Following the November 2006 Summit on the Southern Murray-Darling Basin, the then prime minister and Murray-Darling Basin state premiers commissioned CSIRO to report on sustainable yields of surface and groundwater systems within the Murray-Darling Basin. This report from the CSIRO Murray-Darling Basin Sustainable Yields Project details the assessments for one of 18 regions that encompass...

This paper presents the results of research undertaken in the Productivity Commission’s Environment and Resource Economics Branch during 2005. It is part of a larger suite of water policy research conducted by the Commission, including modelling of regional economic impacts of changes in water trade within the southern Murray–Darling Basin.

This new network seeks to develop a series of interdisciplinary models of best practice in social and environmental sustainability, using the Murray-Darling Basin as a major case study. Members are drawn from university and government research centres and have expertise in a wide range of areas in social policy and resource management.