author: Cullen P
  • Publisher: Australian National Water Commission
  • Country: Australia

Improved regional water planning is the foundation of the National Water Initiative (NWI), which states 'water planning is an important mechanism to assist governments and the community to determine water management and allocation decisions to meet productive, environmental and social objectives'. With increasing water scarcity, ef ....

Water Use and Management in Victoria's Food Bowl

  • Year: 2008
  • Author: Fagan, Ann
  • Journal Name: Interaction
  • Journal Number: Vol. 36, No. 2
  • Country: Australia
  • State/Region: Victoria

Irrigation system modernization programs like the Food Bowl Modernization Proposal balances the need for substantial water allocations to the environment and increasing, competing demands for water for agriculture and food production. This proposal re-configures the irrigation system making the region more attractive to investors a ....

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