Reforming Water Law and Governance

Develops general principles and practical tools, based on more than two decades of Australian water reform experience, to advance theory and practice across a range of international contexts
Offers a systematic, rigorous, and sophisticated inquiry into hybrid water law and governance approaches
Engages cutting-edge trends and current debates in modern water law, policy, and governance theory

Autorentext

Cameron Holley is an associate professor of law at UNSW Sydney. He publishes widely in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, and water law, with a focus on regulation and governance. An empirical researcher, he has worked closely with Australian and international government and non-government organisations on a range of environmental and natural resource management research projects. His current research agenda is centred on the legal and governance aspects of water compliance and enforcement, the Anthropocene and the energy, water, food nexus.

Darren Sinclair is an associate professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra. His expertise lies in the fields of environmental policy, regulation and governance, and occupational health and safety regulation and governance in the mining sector. He has published widely on these topics and has also been a consultant to various government agencies and industry. Currently, he is engaged in research on water regulation and governance, the regulation of mercury emissions and climate change governance in the financial sector.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Water Law and Governance: Current Issues and Challenges.- Chapter 2: Future Water Markets? Overcoming Structural Impediments, 'Crowding Out' and Implementation Failures.- Chapter 3: The Ebb and Flow of Property Rights in Water Entitlement.- Chapter 4: Markets, Third-party Impacts and Environmental Watering in the Murray-Darling Basin.- Chapter 5: Water Allocation Planning: New Lines of Flight.- Chapter 6: Environmental Water Transactions, Non-governmental Organisations and Regulatory Enterprise: Re-imagining Buybacks in Australia.- Chapter 7: Public Interest Standing in Water Law: An Important Regulatory Mechanism.- Chapter 8: Groundwater and Cumulative Impacts: A View through Time to a Future Regulatory Research and Reform Agenda.- Chapter 9: Institutional Challenges to Implementing a Portfolio Approach in Urban Water Governance Paradigms.- Chapter 10: Adaptive Management and Extractive Industries: Adapting the Management or the Regulation?.- Chapter 11: Water Reform in Australia through the Lens of Comparative Law.- Chapter 12: Interjurisdictional Water Resource Governance in Transboundary and Federal Systems: Comparative Lessons from North America and the European Union.- Chapter 13: Australia Wet or Dry: North or South.- Chapter 14: The Relevance of the National Water Initiative outside the Murray-Darling Basin.- Chapter 15: Creating the Next Generation of Water Governance.- Chapter 16: Reforming Water Law and Governance.