Markets are already making a significant contribution to allocating rural water to higher value uses. But institutional arrangements for water need more reform, according to the commission. This discussion paper examines the feasibility of establishing market mechanisms to encourage economic efficiency of rural water-use, including managing environmental externalities

This paper explores the major issues arising in Sydney’s rural-urban fringe, particularly from the perspective of Sydney’s fringe from the outside looking in rather from the inside looking out.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The agricultural sector is relatively small but contains certain well-performing areas (pp.1-12,23-24). In recent years, there have been substantial changes in the organisation of the sector (pp.14-16,17,20). Large-scale overseas companies are assuming a greater presence in Australian agriculture as the sector is transformed into agribusiness (pp.17-18). Certain problems, occurring within this transition, remain...

In this report, Dr Jo Barraket identifies a range of contexts in which co-operative solutions have led, or contributed significantly to, successful rural community efforts to meet sustainability objectives. These objectives include the expansion - both in numbers and type - of employment and educational opportunities, the development of innovative enterprise and industrial activity, the...

This thesis examines economic restructuring and changing governmental regulation in the Central Wheatbelt of Western Australia.