Resilient irrigation through water trade: issues, investigation and insights
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2014
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Loch, A.
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Giannino, M.
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Source details - Title: Drinking water and water management: new research, 2014 / Giannino, M. (ed./s), Ch.8, pp.225-248
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he idea of resilience captures individual, sectoral or community capacity to tackle disruptive events that change their status quo, and to successfully transform themselves into new states of existence. During t he Millennium drought in Australia, many irrigators faced severe water shortages and unusual government market activity which constituted significant disruptive events. Coincidentally, water reform prior to these events provided scope for water trading that, together with other adjustment packages and support, arguably offered a major method for achieving resilience among affected irrigator groups . This chapter reviews those events and the resilience outcomes from water trade activity in Australia‘s Murray - Darling Basin during the Millennium drought, with an objective of attempting to tangibly link irrigator resilience to water trade availability in the Basin. A methodological approach for testing irrigator resilience outcomes is proposed and specified for subsequent modelling using irrigator water trade data collected during the Millennium drought. Knowledge of the properties that confer resilience in irrigation systems may enable other resource managers, users and communities to design and implement appropriate polices that minimize social impacts while maximizing sustainable water management and ecosystem goods and services outcomes.
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Copyright 2014 by Nova Science Publishers