This report examines important streamside management zone processes and illustrates them with examples from forest management operations and agriculture. Streamside management zones (SMZs) are special landscape units that include riparian areas and adjacent lands that mitigate the movement of sediment, nutrients and other chemicals from upland forest and agricultural management areas into streams. The size...

This book brings together 27 chapters from some of the world's leading practitioners and experts on environmental water, communities, law, economics and governance. Its goal is to understand the many dimensions of water in the Murray- Darling Basin and provide guidance about how to implement a water management plan that addresses the needs of communities...

Postcode Justice, a research project undertaken by Deakin University School of Law, responds to this gap and asks the question: are regional communities disadvantaged in the administration of the law, compared with their metropolitan counterparts?

The annual Australian water markets reports provide statistics that summarise activity in Australian water markets, together with information on water market structures. The aim of this synthesis report is to analyse trends in market activity (how much water is being traded and where), as well as the drivers influencing market outcomes (why is water being...

In this address to the session 'Managing the Growth Shock' at the Economic and Social Outlook Conference in Melbourne on 30 June 2011, Gary Banks discusses the role for policy in the current mining boom. "Australia’s past reform successes have generally been founded on a clear understanding of problems warranting policy solutions. Where policy initiatives...